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Corrupt Courier Mail continues crass claims against Hanson
The intellectual prostitutes at the Courier Mail continue with their pointed attacks against Pauline Hanson's One Nation today with the main thrust being the obvious obsession with the "How to vote" preferences of the state Coalition.
The newspaper has previously made its stance on One Nation blatantly clear and the unethical tactics being used by those who would be called "journalists" by name have dropped below their usual sewer methods.
Today John Lehmann, the paper's state reporter backed up by the rantings of that intellectual midget Terry Sweetman form the main front of the attack.
John Lehmann's article continues the assault on candidates in the Liberal and National parties investigating where they will give their preferences. The main target is One Nation's Dorothy Pratt who has a very good chance of winning the state seat of Barambah after the incumbent Trevor Perrett admitted to spending a fair amount of time enjoying the "professional services" of a Gold Coast based prostitute who was murdered just over a year ago.
In the article Mr Perrett states that he will recommend to the party that preferences be directed to Peter Hayden, an independent, who lost the One Nation pre-selection against Dorothy Pratt for the Barambah seat.
The paper quotes Queensland Chinese Forum president, Michael Yau, who claimed to be disgusted that the Liberal Party could consider giving One Nation preference ahead of Labor. The paper's blatantly one-sided assault on the preference issue has nothing to do with balanced reporting as One Nation's view is rarely, if ever, reported in the articles which carry a ratbag of extreme left and ethnic-interest based commentary.
It is a perfect example of how not to be ethical in your reporting. Not that that is anything new to the Courier Mail, which is known for its close links with the Murdoch family and their direct hand on the till in the resultant reporting.
One Nation, of course, presents a massive challenge to the plain sailing that this family, called "worse than Hitler" by CNN's Ted Turner, have with the current systemic corruption in the media/political powerplays.
In Lehmann's article he quotes a number of ethnic Liberal candidates including Greek community leader, Leo Tsimpikas (South Brisbane), "I am totally against what One Nation says in their deliberation and policies, so at this stage... I will recommend to the party that One Nation is last."
Polish born Zenia Belcher (Chermside), "If there is a One Nation candidate standing, it doesn't matter. I don't think about that woman (Pauline Hanson), I don't even mention her name."
Indian Australian Fazal Deen (Archerfield), "The seat-by-seat preference decision is better than the previous decision."
Taiwanese-born Steven Huang, Sunnybank, "I will put One Nation last."
The interesting oversight in all these exclamations is that the Courier Mail itself notes that none of the above have a One Nation candidate standing against them anyway. But don't let that get in the way of a strategy aimed at influencing the outcome of the upcoming state elections.
Here is an extract from the Sweetman article that appeared in today's Courier Mail...
"Tourism minister Bruce Davidson, famous for his geographical confusion over rhino habitat, also seems to have a problem with his history or his sense of occasion.
"Asked whether he would put the Nazi party before the ALP on a ballot paper, he said, “I’ll always put Labor last”.
"His long suffering Miss Fixit came running with the Tarzan’s grip to patch up the results of his latest attack of dropsy by saying the comment was a throwaway line in response to a hypothetical question.
"Some throwaway line, such sparkling repartee."
Lest we forget.
Hanson to launch Noosa show
Pauline Hanson has been invited by the Noosa Show to formerly open the event on September 11th.
The decision to invite Ms Hanson to launch the show follows her popularity in the area. This popularity is reflected in the decision by the show's committee not to invite tourism minister Bruce Davidson (state member for Noosa) or the National Party member for Gympie.
MIGA the virgin birth of the yet-to-be-born MAI transcribed in full.
In 1997 the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Bill (MIGA) was entered into by Australia. The Bill is all about doing business with the multinationals and is dependent on the MAI happening... thus the virgin birth.
Some facts about MIGA:
We have transcribed the MIGA Bill in clear breach of the Australian Parliament's Copyright notice which states, and I quote:
Copyright protects the work of a copyright owner, who has exclusive rights including the right to reproduce the work, including audiovisual materials and data bases, in a material form, to adapt it and to broadcast it. Permission to reproduce a work, or part of it, must be sought from the copyright owner.
Copyright in information materials and publications produced by Commonwealth departments and agencies are owned by the Commonwealth of Australia and comes under the central administration of Australian Government Publishing Service in consultation with the author organisation. Individual author departments are responsible for administering copyright in their unpublished works. State authorities administer copyright in their works.
I am publishing the MIGA Bill in the public interest for the following reasons:
Here is a quote from the MIGA Bill:
A "freely useable currency" means
any currency designated as such by the International Monetary Fund from time to time and
any other freely available and effectively useable currency which the Board of Directors referred to in Article 30 (hereinafter called the Board) may designate for the purposes of this Convention after consultation with the International Monetary Fund and with the approval of the country of such currency.
Test case on native title.
A Rockhampton Court was told yesterday that more than 1000 Queensland pastoral leases issued between 1975 and 1993 extinguished native title.
The legal submission for Savage Togara Pty Ltd, a coal mining company, stated that the Native Title Act 1993 had been the trigger for extinguishing native title on these properties.
In March this year negotiations between Savage and the Ghungalu people broke down resulting in a claim by the Ghungalu for 25,000 square kilometres of Queensland including the mine's leases.
If Savage's claim is successful almost 1,000 rural properties, subject to native title claim at the moment, will be affected. However, it would be likely that this will result in the result being taken to the High Court on appeal by the Ghungalu people (legal costs paid of course by the Australian tax-payer).
In his submission Phillip McMurdo QC told the Rockhampton Court that the leases issued after the Racial Discrimination Act in 1975 were invalid because they did not comply with that act, but that they were validified by the Native Title Act of 1993.
McMurdo said, "A grant which was invalid to any extent, that is, wholly or partly, because it offends the Racial Discrimination Act falls within the definition of 'past Act' in the Native Title Act.
"The Native Title Act provides that 'past Acts' may fall within one of four categories depending upon the circumstances. Each category of 'past Act' has different consequences."
He continued that a pastoral lease was 'category of a past Act' of the lease was granted after October 1975 and before January 1994.
John Bastin QC for the Gurang Land Council submitted that a native title claim should be heard in a Federal Court saying that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction.
Of course the only winners here are the lawyers... no surprises.
Making the
news" -
Subject: Multilateral Agreement On Investment
For some reason, public media in Australia are reluctant to discuss the MAI. WHY? Who are they trying to protect, and who is controlling this "Media Balckout"? I DON'T WANT TO BE A SONY CITIZEN OR A UNION CARBIDE CITIZEN, and I most especially take objection to our government keeping negotiations regarding the MAI behind closed doors. MY VOTE WILL COUNT. It will be nice to have a Labour government in Australia in 1999. I only hope they too are not susceptible to corporate corruption as the Howard Liberal Government appear to be.
Yours sincerely objectionably
Rob Pascoe
Subject: Media distortions.
After watching the daily flashes of news items it has become painfully clear even to the most feeble minded that the bulk of the major newspapers are collectively reporting adversely against not only Pauline Hanson but against any person who appears to support Pauline Hanson's views.
In this day of over political correctness it would appear to me that the papers are in fact breaching the rules in supporting a campaign against any law abiding group or class of people.
This campaign is taking the same paths as the vicious campaign against the Jews by the Germans during the early stages of the Second World War. Pauline Hanson does not even have to say anything; yet, Newspapers will still use any excuse at all to launch into an attack on Pauline or her supporters.
Newspapers constantly accuse Pauline Hanson and her supporters of being racist, miss-report every reference to Pauline or her supporters. In fact the major papers appear to be grinding a special media axe in an attempt to destroy Pauline Hanson.
Who are the instructions coming from?
Is this part of the same machine that seems hell bent on crushing the Unions and introducing crippling secret monetary and business agreements to crush all Australians and to hand all that is left to the Multinationals for thirty pieces of silver.
Is this the real threat of Pauline Hanson? Is Pauline and supporters threatening their plans?
How in the world newspapers such as this can claim they are in the business of bringing the truth and news to the people is beyond me? They show all the earmarks of the old Soviet Newspapers and the German War Machines propaganda crushing all opposition to their political masters, blaming the Jews for all their woes.
Remember how they blamed Pauline Hanson for the downturn in Australian Tourism.
I would have thought waging a vicious smear campaign against a class of people coupled with a seeming conspiracy by groups or collective news outlets whipping up hate against any group is against the law let alone against all Australian concepts of common decency and fair play.
Mr. Howard no longer sees One Nation Supporters as Populist, bigoted, redneck, racist, misguided fools but as voters with a need that he is better able to deliver. Could it be he now sees them as a very large number of voters.
Is it the intentions of these major newspapers to prevent groups or parties from exercising their democratic rights in contesting seats against the major parties? Would they have us go back to the days when certain political parties were outlawed?
They too will find out that these people they are ordinary Australian Voters who are sick to death of being lied to. Please bring on the Community Initiated Referendum.
Its time we had some laws to deal with politicians and newspapers knowingly misleading the Australian people.
Wake Up Australia
Tony.
Subject: how about a new song?
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Now Peter Costello has mindlessly joined in singing the tired old ditty that Hanson supporters are 'people who are frightened of change'. To continue with the musical imagery, couldn't he and his ilk at least give us a few variations on this theme pathetique?
Why don't critics of Hanson book in somewhere for a reality check. People are not 'frightened', they are angry at what is happening to this once beautiful country. There is a big difference between being frightened and being angry.
But I suppose that peddling the same old lie beats having to think. And repetition of a simple message is an effective advertising technique. That is why Hanson's critics keep it very simple: 1. Hanson is a racist, and 2. Hanson supporters are frightened of change. That has been the level of analysis from the start. In meekly accepting this situation, so-called journalists have shown themselves to be a disgrace to their profession.
Actors' Equity ought to snap up Costello. For him to say with a straight face that, 'One Nation seeks to build on racial differences', proves he is an acting genius. Or a bald-faced liar. He knows very well that ON seeks to eliminate preferential treatment on racial and ethnic grounds.
Antonia Feitz
Subject: What Does it all Mean
Racist
Bigot
Troglodyte
Discriminate
Freedom
Patriot
Multicultural
Totalitarian
Prejudice
I don't know of any member of Pauline Hanson's One Nation that fits the label "racist bigoted troglodyte".
Mr. Howard, all the words in the dictionary will not hide what Liberal and Labor have done to Australia.
Ron from Swansea
Subject: "accept no excuses"
Readers might be interested in yet another example of how the wheel has been re-invented. I wonder how long Australia will have to wait for the good news.
Following the US as usual, Australian educators have accepted building self-esteem as necessary to educational achievement. But recent US research is indicating that self-esteem is not a strong predictor of success. Not only do criminals and juvenile delinquents often have high self-esteem, some researchers are now blaming it for students' failures in learning. They have 'discovered' what all sensible people already know: that self-esteem is no substitute for achievement. They have also 'discovered' that some people achieve great things in life with low self-esteem, and others achieve nothing yet measure high on self-esteem.
This 'research' is having some good effects in education. The emphasis is now turning to achievement rather than feeling good about yourself. Richard F. Elmore, a professor of education at Harvard, said that self-esteem was in fact a kind of crutch that explained and even reinforced low achievement and low performance. "For most teachers, self-esteem is a theory they invent to cover the fact that they have low expectations for kids," Elmore said.
"By contrast, he said, the premise of an experimental program in District 2, which includes much of Manhattan's poor Lower East Side, is to train teachers to "accept no excuses" and to expect the same level of achievement that would be required of any middle-class student. Deanna Burney, a former principal who helped put the District 2 program together, said, "We've led a lot people astray about self-esteem -- children feel good about themselves when they can read and write."
It would be funny except that the uncritical acceptance of this misguided feel-good policy has denied a decent education to so many children.
Antonia Feitz
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
Recent stories exclusive to (how to) subscribe/rs of the Australian National News of the Day:
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expose Courier Mail's intellectual prostitutes - 9th May 1998
MIGA - son of MAI
exposed - 8th May
Just me and Pauline - 5th May
One Nation breakfast
- 4th May
Just who are the
Mont Pelerin
Society - 3rd May
The Internet and
the DEATH of the MAI - 30th April
Launch of Pauline
Hanson's re-election campaign - 29th April
Second One Nation
protest surprises Bob McMullan - 28th April
Sultan
of Brunei buys up big tracks of Australia - then negotiates Indonesian
"settlements" 25th April
Maritime
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