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Hanson hammers the fickle National party
Yesterday Pauline Hanson told me that the National Party cannot be trusted in Queensland. This follows the Coalition's decision to refuse to come out and support the Savage Togara Pty Ltd native title-busting action against the Ghungalu people which could result in 1,000 native title claims on rural properties being dismissed.
She said that the National Party had been playing up to the rural and country vote by claiming that they would do "all in their power" to stop native title, but when the opportunity was presented they backed away for reasons of political expediency.
"One Nation's policy from the beginning has been the complete abolition of native title," Pauline said. "This recent action by Borbidge and his Government makes it even clearer that One Nation is the only chance for people in the bush. The other parties have proved time and again that they cannot be trusted."
State Opposition leader Peter Beattie said that Borbidge's lack of intestinal fortitude showed "the fraud he is"...
"Instead of matching the rhetoric and leading from the front, the Premier has deserted his army of fearful converts and he is nowhere to be seen," Beattie said.
Meanwhile the "bleeding-heart" society are out stamping their little "culturally-correct" feet in intellectual rage this morning with Karen Walters, the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, saying that any suggestion that native title should be abolished was "nothing short of discriminatory and racist". It was this same Karen Walters, who warned Pauline Hanson that her comments on the selection of the Australian and Young Australian of the Year could land her in front of the Human Rights Commission.
"For example, our society and our legal system is going to have to rule upon property rights in relation to the Internet," she said yesterday. "It amazes me as a lawyer and a human rights advocate that the whole native title debate is preoccupied with a focus on whether the law should unilaterally nobble or extinguish entirely the property rights of native title.
"I can only conclude that proposals to extinguish native title, of which our indigenous people are the beneficiaries, is nothing short of discriminatory and racist.
"Mark my words, when the property rights in the Internet are being debated no proposal to remove these rights will even enter the equation."
Yup, that's right, that's what she said!
The Courier Mail's crass journalism continue
News Limited's Matthew Franklin, the national political correspondent, has been given the job of hammering Hanson of late. This intellectual prostitute states in today's Courier Mail "Prime Minister John Howard yesterday deflected questions about whether his Liberal Party would give preferences to the anti-Asian Pauline Hanson's One Nation party."
This is just another clearcut case of unethical reporting. Pauline Hanson's One Nation is not anti-Asian - it is quite clearly against a growth in immigration (irrespective of race) until unemployment levels drop. One Nation's policy quite clearly states this.
The One Nation preference issue is, of course, still in the news with Prime Minister John Howard yesterday tackling Opposition leader Kim Beazley for the ALP's decision to give preferences to the Australian Against Further Immigration party in the Lindsey by-election in Sydney in 1996.
"You are the last man in Australia who's got any credibility to ask me a question like that," he said after Beazley tried to ridicule Howard for refusing to put Hanson's One Nation last.
Beazley reminds me more and more of Screaming Lord Such the loony end of town in politics in the UK. Here is some vote-buying advice given to him by his advisers, "drip with compassion when talking about native title, but exercise care when talking about native title in Queensland".... it is well known that Beazley carries an onion-dipped handkerchief in his pocket when he wants to "drip with compassion" in Parliament.
Next time he has a "Hawke-moment" in Parliament watch carefully the staged sequence... growing emotion in the voice, out comes the hanky, and voila we have the tears rolling down the face for the cameras....
What a conman... like his front bench a bunch of loony-left internationalist no-hopers!
Quotable quotes:
"The borders and regulatory agencies of most governments are caving in to the New World Order of globalization, allowing corporations to assume an ever more stateless quality, leaving them less and less accountable to any government anywhere. These corporations, together with their host governments, are reorganising world economic structures--and thus the balance of political power--through a series of intergovernmental trade and investment accords. These treaties serve as the frameworks within which globalization is evolving--allowing international corporate investment and trade to flourish across the Earth."
Karliner, Joseph, 1997. The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization
The bottom-line of "globalisation" exposed:
Who are the big winners in the new world order? One thing for sure is that it is not Australians. While the tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee of politics, the Labor and Coalition governments would have you believe that they are doing you a favour by embracing this "unstoppable" development the truth is very different.... check out the Executive Pay Watch web site...
Executive Pay Watch - Quote: "If you think America's corporate executives are out of control with their lavish salaries, bonuses, and stock options, you're right. Can they be stopped?
Example: While Phil Knight owns more than one-third of Nike, with an estimated market value over $4 billion, the compensation committee nevertheless provided him nearly $3 million in compensation in 1997, up 15% from 1996.
Nike's other top four executives are also in the money. Collectively, in 1997 the four were awarded stock options worth up to $17 million, cashed in stock options worth $6 million and averaged nearly $1 million in salary, bonuses and other compensation. The four hold more than $58 million in unexercised stock options.
Some workers that produce Nike shoes aren't faring quite so well. Contractors producing Nikes have faced widespread allegations of exploiting factory workers in Indonesia, China and Vietnam. According to a recent report by the National Labor Committee, a human rights organisation, one factory visit in China found "young women, 18 to 22 years old, [who] work six or seven days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day, earning just 19 cents an hour." One of these workers would have to work more than 6,700 years to equal Knight's 1997 compensation.
So who are destined to be the new 19 cent an hour labour force... look in the mirror, or more relevant, look at your kids. Yes, that's what globalisation is all about. One of the most disgusting developments in this sell-out of Australia that Pauline Hanson always talks about is the banking system.
Gone to foreign interests thanks to the Financial Services Industry Agreement. A pillar of our society, gone... and the results can be seen in job losses here, branch closures (think of Nike in Vietnam above and you have the nail on the head). That's how good "globalisation" is for Australia.
And who runs our Australian banks? Yanks, yes bloody Yanks, tied up with the US-based elites.. rubbing shoulders with the World Bank bosses. Recently we ran a story about who owns the Yank-run Westpac.... have a look at the incentives these immoral imports have in the "Runaway CEO Pay" web page. Joss, is no different - as soon as he has stuffed up this country to the profit of his masters back home in the US he will leave us much, much worse off.
Of course, the new global move in banking is "super banks" and while tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee's leaders make noises approaching the sound of bloated tadpoles in a fresh water pond about unemployment and the budget they completely overlook the tyranny that they have allowed to blemish the once "lucky" country as the bankers peddle super banks.... see the article below and you will realise that the sickening blight is not just happening here in Australia but is replicated in other fine countries like Canada:
Banks' spin doctors try new tactic to sell merger - silence
The banks have to persuade customers there is something in it for them, one spokesman said. But what?
Thursday, May 14, 1998
By Susanne Craig and Eric Reguly
The Globe and Mail
AFTER a rocky four-month effort to sell the proposed bank mergers to consumers and the government, the banks are entering a new phase -- silence.
Marred by inconsistencies from the onset, the public relations effort is being toned down until the banks' spin doctors devise a campaign that can convince consumers a merger would benefit them as much as the banks.
"The banks have to persuade customers there is something in it for them, but we haven't discussed that yet," said David MacNaughton, 49, chief communications co-ordinator of merger plans for Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal. They announced their $40-billion merger proposal in January, three months before Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Toronto-Dominion Bank unveiled similar plans. "We've got a huge challenge ahead of us."
If the sales pitch doesn't change, experts say, the banks face the prospect of having their merger proposals turned down by Finance Minister Paul Martin, or approved only with tough conditions such as service, employment and branch level guarantees.
Violence Shatters a Ruler's Image
Latest news 24 dead in Indonesia, including 3 policemen in Chinatown.
Extract from the Washington Post:
JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 13—Only two months ago, Indonesian President Suharto's grip on power seemed secure. He was unanimously re-elected to a seventh five-year term by an assembly he largely handpicked. Although the country's economy was a shambles, his support from the military remained unwavering. And his growing number of vocal critics could offer no viable alternative to his rule.
But with a single dramatic incident that can be seen as a turning point, that perception has been shattered by the sound of automatic-weapons fire crackling from a pedestrian footbridge, and by the desperate cries of relatives and friends wailing over the bodies of young slain students.
That flash of violence Tuesday outside one of Jakarta's elite universities -- a sharp escalation after three months of student-led protests and the first such incident of bloodshed in the capital -- has reshaped the political calculus and forced a rethinking of some previously held assumptions.
Perhaps most important for many, it has brought into question the legitimacy of Suharto's rule. Asia's longest-serving leader, a man once credited with steering his country through three decades of relative stability and economic growth, is now increasingly seen by his own people as another in a long line of aging autocrats -- the Philippines' Ferdinand E. Marcos, Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko -- whose troops must shoot unarmed citizens to keep him installed in the presidential palace.
Journalists, academics, opposition politicians and diplomats who monitor events here no longer say it's a question of whether Suharto will leave office; now they say it's a question of when, and how. Before, they talked of Suharto remaining in power for years. Now they talk in terms of months.
"I think the threshold of tolerance has been broken," said Laksamana Sukardi, a business consultant and economics adviser to opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri. "Suharto before had some legitimacy, because of the economic performance before [the crisis]. But now, it's no more.
"The final curtain will drop soon," he said. "I can't see any way he can survive the economic turbulence, and now it is compounded by this political turbulence and demands that he step down." He added, "There's no point of return anymore."
Making the
news" -
Subject: Sacred Sites
One of the greatest rorts perpetrated by urban Aborigines is that of SACRED SITES.
The recent and on-going survey and clearing of power lines for POWER LINK in Queensland has given the local Aborigines a financial windfall. They are using about 30 hired four wheel drives and with each group of sacred site seekers are 2 Anthropologists to show them what a sacred site looks like and how they would know is beyond me.
Anthropology is a very questionable ‘science’ and has been proven conclusively on this exercise. At one particular place they decided that a rocky outcrop could have been where Aboriginals got some for their implements so that was designated as a sacred site. Further up the hill was a bit of a knoll, could have been a lookout , so another sacred site and every time one of these are found the transmission line has to be shifted to by-pass it.
The sacred site crew stay in hotels, get their petrol free and reportedly ran up a $600 bill for a week in one of these hotels. One dark gentleman boasted that he was getting $1200 a week for his "LABOUR" I do not think one can blame the aborigines for grabbing this job, I blame these so called "SCIENTISTS" who have conned not only the Aborigines , but the government as well.
This stupid sacred site rort is adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of Powerlink because every time one of these sites is "discovered" on the line, the line must divert around it. To carry the farce further, two people are employed to walk in front of the bull-dozers so that they do not run over one of these "SACRED SITES’.
What do you suppose would happen if I went to my ancestral home in Scotland and did just half of what the Aborigines are doing? I would be locked up in the looney bin and that is where our ratbag politicians should be.
Alan Esson
Subject: "Legitimate" corporate crime?
The Hon. Peter Costello,MHR
Federal Treasurer,
Parliament House,
CANBERRA A.C.T. 2600
Dear Minister,
Was it really you who said something like "our share- holders are the taxpayers"? As picked up by our Principals.
If so, it is predicted that the words will return to haunt you as the media and others alert the electorate to the practices currently being condoned in the United States of America and soon to be visited on the rest of the "Western" world.
So note, for example, the recent disclosure of the incestuous arrangement between Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in America, where they are on the Board of Directors of each- other's corporations and vote to pay the CEO multi-hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars salary packages including "stock options" (the right to take up shares at heavily discounted prices vis-a-vis the market). The "shareholders" have had some reason to question the ulterior motives and hidden agendas. CEOs with significant shareholdings will be under substantial pressure to maintain share prices on the stock- market by sacrificing those at the workface. This could revitalise the Industrial Union movement and bring back the warfare between capital and labour with unforseen consequence.
However there are other considerations, you might, for instance, have reason to regret the comparison between share- holders and taxpayers if, with media assistance, the taxpayers demand the level of expensive accountability that successive governments of various political persuasions have visited on the corporate sector.
Sincerely,
J o n M. A x t e n s
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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- 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
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Sultan
of Brunei buys up big tracks of Australia - then negotiates Indonesian
"settlements" 25th April
Maritime
Union of Australia win in the Federal Court 22nd April
Just
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One
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