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One Nation's show of force in a second state poll has shaken the major parties and provoked new recriminations. "Frankly I am (concerned), National Party deputy federal leader John Anderson said today.
"It's a powerful reminder to us all - not just the politicians, but to all Australians - that our rural and regional cousins are very concerned about the outlook for them and their young people."
He said the around 7 per cent of the votes that swung to One Nation in New South Wales was made all the more amazing by the party's implosion in the Queensland parliament where six out of 11 PMs have abandoned the fledgling party in less than a year.
"People will be rather amazed to see that One Nation may have one and possibly two spots there (in the NSW upper house) when you consider how badly it's gone in Queensland," Mr Anderson told journalists.
"I'm obviously disappointed to see there are still significant numbers of people who think (One Nation) have answers because I don't think they do. I think their answers would do more damage to rural Australia ... than anybody else's policy."
One Nation's certainty for the upper house David Oldfield today targeted what he called the club mentality and political correctness of the parliament.
"There is a club mentality relating to the Liberal, Labor, Democrats, Greens when it comes to looking after themselves and when it comes to things like super and their pay and trips that they get," he told AAP. Opposition Leader Kim Beazley said the level of support for One Nation, which polled up to 18 per cent of the vote in some rural seats, was the only downside in a landslide victory for Labor.
"It means the politics of hate now enters the Legislative Council of NSW; that's a very bad thing indeed," Mr Beazley told Channel 10.
He said the National Party, which lost two seats, was fading in the bush but rural NSW voters were turning to Labor and then independents before One Nation.
"That's not unwelcome, but what is unwelcome is the extent that that third reflected a fairly substantial vote," Mr Beazley said.
Australian Democrats Leader Meg Lees attributed the extent of One Nation support to a multi-million dollar advertising campaign that her party could not afford to match.
"They had an enormous war chest and from what I saw in Queanbeyan (near Canberra), they've spent millions of dollars on a television advertising and that has an impact," Senator Lees said.
"That scare campaign seems to have had an effect in rural NSW." Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said One Nation had again sucked the conservative vote in.
"Their vote in NSW was better than a lot of people thought," Mr Beattie said.
"The bush is burning in New South Wales, it's burning in Queensland, it's burning with anger that the National Party has betrayed them." But Mr Anderson denied the election result spelt success for Labor in the bush.
"The fact of the matter is the electors of NSW plainly do no believe Labor has any of the answers, there are very serious and very real problems in rural and regional Australia," Mr Anderson said. "But more people are looking to the National Party for answers than are looking to either the independents or One Nation or Labor."
De-Anne Kelly is being pushed by several of her National party colleagues to leave the party following her call for members to stand against the sale of Telstra.
This brave lady stands alone amongst the gutless wonders who only represent the Cabinet room and the Coalition's big business partners.
"If they (the Liberals) want to play international politics and make a name for themselves, that's up to them," she told reporters.
Queensland Liberal Peter Slipper, a parliamentary secretary said, "Her comments are shameless, amount to political treason and mimic the bankrupt ideas of the Labor party."
Meanwhile Labor Communication spokesman Stephen Smith said, "In recent days we've seen De-Anne slip a note under Senator Harradine's door pleading with him not to allow the further privatisation of Telstra. She's right."
It is palpable nonsense to sell a fast growing asset at this stage and I applaud De-Anne's stand against the gutless wonders. Meanwhile Blair Liberal MP Cameron Thompson (who ousted Hanson through preferences) stands solidly behind the sale.
Consider this statement by the World Trade Organisation's chief, Renato Ruggerio,
"With this agreement, the WTO has completed a remarkable year. In 1997, our members agreed on an historic global pact on telecommunications encompassing more than 95% of the global telecommunications market; they agreed to remove all tariffs on information technology products, one of the fastest growing sectors of the global economy; and they agreed, through the High Level Meeting of Least Developed Countries, on a path which will give important impetus to the integration of the world's poorest lands into the multilateral trading system..."
Then understand who is driving the sale of Telstra - and it is not our government. Consider what the WTO had done to our banking industry through the FSIA.
A "people's bank" to rival Australia's "big four" may soon become a reality. All 177 New South Wales (NSW) local government councils are expected to vote in April 1999 on whether to withdraw $A4 billion of investments from the existing banks - ANZ, Commonwealth, National and Westpac. The money would be invested in a banking network the NSW Local Government Association (LGA) wants to have operating, possibly by the end of 1999. The new bank could be established using the $A4 billion now managed by the mainstream banks. In 1998, the councils set up a task force to examine the plan's feasibility following complaints by residents of the constant bank branch closures by the "big four". Since 1996, 315 metropolitan bank branches and 174 rural branches have been closed across NSW. A report will be submitted to the LGA's State assembly on 13 April when recommendations are due to be announced. The new bank is expected to offer a wide range of financial services.
Dr Fredrick Toben, Director of Adelaide Institute, operating a revisionist Website in Australia, was arrested in Germany on 8th April,1999 on a charge of "defaming the memory of the dead" and will be sentenced tomorrow (9th April,1999)
I understand that Toben was visiting Auschwitz.
Email below relayed from Bob in the US:
From: Focalp@aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:00:45 EDT
Subject: Arrest of Dr F Toben
info@fpp.co.uk
Reply-To: Focalp@aol.com
I have received the alarming news that the Australian revisionist and publicist Dr Fredrick Toben has been arrested while visiting Germany and is being held in prison at Mannheim (the jail where Fred Leuchter was also held for many months). He was apparently visiting the notorious chief prosecutor Hans-Heiko Klein when arrested.
Dr Toben was the subject of a complaint to the Australian Human Rights commission by a Jewish community leader Jeremy Jones, who complained about Toben's revisionist Website, the Adelaide Institute. Since the Website is accessed by readers in Germany, Toben now faces prosecution by the German government under its laws for the suppression of free speech (the crime: "Defaming the memory of the dead.")
I have put a story about this outrage on my Web newsletter, at this link.
May I ask you please to bring this outrage to the attention of your local media, and above all to write in quiet and reasoned protest to your local German embassy or consulate. The Mannhein authorities are bringing their whole country into disrepute by this suppression of values which are taken for granted in other countries.
David Irving
London, England
Please note we wish to warn you that the links above is seen above by B'nai B'rith ala Jeremy Jones as a "hate" page. We do not support everything that is claimed by the Adelaide Institute or David Irving, but simply provide the link to enable readers to understand why Toben has been arrested.
Interference 'will lead to global war'
The Chinese Premier, Mr Zhu Rongji, has warned that NATO's attack on Yugoslavia could spark a global war.
China, fearful that the NATO military strikes could set a precedent in any conflict with Taiwan, has intensified its protests, with the state media condemning alliance leaders while praising the Yugoslav President, Mr Slobodan Milosevic, as a freedom fighter.
The Chinese media has also played down the plight of ethnic Albanians fleeing from Kosovo, as well as reports of Serb atrocities and the international relief effort to help the refugees.
In calling for an immediate halt to the bombing, Mr Zhu told the Toronto Globe and Mail before his two-week visit to the United States, beginning today, that China opposed intervention in the internal affairs of other nations. This included Beijing's sovereignty over Taiwan and Tibet, Britain's role in Northern Ireland, and Canada's secessionist movement in Quebec.
"If we should refuse to recognise a country's sovereignty, I'm afraid that would lead to a world war," he said.
"If military interventionism is to be allowed in all internal matters like a question of human rights of any country, that will open a very bad precedent in the world.
"We do not have a tribunal or world police. So, who should be the person to make the decision to use all this military force?"
DALLAS, Apr. 7 - Clinton's "Wag the Dog" production isn't working. Even some Dallas limo drivers can attest to it.
"Have you heard that 19 American soldiers' bodies have been smuggled into Greece, and that draftdodger and liar in Washington isn't telling us anything about that?", my driver said, making small talk during a ride from the DFW airport.
"Really?" the TiM editor played dumb. "How do you know that?"
"Heard it on a radio show. Some outfit in Phoenix apparently reported it, quoting a Greek paper."
"Wonder what outfit that would be?" the TiM editor chuckled without saying anything.
* * *
Even before leaving for Dallas, however, we had received another update from that "Greek paper." The "Athinaiki" (which means "The Athenian"), reporting from NATO HQ in Brussels and claiming a "100% accuracy", claimed on page nine of its April 7, 1999 edition that NATO had suffered 88 dead or missing soldiers, and had lost 32 airplanes and helicopters (check out the scanned copy of the original Apr. 7 article in Greek at our Web site).
[Since so many of our readers have been asking for a "proof" of the first "Athinaiki" Apr. 2 story about the 19 American soldiers' bodies being smuggled to Thessalonika, we have now scanned it and posted it as an update to our original story - see Day 12, Update 1, Item 1, Apr. 4].
The 32 aircraft lost aircraft figure matches up almost exactly with the 31 shoot-downs claimed by our Serbian sources (see Day 13, Update 2, Item 2, Apr. 5). But NATO's human casualty figure of 88 seems frankly too low. Not only because in one incident alone the Serbs claim to have shot down two American helicopters killing all 50 troops aboard (see Day 13, Update 2, Item 1, Apr. 5). But because we've also received other (unconfirmed) reports that at least one other American and two British helicopters had also been shot down in the first 13 days of the war, each presumably carrying between 12 and 25 troops.
On the other hand, we can confirm with a "100% accuracy" at least one American casualty. Here is an excerpt from an e-mail TiM received on April 6 from an American officer serving within the NATO forces in Europe:
"Today, I have just confirmed that I have lost one of my soldiers, and quite frankly, I have had my fill of our government shit. Now, thanks to Mr. Clinton, I must express my sympathy for the death of their son this soldier's parents."
Making the
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Think you are alone in Ipswich?
Scott,
I have followed with interest the story on the murder of Te Kooti in Ipswich. Reminds me of Armadale in W.A. A relative has a teenage family and commented that the fear of roving BANDS of armed young Aborigines have kept her "kids" at home after one incident where he was lucky to outrun them. Note the HE and the THEY. One never hears of the lone Ab attacking anyone. Dare I say the C word. Like Cowards. Also we have had numerous attacks on OLD WOMEN by packs of them.One lady being dragged by her handbag stap for a considerable distance, She died soon after. My daughter had her locked car jemmied open and stolen. Only the quick action of the police helicopter and ground cars managed to stop them with Only a few thousand dollars damage ( plus her suitcase full of her best clothes, her video camera and several other valuable items including six hundred dollars worth of tools) Police said they knew the offenders but couldn't arrest them.Why? Because they are Black. Rapes, Bashings,Thefts,no wonder they say the percentage of blacks in jail are higher than whites and still half of them aren't jailed for their offences.
Yes Pauline I agree. I would like to go back to the 50's when I went to bed with my doors and windows open and my car unlocked and I wheeled the pram down the street with my handbag on the handle and not a fear in the world.
Barbara
Well, David Morgan has well and truly let the cat out of the bag with his admission to drug use in @notd on 8th April. I will not descend to name calling, David, but it is certain that we do not see eye to eye on the drug debate.
Just to give you some background, I am a non-smoker and light to moderate drinker. During my younger years, I tried smoking the odd cigarette, but I was never a regular smoker. I generally see drug use as an undesirable escapist alternative to life’s experiences. There are of course exceptions as with medicinal drugs and alcohol consumed in moderation.
There has never been a true war on drugs. The current measures amount to a half-hearted attempt to keep the public mildly satisfied that something is being done to address the issue. When contrasted with the effort world powers spend on executing wars on other countries, (eg. Iraq, Kosovo) the money spent on fighting the drug war pales into insignificance. Institutions generally fight the "war on drugs" domestically and independently in many countries around the world to varying degrees. Some of those members "fighting" the "drug war" are actually profiting handy sums of money on the side. The opponents (dealers and drug lords) objective and battle strategy is to maximise financial profit by evasion, bribery, intimidation and violence. As entrenched as this culture may be, world powers could make a huge difference if they were committed. Satellite technology could be utilised to pinpoint drug crops and aerial attacks would make widespread drug plantations impractical.
It would be a rash judgement to use the USA as an example of the "failure of the war on drugs". Many countries have vastly different states of affairs. For instance, Singapore has low rates of crime and drug abuse, while employing a tough on crime strategy. Social difficulties not seen in Australia compound the drug and crime problem in the USA. There is a large black population still suffering from the transitionary effects after advancing from slaves to free citizens. "Political correctness" inflames the blacks suffering, impelling them to adopt a victim mentality. We have similar problems with some members of our Aboriginal community, but this is largely confined to rural areas with the overall national impact on crime a fraction of that in the USA.
The Citizens Electoral Council (CEC) has the view that legalising drugs will not stop undesirable profiting from drug sales. They claim the opposite would be the case, with large financiers and banks profiting from the increased number of addicts that heroin trials would deliver. They also state of a conspiracy where a number of influential players in the financial industries have initiated and funded organisations promoting the legalisation of drugs. I have taken this on board and although I would not dismiss this theory, I am yet to be convinced. All the same, I am sure there are a few shady deals going on between drug lords and representatives of our government. One particular incident comes to mind: Back in 1984 the then Labor government closed down the Costigan Royal Commission and transferred an ongoing investigation into organised crime to the new National Crime Authority (NCA). Kerry Packer was one of those alleged to have been caught up in organised crime. Under parliamentary privilege Andrew Peacock accused Bob Hawke of undermining the fight against the drug trade, of protecting "some of the most powerful criminals in Australia", of being himself "a little crook" and "a perverter of the law" who "associates with criminals and takes his orders from criminals".
Much of Australia’s drug problem has been imported from Asia. Paul Sheehan tells us in his book "Among the Barbarians" that fifty-seven percent of drug related arrests in New South Wales are Indo-Chinese. Cabramatta is the largest retail outlet for heroin in Australia. Coupled with the disillusionment associated with high unemployment it is not surprising we have a drug problem in Australia.
A genuine war on drugs (zero tolerance) combined with employment, education and rehabilitation programs will significantly affect Australia’s drug problem. Drug trials may decrease the number of deaths, but the number of addicts will be sure to increase, as experience has shown overseas. Making drug use safer will only increase the number of drug users. As John Howard and FBI director, Judge Louis Freeh have pointed out, the results of drug trials overseas are far from a conclusive success as some people would have you believe. Why should the taxpayer fund such a program to satisfy some people’s indulgences? Moreover, if it were not taxpayer funded, profits made from drug sales would be sure to corrupt some greedy characters.
Jeremy Beck
David Morgan on the matter of Jews.
Scott.
I am not a Jew.I am a Christian. When it all boils down though, we all started out as either Jews ( Israelites ) or descendants of Cain. Now Cain was the first murderer in history because he chose not to obey God.His descendants are all over the world and still in conflict with God. So we are either from the Jew or from the murderer.
Some sects of Christianity still hold the Jew responsible for the Death of Christ. Christ himself said WE, everyone, even today, are all responsible for His death as we have all sinned and He died for it. God also made a promise to the Jew back in Abrahams time." I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you" To David and the @notd I can only say , "Beware".
Barbara
The great exodus
Scott.
Watching the unending Muslim PR coming out of Serbia,via the UN, I have come to wonder if perhaps the Muslims haven't been so much chased out by the Serbian Christians as fleeing the wrath to come from NATO.
If David Morgan wants someone to pick on he should be exposing the treachery and power of these heathen takeover merchants, and think not that it won't be long before we have the same problem here . Already in WA they have sought the exclusive use of a Shire swimming pool for their women and I see two names on the list of candidates for our Council.So, they were refused exclusive permission from the council so now they will get in and next time they will by screaming discrimination in the council meetings,get what they want, and so on and so on until we are like Serbia and say "Thus far and no further" No I am not racist, just very fearful for the future of this country that my forebears worked so hard to bring to it's present state of affluence.
Barbara
Alternative views
Scott,
your website suffers from the input from nutters like Morgan and the heroic Jimbo but your coverage of the tragedy in the Balkans is way off the mark. Far be it from me to lecture and hector people about who is right or wrong but a reading of the history of the Balkans demonstrates that there are two sides to every story. The real issue that is emerging for us is that of Australian citizenship. What does it mean and what is it worth? I have been disillusioned by the public comments of many Serbians who have Australian citizenship but state that they are Serbian inasmuch as their loyalty and allegiance. What is more disconcerting are the actions of many young Australian born Serbians who have been protesting in Sydney and Melbourne, attacking the US Embassy and Australian police. These young people talk like the rest of us, play football (Aussie Rules I hope) and have enjoyed the benefits of this still safe and free land but they perpetuate the centuries old hatred spawned in countries that most mainstream Australians will never see. These young Serbian Australians demonstrate just how hard the road to assimilation is. True assimilation should be the goal if we are to have a truly united and cohesive nation but the multiculturalists do not want any part of that. They want us to be kept divided into boxes-Serbian-Australians, Greek-Australians, Chinese-Australians, Aboriginal-Australians etc. Until we all become simply Australians again as we once were, this country will continue to founder on the reef of division. Australian citizenship obviously means nothing and is simply a convenient scrap of paper for many migrants who come to Australia and then use it as some sort of transit lounge. Divided loyalty is just not on and those who demonstrate that theirs is should pack up and go back to their homeland. Application for Australian citizenship should contain the strongest declaration of a repudiation of all past loyalities and those who then proceed to mock such a process should be stripped of the privilege and deported. Long live Australia!
John Pasquarelli
The greens from Belgrade
Dear friends,
This is the first time that I am not addressing you just as a member of INES, but also as an anti-nuclear movements activist and a signatory of all the significant appeals of these movements, as a co-establisher of the Greens branch of the in Nurnberg, as a president of the Cancel of New Green Party in Belgrade and the honorary president of the Ecological Party from Tirana, as a member of The Movement for Peace of the Muslims and Serbs, the participant of the "German-Serbian-Muslim-Croat Dialogue in Munich", the co-organizer of the first Caravan of Peace of the Greens in Kosovo and in the end, as a mother of a child born in a mixed marriage. I am doing this only because I want to point out the depth of my wish and need for co-operation, agreement among peoples of different nations and faiths and the mutual planning of their future.
There is no time to begin this appeal with a discussion on the causes and mechanisms of the outbreak of this crisis, about the unknowing diplomatic interventions, about the lack of will for peace both in my country and your countries, which brought about the destruction of a significant multi-ethnic country in Europe, the former Yugoslavia. I will only shortly note that the clash in Kosovo and Metohija is just a phase of this dishonouring work, in which no one wishes to begin responsible talks; only that would show transparency in the mechanism of the clashes aggravation and make the conditions for its de-aggravation and responsible dialogue.
I directly urge you to do everything to stop the NATO intervention against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, because it will not bring peace and because now it has already brought about the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo - not only aimed at Albanians, but at Serbs as well. At the end of all aggressions, there is peace. I am afraid that NATO diplomacy is making prerequisite for long-lasting hatred and lack of confidence which will disable all future discussion between the Serbs, Albanians and other national communities about the political solutions in the limits of existing European documents.
I wish to point out a special side-effect of the bombing of which little has been said: the actions of NATO Pact are so wide, that in the first phase they can already be characterised as absolute war which means the destruction preconceptions - cultural, spiritual and natural lives of millions of people of all our country.
The toxic nature of the 19 200 tons of explosives (equal to the amount used in the Nagasaki bombing) used is well known to you - we warn you that Serbia is one of the greatest sources of underground waters in Europe and that the contamination will be felt in the whole surrounding area all the way to the Black Sea. NATO Pact is bombing factories, the workers in the greater part of our great industrial complexes have decided to make a "living wall" around their working places, they are not doing this because they are only defending their country, but also because they have become so impoverished by the years of sanctions, that the destruction of factories would mean the condemnation to the unequalled poverty equal to execution. Such poverty will soon cause the long lasting crisis in this area, and will become the center of potential terrorism.
NATO chooses the targets in the vicinity of the extremely dangerous machineries. On the very first day, the municipality of Grocka has been hit - on the territory of which the nuclear reactor Vinca is situated, containing a great storage of nuclear waste; the municipality of Pancevo has been hit, on which the petrol-chemical factory and the factory for the artificial fertilizers are situated; the municipality of Baric has also been hit with the great complex for the production of chloride, which is using Bopal technology. It is not necessary for me to explain what the blowing up of one of such factories would represent. Not only Belgrade which is situated at a 10 km distance, would be endangered, but the rest of Europe too. On the second day, in the Belgrade suburb of Sremcica a factory for the chemical production and a rocket fuel storage was hit causing a milder intoxication of the surrounding area.
I am pointing out that four national parks were hit - all members of the International association of the national reservations - you have to realise that FR Yugoslavia is among 13 of the world's richest bio-diversity countries. On the third day, the Avala area was aimed at, where the psychiatric division of the neuro-psychiatric clinic of Belgrade is situated.
The Yugoslav Cinematheque was also put in danger - one of the richest film archives in the world, listed among the world cultural heritage.
The village of Gracanica was also shelled: there is situated one of the most important monasteries of the medieval orthodox culture and the candidate for the UNESCO heritage list. Numerous civil targets in other cities were hit - schools, hospitals, the sites considered as the cultural monuments.
Especially worrying are the latest news saying that, in the next phases of their bombing, NATO will use the airplanes B1 and A10 which are carrying missiles with depleted uranium previously used in Iraq and Bosnia Herzegovina. The use of these will bring about the vast dangerous consequences to the health not only of the soldiers, but also of the whole population, and you know that the toxins and the radioactivity know no nationality or borders.
Of course it is not necessary for me to point out the shocks that children and old people unable to hide in shelters are experiencing, the worsening of the situation in the hospitals. If the aim of this intervention was the prevention of the humanitarian catastrophe, its result will be a far greater humanitarian catastrophe with far more severe consequences to the generations of people living in this country.
I am deeply convinced that I am speaking in the name of all the citizens of Yugoslavia when I say that we have the capabilities and the political will to find a solution for the Kosovo and Metohija problem, if we are allowed to seek this solution together with the Albanians, and if we take into consideration the fact that all of us have the right to participate in this solution. All one-sidedness and media manipulation are a part of the mechanism bringing suffering, destruction and death.
Infinite Peace and Love,
paul
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