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Friday 6th September 1996
Friday 6th September 1996
And now we have the Turkish troops massing on the borders of northern Iraq, ready to enter and destroy the haunt of Kurdish rebels - thanks to the actions by the Starfleet commander.
OK big boy, same girl (Kurds being attacked) different panties (Turks this time) what are you going to do now? Flatten Ankara? Send in the marines... or just sit back and make lame excuses.. you made the bed you better finish it.
And what about the fall out to the population in Iraq... not the Saddam Hussein bureaucrats... no the overwhelming general populus - the Mums and Dads... well put this one in your pipe and smoke it Billy boy.
We heard on the news last night that a deal to swap Au$300 million in Iraqi oil for Australian wheat has been scrapped because of the latest sanctions imposed on Iraq by the US.
Now remember the UN have not taken sides even though the UN wimps are largely American stooges and yet all that wheat which makes bread which feeds the population in Iraq will no longer go there.
OK starfleet commander who is going to feed the starving in Iraq this winter as a result? Since Desert Storm over 500,000 Iraqi children have died because of the clamp on medical supplies to Iraq.
Let's put that in perspective, that's a different child being held by big brave Bill in a happy snap photo opportunity in every copy of a newspaper with a circulation of 500,000. But the media haven't made a big thing about the dead children have they?
Let's think of the lobby groups in the US (yes, I mean the oil and Jewish lobbyists). Have they provided relief to the disadvantaged kids of Iraq? Forget it... the whole bloody thing is a con and you, Starfleet Commander, should be up there answering questions with the war criminals from Croatia not fighting a phony election campaign funded by the lobby groups who determine your every move and cheer when you drop your cruise missiles on the innocents in Iraq.
And in Australia? Well our price of petrol is set to rise by at least two cents a litre from next week and even more if a crisis such as an American plane being shot down by the Iraqi's should occur... and we call this a "civilised world". Give me a break!
Last word from a US respondent:
Unfortunately, in the States the news media has deliberately failed
to provide accurate, balanced reportage of national and international
news. When events are reported they are often late and diluted. False
stories, such as this one (Marines in Australia), are often planted in the few alternative news sources.
An example: Recently, a Taiwanese businessman was "busted" for
smuggling Chinese military weaponry direct from the manufacturer for
sale to the gangs known as the "bloods" and the "crips." Little
attention was given to this event, no follow up. Just a small box
buried deep in PRAVDA WEST (LA, LA Times). The report was late.
We have 5m violent, recidivistic criminals out of 260m people. The
government proposes more laws that criminalize 100m citizens and avoids
dealing with the violent criminals. The government minions propose
tracking devices in ID cards and eventual implantation in the citizens
to contol criminals. (Max Headroom, the blanks (no ID) are the only free
people). THIS HAS BEEN PUBLICLY DECLARED.
We have borders the government refuses to control. We are flooded
with a new criminal class that is growing rapidly. Let me know what
happens in your nation over the next few years.
"Our commitment to the one-China policy remains, and consistent with the position of previous governments and this one, the real position is that such high-level contacts are precluded," Mr Anderson said.
Mr Lee expressed an interest in going to Australia after the Australian government expressed concern and supported Taiwan when the Chinese started playing with missiles near the Taiwanese border earlier this year.
The lobbying followed the bank's failure to get the government to agree to the bank buying up to 30% of the shareholding held by Suncorp for an undisclosed sum, the market value being about Au$100 million.
The lobbying is aimed at stopping the transfer of the 44% block of Bank of Queensland shares into the mega-bank.
State treasurer has her own personal problems, namely a speeding ticket, which seem to be taking up more of her time than this billion dollar merger (see below under "Personal trivia" heading.)
Such is the order of priority given to issues by our leaders today.
Poor performing Olympic sports such as boxing, wrestling and baseball will face massive funding cuts so that more money can be directed at sports where Aussies have a better chance of winning medals at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. The sports expected to benefit include swimming, rowing, cycling, basketball and hockey.
ASC executive director Jim Ferguson said that reviews would begin this week.
The money problems do not stop there with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), which trains elite athletes, losing Au$400,000 this year and the loss of funding to the Intensive Training Centre programmes.
The ASC will further cut administration costs by Au$2.7 million mainly through the sacking of twenty Canberra based administrators.
The rationing of funds has filtered through from the tight Federal Budget which has seen a total of Au$20 million being cut from the ASC's baseline funding over the next four years.
How do I know this? Because it was the subject of a fiery arguement in State Parliament today with the Labor opposition headed by opposition Police Minister Terry Mackenroth questioning the reason for the charge being dropped.
No lesser man than the Police Commissioner, Jim O'Sullivan, became involved in interviews with the media defending the traffic inspectors decision not to charge the driver of the car. Now what is the difference between my fine and hers... I wonder?
Another perfect day outside... once again to be enjoyed from the global office on the banks of the Brisbane river..
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