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Yesterday we referred to the Australia/Israel Review's alleged links with Militant.. a radical communist organisation.
Interesting that the news yesterday was a beat-up of "the so-called fracturing of One Nation into dissident groups" because an ex-member in Beaudesert, south of Brisbane, is unhappy with Pauline Hanson's executive team. Interesting because the same media haven't picked up on the clear fracturing of the Labor Party through the efforts of their violent left wing members... like Militant see the report below:
Well now the loony left of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) are being lured by the violent Militant organisation into a new political party headed by Steven Jolly called the New Labour Party... here is a quote from a recent press release by Militant:
"Yet socialist ALP members and supporters should not despair. Socialists from a wide variety of backgrounds - including the ALP - have formed the New Labour Party. Despite a blackout on the NLP in the mainstream media, the party's numbers are steadily swelling and include workers, students, professional people, and academics. There is a growing number of union officials in its ranks. We can expect that the party will grow into a broad-based multi-tendency socialist party."
The link between trade union and violent protesters at One Nation meetings is becoming clearer and clearer now...
In fact One Nation will have to take care that Militant don't try to start attracting their membership after this statement...
"And it is absolutely imperative that it does because there is a direct correlation between the transformation of the ALP into an 'Alternative Liberal Party' and the growth of the racist right. Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party is growing precisely because the betrayals of the ALP have left millions of working and middle class people without hope in a dead end system."
Tell you what Jolly we don't want your extremists anywhere near One Nation... shove them back to the ALP the cap fits much better there!
The Australian legal community is getting ready for another big tax payer funded feeding frenzy. Law lecturer Wayne Morgan (from the University of Melbourne) said yesterday, "It is not an exaggeration to conclude that this Bill (Howard's ten point plan on Wik) enacts racist laws, the like we have not seen since the White Australia policy was abolished."
Australian National University constitutional expert, George Williams, agreed with Morgans saying, "In its current form the Bill will continue the legal uncertainty that has dogged this area."
Last week the government admitted that the Bill was likely to face a High Court challenge with the fracas being over whether the Bill was good or bad for indigenous Australians.
One thing we can tell for sure and that is that the highly paid barristers and QCs in this country will be lining up like peas in a pod to get a bit of the lucrative pickings once this disaster falls off the tree.... and who will pay? Yes, you and me... Let us remember that money is paramount in this greedy, legalistic world that we are moving into - one only has to look at how the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Human Rights of Indigenous People is already being used as a tool by Australian lawyers to seek native title rights for Timorese fishermen off our Northern borders.
The Australian Law Reform Commission have already dug up numerous loopholes in the ten point plan giving their legion of legalised troops ammunition with which to make a financial killing...
That soft, cuddly "poody tat" with sharpened claws is out stirring up trouble again. The mayor of Brisbane, Jim Soorley, has had to take an embarrassing back-flip on his controversial Environmental Levy that was applied willy-nilly to anything looking like land in the city.
He hammered the churches for refusing to pay the levy saying that they should not be allowed to be exempt... not bad for one who is still recognised as a Roman Catholic Priest in the eyes of God.
His backdown came after the 28 members of the Norman Park RSL sub-branch were charged Au$60 by way of the Environmental Levy for a small piece of land just on 400 sq metres in size which was donated to them by former ALP mayor, Clem Jones. The land now carries a flagpole, a plaque and the ashes of former soldiers.
Sub-branch President Harold Hardie, 72, said that although he was happy that Soorley had backed down he was annoyed that he had been aware of the problem for some time before doing anything about it.
"We should never have been asked to pay money on a memorial for people who served and died during the war, Hardie said.
"I have been an ALP member all my life and I couldn't believe Soorley would do something like this.
"On behalf of our deceased comrades there was no way we were ever going to pay the levy - it's an insult."
Making the
news" -
Prime Minister John Howard, currently in Britain to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Edinburgh, has attacked the government there for its "insensitive" handling of pensions.
Howard had talks with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair to demand that Britain meet the full cost of pensions paid to its citizens living in Australia.
"Successive British Governments have been insensitive on this issue and I will continue to put it," Howard said.
"It's not something that has an immediate electoral impact in Britain. You're dealing with people who no longer live in the UK, so I guess it's slightly lower on the scale of priorities," Howard said.
"But I will keep doing it, and it's just a matter of fairness and justice that they should be treated a little better."
Meanwhile Aboriginal spokesman Michael Mansell who has just completed a tax payer funded jaunt to South Africa has handed a letter to Blair at 10 Downing Street demanding that he raise the issue of native title at CHOGM.
Subject:
Launch of
One Nation at Adelaide
I just wont to say that we don't want Pauline back
in Adelaide again. Our state is a mixture of different races, and that is
how we like it we don't need negative people around. You have ripped apart
our very proud and loving nation and you have just filled it with hatred.
You are lower then the Nazi's and lower then the KKK.
>From your non racist person
Dimi
Who is "we" Dimi? Pauline Hanson is not about negativity she is about
doing something positive for the country... like bring a bit of ethics back
into politics.
Editor.
Yesterday the Hong Kong stock exchange fell 15% - making the total fall this
week 25%. The repercussions for Australia and the world have been instantaneous
with chaos now hitting the world markets. In Australia more than Au$10 billion
was wiped off the value of shares. The drama forcing Deputy Prime Minister,
Tim Fischer, to refute the claim that Australia faced a currency crisis as
the Australian dollar continued to fall against the US dollar nearing the
70 cent mark.
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello responded by saying, "The remarkable thing
about the Australian currency, in fact, has been its stability.
"We are diversifying at such a rate that we are hedging our bets and our
fundamental economic strength... means we are to some extent a safe haven
and, to some extent, sandbagged against the economic firestorms touching
parts of Asia. We are continuing to closely monitor the situation."
The chief economist at Lehman Brothers, Miron Mushkat, said, "If I was
Australian, I would be alarmed. Australia is heavily exposed to this region,
with 60% of its exports to the region.
"But the financial crisis has spread around Asia and in Hong Kong we have
now come to the last Mohican. Chaos is the term."
If this is what bureaucrats and politicians mean when they talk about the
globalisation of our economy... then who need it when you have the likes of
billionaire George Soros who struts the world stage through cold computer
currency screens bringing disaster and despair to millions of poverty stricken
people in the search for new profits and financial opportunity.
That man
Mahathir
Mohamad from Malaysia is starting to make sense...
Another perfect day in paradise...
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