International:

The Jubilee Newspaper in California has presented an excellent theory on Multiculturalism and how it is used by the elite as a tool to divide and conquer. Here is an extract from this page:

"In modern times, multiculturalism is instituted from the top down as an elitist ruling class tool used to play one or more racial or ethnic groups against another.  The ensuing cultural melee serves the political designs, economic goals and power needs of elitist rulers and their sponsors.  This technique was developed by Marxist ideologues who used multiculturalism in Russia to divide and conquer resistance to the institution of a communist state. The end result of their successful takeover was the murder of thirty million humans in the Soviet Union alone.  Many more elsewhere.

"The same internationalist cabals who sponsored Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin as the multicultural leaders of the Soviet state from their banking houses in New York, similarly sponsor the multicultural leaders of the United States, Canada, and Europe today.  An interlocking network of foundations such as Ford and Carnegie, international banking empires such as Rockefeller and Rothschild, and government agencies firmly in their control work in tandem with controlled propaganda outlets such as the New York Times,  CBS, and Hollywood  to promote, foster, and institute multiculturalism today. While the examples used in this essay deal primarily with the United States the same process with the same methods is being employed elsewhere.  This of itself is prima facie evidence of a cabal which promotes  multiculturalism as a tool to achieve its objectives."

The people in the US State of California have, of course, recently voted to put-down affirmative action through the progressive introduction of Proposition 209 which basically parrots Pauline Hanson's widely publicised view that "all people should be equal".

In Parliament yesterday a document was tabled which found Pauline Hanson "personally guilty" of creating Australia's racism debate and causing enormous economic loss to this country through damaging our ties with Asian neighbours.

That the document was publicised by the media is, in itself, a joke as the leader of the pack was none other than "twinkle toes" - Australia's most uncharasmatic Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, whose slap-stick approach and bumblings and stumblings decry any plausible reason as to why he should hold such an important post. It was Downer, while visiting Bonn, who tipped the Germans off about the "Asian defence opportunity" about a year ago... when addressing the Five Powers Defence Arrangement and, no doubt, as a result cost Australia a multi-billion dollar defence contract with Malaysia which was won by a German company.

The Australian drug problem has for many years been swept under the carpet by the political powerbrokers. Now the situation has got so bad that not even they can afford to ignore it. Yesterday New South Wales Premier, Bob Carr, suggested the following ten point plan to stop the rot:

1. Restore Au$110 million funding cut from Customs and the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
2. Create new drug "flying squads".
3. Increase random searches of cargo by Customs authorities.
4. Increase funding for the AFPs overseas operations.
5. Increase AFP numbers.
6. Identify key ports and communities targeted by drug traffickers.
7. Create a national crime database on drugs.
8. Improve co-operation between State and Federal agencies.
9. Convene a national drugs summit.
10. Release a Commonwealth taskforce report on drug trade in Australia.

Political:

The Australian Labor Party have made it clear that Prime Minister John Howard's ten point plan on Wik will not be allowed to move through the Senate with the major "sticking points being:

• their refusal to give blanket validation to all acts or grants made on non-vacant Crown land since the start of the Native Title Act.
• opposing the ability of states to extinguish Native Title, as the High Court still has to decide on numerous cases.
• their disagreement with the Government on how much tougher the threshold test for Aborigines seeking Native Title claims should be - although they agree it should be tougher.
• their opposition to the expansion of the definition of primary production to allow a wide range of pastoral activities to be included.
• their demand that all current amendments being subject to the Racial Discrimination Act.
• their rejection of the condition that indigenous groups be able to prove continual physical connection with the land to enable them to gain statutory access rights.
• the demand that all mining activities on past or present pastoral leases be subject to negotiations.
• their opposition to the total ban on indigenous groups making native title claims over water resources and airspace.
• their rejection of a sunset clause.

 The ALP's Aboriginal Affairs spokesman, Daryl Melham said, "You have to stand for something, you have to believe in something. This is an issue that the Australian Labor Party cannot walk away from.

"The Labor Party, I believe, will not and can not walk away from the fundamental principles of justice and certainly for other stakeholders as well. So this is a fairly defining moment for the nation and for the Party."

Labor have previously attacked Howard's plan as being "riddled with racism"... yes there's that tag again... pull it out and dump it at any opportunity no matter how weak the association, how ridiculous the assumption.... if the tag is thrown out long enough it might just stick and create an unfounded blemish. 

Business:

Personal trivia, from the global office:

Another gorgeous day in paradise.

Have a good one.

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