Friday 9th October 1998
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Here is an extract from an offshore article:
Editorial: One Nation's problem in the Federal Election was not that there was a preferential system of voting in operation, but that the party was unable to persuade any other party to allocate preferences to it.
One Nation's problem in exchanging preferences was made all the more difficult by a hostile Murdoch press which used its media might to intimidate anyone who dared consider this option.
by Graham Strachan
Here is an extract from Graham's article:
What happens when one of the institutions of civilisation ceases to act honestly, and begins instead to withhold, distort, and deliberately disseminate false information in order to shore up the power of an entrenched oligarchy in government? What happens when the media come to regard themselves as the protectors of vested interests, assisting to destroy rival political movements, and to subvert the democratic process by defaming and smearing people, and even deliberately disrupting political meetings? What happens when journalists become little more than political activists armed with cameras, recorders and notebooks, who see their role as propagandising and distorting information, and ridiculing, discrediting and intimidating people who challenge the monopoly on power of their bosses’ political cronies?
You might recall the post by "Jay" calling for hackers to "crack" the "racist One Nation web site". Well he has been exposed.
Thanks to Tony for his work on exposing this clown:
Hi Scott,
Jeffrey Goh jeffreygoh@cherry.com.au is going to have to learn to forge better than that if he plans on being a professional cyber-terrorist.
Here's a sample of Jeff's work when he was demanding
an explanation why One Nation wasn't banned in aus.politics earlier
this year:
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Re: One Nation?? Whassat that, some kind of ad for nationalism?
Author: Jeffrey Goh
Email: jeffreygoh@cherry.com.au
Date: 1998/03/13
Forums: aus.politics
Message-ID: 6eaml0$rhd$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net
My understanding of democracy maybe different from you, but I believe that foolish and nonsensical comments are dangerous to society.
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I cannot get an NS lookup for 203.35.2.65 but the invitation was certainly posted from cherry.com.au as the tracert tails show:
TraceRoute: 48 data bytes to ? [203.35.2.65]
6:Rcvd pkt type 11: [139.130.249.231]
Fddi0-0.pad10.Sydney.telstra.net in 199 msec.
7:Rcvd pkt type 11: [139.130.32.18] ozemail.lnk.telstra.net in 199 msec.
8:Rcvd pkt type 11: [203.108.190.145] ? in 204 msec.
9:Rcvd pkt type 11: [203.108.0.49] ciscosyd1fe11-0-0.gw.ozemail.com.au in
228 msec.
10:Rcvd pkt type 11: [203.108.0.68] termsyd39.ozemail.com.au in 353 msec.
11:Rcvd pkt type 11: [203.108.33.77] ancomsys.ozemail.com.au in 1138 msec.
12:No packet received from this hop.
13:Rcvd pkt type 0: [203.35.2.65] ?, 48 bytes in 2956 msec.
TraceRoute: 48 data bytes to cherry.com.au [203.35.2.1]
6:Rcvd pkt type 11: [139.130.249.231]
Fddi0-0.pad10.Sydney.telstra.net in 260 msec.
7:Rcvd pkt type 11: [139.130.32.18] ozemail.lnk.telstra.net in 222 msec.
8:Rcvd pkt type 11: [203.108.190.145] ? in 392 msec.
9:Rcvd pkt type 11: [203.108.0.49] ciscosyd1fe11-0-0.gw.ozemail.com.au in
210 msec.
10:Rcvd pkt type 11: [203.108.0.68] termsyd39.ozemail.com.au in 368 msec.
11:Rcvd pkt type 11: [203.108.33.77] ancomsys.ozemail.com.au in 1200 msec.
12:Rcvd pkt type 0: [203.35.2.1] cherry.com.au, 48 bytes in 1738 msec.
Cheers
Tony Hancock
We received this nice little email from Singapore yesterday. Singapore is at least an 8 on the 0-10 scale on the issue of racism... case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Dear Miss Racism,
Since u have lost your seat based on colour blindness, stick with fish & chips...however if u do ever visit Singapore, let me know via my e-mail - I'll make sure u r appropriately looked after in terms of an inaugural racial dinner...we generally hang, draw and quarter racists, but in ur case that's kinda mild...let's say we pickle u in Chinese vinegar, marinate u in Malay satay sauce and then hot fry u in Indian curry...just to let u know that we r multiracial in Singapore...other than that have a good day mate and we can only hope here that u get raped by a few kangaroos...cheeers...may u die in koala shit...just a happy note from the Lion Republic...
Please feel free to send this little Asian bigot an email through the link on his name.
Ratings: Five of the most influential banks in Europe have been told that they may no longer meet the highest level of creditworthiness.
The international credit rating agency, Moody's Investor Services, has reduced what it calls its outlook for Barclays Bank of Britain, Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Bank of Germany, Paribas of France and ING Barings of the Netherlands.
This is not actually a downgrading; more a warning than an actual change of the criteria the ratings agency applies.
Banking trouble: It could be followed by others, like Moody's, anxious about the involvement of these (and other banks) in the risky hedge fund derivatives trading which forced one of the biggest, Long Term Capital Management, to seek protection last week.
Should we be worried about this? Sure we should.
Apologists for the banking sector explain that the change in status is so minor as to have no meaning for the ordinary bank customer.
Derivatives: But this is a change in status of what are seen as some of the most secure banks in the world. It is the direct result of the thinking banker's nightmare: losses from dealing in the bottomless pool which is the modern derivatives market.
Bottomless, because very few people understand completely how many of the modern complex derivatives issues work.
Risk: It could and no doubt will be said that banks have no business involving themselves in activity as risky as derivatives. In the truest sense that is true. But modern banks also have investment arms, and they are committed to making best profits for their customers.
These may be individuals, trusts, whatever, but they are all clients. And the punter in the street who bought an investment trust for growth might feel less than happy if he thought his own small investments were not receiving the best attention.
Change: Meanwhile, change is coming. Government and financial regulators worldwide are looking hard for a solution to the problem of making the hedge funds more transparent -- difficult, because secrecy is central to their effectiveness.
But now even the arch-hedge fund manager, George Soros, famous for sinking whole currencies, says the time has come for greater regulation.
Any change in the rules might require the banks to be even more transparent, and more vigilant themselves. Then the man and woman in the street could rest a little more secure in the knowledge that the big banks remain the most secure financial bulwark available against any coming economic storm.
By George Melloan
High anxiety would be a good description of the mood of the world's bankers and finance ministers as they debate currency and capital market woes at this week's annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington. Their worry is justified. The matters that trouble them are far more important and difficult than the question that has obsessed Americans for nine months: Will Bill Clinton topple? The U.S. can always hire a new president but finding escape from the deflationary pressures that are building up in the world is far more complex. It requires that rare combination of political and economic wisdom not especially evident among national leaders in today's world.
The problem we all face is simple: The world has fallen victim to mismanagement of money on a vast scale, with both public and private institutions culpable. The result has been a huge loss of wealth and liquidity that threatens global deflation and recession. Japan, through bad economic policies consisting mainly of manic government spending, already has inserted itself into the deflationary vise. There is a danger that the contagion will spread to Europe and North America. How to head that off is the urgent question in Washington this week.
The IMF greeted its guests with the gloomy news that it has revised its expectations of world economic growth this year downward, to a mere 2% from last year's advance of 4.1%. The Federal Reserve reported that U.S. banks have adopted more cautious credit policies, something that was already evident to would-be borrowers. Stock markets continued their plunge. And those gathered in Washington no doubt wondered if U.S. banking was as sound as they thought when they heard that the Fed had seen fit to arrange a rescue of a high-risk hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management, that was speculating in the bond market with huge sums borrowed from banks. In an ideal world, the solution to global monetary disorder would be simple as well: a single global currency, the supply of which would adjust automatically to maintain a stable price level in internationally traded goods and services. That would eliminate currency risk and the various forms of currency arbitrage that have so tempted bankers in recent years, with sometimes disastrous results. In this best of all possible worlds, bankers and brokers would be assured of freedom-to succeed or fail. There would be no safety nets other than those they provided for themselves as an incentive to investors, as they would have every reason to do. And if their promises to investors proved to be fraudulent, they would have the further absolute freedom to end up in jail.
We are a long way from such a world. The prosperous era of gold and bimetallic monetary standards before World War I came close to that ideal for Europe and the U.S. and the empires they managed. Europe will take a return step in that direction at the beginning of next year when 11 nations adopt a single currency, the euro. Many people around the world have voted extemporaneously for a single currency by latching on to U.S. dollars as their medium of exchange and savings protection, even in countries where "parallel 'currencies' are illegal.
But on the whole, money is a mess. Since 1971, when the Bretton Woods gold exchange standard breathed its last gasp, the world has been a melange of fiat currencies managed according to the discretion of national central banks. These currencies have been variously "floated" or fixed to other currencies, either rigidly or within trading "bands" or according to a "crawling peg." Economists and politicians have conducted lengthy debates over whether this or that currency was being maintained at too low or too high a level relative to other currencies. But in the final analysis, one fact remained. They all were being "managed" by mere mortals subject to grievous errors that could leave an entire population impoverished. Indonesia Is a recent case in point.
The fundamental problem with fiat moneys is that they are subject not only to human error but also to the vagaries of political systems. The recent collapse of the Russian ruble was, in part, the result of a fiscal policy deadlock engineered by renascent Communists. Brazil skated very close to currency devaluation because its otherwise admirable president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, didn't want to raise interest rates just before sunday's presidential election.
Bill Clinton, trying to appear presidential in the face of an impeachment threat, tried to offer the bankers leadership last week. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin elaborated the administration's plan for improving the "architecture" of international finance. But at the center of that "architecture" remains the IMF, where it has been for the past 54 years, and in particular the past 15 months of serial monetary crises. Mr. Rubin stated the obvious, that the world needs better bank supervision and that monetary policy deserves more transparency. But the key point of Clinton policy, allowing the IMF to funnel money to countries before they run out of hard currency rather than afterwards, hardly sounds like a formula for encouraging more responsible national fiscal and monetary policies. Indeed, the fundamental conceptual flaw in the IMF-based system is that the promise of IMF bailouts encourages political leaders to postpone measures that might offend powerful special interests.
Congress knows that Bill Clinton will use any excuse to blame it for anything that goes wrong in the national or global economy, so it probably will approve, reluctantly, a further $18 billion for the IMF. This despite a growing sense within Congress that the IMF is a part of the problem rather than a vehicle for giving the world economy a sounder monetary base. Clearly, any fresh thinking to be given to restoring world monetary order won't come from this administration or Congress. Nor will it come from anywhere else-certainly not a befuddled Japan or a Germany soon likely to be led by a leftist Green coalition.
In the absence of any true international leadership, national leaders will have to work things out for themselves. But then the idea of an international 'economic order" was mostly a myth. So maybe a sense of reality is being restored.
Making the
news" -
It is a source of constant wonder to me that some people are so willing to expose their faults for all the world to see. "Tha Jay Man", whose email address included the very approriate word, "phreakcity", is the latest self-styled freak to do so.
He is ignorant and brainwashed (she stands for racism, hate), rude (her twisted fish and chip shop mind), unprincipled (dredge for muck), intolerant (will not be tolerated) and even incites criminal actions (somebody has to hack this site).
It is obvious to any mature person that "Tha Jay Man" and all his mates who so passionately hate One Nation are 'a herd of independent minds', to use Harold Rosenberg's wonderful phrase. With any luck, one day they might grow up and start thinking for themselves.
Antonia
Facts of life
For once there was something good on ACA. Last night a professor was interviewed about the disasters befalling our cities: Sydney (water) Melbourne (gas) Auckland (power) south east Queensland (power). He said Economic Rationalism was to blame. Gee, all they had to do was read @NOTD occasionally this year to know that.
But those who watched that TV program know that he said something else. This was that the public utilities have been taken out of the hands of the engineers (the experts) and are now run by idiot (my word) bean counters and managers, etc. Furthermore, as Graham Strachan has so rightly warned, part of Economic Rationalism is deregulation. This means some half trained person (and with no credible experience) replaces the expert because their pay is slightly less in the beginning. One advantage of qualified experts is that they can often smell a problem coming... to intercept it happening. So, in the long term it is cheaper to use them. Note the cost to industry of the gas shortage in Victoria.
But the fact of life is that it is happening in other areas, yet is not so obvious as a power or gas breakdown. After 30 years as a senior part-time specialist at a hospital, I was nudged out. Technically, I left - but that was because I could no longer treat my patients to an acceptable standard - from protocols that have stood the test of time, like a hundred years.
Managers are trying to make money from the hospital. Another fact of life is that there are now more of these highly paid bureaucrats than clinicians. But the clinicians are expected to have higher output than private practices - with support staff like that Theresa person who wrote some time ago. Whilst many are good, the few who have the power are very radical like her, and are less than helpful. One can imagine the morale amongst the conscientious staff at all levels.
The hardest fact of life in health is that the patients are the meat in the sandwich to discredit incumbent conservative governments by the managers who are of a different political persuasion. And, even worse, these stupid governments simply will not listen when you tell them they are being used.
But if one asks around, it is obvious that the same is happening in most professional fields... not just those in engineering and health.
As the professor forecast for Ray Martin, it can only get worse - because the real experts no longer have any input. So that folks, is just one person's 'birds and the bees' talk for today. Going by the election result, there must be 1.2 million similar stories in Australia.
Regards,
Barry M.
Keep up the good work
Dear Pauline and Team,
Please keep up the good work you and your party members are doing.
Australia needs you. You are our voice. Politics has never been so interesting. Good luck, and best wishes.
Narelle Foxe
Call for change
In an interesting article in yesterday's Australian, D.D. McNicoll called for a complete overhaul of Australia's electoral system. He said that under a "first past the post" system there would have been a very different result, and the results would have been known by 11 pm that night. For all seats.
The true democratic result for the House of Reps would have been: Coalition 82 seats, Labor 63, Independent 1, and One Nation 1 (Blair of course). The senate result would have been: Coalition 19, ALP 20, One Nation 1. The Democrats and Greens would not have won a seat. Compare that result with the travesty we've got where the Democrats have 'won' 7 seats in the senate despite One Nation out-polling them!
McNicoll explained that our current system was set up to elect not the most popular candidate, but the one least unpolular with the majority of voters. It's a stupid system and needs to go. It has been totally corrupted in that the big parties collude to keep any new players out.
Professor Dean Jaensch (Politics at Flinders) also criticized it. He said it was unfair that the primary votes of the minor parties just translate into seats for major parties. He said "if One Nation gets a million votes then in theory it should have the right to have one twelfth of the seats in parliament".
It's heartening to see some principled people speaking out.
Antonia Feitz
Subject: Abbbbbottt....SHUT UP!
Tony Abbott, that well-known slimy, sycophantic party hack and unashamed apologist for globalist tyranny and economic irrationalism, maintains that One Nation Party should not get the $3million+ that it is entitled to(by law) from the Federal election because "its party structure is un-democratic". Now _thatz_ gotta be the pot calling the kettle a darker shade of black. How democratic is the Laboral Party? This is the same bunch of wankers who tried to 'freight-train' a piece of abominable legislation called MAI through the Federal Parliament without one _word_ of consultation with the electorate. This is also the same bunch of un-representative scum who sign secret UN treaties(exmpl: 'rights' of the child) in back rooms and who force un-willing Party members to vote as per 'party line'[like it or not!]
This clown's performance on 'Four Corners' some time back should alert 'anotd' readers(and others) that this _cockroach_ is not to be trusted! What next from this toad? Retrospective legislation? The Laborals are now well-known as 'goalpost shifters'. Should we be surprised?
cheers!
(jimbo!)
Mandates, Majorities, One Nation and Labor preferences
Hi, Its me again
Since my email 'Watch Australian Electoral Officers', Vanessa has authorised me to scrutinise the Moreton count. Also I'm working with Michael Harris-Gahan on his paper on compulsory preferences.
After hearing yesterday's news of ON's plans, specially criticising preferences, and this am's ABC (Caroline Tucker) talk-back, I believe the Oct 3 results can be a powerful force for renewed democracy. Also ON can get credit for successfully stopping the GST despite the AEC and its political masters.
The trick is to maximise that success, specially when the Laborals and their media mates are spreading stories about the multi-million dollar "windfall". (If you think about it, Tony Abbott's comments for the ABC can be used to 'blind-side' them in a way which will make Lawrie Kavanagh and his ex-navy mate smile for years. Its a pity David E had to be so defensive.)
The 1st thing is to record how many ON preferences are used to get Laborals unduly elected. I'll do this in Moreton and have asked Gavin Badke to do the same for Longman. Its worth scrutinising all the other seats where ON preferences are to be distributed, both in Qld (Dickson, Herbert, Hinkler, and Petrie), and interstate for the same count.
Similarly, its worth knowing how many Labor preferences will be used to ensure Blair goes to the Liberals. The Labor 'grass roots' will be very interested, but don't expect the media to publicise it.
These will be very potent numbers to repeat every time the Liberals say, or blather about (to quote John Stone last week), 'mandate' & GST in the same statement. Specially if the number of indirectly chosen, unduly elected unrepresentatives is enough to have changed the final balance. That would leave Howard with a "Claytons" majority! (a bit like Peter Beattie's, who has about the same % of Qld votes as Howard will have of Commonwealth votes)
Can some-one either follow up directly, or put me in contact, with scrutineers for above seats? Just ring, leaving a call-back no if necessary. Don't leave it too late. Thanks.
Regards, and note new mobile no below
Jim Stewart
Rigged Voting
Dear Scott,
Many people have not realized that last saturday we the people were stood over or intimidated at the polls by the Australian Electoral Commission. What has happened is that our government ammended certain sections of the electoral act to negate our right to vote in such a manner that would have disadvantaged the government at last weeks polls. I know that many people still do not understand what the "langer" system is and I have only just realized myself the power we had if we could have used it.IE a "langer" style vote is one which exhausts your preferences before reaching the end of the card. Eg.with five candidates 1,2,2,2,2 or 1,2,3,3,3 or 1,2,3,4,4. thereby declaring clearly, your first choice and the candidates you did not want to show any preference to at all. If all minor parties and independants had used it the present people would not be in power today. They would not have gained an absolute (50%+) majority and we would have all had to re vote. THEN some one would have had to change their stance on matters of concern to us, or explain themselves better so that a deadlock would be broken.
But the powers, after amending the act on 7 july 1998, then told you and I that we could only vote 1,2,3,4,5 thereby forceing us to cast a preference for those which we believe are the problem for our way of life. We were allowed to indicate our first preference but then we had to show, some where on the ballot paper, our preference for the coalition or labor. That is why they won so well. They cheated.
BUT they changed a section of the act which in 1996 the High Court ruled could not be used to declare a ballot paper informal. They tried to change the original intention of the act. They have stuffed up their own dirty work. Therefore they have, under the crimes act of 1918, committed a criminal offence. The Electoral Commission must be charged with this crime. To beat them now we all must post in an objection to the illegal way we were forced to cast a formal vote. If we don`t, next time they will amend the vote for the senate the same way and we will be stuck with this terrible style of government forever. Post it to the deputy commissioner of your state.
Legal advice can be found on www.neither.org for the more technically minded. The High Court must declare itself by holding up its original findings or reversing that decision in favour of the government thus showing that they are not only were politically appointed but politically motivated.
Support Pauline and free yourself by objecting now
Regards john hugo
Hidden Government
Dear Scott,
It is a long time since I have spoken to you, I'm sorry that Ms Pauline Hanson did not get elected, nevermind 'God' is great and eventualy will destroy those who are responsible for it.
It is a pitty that this graet country has been destroyed by forces of 'Evil' that is the "Zionist", nevermind the history will repeat itself. I send you an article I found on the Internet, I like to publish a book called "Hidden Government" can you help me?
In the meantime I like to tell you that apart from
the Zionists list that I sent you there are others who have cotributed to
my business being destroyed they are:
Sir Lawrence Street (Jewish)
Justice Sackvill (Jewish)
George Citer (Jewish)
Justice Einfeld (Jewish)
Rodney Adler (Jewish)
David Baffsky (Jewish)
Leibler (Jewish)
Rabii Apple (Jewish)
Harry Trigobuf (Jewish)
Owen Ratner (Jewish)
Selwyn Black (Jewish)
Mr Remington (Jewish)
Robert Kreminizer (Jewish)
Charles Moshe (Jewish)
Constable Jacobson (Jewish)
I'm sick of them, but I belive God will destroy them, please keep in touch and read this
Frank Nijad
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