Al Gore $10 Trillion Climate Fraud

 

The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud

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Al Gore is co-founder of an investment management firm that is now the fifth-largest shareholder in the Chicago Climate Exchange.

Al Gore,Liar for Hire

Cap-And-Trade: While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House.

Lost in the recent headlines was Al Gore's appearance Monday in Denver at the annual meeting of the Council of Foundations, an association of the nation's philanthropic leaders.

"Time's running out (on climate change)," Gore told them. "We have to get our act together. You have a unique role in getting our act together."

Gore was right that foundations will play a key role in keeping the climate scam alive as evidence of outright climate fraud grows, just as they were critical in the beginning when the Joyce Foundation in 2000 and 2001 provided the seed money to start the Chicago Climate Exchange. It started trading in 2003, and what it trades is, essentially, air. More specifically perhaps, hot air.

The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) advertises itself as "North America's only cap-and-trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide." Barack Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002 when the CCX startup grants were issued. As president, pushing cap-and-trade is one of his highest priorities. Now isn't that special?

Few Americans have heard of either entity. The Joyce Foundation was originally the financial nest egg of a widow whose family had made millions in the now out-of-favor lumber industry.

After her death, the foundation was run by philanthropists who increasingly dedicated their giving to liberal causes, including gun control, environmentalism and school changes.

Currently, CCX members agree to a voluntary but legally binding agreement to regulate greenhouse gases.

The CCX provides the mechanism in trading the very pollution permits and carbon offsets the administration's cap-and-trade proposals would impose by government mandate.

Thanks to Fox News' Glenn Beck, we have learned a lot about CCX, not the least of which is that its founder, Richard Sandor, says he knew Obama well back in the day when the Joyce Foundation awarded money to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where Sandor was a research professor.

Sandor estimates that climate trading could be "a $10 trillion dollar market." It could very well be, if cap-and-trade measures like Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer are signed into law, making energy prices skyrocket, and as companies buy and sell permits to emit those six "greenhouse" gases.
So lucrative does this market appear, it attracted the attention of London-based Generation Investment Management, which purchased a stake in CCX and is now the fifth-largest shareholder.

As we noted last year, Gore is co-founder of Generation Investment Management, which sells carbon offsets of dubious value that let rich polluters continue to pollute with a clear conscience.

Other founders include former Goldman Sachs partner David Blood, as well as Mark Ferguson and Peter Harris, also of Goldman Sachs. In 2006, CCX received a big boost when another investor bought a 10% stake on the prospect of making a great deal of money for itself. That investor was Goldman Sachs, now under the gun for selling financial instruments it knew were doomed to fail.

The actual mechanism for trading on the exchange was purchased and patented by none other than Franklin Raines, who was CEO of Fannie Mae at the time.

Raines profited handsomely to the tune of some $90 million by buying and bundling bad mortgages that led to the collapse of the American economy. His interest in climate trading is curious until one realizes cap-and-trade would make housing costlier as well.

Amazingly, none of these facts came up at Senate hearings on Goldman Sachs' activities, which may be nothing more than Ross Perot's famous "gorilla dust," meant to distract us from the real issues.

The climate trading scheme being stitched together here will do more damage than Goldman Sachs, AIG and Fannie Mae combined. But it will bring power and money to its architects.

 

Alan Jones comments on the scandal surrounding Goldman Sachs and says
former U.S vice president Al Gore is right in the thick of it.

Beijings most senior representative in Australia,Lu Kewen aka. Australian Labor PM Kevin 07 Rudd, vows to continue Labor’s WAR against Australia’s “working families”

Barbara Hollingsworth: Who's who on climate fraud
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
WashingtonExaminer
Local Opinion Editor
December 4, 2009

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In 1912, a respected paleontologist at the British Museum confirmed that bones found in a Piltdown quarry came from the “missing link” between apes and humans. Forty years later, the so-called Piltdown Man was proved to be a hoax. Thanks to purloined e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), global warming is turning out to be the 21st-century equivalent of Piltdown Man.

E-mails between a small group of highly influential climate scientists at the center of the worldwide panic over global warming exposed multiple discussions among them concerning their manipulation of data and using various evasive tactics to avoid releasing the facts behind their ginned-up numbers to the public via Freedom of Information Act requests.

Here’s a rogue’s gallery of five major perpetrators of what’s turning out to be the biggest scientific hoax in modern history:

Geoff Jenkins, chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s first scientific group and self-described “frontman explaining climate change.” Jenkins admitted in 1996 to a “cunning plan” to feed fake temperature information to Nick Nuttall, head of media for the United Nations Environment program. At the time, Jenkins predicted temperatures in London would hit 113 degrees Fahrenheit and the Thames River would rise three feet even though 1996 was, in fact, cooler than 1995.

Phil Jones, director of the CRU, controlled two key databases that are the primary sources underlying claims by the United Nations and others of a global scientific “consensus” that catastrophic consequences will result from man-made global warming unless trillions of dollars are spent now to prevent it.

Jones e-mailed instructions to colleagues to “hide the decline” in temperatures and to pressure editors of academic journals to blackball the work of “climate skeptics.”
After claiming that the original climate data had been destroyed in the 1980s, Jones was caught urging his CRU colleagues to “delete as appropriate” data requested under Britain’s freedom of information laws.

Michael Mann, director of Penn State University’s Earth System Science Center, is one of the lead authors of the U.N.’s Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change report. Mann was the originator of the “hockey stick” graph that supposedly proved that the Earth’s temperature was at the highest level in recorded history. However, it also appeared to eliminate both the Medieval Warm Period, in which surface temperatures were higher than they are today, and Europe’s “Little Ice Age.”

In 2003, Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre exposed the flawed methodology behind Mann’s hockey stick. The recent e-mail leak led another scientist to quip: “Dr. Mann is in transition from Penn State to State Pen. We can only hope he does a better job with license plates.”
Mann has been a committee chairman for the National Academy of Sciences and a member of multiple NAS panels and committees.

James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, whose records were also cited as evidence, second only to the CRU data, of incontrovertible man-made global warming. McIntyre also caught Hansen engaging in the same sort of statistical manipulation in which past temperatures were lowered and recent ones “adjusted” to convey the false impression that the nonexistent warming trend was accelerating. After trying to block McIntyre’s IP address, NASA was forced to back down from its claim that 1998 was the hottest year in U.S. history.

Al Gore, Former Vice President Al Gore is the author of “An Inconvenient Truth,” star of the 2006 Oscar-winning movie of the same name and winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless efforts to limit economic development in industrialized countries with a cap-and-trade scheme. Many experts agree that such a system would increase food and energy prices, while wasting trillions of dollars on alternative energy sources (in which Gore is heavily invested). Gore’s case rests on the now-discredited theory that carbon dioxide emissions (which are increasing) are heating up the Earth’s atmosphere, even though actual global temperatures have been declining for at least a decade.

These five, though far from being the only ones, are among the top perpetrators of the Great Global Warming Hoax. They should never be taken seriously again.

Barbara F. Hollingsworth is The Examiner's local opinion editor.

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Australia: Alan Jones and Greg Hunt pulling no punches on Lu Kewen aka.PM Kevin Rudd comes under the microscope in the 2010 election year over his incompetent Socialist government

 

2GB’s Alan Jones and Liberal Party shadow minister Greg Hunt rip Lu Kewen aka. Kevin 07 a new arsehole

2GB’s Ray Hadley on Lu Kewen’s Billion $$$$$$$ Stimulus SCAM

Australia: Videos, When Socialists run Health Care.When Socialists go into the Home Insulation Business as part of their BILLION $$$$$$$$$$$$ stimulus package.

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Beijings most senior representative in Australia,Lu Kewen aka. Australian Labor PM Kevin 07 Rudd, vows to continue Labor’s WAR against Australia’s “working families”

 

Beijing’s most senior official in Australia,Prime Minister Lu Kewen aka.Kevin 07 Rudd, determined to impose the UN’s (Labor, Lu Kewen aka. Rudd Tax") upon Australia’s,”Working Family’s” as soon as possible.

It's not over: Rudd vows to fight for emissions scheme

SMH
April 24, 2010

Climate change is still on the agenda, write Phillip Coorey and Peter Hartcher.

KEVIN RUDD says the great moral challenge posed by climate change is undiminished and he will keep trying to implement an emissions trading scheme if Labor is re-elected.

The SCAM Exposed AGAIN.

Al Gore has made $500 Million, so far, out of his and the UN’s Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM.

How much has Comrade Lu Kewen made ?

Australian’s will  pay an extra 64% (before 2012) on their electricity bills BEFORE the UN’s and Lu Kewen’s aka. Kevin 07 Labor Party’s, Anthropogenic Global Warming TAX is implemented.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace al  armed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule "

H. L. Mencken

In an interview with the Herald, Mr Rudd rejected growing criticism that he had abandoned the climate change cause because it was no longer a vote winner after the Copenhagen conference and the defeat of his emissions trading scheme.

"It's very clear cut that whether climate change is topical or not, whether it is popular or not, the reality of it does not disappear," he said.

"This remains a fundamental economic, environmental and moral challenge. Whether it's newsworthy or not in a particular season is beside the point. We haven't changed our view of this.''

The Senate has twice blocked legislation for the emissions trading scheme. The legislation is again before the Parliament but the Senate has delayed debate until at least next month and there is next to no chance there will be a vote before the election expected in the spring.

Mr Rudd said that if he is re-elected, he will try again to have a scheme introduced but it would depend on the make-up of the Senate.

''We've got to ensure that we act on climate change and we do so always within the scope of our powers. We maintain our position that this is part of the most efficient and most effective means by which we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the least cost to the economy.''

Mr Rudd can use the twice-defeated emissions trading scheme as a trigger for a double dissolution election. While coy on that prospect, he said he would have no problem advocating an emissions trading scheme during a campaign.

He said Australia was playing a key role in trying to forge meaningful international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: ''National action in the absence of global action doesn't add up to a row of beans.''

He did not agree Copenhagen was a failure. It had produced an accord that temperature increases should not exceed 2 degrees, he said. In the past three months, Australia had been working intensively to get countries to sign up. So far, 74 countries, producing 80 per cent of the world's emissions, have pledged to reduce emissions by 2020.

Mr Rudd spoke to the Herald the day after his meeting this week with the premiers and chief ministers on health - and the day before the government broke its promises on insulation and childcare.

Mr Rudd had promised to put a health plan to the states by mid-2009; then he asked them to accept the plan or face a referendum at the 2010 election.

He said it was unfair to accuse him of breaking a promise just because the health plan was not presented until early March.

''I can never quite understand the criticism from Abbott and others at the time about why there is a six-month delay,'' he said.

''For goodness sake, 12 years of [Howard government] inertia and after two years we've decided to take a further six months to consider the implications for such a big reform, the biggest since the introduction of Medicare.'''

The West Australian Premier, Colin Barnett, has refused to sign the heath deal because he does not want to give the Commonwealth 33 per cent of his GST revenue. He will sign up if his state can contribute the money to the reforms independently.

The Sydney Morning Herald is a supporter of and apologist for, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU, financed Australian Labor Party

Lu Kewen,aka,Australian PM Kevin Rudd, is the personification of the Australian Labor Party and its ideology and objectives.

A creation of Australia’s MSM, a darling of FM music radio stations and  Socialist Today show hosts,who thought that asking him what colour tie he was going to wear tomorrow was a hard hitting and searching examination of his and his party’s agenda.

This disgraceful LIAR  and PHONY, slotted perfectly into the MSM’s criteria for a new Australian Prime Minister, he did, after all represent the OPPOSITE of the Howard years.

If Australia had an Oprah,Lu Kewen,aka. Kevin 07, would be her choice for Australian PM, after all her choice for the President of the United States of America was Hussein Obama and he said.of Lu Kewen  aka. Kevin 07.Hussein Obama praises Lu Kewen

Lu Kewen aka. Kevin 07 was a trial run for Hussein Obama 08,same ole bumper stickers, slogans and media hype eg. “working families” “change” and all the Socialist / UN promises of anything you want whenever you want it so long as, you vote for me and let me decide what is best for you and your wife and children, after all I am a Marxist Union financed Socialist how could you possibly lose?.

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Lu Kewen aka. Australian Labor PM Kevin 07 Rudd follows, adopts? UK Labor’s Immigration Policy

 

Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Labour threw open Britain's borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a "truly multicultural" country, a former Government adviser has revealed.

By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
Telegraph.co.uk
Published: 6:42PM BST 23 Oct 2009

The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.

He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote".
As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.

Critics said the revelations showed a "conspiracy" within Government to impose mass immigration for "cynical" political reasons.

Mr Neather was a speech writer who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, in the early 2000s.

Writing in the Evening Standard, he revealed the "major shift" in immigration policy came after the publication of a policy paper from the Performance and Innovation Unit, a Downing Street think tank based in the Cabinet Office, in 2001.

He wrote a major speech for Barbara Roche, the then immigration minister, in 2000, which was largely based on drafts of the report.

He said the final published version of the report promoted the labour market case for immigration but unpublished versions contained additional reasons, he said.

He wrote: "Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.

"I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn't its main purpose – to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date."

The "deliberate policy", from late 2000 until "at least February last year", when the new points based system was introduced, was to open up the UK to mass migration, he said.

Some 2.3 million migrants have been added to the population since then, according to Whitehall estimates quietly slipped out last month.

On Question Time on Thursday, Mr Straw was repeatedly quizzed about whether Labour's immigration policies had left the door open for the BNP.

In his column, Mr Neather said that as well as bringing in hundreds of thousands more migrants to plug labour market gaps, there was also a "driving political purpose" behind immigration policy.

He defended the policy, saying mass immigration has "enriched" Britain, and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place.

But he acknowledged that "nervous" ministers made no mention of the policy at the time for fear of alienating Labour voters.

"Part by accident, part by design, the Government had created its longed-for immigration boom.

"But ministers wouldn't talk about it. In part they probably realised the conservatism of their core voters: while ministers might have been passionately in favour of a more diverse society, it wasn't necessarily a debate they wanted to have in working men's clubs in Sheffield or Sunderland."

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think tank, said: "Now at least the truth is out, and it's dynamite.

"Many have long suspected that mass immigration under Labour was not just a cock up but also a conspiracy. They were right.

"This Government has admitted three million immigrants for cynical political reasons concealed by dodgy economic camouflage."

The chairmen of the cross-party Group for Balanced Migration, MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, said: "We welcome this statement by an ex-adviser, which the whole country knows to be true.

"It is the first beam of truth that has officially been shone on the immigration issue in Britain."

A Home Office spokesman said: “Our new flexible points based system gives us greater control on those coming to work or study from outside Europe, ensuring that only those that Britain need can come.

“Britain's borders are stronger than ever before and we are rolling out ID cards to foreign nationals, we have introduced civil penalties for those employing illegal workers and from the end of next year our electronic border system will monitor 95 per cent of journeys in and out of the UK.

“The British people can be confident that immigration is under control.”

The Consequences of UK Labor’s Immigration Policy (I am pretending that they were not aware of the following when they introduced this immigration policy aka Mass Suicide Note) Australia’s very own Lu Kewen aka. Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd, is committed to a “big Australia” some 36 million in population and presently has an open border immigration policy with a preference for Muslim illegals.

Australia

We'll be a nation of new migrants

By NICK GARDNER
The Sunday Telegraph
April 18, 2010

THE Australian-born family will become a minority group within 15 years - outnumbered by a surging wave of migrants from Europe and Asia.

Figures from demographic consultants Macroplan Australia show record overseas migration and an ageing population mean migrant families will overtake the number of locally born residents by 2025 - far sooner than previously imagined.

The news will infuriate some Australian citizens, who claim the population is already too big and infrastucture is buckling under the strain.

According to 2006 census data, 40 per cent of the nation's population was either born overseas or had at least one parent who was born abroad.

But at present immigration levels, that proportion will jump to more than 50 per cent by 2025.

The news comes a few days after the appointment of Tony Burke as Australia's first population minister

He faces the task of managing the influx of migrants, which is expected to swell the population from 22 million today to 36 million by 2050.

As Mr Burke was sworn in, a survey of 3000 people revealed 70 per cent of Australians do not want a bigger population. Fewer than a quarter favoured immigration as the main contributor.

But experts say a migrant majority will be healthy for Australian culture and attitudes.

"It all adds to the cosmopolitan nature of modern Australia," KPMG demographer Bernard Salt said. "It means our views become less blinkered, and we become more tolerant, confident, engaged, opportunistic and optimistic because we are open to new ideas, not obsessed with keeping things the same."

Macroplan chief executive Brian Haratsis said Australians tended to "stare at our shoes and say we're the best in the world".

"While immigration needs to be managed with better infrastructure, we also need high immigration for sound economic reasons - if we don't, we'll all end up paying higher taxes."

Dr Bob Birrell, co-director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research and reader in sociology at Monash University, said the ratio of foreign-born residents was already higher in Sydney and Melbourne because they were the two most popular destinations for new arrivals.

"We're getting lots more Indian and Chinese immigrants coming to study, but many of those will end up settling here," Dr Birrell said.

The Federal Government estimates that cutting immigration from 280,000 to its target of 180,000 will result in a population of 36 million by 2050.

But it also means the number of working taxpayers will halve in relation to the number of people aged over 65.

Most migrants come from Britain (14.2 per cent), followed by New Zealand (11.4 per cent), India (11.2), China (10.5) South Africa (5.3) and the Philippines (4.1).

Mr Salt said there would be more Iraqi and Afghan migrants.

 

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Lu Kewen aka.Australian PM.Kevin Rudd’s Nephew Van-Thanh-Rudd Trashes Australia (again)

 

Australian Open 26 1 2010

Van-Thanh-Rudd

Lu Kewen

Australian Federal Election Poster, Hong Kong 2007.

Rudd nephew in 'disgusting' art controversy

Sunday Herald Sun
January 30, 2010 11:43PM

PMs nephew in new controversy
Art work called 'disgusting'
Lampoons dead Aussie soldiers

FRESH from being evicted from the Australian Open Tennis, Kevin Rudd's nephew is embroiled in fresh controversy over art works that lampoon dead Australian soldiers.

Van Thanh Rudd, who last week was ejected from the open for wearing a Ku Klux Klan costume with the logo "Australian Made", has been attacked over "disrespectful and disgraceful art".

The art work juxtaposes a picture of Shane Warne making an impassioned appeal for a wicket against a coffin of a Digger draped in an Australian flag being carried to a Hercules transport plane for the journey home.

Another montage entitled The Rape depicts real pictures of identifiable rugby league players positioned so they look as if they are engaged in sex acts.

Mr Rudd is the son of the Prime Minister's older brother, Malcolm. According to his website which displays the art works, Mr Van Thanh Rudd was born in the Queensland coastal town of Nambour - the Prime Minister's home town - and now resides in Melbourne.
In what appeared to be a veiled reference to the Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin said anyone with any influence on Mr Van Thanh Rudd or his family should get him to pull the website down.

Prime Minister Rudd has previously condemned artist Bill Henson over his erotic depictions of children describing them as "disgusting". But presented with Mr Van Thanh Rudd's images a spokesman would only say: "The Prime Minister believes all Australians should respect the service and sacrifice of our Australian servicemen and women."

Mr Van Thanh was fined $234 by police for his Klu Klux Klan protest at the Australian Tennis Open. But he could also be facing possible civil action from the Australian Made campaign if he ignores a legal warning to stop using its logo for his anti-racism protests.

Mr Rudd, 36, was fined by police for "riotous behaviour"' after he and fellow Revolutionary Socialist Party member Sam King staged a protest against the treatment of Indian students and immigration policies.

Australian Made campaign chief executive Ian Harrison said the organisation had told lawyers to write to Mr Rudd requiring a commitment from him not to "misuse" the logo.

The Prime Minister's nephew said the protest was aimed at drawing attention to racism in Melbourne and the incarceration of asylum-seekers.

"We don't see why Australia has the right to be the most racist country in the world," he told the ABC.

"Australia funds the genocidal Sri Lankan regime and then rejects the refugees who flee. In this country you could not get away with doing that against whites. So they're the basic reasons we're having the protest today," he told the ABC.

Mr King said the idea for the demonstration stemmed from a cartoon in an Indian newspaper that likened Victorian police to the Ku Klux Klan.

Kevin Rudd defends nephew Van Thanh Rudd's right to protest

Herald Sun
February 05, 2010

KEVIN Rudd has defended the right of his nephew to use controversial protest tactics, even though he disagrees with him.

Van Thanh Rudd, a Melbourne-based artist, made headlines in the Indian media after dressing up in a Ku Klux Klan hood on Australia

Day to protest against violence directed at Indian students.

Asked about those tactics, the Prime Minister said he had a broad family.

"We all believe in free speech but I don't agree with what he said," Mr Rudd told Fairfax Radio today.

"I haven't had a chat with him for quite some months."

Mr Rudd pointed out that his 36-year-old nephew had two brothers - a policeman and a member of the Australian Defence Force.

They are the sons of the Prime Minister's brother Malcolm, a Vietnam veteran, and his wife Tuoi.

"I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," Mr Rudd said.

“The Fruit does not falls far from the tree.”

Rudd’s Illegal’s on their way to Australia

HMAS Childers finally a chance to speak the truth.

Prof.Bob Birrell Speaks for Australia and Australians

 

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Australian Labor Party, Communisms Fifth Column, led by Kevin“I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist” Rudd

Will someone please explain to me how you can be elected to the leadership of the largest Socialist / Communist Party in Australia, Lu Kewen aka Kevin Rudd,and claim to not believe in its ideology and manifesto ? or is this yet another example of the Labor Party’s most adhered to commandment of “whatever it takes” Chk – chk- BOOM
The Australian Labor Party,ALP,is funded by the Australian Council of Trade Unions,ACTU,these bankers and financiers of the ALP are without question radical left in ideology and actions, are we to believe that they are unaware they have a man leading the political party they finance and SCAM for does not believe in or subscribe to their social and political objectives ?
An invitation to President Chavez by the undersigned cabal of Labor Party officials, Parliamentarians,Union officials and leftist beard strokers and “Religious” leaders.
For the latest developments in the Socialist Utopia of Venezuela,see SheikYerMami’s Winds of Jihad
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/160
Dear President Chávez,
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government.
Although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. Every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what Venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.

“that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together”

“…..source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.”

In this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the Australian people of developments in Venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples.
All signatures will be posted to Nelson Davila, Venezuela’s charge d’affaires in Australia, Canberra.(Todas las firmas de invitación serán enviadas a Nelson Dávila, Encargado de Negocios de Venezuela en Australia, Canberra)
If you would like to confirm the signature of yourself or you organisation for identification and for promotion of President Chavez' visit please contact us: Jody Betzien 0425 887 078 or email info@venezuelasolidarity.org
Signatories include
Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division, John Pilger - Independent Journalist, Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006, Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens), Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria, Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW, Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary,
Van Thanh Rudd - Visual Artist  Nephew of Australian PM Lu Kewen aka.Kevin 07 Rudd

Labor’s, Rudd’s coveted economic,social plan for Australia.

Australian Council of Trade Unions President Comrade Darling! Sharan Burrow, in the centre with ASU National Chairperson Alison Peters front right, Fran Teirney of the ASU-NSW & ACT (Services) Branch front left and others.

“Organisers as Educators” 

"The only way you'll fly is with the ASU!" Airlines organisers showing the way.”

Signatories to invite Chavez to Australia
Ali Kazak - Former Ambassador of Palestine
Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division
Angela Briant - Secretary Independent Education Union (Tasmania)
Antony Loewenstein - Independent Journalist
Barry Carr - Director of la Trobe University, Institute of Latin American Studies
Belinda Selke - NTEU, Wollongong
Blake Stephens - Organier, CPSU NSW
Brendan Hewson - President, Community & Public Sector Union /CSA
Buranjali David Allie - Council of Elders, Indigenious Land Council
Cameron Durnsford - LMHU, Qld
Caroline Risely - Monash University Welfare Officer
Carolyn Smith - Childcare Union Assistant Secretary, WA Liqor Hospitality Miscellaneous workers Union
Casper Cumming - Swinborne Student Union President 2006
Charlotte Boss-Walker -Peace Activist (Tas)
Cheryl Dillon - NTEU, Wollongong
Chris Game - Secretary, NTEU NSW,
Clare Ozich - Industrial Officer, Unions WA
Craig Bulley - Worker's Radio
Craig Johnson - Cultural Studies, Macquarie University.
Darren Mathewson - director of Organising CPSU
Dave Robinson - Secretary, Unions WA
David O’Byrne - Sectretary LHMU
Deb Foskey - Greens Member of the Legislative Assembly (ACT)
Dick Nichols - National Co-ordinator, Socialist Alliance
Doreen Shenman - Peace Activist (Tas)
Dr Alastair Grieg Senior Lecturer, Australian National University: Faculty of Arts
Dr Coral Wynter - biochemist, Brisbane
Dr Rhonda Forrest - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
Dr. Anthony Ashbolt - NTEU, Wollongong
Dr. Henk Eijkman - Empowered Learning International
Dr. Peter Ross - Spanish & Latin American Studies, UNSW
Erick Maldonado - NTEU, Wollongong
Federico Fuentes - National Co-ordinator, Resistance socialist youth organisation
Fay Hannah - Cuba Friendship Society
Geoff Hull - LMHU (NT)
Gil Anderson - Secretary ACT Branch LHMU
Graciela Nogues - ASU workplace delegate & L.A Solidarity Committe
Graham Pallot - organiser, CFMEU WA
Grahame McCulloch - General Secretaty, NTEU
Glenda Mejía - Spanish Co-ordinator at RMIT
Humphrey McQueen - Historian
Ian Bray - WA assistant branch secretary, Maritime Union of Australia WA
Ian Cohen - MLC NSW, Greens
Ian Newman - Peace Activist (Tas)
J Keith Atkinson - Associate Professor emeritus, UQ; Healer
Jack Mundey - Environmentalist
Jade Mason - LMHU (Qld)
Janine Aitkens -President, Cairns Campus, James Cook University Student Assoc.
Jakalene X - Indigenous community activist
Jake Wishart - Student Activist Alliance
Jenni Bond - Peace Activist (Tas)
Jenny Forward - Organiser CPSU (Tasmania)
Jim McIlroy - journalist, Brisbane
Jim Mellor - Communications/Projects, CFMEU WA
Jim Reid - organiser, CFMEU WA
Jo Maree Coghlan - Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong
Joan Doyle - Victorian Branch Secretary of the CEPU Communications Division
Joe Cambria - The Australian Global Warming and Fair Pay Institute
Joe McDonald - Assistant Secretary, CFMEU WA
Joel Asphar - AMWU WA Organiser
John Pilger - Independent Journalist
John Sutton - National Secretary, CFMEU, Construction & Gernaral Division
Jose Munoz - Organiser ACT Branch LHMU
Judith Pabian - President ACT Branch NTEU
Keith Peckham - Industrial development officer, UnionsWA
Kerry Nettle - Australian Greens Senator for NSW
Kerryn Williams - Editor, Green Left Weekly
Kevin Ennor - organiser, CFMEU WA
Keysar Trad - Islamic Friendship Association
Kim Sattler - Secretary UnionsACT
Kiraz Janicke - National Co-ordinating Committee Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
Lee Rhiannon - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens)Len Palmer - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
Lisa Darmanin, ASU Assistant Branch Secretary, Lisa Darmanin
Linda Briskman - Professor, Curtin Centre for Human Rights Education
Linda Seaborn - Welfare worker, and HACSU delegate
Lisa MacDonald - National Co-ordinating Committee Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
Mark Taylor - Australian Services Union (Qld)
Marree O'Halloran - President, NSW Teachers Federation
Michele McKenzie - Greens Councillor, Leichhardt Council
Michelle O'Neil - TCFUA State secretary
Megan Clement - Newcastle University Students Association, Education Officer 2006
Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW
Mick Baker - MUA WA organiser
Mick Buchan - Organiser, CFMEU WA
Mick Campion - President, NTEU Murdoch Univeristy Branch
Mike Donaldson - NTEU, Wollongong
Naomi Arrowsmith - Australian Services Union, Assistant State Secretary (NSW)
Narendra Mohan Kommalapati - Journalist
Natasha Stott-Despoja - SA Australian Democrats Senator
Neil Mudford - Secretary ACT Branch NTEU
Nicholas Kafer - Education Campaigns Coordinator - Wollonongong Undergraduate Students' Association (WUSA)
Noah Bassil - Associate of the Centre for Middle East & North African Studies
Paul Halfpenny - WA Organiser, NTEU
Paul Lynch - State member for Liverpool
Paul Gonzalez - Pablo Neruda Cultural Centre (Melb)
Paul Obohoov - Trade Union Voices Choir, ACTU
Phillip Adams - Journalist, Republican of the Year 2005
Peter Boyle - National Secretary, Democratic Socialist Perspective
Raul Bassi - Transport Workers Union delegate, Sydney
Ray Jackson - Indigenous Social Justice Association
Reverend Alex Gator
Robert Austin - Honorary Fellow Department of History, University of Melbourne
Robyn Francis -Permaculture Education, Erda Institute Inc
Ryan Ardill - Your Rights at Work, Kingston Division
Saeb Ali - Peace For Lebanon (Wollongong)
Sam Watson - Indigenous Murri Activist
Scott Poynting - Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education, UW
Shelley Watson-Harris - Executive Officer, Unions WA
Simon Cocker - Secretary, Unions Tasmania
Stephen Weber - ASU (Alice Springs)
Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria.
Steve McCartney - State President, AMWU WA
Steven Arditto - Organiser CPSU (Tasmania)
Susan Engel - NTEU Wollongong
Susan Hopgood - Federal Secretary, AEU
Susan Price - UNSW National Tertiary Education Union, Branch President
Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens)
Tania Jorquera - Youth Worker
Thirza White - Campaign Coordinator Unions WA
Tim Anderson - Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney
Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary
Van Thanh Rudd - Visual Artist
Vinnie Molina Organiser, CFMEU WA
Viviana Ramírez - Senior Teacher of Spanish, Beerwah State High School
Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006
Warren Smith - Assistant Sydney Branch Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia
Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly
Wendy Jopson - Lecturer, University of Technology Sydne
Yvette Berry - Organiser ACT Branch LHMU
Rudd backtracks on socialist label
Samantha Maiden and Verity Edwards
The Australian
December 15, 2006
KEVIN Rudd has junked a pledge to remove the word socialism from the Labor Party's constitution just a day after denouncing it as an "arcane, 19th-century" doctrine.
Three years ago he declared himself "an old-fashioned Christian socialist", but yesterday he was busily denouncing socialism and also backflipping on a 2001 push to remove it from the ALP's constitution.
Mr Rudd has previously declared the ALP's socialist dogma of controlling "production, distribution and exchange" had nostalgia value only and was "entirely unmemorable".
When asked yesterday whether he would now take action, the Labor leader changed tack and said he had no plans to pursue the reforms at next year's ALP national conference.
"I have no plans of doing so," he said in Adelaide yesterday.
"I've already indicated where I stand philosophically in terms of the questions of my own beliefs, my own values and the priorities and objectives which I believe for a modern, progressive, democratic party.
"These are core social democratic values and I'm proud to be a committed social democrat as I have been all my life."
Mr Rudd's emphatic rejection of socialism was frontpage news in Melbourne's The Age yesterday. The newspaper's website also included video images of the Labor leader denouncing socialism but admitting he did not want workers being left to the "dung heap of the market".
"I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," Mr Rudd said.
However, his bold statement of values was immediately undermined by the emergence of another declaration in 2003, when he was quoted in another Fairfax newspaper as saying: "I am an old-fashioned Christian socialist."
Mr Rudd also cites Keir Hardie, founder of the 19th century British Christian socialist movement, as one of his heroes.
In a homage to another of his political heroes, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who fought to expunge socialism from the British Labour Party's constitution in 1994, Mr Rudd has repeatedly said the ALP should follow suit. "The socialist objective ... should be abolished," he said in 2002. "While we may not have taken the socialist objective seriously ... there are others outside the party who have - and have been fundamentally alienated by it."
Socialism has clearly been on the Labor leader's mind for a while. In his maiden speech to parliament, Mr Rudd said: "Nambour, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, was not a major centre of revolutionary socialism in the 1970s - the cane growers hall even less so."
Former Labor Party president Barry Jones said yesterday the ALP's constitution had already been updated during a special national conference in 1981.
"(But) if there's going to be a broad debate about what we stand for that's terrific because, in a way, for some decades we just haven't talked about it," he said.
Mr Jones pointed to a discussion in his autobiography, A Thinking Reed, which refers to comments by Polish philosopher Leszek Kilakowski, who said: "The trouble with the social democratic idea is that it does not stock and does not sell any of the existing ideological commodities which various totalitarian movements offer dream-hungry youth."

Lu Kewen.

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Hussein Obama interviewed by Australian TV, Australia and the USA do have so much in common,both nations are ruled by a lunatic.

 

Full interview with Hussein Obama & Rudd Government publicist

And just who is the man Hussein Obama says he has so much in common with?

PM turns his failure into a $1 billion disaster

By Andrew Bolt
The Daily Telegraph
April 14, 2010

KEVIN Rudd spent his first two years in power smashing stuff.

Now, in this election year, he's spending up to $1 billion of your money to fix the damage.

That's right: Rudd is spending at least $1 billion to fix the havoc he's unleashed by handing out free insulation, splurging on overpriced school buildings, relaxing boat people laws, letting in an unsustainable 300,000 people a year - and more.

Oh, I know. You think I'm far too hard on a PM with the air of a particularly methodical Christian dentist. But one disillusioned day you will hear from many who now work with him that how Rudd seems is bizarrely different to how he is.

I don't just mean that this prissy churchgoer is privately a foul-mouthed, arrogant and paranoid control freak, but that many of his brightest ideas swiftly flop.

The truth is his skill at spinning has so far saved Rudd's reputation as a manager.

But check the substance rather than the image and you find he already qualifies as possibly the most incompetent prime minister since World War II.

And, no, I haven't forgotten Whitlam.

Take Monday's announcement that his Government will spend another $14 million on a taskforce to tackle the massive rorting of its $16.2 billion school stimulus scheme.

This so-called "Building the Education Revolution" spendathon was always destined to be a colossal waste.

But even I couldn't predict the rorting.

In NSW builders have charged $800,000 a time for more than 40 covered outdoor learning areas which state government costings say should have cost $250,000 each.

In Victoria, even a dying school with just two children was given $150,000, and from everywhere came complaints that BER developers were charging "management fees" of up to 21 per cent.

That's all your money, folks. Blown in what some now call the Builders' Early Retirement fund. Now the Government is spending even more of your money - $14 million - on a taskforce to stop the looting of what's left of our $16.2 billion.

Or to seem to.

Why did Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard only now announce this "safeguard" when it's been clear for months that your taxes were being wasted like never before in our history?

Three reasons, all squalid.

First, Sunday Night on Channel Seven last weekend ran a devastating report on this scandal. Second, it's election year, and a taskforce makes you seem you're dealing with the problem.

Sunday Night “Building Education Revolution” report.

And third, although Gillard refuses to admit it, she has an advance report on this BER racket from the Auditor-General that is likely to be devastating, and it's a fair bet she set up her taskforce to short-circuit the criticism she'll get when it's released.

This BER rorting is the biggest Rudd waste so far. But the more graphic symbol is his free insulation scheme.

Rudd barged ahead even after his own department was warned in writing a year ago that rushing out these freebies could attract shysters, burn houses and kill people.

It all happened, as Rudd was warned, with four installers dead, 120 homes set on fire and more than 300,000 homes fitted with potentially lethal or near-useless junk.

To fix the disaster and compensate the losers, the Government may now have to spend anything up to $1 billion. It also means taxpayers must pay millions to take out insulation that Rudd made them pay millions to put in. It couldn't get crazier.

Correction. It already has. See, Rudd meant this giveaway to "stimulate" the economy and put people in jobs. But the day before Easter (a good time to bury bad news) his government announced, in effect, that his insulation scheme had killed off the very industry he'd meant it to help.

The Government said it would now give insulation manufacturers $15 million to help them stockpile all the batts and foil they can no longer sell, now that Rudd's scheme has stuck the stuff in a million more ceilings.

Those stockpiles of unsellable batts are a clear sign that these once healthy businesses have been poleaxed. Indeed, an industry which once predicted Rudd's free insulation plan would create 4000 jobs now says its collapse has cost the jobs of 6000.

That's why Rudd has spent another $41 million of your money to help retrain the people sacked from an industry he spent billions to "stimulate".

And still this lunatic incompetence doesn't end. To fix this mess before the election, Rudd has switched his entire emissions trading team on to it.

Remember them? They're the 154 public servants Rudd originally hired to work on what until this year he called "the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time" - the man-made global warming he told us his great new green tax on everything would help stop.

But that tax is now blocked in the Senate, and public support for it is falling like a batt out of hell, so Rudd has put "the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time" on the backburner and set his $57 million-a-year team of planet-savers to work on insulation instead.

And still this comedy is not done. Rudd last weekend froze the processing of refugee applications from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan to stop the tide of boats he unleashed by weakening our boat people laws two years ago. Boat people were a problem John Howard had fixed, cutting arrivals to just 18 boats over six years. Rudd unfixed that problem by going soft, so he's now luring in more than 10 boats a month.

The Christmas Island detention centre is full and fixing this will cost hundreds of millions more of your dollars, with the 2000 people who've arrived just this year costing some $80,000 each to process.

Then there's the whole new "Department of Population" Rudd abruptly created to hose down the alarm he'd raised by not only letting in a record 300,000 immigrants last year, but by then endorsing predictions that our population will explode to 36 million by 2050.

And we still don't know how much in total we must pay for all Rudd's other failures – Fuel Watch, Grocery Watch, the scrapped tender of his first broadband scheme, the lobbying for his pan-Asian body, the botched Green Loans plan, the rorted solar hot-water scheme, the "Ideas Summit" fiasco and the new nuclear disarmament body.

More amazing is that Rudd retains the air of a man who knows just what he's doing, and is across every detail. Watch him now sell his latest multi-billion-dollar plan - a health shake-up that Ken Baxter, former head of the premier's departments in the Victoria and NSW, warns will create a bureaucratic monster that will eat money.

But look at Rudd. See how assured and competent he seems, even as his last schemes still fall around his ears?

Amazing gift, that, and you're paying billions for it.

Beijing’s highest ranking representative in Australia, Australian Prime Minister, Lu Kewen aka Kevin 07,has finally ground to a halt, he simply has run out of acronyms, bumper stickers, and babies to kiss, he is now after two years as one commentator said “haunting hospital wards” pushing his new plan for Australia’s crippled bankrupt FREE Health Care system , Medicare.

Lu Kewen electioneering in Hong Kong 2007

The word has gone out for his and his party’s most loyal media cheer squad, the Australian taxpayer funded, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to go into damage control and try and get some positive spin on their PM by having the Messiah praising him from the White House as the Messiah’s man down under, who was so much like,of all things the Messiah himself.

America is now bankrupt, Australia is far from that however when Lu Kewen took office in November 2007 he inherited from the previous conservative Howard government a surplus of some $25 BILLION dollars a little over two years into his first term he has turned that surplus into a $300 Billion deficit.

He is with doubt the most incompetent Prime Minister in the history of the nation he and his government make the infamous far left Labor Whitlam government of the 70’s appear conservative in comparison, its no wonder Hussein Obama has such high regard for Lu Kewen, Kevin 07, or as Bill Clinton calls him “Prime Minister Rude”.

2GB’S Alan Jones  with Daily Telegraph’s Piers Akerman.

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The Genius of Lu Kewen aka.K Rudd : When Australia’s Socialist’s go into the school building business.

 

Are we seriously meant to believe that the differential between what these buildings cost and what the Labor Government SAYS they cost, is simply going to be allowed to increase the bottom line of the Labor Party’s preferred contractors ? How many Swiss bank accounts have been set up by Rudd and Company since this SCAM started?

This SCAM is been financed with borrowed money,some $16 Billion,from the Labor Party’s head office in Beijing, after the SCAM is over, it will be left to Australians and their Children/ Grand children/ Great Grand Children to repay the $16 Billion Lu Kewen SCAMMED in order to line the pockets of the Labor Party and their “preferred contractor” and Union mates.

Lu Kewen election poster 2007 Hong Kong.

These traitors SCAM artists and carpetbaggers should be arrested and tried for crimes against Australia and its people,and executed on the steps of Parliament House Canberra at the earliest opportunity.

 

Unions grab $80m slice of school building funds

Rick Wallace
The Australian
March 20, 2010

UNIONS have exploited a loophole to have almost all schools stimulus upgrades in Victoria declared "major projects" in order to pocket site allowances estimated to total at least $80 million.

The Master Builders Association of Victoria said the allowances - supposed to account for harsh conditions on large buildings - were an "abomination" and should never have applied to most education revolution projects. "We have a regime where the unions exploited the building education revolution to maximise wages for construction workers," executive director Brian Welch said. "It's just another add-on, and because the employers don't have the capacity to take it away from the unions, it stays and it grows."

The main building union, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, won the right to site allowances of between $2.40 and $4.60 per worker per hour through a series of cases at the Victorian Building Industry Disputes Panel.

The CFMEU confirmed it had since spread the allowances across almost all school jobs and said workers would use the extra cash for dinner or a film.

In Victoria, a "major project" is defined as anything above $2.4m. Once that threshold is reached, the sliding scale of allowances applies. Many schools stimulus projects fell short of the $2.4m mark, so the CFMEU sought to "bundle" together all projects undertaken by individual builders to get over the threshold.

The Weekend Australian has obtained two judgments from panel chairman Bob Merriman in which he green-lights the union's bid. "In considering all aspects of this matter, I am convinced the union's claim in this matter is justifiable and meets the requirements of the principles outlined above," Mr Merriman ruled.

Mr Welch said the MBAV supported the $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution stimulus, but the exploitation of the site allowance had hurt profits.

"The costs escalated and not only applied to the workers for the construction company but all the subcontractors who walked on to the site," he said.

"It didn't aid employment, it just put more money in the pockets of building workers."

CFMEU state secretary Bill Oliver made no apologies for securing the allowance, saying unions were used to builders artificially breaking up projects to minimise site allowance.

"A site allowance is extra money in the pocket of workers, which will be spent on taking their families out to dinner, or to see a movie, or to buy a new pair of socks - all of which helps the economy and serves the ultimate purpose of the stimulus funding," Mr Oliver said.

The MBAV wants the panel to be abolished or an appeals mechanism created. "There is a flaw in the system, which we pointed out to the (state) government; they didn't do a great deal about it so the industry is now paying $2.40 for every school no matter what," he said.

"Why haven't they done anything about it? Because I think they are as intimidated by the unions as much as anyone else."

Labour costs usually make up about 50 per cent of a construction project's cost. The site allowances add 6 per cent to the wages bill, and 3 per cent to overall cost. Applied across Victoria's $2.64bn share of the last two rounds of the stimulus, it amounts to $80m.

Mr Welch said employers would be powerless to strip the allowances out of future agreements. "The unions are going to be out of the cage," he said.

"The Australian Building and Construction Commission is waning, the ability to control and temper their conduct is diminishing and the feral elements want to exert their influence."

The state and federal governments declined to comment.

 

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Rudds’ Australia: Iran,Australia and North Korea a threat to internet via censorship regulation

 

Media rights group puts Australia on internet watchlist

SMH
March 12, 2010

A top media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship.

Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday put Australia and South Korea on its list of countries "under surveillance" in its "Internet Enemies" report.

Australia was listed for the government's plan to block access to websites featuring material such as rape, drug use, bestiality and child sex abuse. Critics say the plan is a misguided measure that will harm civil liberties by blocking a broader range of content than just nasty material.

 

The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has said he plans to introduce legislation by the end of next week that would require ISPs to block a blacklist of "refused classification" websites for all Australians. It is not clear if the government will meet this deadline; a spokeswoman for Senator Conroy said the legislation would be introduced "after it has been considered by caucus and cabinet".

In South Korea, the RSF report added, "draconian laws are creating too many specific restrictions on web users by challenging their anonymity and promoting self-censorship".

Lu Kewen aka. Australian PM “Kevin 07” Rudd

“It’s all about getting the balance right”

"These countries are worrying us because they have measures that could have repercussions for freedom of expression on the internet," RSF secretary general Jean-Francois Julliard said at an internet rights award ceremony on Thursday.

Russia and Turkey were also added to the watchlist, which is a category below RSF's top "Enemies of the internet", the countries it considers the 12 worst web freedom violators.

These include Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Iran and Vietnam.

"The world's largest netizen prison is in China, which is far out ahead of other countries with 72 detainees, followed by Vietnam and then by Iran, which have all launched waves of brutal attacks on websites in recent months," RSF's report said.

A senior manager of US internet giant Google, David Drummond, said there was an "alarming trend" of government interference in online freedom, not only in countries that are judged to have poor human rights records.

He cited Australia's plans as an example, saying that there "the wide scope of content prohibited could include socially and politically controversial material".

The Australian case "is an example of where these benign intentions can result in the spectre of true censorship", he added, speaking at Thursday's ceremony.

"Here in Europe, even in France, at this very moment, some are tempted by this slippery path of network filtering."

Click HERE for further information on Lu Kewen’s internet censorship plans for Australia

Last month, after Senator Conroy called on YouTube to censor videos in accordance with his filtering scheme, the search giant's head of policy in Australia, Iarla Flynn, said: "The scope of RC is simply too broad and can raise genuine questions about restrictions on access to information. RC includes the grey realms of material instructing in any crime from [painting] graffiti to politically controversial crimes such as euthanasia, and exposing these topics to public debate is vital for democracy."

Update on Rudd's internet censorship laws

Americans BEWARE Australian internet to be CENSORED by Australian Labor Party

Compulsory censorship for internet.

Daily Telegraph 29 10 08 Pg. 4

THE Federal Government will make internet censorship compulsory for all Australians and could ban controversial websites on euthanasia and anorexia. Australia's level of net censorship will put it in the same league as China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea.

 

The Government will not let users opt out of the proposed national internet filter. Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy Minister Stephen Conroy said the Government's $44.2 million internet censorship plan would now include two tiers — one level of mandatory filtering for all Australians and an optional level that will provide a "clean feed", censoring adult material. Despite planning to hold "live trials" before the end of the year, Senator Conroy said it was not known what content the mandatory filter would bar, with euthanasia or proanorexia sites on the chopping block. "We are talking about mandatory blocking, where possible, of illegal material," he said.

'Australia's level of net censorship will put it in the same league as China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea. The Government will not let users opt out of the proposed national internet filter.

The Ascension of Lu Kewen

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