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NSW Parliamentary E-Brief on mandatory filtering

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 06:56 AM CST

The NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service has put together a briefing on the government’s filtering proposal which is available to download as a PDF here. It reads:

At this stage, the Rudd Government proposal would restrict blanket mandatory ISP filtering to the illegal RC content, based on the ACMA’s ‘black list’ of prohibited websites. The details are unclear, but it seems adults would be able to ‘opt out’ of the filtering of other levels of ‘prohibited content’, containing material that is either offensive or unsuitable for children.

It also examines the state of filtering in other countries often used as examples by Senator Conroy.

With the limited exceptions of Germany and Italy, mandatory ISP level filtering is not a feature of any of the countries reviewed. In place, rather, are voluntary ISP filtering schemes designed to prevent accidental access to a defined list of illegal sites containing child pornography. However, in the UK the position seems to be that the internet industry is encouraged to participate in this scheme, under threat of regulatory intervention should it fail to do so. The line between mandatory and voluntary participation is not clear-cut.

The Internet Industry Association clarifies that statement at ZDNet:

…While the authors said that Italy had imposed mandatory filtering, it was “in fact subordinate legislation — not law per se. It gives effect to an agreement that was previously reached by ISPs and the relevant regulator. To that extent, Italy has not enacted mandatory ISP filtering, either.”

The IIA added that Germany’s regulation of search engines was implemented by agreement.

So when you voted for Rudd and his fellow socialist Nazi's, you thought they were just going to screw the people who don't believe in Socialism ?

When you trade your freedom for social welfare there is a price to pay, freedom FROM information is just one of the freedoms you have to surrender, just wait till they start on the newspapers,CD's magazines,movies and television programs Rudd and his fellow Nazi Socialists find unacceptable.

Socialism IS what Socialism DOES

Americans BEWARE Australian internet to be CENSORED by Australian Labor Party

Rudd's Internet censorship, and now Rudd's Body Image "Code" to be introduced.

Rudd's Internet censorship, and now Rudd's Body Image "Code" to be introduced.

New body image code for media outlets

By Malcolm Farr
The Daily Telegraph
November 20, 2008 12:00am

A NATIONAL "body image" code will require media outlets to portray women of all shapes and sizes.

And magazines would have to tell readers if photos of women have been digitally altered to make them fit a particular physical type.

Glamorising extremely underweight models and celebrities would also be opposed under the Federal Government code.

Yesterday Youth Minister Kate Ellis announced the conduct protocols to help fight what she called "the devastating effects of eating disorders and body image issues".

The code would also put a 16-year age limit on models used in adult fashion shows, magazine shoots and TV programs.

It would be voluntary, but most media groups were expected to sign on after deliberations of a national advisory group of industry representatives and health advisers finished next year.

"The advisory group will consider matters such as the disclosure of altered and enhanced images, the representation of a diversity of body shapes, fair placement or diet, exercise and cosmetic surgery advertising," Ms Ellis said.

It would also be aimed at "avoiding the glamorisation of severely underweight models or celebrities".

Ms Ellis criticised her older male parliamentary colleagues for not giving Australia's body image issue the attention it deserved.

"As a rule, Parliaments reflect the upbringing and world outlook of its members," she said. "With the make-up of our Parliaments, should we then be surprised that issues important to youth have been under-represented?"

Ms Ellis said issues such as equal pay, childcare and work-and-family balance once were considered extreme issues but are now mainstream.

She said that in the same way body image problems had been a "silent epidemic" which had to be acknowledged. Young women lost self-esteem and confidence, felt ashamed of their bodies and some descended into dangerous eating disorders.

"The consequences of poor body image affect real people in powerful ways, leaving families, mates, schools and our community to feel the pain and pick up the pieces," Ms Ellis said.

Yesterday a parliamentary committee considered another aspect of care for young Australian bodies - advertising of junk food.

At issue is a bid by the Greens to legislate to limit advertising for fast foods on TV, while the industry wants self-regulation.

The Australian Beverages Council told the committee in Canberra "there is no proof there is a cause and effect" between ads and obesity in the young.

The food industry wants to introduce a voluntary code banning commercials for unhealthy snacks which are directed at children aged under 12 during children's programs.

However, the Australian Psychological Society said children under eight couldn't distinguish between advertisements and programs.

Dr Kate Russell (featured in video above)
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Dr Kate Russell is a recent appointment in the Human Movement and Health Education program and researches in the area of gender identity and body satisfaction as a consequence of sport and physical activity participation. Her research highlights the impact the school context can have on perceptions of femininity and masculinity and body image concerns of young people. Her publications include three articles and a book on a research project completed for the Football Association in the UK, in the area of evaluating child protection strategies in a sporting context.

Kate has a background as a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist and an interest in the socio cultural aspects of physicality. She was awarded the NZ-UK Link Foundation in association with the Academy of Learned Societies for Social Sciences travel award in 2003 to spend six weeks in New Zealand researching female rugby player's body satisfaction.

The Rudd government is to introduce a "Body image code" Australians are to be protected from incorrect body images and when this is not possible we will be made aware the image we are viewing is indeed deemed to be incorrect?

So what do we do when God / Dear Leader forbid, we have viewed an incorrect body image? will we be required to call an emergency hot line to report the offending body image ? will it be an offence to be in possession of such images ? will it be an offence to have an incorrect BODY or to know or to associate with someone who is deemed to have an incorrect body ?

This is yet another imposition upon Australians by the dead hand of the Rudd socialist, Union financed, Labor government.

(Madame) Kate Ellis,Minister for "Youth" has been hyped up by the main stream media as Australia's "most glamorous politician", closely followed by deputy Labor leader (Madame)Julia Gillard,I believe no further evidence is needed to substantiate the claim that Australia is fast becoming the land of the lowest common denominator

Madame Ellis and Madame Gillard, perfect examples of the new Australian "Womin" clearly not exhibiting any traits of "incorrect body image" Australia's pure,just and correct Mothers, please write to these Dear Ministers to seek guidance on how your daughters can best emulate the preferred and correct body image as shown by these two Dear Ministers, Madame Ellis and Madame Gillard, lest you and your daughters are to be accused of exhibiting incorrect body image to the Australian people and as such invoke unfavourable reaction from, correct thinking Australians, that would cause such discomfort that would make for unhappy times and discourse amongst the Australian community.

If this was to happen Dear Leader Lu Kewan (Kevin 07) and Dear family,would have an unhappy heart and would cry many nights resulting in un neccessarilly diverting Dear Leader and Dear Family away from their efforts of ensuring all of mankind was full of happy and just life.

Pamela Anderson's letter to Barack Obama

Pamela Anderson writes on marijuana, vegetarianism to Obama

The Daily Telegraph
November 20, 2008 09:30am

PAMELA Anderson has penned a clumsily written letter to President-elect Barack Obama on topics like Guantanamo Bay, marijuana legalisation, and vegetarianism. Anderson's letter to the President-elect is frank and straightforward, with spelling mistakes, clumsy phrasing poor punctuation.

Dear Mr. Obama:

My thoughts/hopeful ideas-:

-Free Leonard Peltier- This injustice is just breeding Hate and discrimination.

It would be very meaning ful to the Native American people and all of us ho have watched and been saddened by a broken system (There are too many people in jail that dont need to be there-it IS a broken system- that enrages more people than it helps) - not saying that there aren't people who need to be jailed while determining their fate- but Jail should be a holding cell for justice and not a lifelong waste of taxpayers money to run a spa for criminals-how does this improve society?

Especially when there are real threats to our most precious citizens -our children- in most cases child molesters are walking free.

Government must Castrate every molester-or potential molester- error on the safe side- if any child pornography is found in anyones possession-or anyone creating such atrocities-or if any child Is brave enough to come forward (at any young age to bring attention to a potential molester- listen) they need to be taken very seriously and see that justice is served-The abuse is way worse than any trial could be- our children need more protection and justice seen.

It needs to be PREVENTED not just punished.

I think we should Legalize Marijuana, tax and monitor -farm Hemp etc-this would make our borders less corrupt and then I think eventually this will be more secure option and save children in the long run we should be able to farm Hemp in America- its just silly it would create jobs- and be good for environment.

Bring our Troops home safely- Stop the killing and work with Veterans to secure a peaceful way world wide-using their 1st hand wisdom lovingly across all borders together.

It is not a war Economy anymore- obviously-

Stop all these garbage, wasteful and ineffective ,ancient animal tests (from 80 years ago?)- create a REAL working dedicated and active group of people assigned to this issue- science is suppose to be progressive?

We need to get with it- update like Europe has its an embarrassment and nobody wishes this senseless cruelty to go on.

Please get rid of this private insurance and private health care system- its corrupt and doesnt work-

Government should take over both those areas- supplying secure government jobs where people are dedicated to their job and it is a proven system- Canada etc- supplying proper insurance to everyoneIt's much easier and government should supply these services for the taxes we pay- we would all be protected- pharmaceuticals would be affordable- to those that need it/especially our elderly- see that everyone has car insurance (there should not be an uninsured driver on the road) and health insurance- the same for everyone- isnt this what we pay taxes for?

Promote vegetarianism-which would help end world hunger- crack down on factory farming that is killing the environment and slaughtering so many animals- wastefully and carelessly and its unhealthy/and its just impractical- to think this is monitored/regulated effectively..

Please Shut down Guantanamo Bay-figure it out- make amends/stop torture- its time for peaceful solutions- and cooperation world wide sharing resources and protecting each other- education, missionary work- bring the world together help each other- with resources now- its considered a very small place- We are each others keeper no matter what side of the border we were born-nobody is less than.

And if people are hard working why can't they work and pay taxes in America- if they have no criminal record- why do we have illegal immigration it should be made easier for people to work here- all they want to do is work- some Americans sure have a sense of entitlement thats unhealthy, unwise and selfish at times

Thank God its a new day!

Anderson also recommended reading to the President Elect, which included:

*The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

*Crimes Against Nature by Robert Kennedy

I for one cannot see what all the indecision is about regarding appointing Hillary Clinton to the position of Secretary of State, I think that Pamela Anderson would more adequately represent all that President Elect Barack Obama and his legions of followers stand for than Hillary Clinton could ever hope to do.

Al-Qaida leader calls Obama a "house negro"

Qaeda leader calls Obama a 'House Negro'

Keith Boykin
The Daily Voice
Posted November 19, 2008 9:00 AM

The No. 2 man in Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, launched into an attack on newly elected U.S. President Barack Obama today, calling him a "house negro."

The audio message was reportedly posted on "militant Web sites" on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. In the message, al-Zawahri describes Obama as "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X.

The audio reportedly plays over still pictures of al-Zawahri, Malcolm X praying, and Obama with Jewish leaders, according to AP, which calls it the first public al-Qaida comment about Obama's electoral victory.

alzawahiri.jpgThe Al-Qaida leader specifically criticized Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan, which he said would fail because of Afghan resistance.

Asked for a comment about the remarks, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold told CNN this morning that Al-Qaida is "frustrated and worried" because they don't know how to handle the positive international reaction to Obama's election.

"I think they're pretty nervous in Al-Qaida because we have a whole new approach here in the United States," said Feingold. "We have a new unity behind our president-elect. He sends a message to the world that represents us the way we really are -- a country that is diverse and that wants to reach out to the rest of the world in a positive way." Feingold said the new U.S. approach "goes completely against" Al-Qaida efforts to recruit people with their "hateful message."

Feingold, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the U.S. would be able to put "far more pressure" on the terrorist group by focusing its efforts on Afghanistan instead of Iraq.

The term "house negro" is a derogatory term used to describe a black person who represents the interests of the white man. Malcolm X proudly called himself a "field negro" and challenged the "house negro" mentality in his speeches and writings.

"Back during slavery, when black people like me talked to the slaves they didn't kill em; they sent some old house negro along behind him to undo what he said," Malcolm X said in a speech shown below.

"There were two kinds of negroes," he said. "There was that old house negro and the field negro and the house negro always looked out for his master. When the field negroes got too much out of line, he held them back in check. He put them back on the plantation. The house negro could afford to do that because he lived better than the field negro. He ate better, he dressed better and he lived in a better house. He lived right up next to his master in the attic, or the basement. He ate the same food as master ate and wore his same clothes. And he could talk just like his master, good diction."

The difference, of course, is that President-elect Obama would not be a mere house servant in the White House. Instead, he would be the head of the household.

The Obama campaign declined to comment.

Australia's Socialised Medicine aka Medi DONT care, Rudd & Co. seek to remove Doctors from treating patients.

Pain, no gain in Roxon’s secret plan

Piers Akerman
News.com.au
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

THE plan to nationalise Australia’s medical health continues apace despite efforts by Health Minister Nicola Roxon to keep her sinister scheme under the radar.

The Australian Self-Medication Industry yesterday released a survey which found as many as one in seven visits to the doctor were at least partially taken up by discussion of minor ailments, coughs and aches that might not require medical attention.

The finding has been used to claim millions are being wasted by unnecessary consultations with doctors and to support Roxon’s ideologically-based drive to give nurses and other health workers more work.

What the survey does not illustrate is the reality that the majority of people who make time to see their GP do so because they are very concerned about some aspect of their health.

While it may be that 70 per cent of the conditions which they take to their doctor are not serious, it is a safe bet 100 per cent of the patients are anxious about them and want them resolved.

Under the Roxon plan, patients would see doctors as a last resort, after they had passed through the hands of nurses or other health workers. As far as Labor’s ideological warriors go, doctors are fair game and need to be brought to heel, made to answer to the big bureaucracies.

The problem with this neanderthal thinking is that the model hasn’t worked wherever it has been tried. Just ask those who have suffered under the British national health system which the Rudd Government is trying to cut-and-paste into Australian law.

While doctors may be concerned about loss of independence, their immediate worry is for their patients and the possibility patients will be at a far greater risk of misdiagnosis when they are being assessed by the barefoot medicos Labor wants to empower.

If, for instance, you have a freckle that is causing some anxiety with all the warnings about melanoma, do you want to be assessed by a doctor or a nurse?

It may well be that the freckle causing stress is not life-threatening, and you can walk out reassured, but most would agree that reassurance from a doctor is more like to relieve the stress than that offered by a person with less training.

The Government is planning to bring about its changes through the states and commonwealth COAG process. The compliant Queensland university system is already offering some of the alternate courses designed to strip the medical profession of its autonomy.

In August Professor Richard Murray, the Dean of Medicine at James Cook University, offered the following definition of one of the new breed of barefoot doctors his faculty will graduate: “It is about preparing people from a variety of backgrounds to be able to assume a flexible sort of medical extension role, working with the doctor and with evolving skills on the basis of a sort of general qualification.”

As Mark McCardle, deputy Leader of the Queensland Opposition and shadow health minister told Parliament when Queensland’s Labor Government pushed through the first of the Bills facilitating Roxon’s attack, Australians will be subject to an unaccountable political institution that will control not only what health practitioners are taught but also how they treat and help sick people, while following orders from politicians and bureaucrats.

“The experience of this Government’s creation and management of the state’s worsening public hospital crisis clearly demonstrates the future health care of my fellow Queenslanders is best left to real doctors and nurses - not political spin doctors and ministerial nursemaids,” he said.

“The future health quality standards of health practitioners should not be gambled on legislative good faith in an unaccountable political/bureaucratic institution. The Bill before this House is a sugar-coated toxic blend of important reform for a national health practitioner registration scheme with an accreditation and training proposal that threatens Australia’s position as having one of the best and most comprehensive professional standards training and practice for our medical practitioners.”

Writing in Australian Doctor, Dr Annette Katelaris pointed out the obvious - to remain at the centre of of a patient’s primary care, a doctor needs to know their patient.

“If we only see a patient when they’re acutely unwell, we have little chance to build a relationship or fully understand their medical history,” she said.

“All jobs have their menial tasks but they remain as part of the job description because they are necessary in order to perform the more difficult tasks. It has been during routine consultations that I have had women disclose the sexual abuse they endured as children.

“This coloured all further care and counsel I offered, yet it was only during this so-called menial task they felt able to talk about what happened to them.”

Roxon has acknowledged that doctors are weighed down by unnecessary administration, and doctors have urged her to lighten their administrative load, not their clinical duties. The prescription is simple. The health system need less bureaucracy, not more, if it is to deliver the service Australians deserve.

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"Socialism means equality of income or nothing...........Under Socialism

you would not be allowed to be poor.

You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed

whether you liked it or not.

If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to

be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly

manner; but while you were permitted to live,

you would have to live well."

Bernard Shaw.

The architects of the finest third world health system on earth, Medicare (don't care much) the Australian Labor party are rarely found using the health system they created in the Whitlam governments infamous attack on Australian society and values during their short term of office 1972 -1975 they unleashed the socialist beast called Medibank, now known as Medicare.
It was was designed to eliminate private health treatment and private health insurance.
Thankfully Whitlam and his gang were thrown out of office on November 11 1975 by the Governor General, Australians endorsed this action by electing by the biggest margin in Australian electoral history the conservative Fraser government and did so again for another two terms.

Whitlam has not enjoyed good health these past twenty years and most recently has been treated in Sydney's St Vincents Private Hospital, a Catholic Private Hospital, a center of medical excellence, he is certainly not the only member of the Australian (Socialist)Labor Party to reject the health system they created and insist is all the Australian people need and he wont be the last.

I believe that Whitlam is over ninety, I am surprised he and his fellow comrades are able to justify using all those medical resources on someone his age when ordinary Australians or "working families" in similar situations with elderly family members are lectured on the virtues of euthanasia and pulling the pin on people with similar ailments as Whitlam suffers from, like the Islamic sociopaths who preach the virtues of suicide bombing isn't it time these know all millionaire Champagne Socialist Nazis lead by example and start walking the walk of their ideology of the equal distribution of misery, hate and social division for all but themselves ?

Sudanese Gang hacks and stabs boy to Death in Adelaide CBD.

Charges soon over murder of Sudanese schoolboy Daniel Awak

DOUG ROBERTSON, MICHAEL McGUIRE, KEN McGREGOR
Adelaidenow
November 14, 2008 12:30pm

POLICE expect to lay charges within days over the stabbing death of Sudanese schoolboy Daniel Awak, says Commissioner Mal Hyde.
Daniel, 14, was stabbed to death and another teenager was admitted to hospital in a critical condition with knife wounds after a fight among a group of 12 Sudanese Australians.

Mr Hyde said today in such investigations it always took time to sort through reports and other material.

"But the advice I have received this morning is that in the next couple of days there may well be charges laid," he said.

Police said they had not yet identified a clear motive for the attack, but understood there were a number of altercations which led to the incident.

A 16-year-old boy was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated assault on police and resisting arrest, but the allegations against him are not related to the initial brawl.

Mr Hyde said while relations between police and the Sudanese community were good, police were concerned about the possibility of retaliation.

Measures had been introduced to prevent further attacks, including extra patrols in key areas of the city where Sudanese youths were known to gather, he said.

Meanwhile, it has emerged the knife believed to have been used to stab Daniel was bought from a city store just minutes before the Sudanese schoolboy was killed.

A teenager of African appearance bought a 15cm knife from a store at 3.33pm on Wednesday, a shop owner told The Advertiser yesterday.

Moments earlier, the teenager had put a pack of smaller-bladed knives back on the shop's shelves.

The teenager had taken these knives to the counter, but turned back before paying the shop attendant and picked up a longer-bladed knife.

It is understood police have interviewed the shop owner, indicating it was the weapon used to stab the Sudanese teenager. Police last night would neither confirm nor deny this.

Daniel died from a stab wound to the heart on the footpath outside Fleet Steet Newsagency, near Grenfell St, about 3.50pm – about 17 minutes after the knife was bought.

Police said about 15 Sudanese youths started fighting in City Cross Arcade at 3.40pm. The fight continued on Grenfell St and then across the road and into the newsagency, about 30m from the road.

'The stabbing brought a tragic end to a promising life that had been spent trying to avoid violence. Australia was the fourth country Daniel had lived in since his birth in war-ravaged Sudan in 1993.

Friends and family were devastated yesterday at the sudden death of a boy they described as "loving and sensitive".

Schoolmate Tom Cooper left his own tribute on AdelaideNow yesterday, calling Daniel "a good friend of mine".

"He is one of the nicest people I know and one of the people you would least suspect this would happen to," he said in his message.

Daniel was described as a good student but one who loved sport.

"He was good at anything he tried – basketball, cricket, but soccer was what he was passionate about," said one friend.

One of Daniel's soccer coaches, Monica Dimasi, also left a heartfelt message on AdelaideNow. "He was the sweetest and coolest kid I've met," she said. "Daniel had a great personality and would have been an excellent cop, which he was thinking about becoming one day."

Born in Southern Sudan, Daniel moved as a child between his mother's village of Yirol and the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

Like millions of others, Daniel and his family fled horrific violence that overtook his country in the Sudanese civil war.

Up to two million civilians died and another four million were forced to flee their homes.

Daniel was a member of the Dinka tribe, a mainly cattle-farming people in the south of Sudan who were heavily involved in the Sudanese Liberation Army, which fought the war with the Khartoum-based government.

But his family tried to keep Daniel away from the worst of the violence. From 1999, he lived with his mother in the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya, an enormous compound that was home to 70,000 refugees from Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.

In 2001 he was separated from his mother and sent to live in Uganda where he stayed with an aunt until 2004, when he moved to Australia at age 10.

His mother moved to Australia in 2006 to join him, along with his three brothers and three sisters.

Family and friends said that when his mother, Nyadit, arrived in Australia, Daniel became a much happier boy. They said he had missed her terribly and struggled to come to terms with why he had been sent away from Africa.

But with his mother's arrival he settled down and was seen as a happy child, although not immune from the pressures he faced from within his own peer group. His father is believed to be a geologist who lives in Nairobi, Kenya.

Daniel's death has also raised the issue of how Australia copes with an influx of people from a background that is as soaked in violence as Sudan's.

Around 1500 Sudanese people have arrived in South Australia in the past decade, fleeing the violence in their homeland.

Police have arrested a Park Holme boy, 16, and charged him with aggravated assault and resisting arrest. A second youth who was stabbed in the leg during the fight remains in a serious but stable condition in Royal Adelaide Hospital.

A murder charge has not yet been laid but police said yesterday they had identified all the key figures in the incident.

Deputy Police Commissioner Gary Burns yesterday said police were concerned by rising levels of violence in the Sudanese community. In the past 16 months, Sudanese people had been involved in 450 offences, resulting in 258 arrests. "This is double the level of offending for the population of the state," he said.

"They come from a culture which has had serious warfare, some have been child soldiers, and they don't have the conflict-resolution skills that others who have grown up in Australia have, and as a result we have seen an increase in crime."

Meanwhile, police yesterday charged a woman with aggravated assault after another stabbing incident. Three people, including the accused woman, were treated in hospital for injuries after an alleged fight in the centre of Marion Rd, Richmond, at 2.15pm.

A man was in a serious but stable condition in Royal Adelaide Hospital last night with a stab wound to his right shoulder. A second man was being questioned by police.

Video and comments by Alan Jones of Sydney's 2gb

The excuse makers and apologists for the lefts rotting dead corpse of Multiculturalism, will no doubt place the blame for the horrific events depicted above, at the feet of white Anglo Saxon Christian Australia.
I cant wait to hear their latest attempts to spin their Frankenstein's latest atrocity.

Race to lower crimes stats

Andrew Bolt
Friday, November 14, 2008 at 07:04am

I AM sorry. I may have misled you about the Sudanese gangs I defended last year.

Back then, I denounced the hate-merchants demonising Sudanese here as misfits, too prone to violence.

True, one gang of boys had just bashed a policeman, but I gave you police statistics showing the crime rate among Sudanese immigrants was no higher than for the rowdy rest of us.

But days later, gangs of African youths fought each other in the Highpoint shopping centre. And Indian taxi drivers kept getting robbed by African men.

Just this week, Sudanese gangs in Adelaide attacked each other in a clash so deadly that one youth was killed and another near death.

But those police statistics tell us there’s no problem among the Sudanese. Which makes an article like this unfair and unhelpful.

Yet, I started to sniff something when Police Commissioner Christine Nixon banned police from using the word “gangs” to describe, well, gangs.

I worried more when an African community leader, Berhan Ahmed, asked Nixon to stop police checking Africans in Flemington quite so often.

And now charges have been dropped over a riot in Racecourse Rd last December in which some 100 Africans surrounded 21 police trying to arrest a rock-thrower, and sent one to hospital with suspected cracked ribs.

At the time, the force defended its officers. Region 3 boss Insp Nigel Howard denied they were racist or too heavy-handed: “Enough is enough.”

It’s a different story today, and Sen-Sgt Mario Benedetti, in charge of Moonee Ponds police station, says he suspects charges against the rioters were dropped because of their race.

The explanation that Supt Jack Blayney gave our reporter, Mark Buttler, didn’t seem to deny it: “The withdrawal of these charges followed consultation with the members and youths concerned and was deemed to be the best outcome for both parties.”

Pardon? Is this a peace negotiation between two warring gangs, then, one of them the police? And is there not actually a law to uphold, regardless of race, and a force to defend?

But no charges means no offence recorded. And the police can keep telling us: the Sudanese crime rate is no higher than everyone else’s.

President Barack Obama's Bedouin Uncle comes forward

Barack Obama’s Bedouin roots.

Galilee’s Abdul Rahman Sheikh Abdullah has thoroughly studied the Obamas’ genealogy and claims to be the next U.S. President’s uncle. Obama’s African relatives are preparing to meet with the President-elect.

Bill Ayers slams media

How Obama Got Elected

HowObamaGotElected.com

Kath and Kim

The original Kath & Kim.

Australia votes against Israel at United Nations

Australia switches position to vote AGAINST Israel at the UN

UN vote: Rudd breaks with Howard on Israel
By Phillip Hudson
Sydney Morning Herald
November 10, 2008

AUSTRALIA has switched its position to vote against Israel on two resolutions at the United Nations, ending the Howard government's unswerving alignment with the United States and raising concern from the Jewish community. The move also signals to the incoming Obama administration that the Rudd Government plans to take a different approach to the Howard government on the international stage. In the weekend vote in New York, Australia supported a resolution calling on Israel to stop establishing settlements in the Palestinian territories and a resolution calling for the Geneva Conventions to apply in the Palestinian territories.
Kevin Rudd addressing Labor National Conference
April 27 2007

The resolutions on the Middle East peace process are held annually and the Howard government had backed both from 1996 to 2002 but in 2003 began to vote against or abstain. It was a move that aligned Australia with only the US, Israel, the US Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and Micronesia and put the country at odds with Britain, Canada, New Zealand and France.

Australian officials told the UN the Government had changed its position because it supported a two-state resolution of the conflict to deliver a secure Israel living beside a viable Palestinian state and that Australia believed both sides should abide by their obligations under the Road Map for Peace. Australia said it was concerned activity in the disputed settlements undermined confidence in the negotiations.

It was among 161 countries that supported both resolutions, with two abstaining and six against. The president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Robert Goot, last night was concerned over the Government's switch. "We are concerned that the vote has changed, we do not understand the basis for the change," he said.

The Foreign Affairs Minister, Stephen Smith, last night said there had been no change to Australia's policy on the Middle East. He said he had met the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, in Jerusalem two weeks ago and told them Australia was a strong supporter of Israel and the Middle East peace process. "Australia's friendship with Israel is longstanding and enduring and we understand completely Israel's legitimate security concerns," he said. "As a staunch and longstanding friend of Israel, we want its people to be able to enjoy the fruits of a normal, peaceful existence, within a Middle East that recognizes Israel's right to live within secure and internationally recognized boundaries.
That is an approach that has strong bipartisan support in Australia and it's an approach that will continue."

The Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman, Helen Coonan, called on Mr Smith to explain why Australia changed its vote. "The change in emphasis is concerning unless it can be better explained as giving effect to a bipartisan and balanced approach," she said. Australia maintained its vote on seven other UN resolutions relating to Israel, in particular opposing a resolution criticizing Israel on Palestinian human rights.

Australia said it believed the resolution was too one-sided against Israel and failed to take account of Israel's legitimate security concerns or reflect the responsibility of Palestinians to end attacks against Israel. Australia was one of eight countries, including Canada, to vote against this resolution that was supported by 87 countries with 70 abstaining.

Last month Australia announced new sanctions on Israel's rival Iran but backed down on a pledge to force the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, before an international court on charges of inciting genocide.

Ruby Russell, another victim of the Socialist State of New South Wales.

"Socialism means equality of income or nothing...........Under Socialism

you would not be allowed to be poor.

You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed

whether you liked it or not.

If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to

be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly

manner; but while you were permitted to live,

you would have to live well."

Bernard Shaw.

The "Hell Makers" John .C Grover

Meet Ruby Russell, the latest victim of Rees' greed

The Daily Telegraph
November 15, 2008 12:00am

RUBY Russell is the latest victim of a cash-strapped State Government that has plummeted to a new low by forcing private hospital patients to pay for blood.

The Government's latest grab for cash runs the risk of jeopardising the entire donor system, already struggling with a lack of blood donors.

And last night it emerged Premier Nathan Rees sacked senior bureaucrat John Pearse - the longest serving state treasurer secretary. And for the first time in Australia, the Rees Government will collect money from private hospitals instead of supplying the blood products free. The move which will net the Government $8 million annually.

Mini-Budget full coverage

Lifelong donors have threatened to stop donating if the Government makes money from their blood.

Insurance giant Medibank has also warned that patients will ultimately have to buy their own blood, as the cost will be passed on from hospitals.

Sydney mother Jane Russell is outraged the Government could stoop so low by taxing blood.

For the past few months she has been encouraging Avalon residents to donate blood to help her seriously ill daughter Ruby, who needs regular transfusions of immunoglobulin. "It is unfathomable, really," she said.

Under the current arrangement, the State Government picks up the bill for all blood supplied to private and public hospitals. Each year, it places its blood order with the National Blood Authority - which is funded by all states and the Commonwealth - who contract the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to collect and distribute the product.

Yesterday NSW Health confirmed it would no longer cover the cost for private hospitals.

The Government's woes continued last night with the shock sacking of Mr Pearse just days after he handed down the mini-budget on behalf of the government. It is believed Mr Pearse was disillusioned with the new administration.

Sources inside Treasury revealed that a number of senior Treasury staff including Mr Pearse believed that their own credibility was being harmed by the Government's handling of the economy.

In what insiders claim was a "appalling dismissal, Mr Pearse found out about his sacking after being phoned by associates.

Mr Pearse then contacted Treasurer Eric Roozendaal to confirm his dismissal and was told it was true. Mr Roozendaal then turned around and asked Mr Pearce if he would still stay on for the interim and go to New York on behalf of the Government to argue the case with ratings agencies. Mr Pearce said no. He will be replaced by former head of Sydney Water Terry Schott.

The majority of the people of NSW DESERVE this,the majority of them voted for it,at the state election then less than twelve months later at the federal election.

Socialism IS what Socialism DOES.

President Elect Barack Obama's “Community Organizing” COACH.

Understanding the Alinsky Method of “Community Organizing”

Written by Bob Dill
Times Examiner
Sep 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Meet the Real Obama and Cult of Alinsky

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV)

It is becoming readily apparent that the “change” being proposed vaguely by Sen. Barack Obama is nothing new. It is simply the old Marxism and socialism with a new twenty-first century multicultural face and a New Age twist created by Sixties radical Saul Alinsky and his fellow travelers that is effectively deceiving millions of dumbed-down and brainwashed young adults.

Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York was being grilled on one of the Sunday morning television programs regarding the differences between Senators Obama and McCain. Giuliani insisted the Obama tax plan was motivated by his intentions to “redistribute wealth.” On more than one occasion he mentioned the name of Sol Alinsky. That name jogged my memory.

Long term readers of The Times Examiner will recall many articles regarding the deceptive and unethical “Delphi Technique” and the specialized application of the technique applied specifically to teachers called the “Alinsky Method.”

In her 1991book Educating for the New World Order, Beverly K. Eakman describes the Delphi technique and Alinsky method in detail. The technique is used in situations where the “community organizer, change agent, advocate, agitator or facilitator” desiring to achieve change uses proven psychological techniques and deception to manipulate groups of people to agree to something they currently oppose. The technique works and the targets rarely, if ever, know they are being manipulated. If they suspect it, they don’t know how, unless they are aware of the technique and how the organizer and facilitator uses it to manipulate unsuspecting individuals and groups. It has been used effectively on parents in the School District of Greenville County in the past with facilitators trained by a change agent from California. The technique is currently being used quietly by those preparing to implement UN Agenda 21 disguised as a long- term plan for Greenville County created by local citizens.

The socialist and communist radicals of the 60s have had four decades to test their theories, infiltrate the American institutions of learning, media, religion, business and government and select the charismatic leaders they believe have the skills to deceive the voters of America and seize power without shedding their blood.

The technique used is called the “Alinsky Method,” advocated, taught and documented by Saul Alinsky, author of the 1971 book called Rules for Radicals. In his book, Alinsky was critical of some Sixties radical leftists for scaring away potential converts in conservative communities. He taught that true revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism by creating open insurrection. Alinski taught his followers to “cut their hair, put on a suit and tie and infiltrate the system from within.”

The David Horowitz and Richard Poe book, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, traced the rise of Alinsky’s political influence since the 1930s. They write that Alinsky excelled at wooing wealthy financiers to provide start-up funds for his Industrial Areas Foundation, a school for radical community organizers.

There is a mountain of evidence that George Soros, Hillary Clinton and the mother and maternal grandparents of Barack Obama were students of the Alinsky method of community organizing.

Richard Poe writes in The Turrish Weekly that Obama, who never met Alinsky in person, was “trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation,” and that “Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method.” Poe further states that Obama “In 1985 began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project. Later, he worked with Acorn and its offshoot Project Vote, both creations of the Alinsky network.”

FOX News has reported that Acorn has been caught this summer involved in massive voter registration law violations in several states.

As early as 1945, Alinsky was able to influence government officials. Agnes Meyer, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post wrote a six-part series on Alinsky titled, The Orderly Revolution. It made Alinsky famous. President Truman reportedly ordered 100 reprints of the articles. Soon Alinsky was able to get his hands into the federal treasury.

During the turbulent anti-war Sixties Alinsky wielded enormous power behind the scenes. When President Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, Alinsky followers infiltrated the program, steering federal money into Alinsky projects.

Alinsky wrote that he had an “understanding” with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who supported Alinsky’s Jackson style “shakedown” of Eastman Kodak in 1966.

Alinsky recruited a young high school student named Hillary Rodham. They met through a radical church group. Hillary wrote an analysis of “Alinsky Methods” for her thesis at Wellsley College, where, according to Richard Poe, “every professor was a Marxist at that time.”

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1974, Hillary received a prestigious appointment to the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate investigation team on the recommendation of Marian Wright Edelman and her husband. Edelman happens to be a follower of Alinsky, having served on the Board of Trustees of Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation. Edelman has been termed by some as Hillary’s “ideological soul mate.” Hillary was friends with Alinsky until his death in 1972.

“Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite, trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation,” Poe writes, although Obama never met Alinsky personally.

The Alinsky method of organizing is characterized by deception and camouflage. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama did not attend church.

His lack of church involvement negatively impacted his effectiveness. He found it necessary to become an instant churchgoer in order to infiltrate churches.

Poe states that the fact that both Senators Clinton and Obama share an Alinskyite background tells us two things: “They are leftists, dedicated to overthrowing our Constitutional system,” and “They will go to any length to conceal their radicalism from the public.” That is the Alinsky Method.

Australian PM Kevin Rudd verbals President Bush

Australian PM and President elect Mr Barack Obama groupie, Mr Kevin Rudd,has been called to account by the opposition, the Australian Liberal Party, how a story appeared in the The Australian newspaper, detailing a conversation between President Bush and Mr Rudd part of which is as follows "....Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say: "What's the G20?" . . . "
Mr Rudd made no mention of smelling burning sulpher through the phone line,I guess his good pal Hugo Chavez beat him to that line already.

Why would this former grade three diplomat and UN lick spittle,stick out his neck so far in order to score some cheap laughs with his leftist supporters and his party's hate America glee club? possibly because because "team Kevin 07" feel comfortable now that they have been in power just a few weeks short of a year now, and feel emboldened by this, and want to get a few free kicks in to President Bush before he goes out of office.
Maybe it was another of those nights where he was so pissed he does not know what he did or said however, he does know that he did not do or say whatever it is he has been accused of doing or saying.
PM Rudd's Australian Labor Party and it's Socialist Left sub branches and supporters, have a long standing invitation to American hater and socialist sociopath,Hugo Chavez, to visit Australia (see below) perhaps Mr Rudd has been spending too much time around school teachers.

"Invite Chavez to Australia - sign on.

Dear President Chávez,
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/58

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.

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

To view the full list of signatories CLICK HERE

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

Read more Chavez not Bush

Video of the unfolding story

Andrew Bolt

Three strikes for Kevin747
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun
October 29, 2008 12:00am

KEVIN Rudd blabs. Kevin Rudd betrays. What's more, Kevin Rudd appears to make things up.

And on Saturday our Prime Minister managed to commit all three fouls at once against US President George W. Bush.

Trying to sell himself as a statesman, he blabbed to The Australian all the details of a private talk he'd had with the President of our most important ally.

Not only that, he betrayed Bush by retelling their conversation in ways to make the President seem a donkey, and Rudd the genius who trained him to behave. And Bush has noticed.

Still not satisfied, Rudd then apparently made things up - to take public credit for a decision Bush had already made.

I can't recall a greater breach of confidence, a more studied insult to an ally or a more craven attempt at big-noting from an Australian Prime Minister.

Is there a single foreign leader who can now be confident Australia's Prime Minister won't blab about their private talks and betray them, too?

Last Saturday The Australian ran an extraordinary story that was fed to them by Rudd or a close aide clearly acting with his approval. (Either that, or Rudd's staff are dangerously beyond his control, trading his secrets without his knowledge - something I doubt a single journalist or politician in Canberra would believe.)

Here are the key details from that article:

Kevin Rudd was entertaining guests in the loungeroom at Kirribilli House in Sydney when an aide told him George W. Bush was on the telephone.

It was 10.40pm on Friday, October 10

(Note that date, by the way. Rudd trips over it.)

What followed was an extraordinary exchange in which Rudd advised the most powerful man in the world that a plan to address the global financial crisis through the G7 group of leading industrialised nations was wrong . . .

It made no sense, he said, to take action on the crisis without engaging China. Rudd argued that the better vehicle for a co-ordinated response to calm the markets and toughen financial regulation was the broader G20 grouping (which includes China) . . .

Two weeks later, Rudd's view has prevailed . . . Perhaps more so than any of his predecessors, Rudd is bringing a new understanding to world politics . . .

(Good heavens. Did Rudd write that bit of halo-polishing himself? Or was that just reporter Matthew Franklin's way of saying "thank you"?)

Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say: "What's the G20?" . . .

He told Bush he had heard through back channels that the Chinese believed the economic collapse underscored the inherent failures of capitalism and the benefits of a planned economy.

Rudd's view on China was probably better informed than he let on to the US President. Just four days earlier, the fluent Mandarin speaker had discussed the global turmoil on the telephone with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao . . .

Sources said Bush spent the first third of the conversation attempting to keep Rudd at bay . . . But over time, Rudd appeared to convince Bush he had a reasonable point.

"He was like a bull terrier," said one source. "He was polite but firm. He was not deferential at all. I could not have imagined John Howard talking to Bush like that."

And right there is the reason Rudd - or his agent - blabbed. To make Rudd seem a player. A tough guy. The man who forced Bush to invite the G20, including Australia and China, into talks about the financial crisis.

What a genius.

Oops. I shouldn't overlook this line, added to distance Rudd from the leak:

Rudd, who refused to comment on his dealings with Bush for the preparation of this article . . .

Yeah, right. Must have been Bush, then, who quietly rang the reporter in Australia to explain in such detail what a goose he'd been.

But let's now check this story that Rudd - or his agent - sold The Australian so successfully. You'll find that it's made up not just of braggadocio, but big dollops of fantasy.

Most obviously, of course, Rudd or his agent passed on to a friendly journalist details of his private conversation with a world leader - or two, actually, because he also let slip what China's Premier told him. He prides himself very much on those calls, you see.

Surely Rudd's arrogance has now overtaken all judgment on this point alone. Which leader will now dare be frank with an Australian Prime Minister so indiscreet?

Note also that Rudd did all this simply to mock Bush and praise himself as a world statesman, just at a time when The Australian was starting to ask a couple of tough questions.

As in: how did Rudd's attempt to stop a run on the banks lead to a run on other financial institutions instead?

As in: why is he about to fly off yet again to solve the financial problems of the rest of the world, when he can't even fix the one he caused back here?

Note further that Rudd in this leak sniggeringly tells a local journalist what he kept secret from the President of the US - that the "back channels" he relied on for his Chinese gossip was actually China's Premier.

All this is extraordinary enough - and another insight in how much Rudd, who exudes arrogance, actually craves status. (Has this chronic name-dropper mentioned lately how often he rings Britain's Prime Minister? American leaders? Cate Blanchett?)

It also reminds us of his tale-telling from the Beijing Olympics's opening ceremony, when he excitedly told journalists he'd seen Bush and Russian leader Vladimir Putin argue about the fighting in Georgia.

But perhaps more brazen still is Rudd's attempt in this latest retelling to belittle Bush and steal his credit.

Go back to the date of this conversation, when Rudd claims to have been "stunned" by Bush's ignorance about the G20, and had to "convince" the fool to use it.

For a start, a search of White House transcripts reveals Bush knew what the G20 was long before Rudd allegedly had to lecture him.

In June 2006, for instance, he gave a press conference in which he explained he had "problems with the G20 position" on global trade.

In July 2006, he said he'd have a "good forum" to discuss trade problems "when the members of the G20 come" to Russia.

And Bush certainly didn't need a "polite but firm" Rudd in their conversation on October 10 this year to tell him to get the G20 involved in talks on this financial crisis.

You see, Bush and his Treasury Secretary had two days earlier already agreed to do just that, and the G20 was already gathering to convene in Washington that very weekend.

As AFP reported the day before Bush called Rudd: "The central bank chiefs and finance ministers of 19 nations, including the United States, Europe's biggest economies, China, India and Russia, are to hold a crisis meeting in Washington on Saturday. . .

"The impromptu gathering of theso-called G20 group to examine the worldwide financial turmoil was called by the Brazilian Government, which currently chairs the body . . . News of the meeting followed telephone calls between US President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva earlier Wednesday."

So if Bush had already agreed to a G20 meeting on Wednesday, how does this square with Rudd's bragging account of their call on Friday - of having to spend "the first third of the conversation" like "a bull terrier", demanding Bush do what in fact he'd already done days before?

In fact, Channel 9's Laurie Oakes last night reported that White House staff deny Bush ever asked Rudd: "What's the G20?" They're on to Rudd.

So we know Rudd is indiscreet. We know he's a braggart. Now we must ask: how much does he make things up?

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