Obama’s stuck with his Gitmo promises
Piers Akerman
News.com.au
Monday, June 01, 2009
US PRESIDENT Obama is in a jam and wants Australians to help him out. Like our own Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Obama ran an election campaign big on promises that he is having difficulty keeping.
One of those big promises was a pledge to close Guantanamo Bay in the first 100 days of his presidency. But first Obama has to find somewhere to place its remaining 250 or so inmates, most of whom are unlikely to face prosecution.
Among those who won’t face court action are 17 Uighur people. The US would like Australia to accept them.
The Uighur are Muslims from northern China. They want a separate Muslim homeland; there is little doubt they are persecuted by the Chinese, just as are the Tibetans. There is little doubt that they would not be safe from the Chinese, if they were returned to their homes.
But Obama wasn’t thinking about the Uighur when he vowed to close the Guantanamo. He was playing domestic politics, appealing to people like his married friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, a pair of America’s worst urban terrorists, in whose living room he is said to have decided on a political career.
Ayers and Dohrn were members of the Weathermen, a group of terrorists who blew up government buildings around the US in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, fortunately killing no-one but three of their own members.
Obama has learnt that the views of Ayers and Dohrn are not representative of many other Americans, most of whom realise that Gitmo houses some very bad people. No matter how small-L liberal Obama’s supporters are, they are not liberal enough to want Gitmo-quality people living in their neighbourhood.
Obama didn’t see this coming. Nor was he aware of a Pentagon report recently obtained by The New York Times which found that one in seven of the 534 prisoners transferred abroad from Guantanamo Bay returned to terrorism or militant activity.
Even Obama’s own Democrat Party colleagues are baulking at resettling Guantanamo Bay inmates in the US, which is why Obama has asked Australia to take at least some of the Uighur prisoners who have been held there for the past seven years.
This is the third request the US has made to Australia to accept Uighur detainees, the first two being made by the Bush administration.
This request differs, however, from those made by the Bushies, as former president Bush made no pledge to close Guantanamo and the approach to Australia was a resettlement issue, rather than the domestic US political problem it has now become.
Australia is essentially being asked to take the 10 Uighur to help Obama out of a political jam of his own making.
According to Mamtimin Ala, the general secretary of the Australian Uighur Association and member of the executive committee of the World Uighur Congress, the Uighur have been found not to be enemy combatants by the US courts and the US now has a moral responsibility to offer them homes in the US.
“It is primarily a US problem,” Ala told me. “But the American government fears creating outrage and unexpected repercussions if they permitted those Uighur to resettle in the US.”
Ala, a human rights activist who was granted an Australian protection visa last year and now has permanent residency here, previously lived in Brussels where he studied at a Belgian university for his masters in philosophy.
He argues that because Australia was a partner in the war on terror, it should accept a degree of responsibility for the Guantanamo inmates, if the US will not resettle them.
That argument is a little weak.
Australia needs migrants who want to be Australians, not migrants who see their future as hyphenated-Australians, owing a shared allegiance to another nation, and supporting foreign militants.
We already have difficulty dealing with groups who refuse to embrace the clearly recognisable Australian identity, preferring to fight ethnic and religious wars either by proxy though fund-raising exercises or through violence at sporting events and other opportunistic moments.
This is a difficult call as we have about 5000 Uighur living here now, and according to all accounts, quite peaceably, just as we have a small number of Tibetans.
There is no doubt that China would not like America or Australia to accept the Guantanamo Uighur.
China is a bully and China requires its diplomats to organise its expatriate communities to intervene in our domestic politics and make its views felt but that should not be a concern.
What is clear here is that Guantanamo, and the fall-out from Obama’s domestic policies, is not a matter for Australia.
When he led the triumphal chant, “Yes, we can,” Obama should have realised there were a few things that blind optimism could not achieve.
He didn’t think things through and we should not be there now to save his political goals. If he thinks he can convince Australians and Australian politicians that the Uighur pose no threat, he can convince his own electors of the same thing.
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Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The Madness of Hussein Obama ,Kevin 07 and Gordon Brown
Just Add Hyperinflation: Its Armageddon
MatRodina.Blogspot.com
13 5 09
As I stand upon the mountain top, over looking the huddling masses of the peasants of humanity. My long beard and shanks rippling in the wind, my grizzled staff raised high, pointing at the dark mass of rolling darkness, darkness broken only rarely by the crackle of lightening. It is a darkness like no other, a mass of despair, a malice that is palatable and pungent in its hostility. My voice booms like the thunder of that storm, pummeling the gathered, clutching masses of frightened humanity: rich and poor, high and low, man and woman.
"Behold! Your Lord High Economist, the godling Keynes, through his priests the Interventionist Central Bankers have declared!" I pause for dramatic effect, fear and mysticism in the eyes of the masses. Mysticism at the mention of the shadowy man, nah godling John Maynard Keynes, fear at the coming of his Central Bankers. "Thou, sinners, thou thrifters, thou who have questioned his eternal Wisdom...now fear the fires of Inflation! Thou wilest be purged of your doubt and your consumer debt through the fires of Inflation! And since you voiced your doubt! Since you questioned the Will! It will be no simple inflation BUT...(more dramatic pause)...DEPRESSIONARY-HYPERINFLATION! You will eat grass and choke on weeds as you fondly remember steak dinners and red wine!"
Gasps come from the huddle masses. Women cry out in shock and dismay. Babies wale, their cries mixing with the howling of the wind that brings the storm of Depressionary-Hyperinflation. The gnashing of teeth is heard over all. The End is neigh, thy punishment severe. I laugh the laughter of the mad, my eyes sparkling in the coming darkness.
"But how will this be worse then just Hyperinflation or a Great Depression?" comes a brave voice from the masses and suddenly the people's fear is abetted. Hope once more arises in their eyes that maybe, just maybe, this all is not as bad as they had but moments before feared. Even the storm seems to pause, rolling and pulsing but some how less menacing and stationary.
"Hmmm, this will not do, not do at all!" I think. "I will have to explain myself so that these fools will once more tremble." I pull up my robes around my knees and settle down upon the rock, perching over the masses, a wicked wisdom covering my face.
"To find this answer, let us examine, oh huddled masses, the difference between Hyperinflation and Depression and how both would normally effect your lives." They listen attentively.
"In a hyperinflationary situation, one usually created by a hyper expansionary government, a debt loaded economy or some catastrophe such as a major war, the money supply is rapidly expanded. The economy continues to roll along, jobs continue to exist as demand also continues to exist. At first, the workers are freed from their debts, as the amounts owned literally melt away in the face of larger and larger pay checks. Of course, as is usual, salaries rarely stay up to date with prices, which are much more agile and elastic. Soon the worker finds that while debt free, he can afford less and less to buy with his ever more worthless money, but at least, ground under the heel of hyperinflation, he is still employed and remains fed, even if on bread and processed meat rather then on croissants and steak."
They bob their heads in understanding. Many of these peoples of the world have lived all their lives with inflations of one level or another and quite a few with hyperinflation. It is, after all, the order of the century, as the godling Keynes dictated to the interventionist fiat monetary systems. I go on.
"Then there is depression, something that most of you know little about. First spending falls, then output falls to match the new lower demand levels. Of course excess employees are laid off. These in turn spend little if anything and their employed brethren also spend much less, in fear of losing their jobs. Less spent means less produced and the cycle repeats. Debt become overwhelming and crushing, as the value of the dollar becomes greater, again, adding to the cycle. Of course, for those tens of millions unemployed, at least what few savings they have and what little money they get from their governments, will now buy them more then it did before.The pricing levels of the system are reset and will be kinder to future generations, but like most such things, it is painful and a nasty, if not necessary a long, process."
"But how does this link back to Depressionary-Hyperinflation?" again that doubting Thomas. Enough of this, time to learn fear.
"Well," I begin, in an quite, almost gentle voice, "you see, the people fear this painful process of depression and they call upon their betters, their masters to do something, anything about it. Of course the Monetary Interventionists know only one thing to do: lower interest rates and print money. At first, this makes the pain less so and easier to bare. The problem is, especially for you millions and millions of unemployed, it is rather hard to propagate. Each easing requires more and more cash, sorta like a drug addiction. But once the cash hits the system it propagates inflation. This of course takes time to appear, so it is rather hard to guess when to much is to much and out of fear of not being enough, that gut feeling is ignored. Then comes the Hyperinflation!" I feel satisfied in my explanation, but still there is hope in their eyes!
"So..." again that voice, though this time a bit more hesitantly.
"So!" I begin, "for those 15 to 30% of you without jobs, on meager fixed government monies, on pensions and savings...hahahaa....it's over, in days and weeks, your money buys nothing as the fires of Depressionary-Hyperinflation burn it all away! You will beg, you will steal, you will burn in rage and hunger and as the living dead, you will fall upon those who still have jobs but are to poor themselves to help you and you will consume them to! Fire and flame, hunger and despair! Then you will, in your orgy of despair and destruction, turn to the saviors who will come to you, the demagogues who will enslave you! Then and only then, will you truly know suffering!" My voice rings in stark laughter. I am on my feet again, waving my staff...the dark clouds booming and rolling forth.
Now they understand, now they know, there is no hope, no salvation, not from this one. Some throw themselves at my feet, begging for salvation, others throw themselves from the nearby cliffs...but there is no salvation, no...only the Fires of Depressionary-Hyperinflation.
My laughter is swallowed by the rolls of thunder.
MatRodina.Blogspot.com
13 5 09
As I stand upon the mountain top, over looking the huddling masses of the peasants of humanity. My long beard and shanks rippling in the wind, my grizzled staff raised high, pointing at the dark mass of rolling darkness, darkness broken only rarely by the crackle of lightening. It is a darkness like no other, a mass of despair, a malice that is palatable and pungent in its hostility. My voice booms like the thunder of that storm, pummeling the gathered, clutching masses of frightened humanity: rich and poor, high and low, man and woman.
"Behold! Your Lord High Economist, the godling Keynes, through his priests the Interventionist Central Bankers have declared!" I pause for dramatic effect, fear and mysticism in the eyes of the masses. Mysticism at the mention of the shadowy man, nah godling John Maynard Keynes, fear at the coming of his Central Bankers. "Thou, sinners, thou thrifters, thou who have questioned his eternal Wisdom...now fear the fires of Inflation! Thou wilest be purged of your doubt and your consumer debt through the fires of Inflation! And since you voiced your doubt! Since you questioned the Will! It will be no simple inflation BUT...(more dramatic pause)...DEPRESSIONARY-HYPERINFLATION! You will eat grass and choke on weeds as you fondly remember steak dinners and red wine!"
Gasps come from the huddle masses. Women cry out in shock and dismay. Babies wale, their cries mixing with the howling of the wind that brings the storm of Depressionary-Hyperinflation. The gnashing of teeth is heard over all. The End is neigh, thy punishment severe. I laugh the laughter of the mad, my eyes sparkling in the coming darkness.
"But how will this be worse then just Hyperinflation or a Great Depression?" comes a brave voice from the masses and suddenly the people's fear is abetted. Hope once more arises in their eyes that maybe, just maybe, this all is not as bad as they had but moments before feared. Even the storm seems to pause, rolling and pulsing but some how less menacing and stationary.
"Hmmm, this will not do, not do at all!" I think. "I will have to explain myself so that these fools will once more tremble." I pull up my robes around my knees and settle down upon the rock, perching over the masses, a wicked wisdom covering my face.
"To find this answer, let us examine, oh huddled masses, the difference between Hyperinflation and Depression and how both would normally effect your lives." They listen attentively.
"In a hyperinflationary situation, one usually created by a hyper expansionary government, a debt loaded economy or some catastrophe such as a major war, the money supply is rapidly expanded. The economy continues to roll along, jobs continue to exist as demand also continues to exist. At first, the workers are freed from their debts, as the amounts owned literally melt away in the face of larger and larger pay checks. Of course, as is usual, salaries rarely stay up to date with prices, which are much more agile and elastic. Soon the worker finds that while debt free, he can afford less and less to buy with his ever more worthless money, but at least, ground under the heel of hyperinflation, he is still employed and remains fed, even if on bread and processed meat rather then on croissants and steak."
They bob their heads in understanding. Many of these peoples of the world have lived all their lives with inflations of one level or another and quite a few with hyperinflation. It is, after all, the order of the century, as the godling Keynes dictated to the interventionist fiat monetary systems. I go on.
"Then there is depression, something that most of you know little about. First spending falls, then output falls to match the new lower demand levels. Of course excess employees are laid off. These in turn spend little if anything and their employed brethren also spend much less, in fear of losing their jobs. Less spent means less produced and the cycle repeats. Debt become overwhelming and crushing, as the value of the dollar becomes greater, again, adding to the cycle. Of course, for those tens of millions unemployed, at least what few savings they have and what little money they get from their governments, will now buy them more then it did before.The pricing levels of the system are reset and will be kinder to future generations, but like most such things, it is painful and a nasty, if not necessary a long, process."
"But how does this link back to Depressionary-Hyperinflation?" again that doubting Thomas. Enough of this, time to learn fear.
"Well," I begin, in an quite, almost gentle voice, "you see, the people fear this painful process of depression and they call upon their betters, their masters to do something, anything about it. Of course the Monetary Interventionists know only one thing to do: lower interest rates and print money. At first, this makes the pain less so and easier to bare. The problem is, especially for you millions and millions of unemployed, it is rather hard to propagate. Each easing requires more and more cash, sorta like a drug addiction. But once the cash hits the system it propagates inflation. This of course takes time to appear, so it is rather hard to guess when to much is to much and out of fear of not being enough, that gut feeling is ignored. Then comes the Hyperinflation!" I feel satisfied in my explanation, but still there is hope in their eyes!
"So..." again that voice, though this time a bit more hesitantly.
"So!" I begin, "for those 15 to 30% of you without jobs, on meager fixed government monies, on pensions and savings...hahahaa....it's over, in days and weeks, your money buys nothing as the fires of Depressionary-Hyperinflation burn it all away! You will beg, you will steal, you will burn in rage and hunger and as the living dead, you will fall upon those who still have jobs but are to poor themselves to help you and you will consume them to! Fire and flame, hunger and despair! Then you will, in your orgy of despair and destruction, turn to the saviors who will come to you, the demagogues who will enslave you! Then and only then, will you truly know suffering!" My voice rings in stark laughter. I am on my feet again, waving my staff...the dark clouds booming and rolling forth.
Now they understand, now they know, there is no hope, no salvation, not from this one. Some throw themselves at my feet, begging for salvation, others throw themselves from the nearby cliffs...but there is no salvation, no...only the Fires of Depressionary-Hyperinflation.
My laughter is swallowed by the rolls of thunder.
Pravda mourns the "American decent into Marxism"
American capitalism gone with a whimper
Pravda
27.04.2009
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Stanislav Mishin
The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, Mat Rodina
From 1963
Communist Goals (1963)
Documention below
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De
Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt
from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental healthclinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Pravda
27.04.2009
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Stanislav Mishin
The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, Mat Rodina
From 1963
Communist Goals (1963)
Documention below
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De
Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt
from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental healthclinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Obama's New World Order, FCC,Citizens Army GOON Squads
When you hear the knock on the door,just where will, you hide your Computer ?
You may be surprised who will knock on the door in an Obama world
Vincent Gioia
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 31 May 2009
Vincent GioiaEver since Obama called for a new domestic army many people waited for the next shoe to drop after his election as president but who would have expected the jackbooted knocker on your door to come from the Federal Communication Commission — "I'm from the FCC and I'm here to confiscate your computer." You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cell phone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.
For many years the agency has followed this rule to monitor licensed television and radio stations, and to crack down on pirate radio broadcasters but now the FCC says the same policy applies to any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency device. Speaking for the FCC, spokesman David Fiske said "Anything using RF energy — we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference." That includes devices like Wi-Fi routers that use unlicensed spectrum, Fiske says.
The FCC claims it derives its warrant-less search power from the Communications Act of 1934, though the constitutionality of the claim has gone untested in the courts because the FCC had little to do with average citizens for most of the last 75 years when home transmitters were largely reserved to ham-radio operators and CB-radio aficionados. But in 2009, nearly every household in the United States has multiple devices that use radio waves and fall under the FCC's purview, making the commission's claimed authority.
I believe it's a major stretch to assert what the FCC claims is its authority with respect to a private home; this is at the core of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The idea that a cell phone or a Wi-Fi connection suddenly makes the federal government able to invade your home for a warrant less search is more than bizarre. George Washington University professor Orin Kerr, a constitutional law expert, also questions the legality of the policy. In reference to a 1967 Supreme Court ruling that housing inspectors needed warrants to force their way into private residences Kerr pointed out:
The Supreme Court has said that the government can't make warrant-less entries into homes for administrative inspections.
The FCC has not explained how the agency gets around that ruling. The FCC rules came to public attention this month when an FCC agent investigating a pirate radio station in Boulder, Colorado, left a copy of a 2005 FCC inspection policy on the door of a residence having an unlicensed 100-watt transmitter.
The FCC statement said:
Whether you operate an amateur station or any other radio device, your authorization from the Commission comes with the obligation to allow inspection.
A corollary of the newly claimed and enforced FCC policy is that if inspectors should notice evidence of unrelated criminal behavior — say, a marijuana plant or stolen property — another Supreme Court decision suggests the search results can be used against the resident. In the 1987 case New York v. Burger, two police officers performed a warrant-less, administrative search of Joseph Burger's automobile junkyard. When he couldn't produce the proper paperwork, the officers searched the grounds and found stolen vehicles, which they used to prosecute him. The Supreme Court held the search to be legal.
Refusing the FCC admittance can carry a harsh financial penalty. In a 2007 case, a Corpus Christi, Texas, man got a visit from the FCC's direction-finders after re-broadcasting an AM radio station through a CB radio in his home. An FCC agent tracked the signal to his house and asked to see the equipment;
Donald Winton refused to let him in, but did turn off the radio. Winton was later fined $7,000 for refusing entry to the officer. (The fine was reduced to $225 after he proved he had little income.)
The new government claimed authority takes on even more dire prospects when you consider that it is reported Obama is considering a "preventive detention plan." President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House recently that he was mulling the need for a "preventive detention" system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, according to two participants in the private session.
The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came before a speech Obama gave on a number of national security matters. The two participants, outsiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the session was intended to be off the record, said they left the meeting "dismayed." If it were me I would have said "downright terrified."
The participants also said Obama told them he was thinking about "the long game" — how to establish a legal system that would endure for future presidents.
He raised the issue of preventive detention himself. It is reported Senior White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on the outsiders' accounts. "He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can't charge and detain," one participant said.
The other participant said Mr. Obama did not seem to be thinking about preventive detention for terrorism suspects now held but rather for those captured in the future. "The issue is," the participant said, "What are the options left open to a future president?" To that I say "balderdash"; with Obama's record of expanding government power and intruding on civil rights, it is more likely Obama wants to couple his new Socialist/Marxist society with Nazi-like powers.
In the World War II era people had to play their radios in the dark; have we come to the time when we will have to secret our computers and cell phones?
Vincent Gioia is a retired patent attorney living in Palm Desert, California. His articles may be read at www.vincentgioia.com and he may be contacted at gioia@gte.net.
You may be surprised who will knock on the door in an Obama world
Vincent Gioia
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 31 May 2009
Vincent GioiaEver since Obama called for a new domestic army many people waited for the next shoe to drop after his election as president but who would have expected the jackbooted knocker on your door to come from the Federal Communication Commission — "I'm from the FCC and I'm here to confiscate your computer." You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cell phone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.
For many years the agency has followed this rule to monitor licensed television and radio stations, and to crack down on pirate radio broadcasters but now the FCC says the same policy applies to any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency device. Speaking for the FCC, spokesman David Fiske said "Anything using RF energy — we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference." That includes devices like Wi-Fi routers that use unlicensed spectrum, Fiske says.
The FCC claims it derives its warrant-less search power from the Communications Act of 1934, though the constitutionality of the claim has gone untested in the courts because the FCC had little to do with average citizens for most of the last 75 years when home transmitters were largely reserved to ham-radio operators and CB-radio aficionados. But in 2009, nearly every household in the United States has multiple devices that use radio waves and fall under the FCC's purview, making the commission's claimed authority.
I believe it's a major stretch to assert what the FCC claims is its authority with respect to a private home; this is at the core of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The idea that a cell phone or a Wi-Fi connection suddenly makes the federal government able to invade your home for a warrant less search is more than bizarre. George Washington University professor Orin Kerr, a constitutional law expert, also questions the legality of the policy. In reference to a 1967 Supreme Court ruling that housing inspectors needed warrants to force their way into private residences Kerr pointed out:
The Supreme Court has said that the government can't make warrant-less entries into homes for administrative inspections.
The FCC has not explained how the agency gets around that ruling. The FCC rules came to public attention this month when an FCC agent investigating a pirate radio station in Boulder, Colorado, left a copy of a 2005 FCC inspection policy on the door of a residence having an unlicensed 100-watt transmitter.
The FCC statement said:
Whether you operate an amateur station or any other radio device, your authorization from the Commission comes with the obligation to allow inspection.
A corollary of the newly claimed and enforced FCC policy is that if inspectors should notice evidence of unrelated criminal behavior — say, a marijuana plant or stolen property — another Supreme Court decision suggests the search results can be used against the resident. In the 1987 case New York v. Burger, two police officers performed a warrant-less, administrative search of Joseph Burger's automobile junkyard. When he couldn't produce the proper paperwork, the officers searched the grounds and found stolen vehicles, which they used to prosecute him. The Supreme Court held the search to be legal.
Refusing the FCC admittance can carry a harsh financial penalty. In a 2007 case, a Corpus Christi, Texas, man got a visit from the FCC's direction-finders after re-broadcasting an AM radio station through a CB radio in his home. An FCC agent tracked the signal to his house and asked to see the equipment;
Donald Winton refused to let him in, but did turn off the radio. Winton was later fined $7,000 for refusing entry to the officer. (The fine was reduced to $225 after he proved he had little income.)
But how would the government know what I had in my house
or what I think or who I vote for ? I hear you ask,well how about an army, an army of "public spirited citizens" all working for the good of Hussein Obama and the International Socialist New World order, snooping around the neighborhood asking questions of yourself, your neighbors and your children, do you refuse to open the door to them,do you tell them what you think they want to hear or do you simply do what they demand and join their "Army" ?
or what I think or who I vote for ? I hear you ask,well how about an army, an army of "public spirited citizens" all working for the good of Hussein Obama and the International Socialist New World order, snooping around the neighborhood asking questions of yourself, your neighbors and your children, do you refuse to open the door to them,do you tell them what you think they want to hear or do you simply do what they demand and join their "Army" ?
The new government claimed authority takes on even more dire prospects when you consider that it is reported Obama is considering a "preventive detention plan." President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House recently that he was mulling the need for a "preventive detention" system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, according to two participants in the private session.
The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came before a speech Obama gave on a number of national security matters. The two participants, outsiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the session was intended to be off the record, said they left the meeting "dismayed." If it were me I would have said "downright terrified."
The participants also said Obama told them he was thinking about "the long game" — how to establish a legal system that would endure for future presidents.
He raised the issue of preventive detention himself. It is reported Senior White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on the outsiders' accounts. "He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can't charge and detain," one participant said.
The other participant said Mr. Obama did not seem to be thinking about preventive detention for terrorism suspects now held but rather for those captured in the future. "The issue is," the participant said, "What are the options left open to a future president?" To that I say "balderdash"; with Obama's record of expanding government power and intruding on civil rights, it is more likely Obama wants to couple his new Socialist/Marxist society with Nazi-like powers.
In the World War II era people had to play their radios in the dark; have we come to the time when we will have to secret our computers and cell phones?
Vincent Gioia is a retired patent attorney living in Palm Desert, California. His articles may be read at www.vincentgioia.com and he may be contacted at gioia@gte.net.
Rudd's Australia: Australian economy tanks while Rudd spends,spends, spends
The world is noticing Comrade Rudd's incompetence.
The Australian economy tanks while government debt and spending zooms
Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 31 May 2009
If Obama and his lefty mates had half the brains they pathetically think they have they would be keeping a close eye on the UK and Australia. Obama's 'economic policy' of spend, borrow and print the stuff — and keep on doing it — was also the policy of the British Labour Government. Thanks to that economic stupidity Britain is now on the brink of financial ruin and the economy is expected to contract this year by something like 4 per cent. The Australian economy is also continuing to contract despite Prime Minister Rudd's outrageous spending binge that has sent the country deep into the red for years to come.
The problem — as always — is one of lousy economics. While our economic punditry focus on consumer spending and fiscal policy they have completely overlooked the monetary situation. All the inflation indicators have been slowing since last September while M1 has been basically flat since May 2009.
Moreover, the decline in the Reserve's assets has accelerated. The latest monetary figures (they are always about two months behind) show that from February to March M1 actually contracted. In short, monetary policy is very tight.
When monetary policy tightens this should result in a slowdown in production, falling investment, rising in unemployment and a contraction in import volumes. (Westpac calculates that import volumes dropped by about 14 per cent over the Q4 and Q1). The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of
Statistics show that spending on equipment fell by 10.8 per cent in the March quarter. This is the biggest drop since this survey started in 1987. To get a better idea of how bad the situation is we need to look at manufacturing figures. The May Australian Industry Group report for April revealed that manufacturing had been contracting for eleven straight months. Australia is clearly in recession and has been for sometime.
Regardless of what the economic commentariat believes, manufacturing is a key indicator — not consumer spending. Focusing on the latter leads to confusion. Rudd's $8.4 billion cash handout represented about 3 per cent of GDP. Not surprisingly retail sails jumped by 1 per cent in the first quarter. We could get a repeat performance when most of Rudd's additional $12.7 billion injection is released in the second quarter.
As I have stressed many times before, consumer spending is only about one-third of total spending. Failure to recognise this fact comes from the fallacy that to include spending between firms in the national accounts would be double-accounting. (Businessmen are genuinely surprised when I tell them this).
Therefore it is not consumer spending but total business spending that should be monitored. Once this is realised it becomes obvious that the Australian economy went into recession last year and is still tanking. There is no way that running down the surplus and increasing government debt could have stopped this process. And there is certainly no way these policies can reverse the economy's direction. Given the Reserve's monetary stand fiscal policy in the form of greater government spending is powerless.
Treasury and Reserve officials are at a loss to explain the situation, something that Ric Battelino, the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank, made clear when he asserted that the principal reason for the difference between the sickly state of business and the current state of the housing market is the significant difference in borrowing costs, with the variable mortgage averaging 5.16 per cent while — according to Alan Kohler of the Business Specator — "the current borrowing rate for non-financial companies is 7.29 per cent".
However, since similar differences in borrowing rates exist in the US and Europe the Treasury can scarcely assert with a straight face that Australia occupies a unique position in this respect. The difference is easily explained. Firstly, as already noted, recession strikes at manufacturing first* and hence its effects will be first felt in business spending and not in consumption. In fact, consumption can continue to rise even as a recession deepens. This happened during the recession that Bush inherited. This means that any differences between borrowing rates for business and borrowing rates for housing are irrelevant.
Secondly, the government has used subsidies and low interest rates to maintain the level of Australian house prices regardless of business conditions. It's true that the US has done likewise but unlike America's utterly reckless Democrats neither the Labor Party nor the Liberal Party bullied lending institutions into giving mortgages to people who were patently unable to afford them.
Furthermore, several things need to be noted about housing. There is no housing market as such. What we have are a very large number of housing markets.
Houses in Endeavour Hills are not the same as houses in Toorak. Even within suburbs one can find a number of housing markets. Finally, it should be obvious that one cannot compare one country's 'market for housing' with that of another. Supply and demand conditions will always differ.
Mr Battelino is self-evidently clutching at straws.
*Housing too can be indicator because of its sensitivity to changes in interest rates. However, this sensitivity can evidently be blunted where mortgage rates are kept low.
Gerard Jackson is Brookesnews' economics editor
The Australian economy tanks while government debt and spending zooms
Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 31 May 2009
If Obama and his lefty mates had half the brains they pathetically think they have they would be keeping a close eye on the UK and Australia. Obama's 'economic policy' of spend, borrow and print the stuff — and keep on doing it — was also the policy of the British Labour Government. Thanks to that economic stupidity Britain is now on the brink of financial ruin and the economy is expected to contract this year by something like 4 per cent. The Australian economy is also continuing to contract despite Prime Minister Rudd's outrageous spending binge that has sent the country deep into the red for years to come.
The problem — as always — is one of lousy economics. While our economic punditry focus on consumer spending and fiscal policy they have completely overlooked the monetary situation. All the inflation indicators have been slowing since last September while M1 has been basically flat since May 2009.
Moreover, the decline in the Reserve's assets has accelerated. The latest monetary figures (they are always about two months behind) show that from February to March M1 actually contracted. In short, monetary policy is very tight.
When monetary policy tightens this should result in a slowdown in production, falling investment, rising in unemployment and a contraction in import volumes. (Westpac calculates that import volumes dropped by about 14 per cent over the Q4 and Q1). The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of
Statistics show that spending on equipment fell by 10.8 per cent in the March quarter. This is the biggest drop since this survey started in 1987. To get a better idea of how bad the situation is we need to look at manufacturing figures. The May Australian Industry Group report for April revealed that manufacturing had been contracting for eleven straight months. Australia is clearly in recession and has been for sometime.
Regardless of what the economic commentariat believes, manufacturing is a key indicator — not consumer spending. Focusing on the latter leads to confusion. Rudd's $8.4 billion cash handout represented about 3 per cent of GDP. Not surprisingly retail sails jumped by 1 per cent in the first quarter. We could get a repeat performance when most of Rudd's additional $12.7 billion injection is released in the second quarter.
As I have stressed many times before, consumer spending is only about one-third of total spending. Failure to recognise this fact comes from the fallacy that to include spending between firms in the national accounts would be double-accounting. (Businessmen are genuinely surprised when I tell them this).
Therefore it is not consumer spending but total business spending that should be monitored. Once this is realised it becomes obvious that the Australian economy went into recession last year and is still tanking. There is no way that running down the surplus and increasing government debt could have stopped this process. And there is certainly no way these policies can reverse the economy's direction. Given the Reserve's monetary stand fiscal policy in the form of greater government spending is powerless.
Treasury and Reserve officials are at a loss to explain the situation, something that Ric Battelino, the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank, made clear when he asserted that the principal reason for the difference between the sickly state of business and the current state of the housing market is the significant difference in borrowing costs, with the variable mortgage averaging 5.16 per cent while — according to Alan Kohler of the Business Specator — "the current borrowing rate for non-financial companies is 7.29 per cent".
However, since similar differences in borrowing rates exist in the US and Europe the Treasury can scarcely assert with a straight face that Australia occupies a unique position in this respect. The difference is easily explained. Firstly, as already noted, recession strikes at manufacturing first* and hence its effects will be first felt in business spending and not in consumption. In fact, consumption can continue to rise even as a recession deepens. This happened during the recession that Bush inherited. This means that any differences between borrowing rates for business and borrowing rates for housing are irrelevant.
Secondly, the government has used subsidies and low interest rates to maintain the level of Australian house prices regardless of business conditions. It's true that the US has done likewise but unlike America's utterly reckless Democrats neither the Labor Party nor the Liberal Party bullied lending institutions into giving mortgages to people who were patently unable to afford them.
Furthermore, several things need to be noted about housing. There is no housing market as such. What we have are a very large number of housing markets.
Houses in Endeavour Hills are not the same as houses in Toorak. Even within suburbs one can find a number of housing markets. Finally, it should be obvious that one cannot compare one country's 'market for housing' with that of another. Supply and demand conditions will always differ.
Mr Battelino is self-evidently clutching at straws.
*Housing too can be indicator because of its sensitivity to changes in interest rates. However, this sensitivity can evidently be blunted where mortgage rates are kept low.
Gerard Jackson is Brookesnews' economics editor
Camden: Australian Infidels victorious, Muslims humiliated
Sydney Islamic school rejected
SMH
Elicia Murray
June 2, 2009 - 10:37AM
A controversial Islamic school will not be built in Camden after a court today rejected an appeal by the school's backers.
The Land and Environment Court rejected the Quranic Society's application to build a $19 million school for 900 students in a rural area on the outskirts of the town south-west of Sydney.
It found that the plans were inconsistent with the site's zoning restrictions.
Camden City Council cited planning arguments when it first blocked the proposal a year ago.
But fierce community opposition to the project often relied on racial and religious arguments.
The case attracted international media attention when two pigs' heads were rammed onto metal stakes at the site, on the corner of Cawdor and Burragarong roads, in 2007.
And at the hearing in April, the council's evidence included a letter signed by four Christian churches stating that Islam espoused views that were "incompatible with the Australian way of life".
The council's legal team also presented a DVD featuring the views of concerned residents, one of whom said the school would be a "breeding ground for terrorists".
However the council insisted its refusal was based on planning grounds, arguing it was incompatible with the rural zoning and would cause problems for traffic and neighbouring farms.
The Camden case has been the most high-profile bid to keep Islamic schools out of areas the outskirts of Sydney.
Since the Quranic Society's application was first blocked in 2007, several other applications for schools have faced strident opposition from communities on the suburban fringe.
One of the biggest Islamic schools in Australia - a 1200-student school in Bass Hill - will be built after its backers won an appeal in the Land and Environment Court last month.
This will not be the end of this matter, the Islamic colonialists, will, I am sure, appeal against this ruling.... lets hope they are unsuccessful fingers crossed.
SMH
Elicia Murray
June 2, 2009 - 10:37AM
A controversial Islamic school will not be built in Camden after a court today rejected an appeal by the school's backers.
The Land and Environment Court rejected the Quranic Society's application to build a $19 million school for 900 students in a rural area on the outskirts of the town south-west of Sydney.
It found that the plans were inconsistent with the site's zoning restrictions.
Camden City Council cited planning arguments when it first blocked the proposal a year ago.
But fierce community opposition to the project often relied on racial and religious arguments.
The case attracted international media attention when two pigs' heads were rammed onto metal stakes at the site, on the corner of Cawdor and Burragarong roads, in 2007.
And at the hearing in April, the council's evidence included a letter signed by four Christian churches stating that Islam espoused views that were "incompatible with the Australian way of life".
The council's legal team also presented a DVD featuring the views of concerned residents, one of whom said the school would be a "breeding ground for terrorists".
However the council insisted its refusal was based on planning grounds, arguing it was incompatible with the rural zoning and would cause problems for traffic and neighbouring farms.
The Camden case has been the most high-profile bid to keep Islamic schools out of areas the outskirts of Sydney.
Since the Quranic Society's application was first blocked in 2007, several other applications for schools have faced strident opposition from communities on the suburban fringe.
One of the biggest Islamic schools in Australia - a 1200-student school in Bass Hill - will be built after its backers won an appeal in the Land and Environment Court last month.
This will not be the end of this matter, the Islamic colonialists, will, I am sure, appeal against this ruling.... lets hope they are unsuccessful fingers crossed.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Egyptian Muslim Cuts off Penis
Man chops off his penis
News.com.au
May 31, 2009
AN Egyptian cut off his penis today in protest at his parents' choice of bride, a police official said.
The 25-year-old labourer from the village of Sheikh Eissa in southern Egypt was taken to hospital in stable condition, the official said, adding that the man had also mutilated his testicles.
"He was in love with a woman but his parents rejected her and told him to marry another woman he didn't want. He took a knife and cut off his penis in his room.''
Doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official said.
You cannot help but love em!!!! they are simply amazing.
News.com.au
May 31, 2009
AN Egyptian cut off his penis today in protest at his parents' choice of bride, a police official said.
The 25-year-old labourer from the village of Sheikh Eissa in southern Egypt was taken to hospital in stable condition, the official said, adding that the man had also mutilated his testicles.
"He was in love with a woman but his parents rejected her and told him to marry another woman he didn't want. He took a knife and cut off his penis in his room.''
Doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official said.
You cannot help but love em!!!! they are simply amazing.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Idiot aka. arse hole,Australians,Grow up and take responsibility
Idiot Aussies: Grow up and take responsibility
By ALEXANDER DOWNER
The Advertiser
May 24, 2009 11:30pm
I DON'T know about you, but it's always nice to get emails. Once upon a time you'd look with pleasure at a handful of letters which dropped through the letter box. Now all you get are those threatening looking envelopes with windows. Or if you're Tom Koutsantonis, those nasty missives which tell you about passing unknowingly through a speed camera.
But this is a generalisation. At the height of the Schapelle Corby affair I received 5000 emails in one day from fellow Australians pleading with me to save "our Schapelle" from the horrors of the Indonesian legal system. Or, to be a bit more honest, the few I looked at said that.
I'm sure my successor as foreign minister, Stephen Smith, had his in box bursting last week as people demanded he save the beer mat mum, Annice Smoel, from the ravages of the Thai police.
I felt for him especially when the media started demanding he "do something" to save her.
After about 10 minutes as foreign minister I was a little surprised to learn I was "responsible" for miscreant Australians who got into trouble in foreign countries.
No, no, no, don't get it wrong - drug traffickers, drunks, kleptomaniacs and fraudsters weren't responsible for their own stupidity - I was.
It's about time that great nanny in Canberra, the Federal Government, turned around and told people they are responsible for their own decisions.
I was in Lebanon the other day and went down to the southern cities of Sidon and Tyre. They're fascinating places - old Crusader castles, bustling souks, colourful little food stalls with generous owners offering you a taste of their wares.
But I couldn't help remembering the awful events in those same places three years ago when Israel went to war with Hezbollah.
There were said to be 20,000 Australians in Lebanon at that time and a hefty percentage of them were demanding the Australian Government save them and fast.
Lebanese support groups hit the airwaves screaming that the Government was too slow getting those Australians who wanted to be evacuated to safety. But hang on, Australia's about 15,000km from Lebanon and we don't dock ships in the eastern Mediterranean ready to ferry Australians to safety.
And there was something else. We'd issued a travel advisory months earlier warning Australians of the dangers of southern Lebanon and the risks of going there.
It didn't matter - apparently we had to get them out.
We were lucky. The Australian ambassador, a petite, charming professional called Lyndall Sachs, worked day and night chartering ferries and providing comfort to the evacuees, who hadn't cared about the travel advisories, and whisked them to safety.
It was one of the great achievements of an Australian diplomat. Almost single handedly, she managed to get around 5000 Australians to Cyprus and Turkey.
We then chartered planes to take them back to Australia. I hope they built shrines to her. Some did, at least metaphorically.
But some just whinged. They felt seasick on the ferry and that was our fault. Could they get frequent flyer points for the free flight back to Australia? And all this cost around $30 million dollars - your dollars.
I'll tell you this - I didn't get 5000 emails of thanks but I got plenty of abuse because we weren't fast enough, the ferries didn't go from their port of choice and we were slow because we were racist, and so on. I mean, we'd warned them and told them not to go to the south of Lebanon. They went all the same. And when the proverbial hit the fan it was, you guessed it, "our fault".
Then there was Hurricane Katrina, which flooded much of New Orleans. A mother of an Australian who arrived in New Orleans the day the hurricane hit came to see me in Stirling and demanded I get her son out. Americans couldn't get out but I had to get her son out. I asked if he'd heard the warnings from the U.S. Government that week to avoid New Orleans.
She started shouting. He doesn't follow the news, he doesn't watch TV or read the newspapers. I see, I said. It was my fault he was in New Orleans, was it? What were we to do? Fly helicopters from Australia to America and pick up Australians and leave the Americans behind?
I didn't have the guts to say this as foreign minister but don't you think you should take responsibility for yourself when you go overseas?
If you're too dumb or idle to read the travel advisories and too mean to take out travel insurance when you go overseas then you ought to take responsibility for your own behaviour.
Sure, if there's a catastrophe like the Bali bombings or you're trapped in a corruption scam the government should try to help. But not if you're too lazy and silly to help yourself.
Remember two things when you travel. First, there are no special laws for Australians overseas. Foreigners make the laws over there, not us. And secondly, foreigners do things differently and they're entitled to.
If you go to a Muslim country and get wildly drunk and women start dressing down (if you know what I mean) it can be bloody offensive to the locals. You'll soon be in trouble.
And learn to take responsibility for your own behaviour. Stealing is wrong, even stealing beer mats. I know, I know, the beer mat mum had a few drinks but, no, she wasn't drunk and she was charmingly polite to the local police.
But she was in a foreign country with a different culture and all of us ought to respect that.
Alexander Downer was Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister from 1996 to 2007
I well remember these Lebanese "flag of convenience" Australians demanding that the country they so despise and abuse,Australia,extract them from the country they call HOME once the shit hit the fan in their home.
Suddenly the Australian "life support system" and Judeo Christian legal system that they had disconnected themselves from to return HOME, was not so bad after all, and they immediately started enunciating, in the best Australian accent and terminology they could muster before the worlds TV camera's, their right, as Australian's to be repatriated to, (what they had decided, since the the Israeli's started kicking their preferred "home's" arsehole from sunrise to sunset),Australia, and whats more,those racist, bigoted, infidel, Judeo Christian, Skips,Aussie Pigs and Sluts should pay for their demands as well.
So far a fraction of the $30 plus million that it cost the Australian taxpayers to bring these gutless sniveling cowards back to Australia from the place they call HOME has been repayed by these Lebanese "flag of convenience" Australians.
The obscene debilitating costs of the hoax of Multiculturalism go on and on, this is but one example of how the western host country is cannibalised by the imposition of middle eastern colonialist's by left and Multicultural friendly governments.
By ALEXANDER DOWNER
The Advertiser
May 24, 2009 11:30pm
I DON'T know about you, but it's always nice to get emails. Once upon a time you'd look with pleasure at a handful of letters which dropped through the letter box. Now all you get are those threatening looking envelopes with windows. Or if you're Tom Koutsantonis, those nasty missives which tell you about passing unknowingly through a speed camera.
But this is a generalisation. At the height of the Schapelle Corby affair I received 5000 emails in one day from fellow Australians pleading with me to save "our Schapelle" from the horrors of the Indonesian legal system. Or, to be a bit more honest, the few I looked at said that.
I'm sure my successor as foreign minister, Stephen Smith, had his in box bursting last week as people demanded he save the beer mat mum, Annice Smoel, from the ravages of the Thai police.
I felt for him especially when the media started demanding he "do something" to save her.
After about 10 minutes as foreign minister I was a little surprised to learn I was "responsible" for miscreant Australians who got into trouble in foreign countries.
No, no, no, don't get it wrong - drug traffickers, drunks, kleptomaniacs and fraudsters weren't responsible for their own stupidity - I was.
It's about time that great nanny in Canberra, the Federal Government, turned around and told people they are responsible for their own decisions.
I was in Lebanon the other day and went down to the southern cities of Sidon and Tyre. They're fascinating places - old Crusader castles, bustling souks, colourful little food stalls with generous owners offering you a taste of their wares.
But I couldn't help remembering the awful events in those same places three years ago when Israel went to war with Hezbollah.
There were said to be 20,000 Australians in Lebanon at that time and a hefty percentage of them were demanding the Australian Government save them and fast.
Lebanese support groups hit the airwaves screaming that the Government was too slow getting those Australians who wanted to be evacuated to safety. But hang on, Australia's about 15,000km from Lebanon and we don't dock ships in the eastern Mediterranean ready to ferry Australians to safety.
And there was something else. We'd issued a travel advisory months earlier warning Australians of the dangers of southern Lebanon and the risks of going there.
It didn't matter - apparently we had to get them out.
We were lucky. The Australian ambassador, a petite, charming professional called Lyndall Sachs, worked day and night chartering ferries and providing comfort to the evacuees, who hadn't cared about the travel advisories, and whisked them to safety.
It was one of the great achievements of an Australian diplomat. Almost single handedly, she managed to get around 5000 Australians to Cyprus and Turkey.
We then chartered planes to take them back to Australia. I hope they built shrines to her. Some did, at least metaphorically.
But some just whinged. They felt seasick on the ferry and that was our fault. Could they get frequent flyer points for the free flight back to Australia? And all this cost around $30 million dollars - your dollars.
I'll tell you this - I didn't get 5000 emails of thanks but I got plenty of abuse because we weren't fast enough, the ferries didn't go from their port of choice and we were slow because we were racist, and so on. I mean, we'd warned them and told them not to go to the south of Lebanon. They went all the same. And when the proverbial hit the fan it was, you guessed it, "our fault".
Then there was Hurricane Katrina, which flooded much of New Orleans. A mother of an Australian who arrived in New Orleans the day the hurricane hit came to see me in Stirling and demanded I get her son out. Americans couldn't get out but I had to get her son out. I asked if he'd heard the warnings from the U.S. Government that week to avoid New Orleans.
She started shouting. He doesn't follow the news, he doesn't watch TV or read the newspapers. I see, I said. It was my fault he was in New Orleans, was it? What were we to do? Fly helicopters from Australia to America and pick up Australians and leave the Americans behind?
I didn't have the guts to say this as foreign minister but don't you think you should take responsibility for yourself when you go overseas?
If you're too dumb or idle to read the travel advisories and too mean to take out travel insurance when you go overseas then you ought to take responsibility for your own behaviour.
Sure, if there's a catastrophe like the Bali bombings or you're trapped in a corruption scam the government should try to help. But not if you're too lazy and silly to help yourself.
Remember two things when you travel. First, there are no special laws for Australians overseas. Foreigners make the laws over there, not us. And secondly, foreigners do things differently and they're entitled to.
If you go to a Muslim country and get wildly drunk and women start dressing down (if you know what I mean) it can be bloody offensive to the locals. You'll soon be in trouble.
And learn to take responsibility for your own behaviour. Stealing is wrong, even stealing beer mats. I know, I know, the beer mat mum had a few drinks but, no, she wasn't drunk and she was charmingly polite to the local police.
But she was in a foreign country with a different culture and all of us ought to respect that.
Alexander Downer was Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister from 1996 to 2007
I well remember these Lebanese "flag of convenience" Australians demanding that the country they so despise and abuse,Australia,extract them from the country they call HOME once the shit hit the fan in their home.
Suddenly the Australian "life support system" and Judeo Christian legal system that they had disconnected themselves from to return HOME, was not so bad after all, and they immediately started enunciating, in the best Australian accent and terminology they could muster before the worlds TV camera's, their right, as Australian's to be repatriated to, (what they had decided, since the the Israeli's started kicking their preferred "home's" arsehole from sunrise to sunset),Australia, and whats more,those racist, bigoted, infidel, Judeo Christian, Skips,Aussie Pigs and Sluts should pay for their demands as well.
So far a fraction of the $30 plus million that it cost the Australian taxpayers to bring these gutless sniveling cowards back to Australia from the place they call HOME has been repayed by these Lebanese "flag of convenience" Australians.
The obscene debilitating costs of the hoax of Multiculturalism go on and on, this is but one example of how the western host country is cannibalised by the imposition of middle eastern colonialist's by left and Multicultural friendly governments.
Simona Halep,For God's Sake someone STOP this woman before it's too late
Teen tennis star Simona Halep wants 34DD breast reductionIs nothing sacred ?????
Someone PLEASE stop this girl NOW
The Daily Telegraph
May 29, 2009 12:00am
A TEENAGE girl who has become a Wimbledon hopeful desperately wants a breast reduction to reduce the size of her massive mixed double Ds.
Simona Halep, 17, of Romania has been way out in front in junior internationals where her amazing form has won her an army of fans.
But the sports star has told how she thinks her 34DD bust is holding her back.
And now the Romanian beauty has booked herself into a private hospital for surgery.
Simona said: "This fall I'll have a breast reduction operation. The breasts make me uncomfortable when I play."
...Oh you silly girl they are just perfect, now stop whining and get back out on the Court and do your best... you know running jumping and serving and all that sort of stuff.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Islamic Sociopaths Inc.: Warning Beware Dubai stay clear
Dream jobs dwindle for Australians in DubaiFlorence Chong
The Australian
May 28, 2009
DUBAI'S dream jobs have evaporated and hopes of making quick riches have been replaced by an air of fear and loathing following the arrest of several Australians this year.
Five months after taking on a job in a large Dubai property group, a Sydney property specialist has returned to Sydney as promises made during the interview disappeared the day he arrived in Dubai. "The project for which I was hired to develop was cancelled due to the credit crunch," said the executive, who declined to be named. "The base salary was $US500,000 ($640,000) a year plus generous bonuses.
Potentially, it was a $US1.4 million package - tax free." The icing on the cake was to be six weeks of annual leave. But two months after taking on the job last October, he said: "The Australian executives in my company were arrested on allegations of corruption. There was a real sense of unease in that place."
Expatriates have been arrested along with local employees on charges of alleged corruption and espionage. "It is quite unbelievable. It is like stuff you see in a James Bond movie," said another Australian executive. Officially, the charges remain unclear. Those who spoke to The Australian said the bursting of Dubai's property bubble had sent companies and authorities searching for someone to blame.
The irony was that nothing happened in Dubai without the signature of the chairman of the company, said one Australian executive who resigned because the company changed his job description on arrival. "An individual had his computer removed from his desk when he went on holidays.
On his return, the company's security guards escorted him out of the building," the executive said. "He believed sensitive information in his computer regarding an offshore investment that has gone sour overseas could be the reason." Stories and circumstances of how expatriates have lost their jobs have painted a grim picture of Dubai. Some of those still employed talk of paranoia and fear of persecution.
The reason? The arrest of fellow Australians, mostly in the property sector, without charges. A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said 17 Australians were currently detained in Dubai. He said five were in prison or detained. Of these five, three had been charged. They faced a variety of charges on a variety of matters.
The situation of the remaining 12 was unclear as no charges had been laid, but their passports had been seized to prevent them from leaving the country, sources said. An official source said the number of Australians getting into trouble with the law in the UAE had risen from 23 cases in 2005-06 to 55 in 2007-08 and still rising. "There is no doubt the number of cases is growing, but then the number of Australians working and living in the UAE is also rising," said the source. He said charges could range from drunkenness, not paying a bar bill to more serious charges such as embezzlement.
The most high-profile arrests are those of two former employees of Dubai-based Nakheel, Australians Matt Joyce and Marcus Lee, detained without charges since January. They are alleged to be involved in bribery over the sale of the Waterfront site, now controlled by the Queensland-based Sunland. While these cases are pending, a small number in senior management is concerned about phone tapping and monitoring of their emails, according to industry sources. Several persons who lost their jobs recently spoke to The Australian on an anonymous basis, citing concerns of inadvertently implicating former colleagues still in Dubai.
One expatriate said that in at least one instance, the employer held a person "hostage" by refusing to return his passport. The passport was finally returned after the intervention of his embassy. "Holding on to passports is apparently a common tactic in disputes over severance payments," said one executive. "I was not paid out when I left, but I was not about to argue with them.
I just wanted my passport back to jump on the first plane out." There are now about 20,000 Australians working in Dubai, lured by wonderful job descriptions and huge salary packages. As jobs dry up, the Gulf's largest investment bank EGF Hermes says Dubai's population will shrink by 17 per cent this year. During the boom years, Dubai's population grew by about 20 per cent a year, said Keith Parker, an expatriate living in Dubai.
The number of employees in the worst-affected sectors of construction, real estate and financial services will drop by 30 per cent this year, according to EGF Hermes. Reports said 54,684 residency visas were cancelled in January alone. Most of those affected, however, are workers from South Asia.
Those who spoke to The Australian said when a person terminated his contract, he or she would be banned from taking a position with another company in Dubai. These people also face financial hardships such as locked-in rental payments and relocation costs. A source said accommodation costs are much higher in Dubai than major capital cities such as London or Sydney.
Gee say it ain't so! the Muslims actually lied and deceived the infidels ,who would have thought that possible ?
The price you pay for dealing with the Devil.
Rudd pays Dead people
Dead people and expats receiving stimulus package as well
EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis
The Daily Telegraph
May 28, 2009 12:00am
THE Rudd Government has wasted $40 million by paying the $900 tax bonus to 16,000 dead people and 27,000 expats living overseas.
The revelations will rock the Government's efforts to sell its $42 billion stimulus package as a nation-building scheme.
And the Australian Tax Office said the level of payments to the dead is likely to go beyond the $14 million so far issued to deceased estates.
The $40 million in wasted payments was revealed by the tax office in confidential documents that confirmed prisoners received the $900 payment.
As well, more than $11 million was spent on "marketing" the cash splash - which has seen about $8 billion paid to 8.7 million people.
Despite racking up more than $300 billion in debt, the Government is sending about $25 million in bonus payments to people living overseas.
Even non-Australians who worked here for at least six months - but then disappeared off shore - have received the cash.
The British and New Zealand economies will benefit the most - with expats living in these countries accounting for 40 per cent of the payments.
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull will seize on the embarrassing revelations to bolster his claim the Government's $42 billion stimulus package was badly targeted.
Mr Turnbull - estimated to have a personal fortune of $178 million yesterday - called on the Government to "come clean" on how it planned to repay $315 billion in debt.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan trumpeted the $900 cash bonus - paid during April and May - as a much-needed shot in the arm for the economy.
The tax office has revealed that 15,934 tax bonus payments have been made to deceased estates so far.
The numbers of dead people receiving the bonus could rise sharply, with 47,111 deceased estates lodging a tax return for the eligible period.
The tax office also admits it had no idea where the payment to dead people actually ends up.
"It is the role of the executor in administering the proceeds of a deceased estate to determine how the tax bonus payment will be distributed to beneficiaries," the ATO said.
The tax office was also unable to outline how many prisoners had received the cash bonus, but confirmed "some" inmates would receive the payment.
It had much better luck in determining how many expats would receive the bonus.
This will include 7305 people who will receive a cheque mailed to an overseas address, while 18,000 will receive the payment via their bank account.
The Australian Labor Party, has since its inception, recruited Dead people to vote for it at all three levels of government,now we know how they do it.
EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis
The Daily Telegraph
May 28, 2009 12:00am
THE Rudd Government has wasted $40 million by paying the $900 tax bonus to 16,000 dead people and 27,000 expats living overseas.
The revelations will rock the Government's efforts to sell its $42 billion stimulus package as a nation-building scheme.
And the Australian Tax Office said the level of payments to the dead is likely to go beyond the $14 million so far issued to deceased estates.
The $40 million in wasted payments was revealed by the tax office in confidential documents that confirmed prisoners received the $900 payment.
As well, more than $11 million was spent on "marketing" the cash splash - which has seen about $8 billion paid to 8.7 million people.
Despite racking up more than $300 billion in debt, the Government is sending about $25 million in bonus payments to people living overseas.
Even non-Australians who worked here for at least six months - but then disappeared off shore - have received the cash.
The British and New Zealand economies will benefit the most - with expats living in these countries accounting for 40 per cent of the payments.
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull will seize on the embarrassing revelations to bolster his claim the Government's $42 billion stimulus package was badly targeted.
Mr Turnbull - estimated to have a personal fortune of $178 million yesterday - called on the Government to "come clean" on how it planned to repay $315 billion in debt.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan trumpeted the $900 cash bonus - paid during April and May - as a much-needed shot in the arm for the economy.
The tax office has revealed that 15,934 tax bonus payments have been made to deceased estates so far.
The numbers of dead people receiving the bonus could rise sharply, with 47,111 deceased estates lodging a tax return for the eligible period.
The tax office also admits it had no idea where the payment to dead people actually ends up.
"It is the role of the executor in administering the proceeds of a deceased estate to determine how the tax bonus payment will be distributed to beneficiaries," the ATO said.
The tax office was also unable to outline how many prisoners had received the cash bonus, but confirmed "some" inmates would receive the payment.
It had much better luck in determining how many expats would receive the bonus.
This will include 7305 people who will receive a cheque mailed to an overseas address, while 18,000 will receive the payment via their bank account.
The Australian Labor Party, has since its inception, recruited Dead people to vote for it at all three levels of government,now we know how they do it.
Kim Jong Ill,Hillary & Blix
How much safer the world is now that we have a self described "community organizer" in charge of the USA.
Islams finest,Bilal and Mohammed Skaf,gang rapists found with phones on cells
Phones found in cells of gang rapists Bilal and Mohammed Skaf
LiveNews | Richard Maxton
Mobile phones have been found in the prison cells of notorious gang rapists Bilal and Mohammed Skaf, raising questions about security at Goulburn jail.
Muslim Gang Rapists, Bilal & Mohammed Skaf.
Acting on intelligence, guards at Goulburn Correctional Facility's maximum security division searched the pair's cell on Tuesday.
"During the search they found hidden in the bottom of a cabinet, underneath a steel plate which was riveted to the cabinet frame, two mobile phones," a Department of Corrective Services spokesman said.
The brothers were strip-searched then split up after the breach was discovered, with Bilal, 26, placed in isolation at Goulburn while Mohammed, 25, was tranferred to Lithgow jail.
Bilal Skaf was found guilty of leading multiple pack rapes in Sydney in the leadup to the 2000 Olympics, summoning his friends by mobile phone for the attacks.
His brother Mohammed was found guilty for his part in four rapes, luring young women into the attacks, one of which lasted over six hours.
A major investigation is reportedly underway into how the two phones found their way into the Skafs' cell, with video footage set to be scrutinized.
Officers rostered in the brothers' wing will also be interviewed, a senior officer at Goulburn said.
While the Skaf brothers have had recent visitors, the prisoners were searched before and after the visits.
It is not the first security infraction involving the brothers. In 2002 the Skaf's mother, Baria, was banned from visiting all NSW jails after being caught on video trying to smuggle letters from Bilal to his fiance containing sketches of his cell and exercise yard.
In September of the same year the Skaf's father, Mustapha, was accused of trying to bribe security guards to let him talk to his son on the phone.
In August 2002 Bilal was sentenced to 55 years in jail, with Crown Prosecutor, Margaret Cunneen, said Skaf's actions, described as ethnically motivate hate crimes, had left a stain on the psyche of the citizens of NSW.
Then Premier Bob Carr said he was happy to see the "sort of sentence the community expects."
In October of the same year Judge Michael Finane described Mohammed as "a vicious, cowardly bully" before sentencing him to 32 years.
Bilal is now due to be released in 2031, while Mohammed can't apply for parole until 2018 after the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal allowed minor reductions in their sentences.
Update:
How the evil Skaf brothers obtained mobile phones
By Rhett Watson and Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph
May 29, 2009 12:00am
THE gang rapist Skaf brothers prised apart a steel cabinet to hide two mobile phones in their maximum security jail cell.
The details of the pair's underhanded concealment methods emerged last night as prison authorities remained baffled as to how two of the country's most notorious criminals smuggled phones into Goulburn prison.
One option being considered is that the phones were thrown over the prison walls, which Corrective Services senior officer Don Rodgers admitted could occur.
The phones' discovery last night led Commissioner Ron Woodham to vow that Bilal, 27, and Mohammed, 26, will never see each other again while they are behind bars.
Gallery and video: Come inside Goulburn's Supermax prison
"No. Never. They'll be in different jails and they'll never be together again," he said.
Both were strip-searched after the phones were found and moved into segregation where they will stay for two to three months until the investigation is complete.
Mohammed was moved to Lithgow jail and Bilal will remain in Goulburn jail's segregation section. One of the phones had a SIM card, making it live. There was no reason to believe it had not been used.
Prison investigators will use the SIM card from the Skafs' phone to work out how many calls were made, to whom and, possible, how long it has been in the jail.
There was speculation in Corrective Services that the calls would be more of a personal nature than criminal.
Prison officers only became aware of the smuggled contraband after a tip-off led to a raid on several cells on Tuesday morning.
The brothers, who shared a cell, had managed to drill out the rivets on a cabinet which has a tubular steel frame and sheet metal covering it.
They had popped one of the sheets off the bottom of the cabinet, hidden the phones on the frame and then placed the sheet metal skin back over it.
"After that we've ramped up the searches in the jail and pulled apart every piece of furniture in all the cells," Mr Woodham said.
"We had a special team brought down from Sydney to get involved and we had about 80 to 90 officers from different areas sent in to do the search."
While Prisons Minister John Robertson yesterday said the discovery of the phones showed the "system actually works", the State Government was criticised that two notorious criminals, guilty of the worst pack rapes in NSW, were able to get phones in jail.
Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell said that the Government had a lot of explaining to do.
"What we know is they've been found in one of the most secure prisons in this state and they are owned, apparently, by two of the state's most notorious rapists," he said.
"When courts send serial rapists like the Skaf brothers to jail . . . there is meant to be punishment. The public does not expect them to have access to mobile phones."
The Government hopes to reduce the problems with mobile phone smuggling by creating jamming systems at its jails.
Mr Robertson said he hoped to receive approval from the Federal Government to trial a system at Lithgow jail. He also said the system that allows siblings to stay in the same cells was also being reviewed.
Southwest region corrective services assistant commissioner John Dunthorne said the Skafs were together because: "It's very hard to place any Skaf in any jail and certainly not with any other inmate. Nobody wants a bar of them."
LiveNews | Richard Maxton
Mobile phones have been found in the prison cells of notorious gang rapists Bilal and Mohammed Skaf, raising questions about security at Goulburn jail.
Muslim Gang Rapists, Bilal & Mohammed Skaf.Acting on intelligence, guards at Goulburn Correctional Facility's maximum security division searched the pair's cell on Tuesday.
"During the search they found hidden in the bottom of a cabinet, underneath a steel plate which was riveted to the cabinet frame, two mobile phones," a Department of Corrective Services spokesman said.
The brothers were strip-searched then split up after the breach was discovered, with Bilal, 26, placed in isolation at Goulburn while Mohammed, 25, was tranferred to Lithgow jail.
Bilal Skaf was found guilty of leading multiple pack rapes in Sydney in the leadup to the 2000 Olympics, summoning his friends by mobile phone for the attacks.
His brother Mohammed was found guilty for his part in four rapes, luring young women into the attacks, one of which lasted over six hours.
A major investigation is reportedly underway into how the two phones found their way into the Skafs' cell, with video footage set to be scrutinized.
Officers rostered in the brothers' wing will also be interviewed, a senior officer at Goulburn said.
While the Skaf brothers have had recent visitors, the prisoners were searched before and after the visits.
It is not the first security infraction involving the brothers. In 2002 the Skaf's mother, Baria, was banned from visiting all NSW jails after being caught on video trying to smuggle letters from Bilal to his fiance containing sketches of his cell and exercise yard.
In September of the same year the Skaf's father, Mustapha, was accused of trying to bribe security guards to let him talk to his son on the phone.
In August 2002 Bilal was sentenced to 55 years in jail, with Crown Prosecutor, Margaret Cunneen, said Skaf's actions, described as ethnically motivate hate crimes, had left a stain on the psyche of the citizens of NSW.
Then Premier Bob Carr said he was happy to see the "sort of sentence the community expects."
In October of the same year Judge Michael Finane described Mohammed as "a vicious, cowardly bully" before sentencing him to 32 years.
Bilal is now due to be released in 2031, while Mohammed can't apply for parole until 2018 after the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal allowed minor reductions in their sentences.
Update:
How the evil Skaf brothers obtained mobile phonesBy Rhett Watson and Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph
May 29, 2009 12:00am
THE gang rapist Skaf brothers prised apart a steel cabinet to hide two mobile phones in their maximum security jail cell.
The details of the pair's underhanded concealment methods emerged last night as prison authorities remained baffled as to how two of the country's most notorious criminals smuggled phones into Goulburn prison.
One option being considered is that the phones were thrown over the prison walls, which Corrective Services senior officer Don Rodgers admitted could occur.
The phones' discovery last night led Commissioner Ron Woodham to vow that Bilal, 27, and Mohammed, 26, will never see each other again while they are behind bars.
Gallery and video: Come inside Goulburn's Supermax prison
"No. Never. They'll be in different jails and they'll never be together again," he said.
Both were strip-searched after the phones were found and moved into segregation where they will stay for two to three months until the investigation is complete.
Mohammed was moved to Lithgow jail and Bilal will remain in Goulburn jail's segregation section. One of the phones had a SIM card, making it live. There was no reason to believe it had not been used.
Prison investigators will use the SIM card from the Skafs' phone to work out how many calls were made, to whom and, possible, how long it has been in the jail.
There was speculation in Corrective Services that the calls would be more of a personal nature than criminal.
Prison officers only became aware of the smuggled contraband after a tip-off led to a raid on several cells on Tuesday morning.
Inside Goulburn Supermax
The brothers, who shared a cell, had managed to drill out the rivets on a cabinet which has a tubular steel frame and sheet metal covering it.
They had popped one of the sheets off the bottom of the cabinet, hidden the phones on the frame and then placed the sheet metal skin back over it.
"After that we've ramped up the searches in the jail and pulled apart every piece of furniture in all the cells," Mr Woodham said.
"We had a special team brought down from Sydney to get involved and we had about 80 to 90 officers from different areas sent in to do the search."
While Prisons Minister John Robertson yesterday said the discovery of the phones showed the "system actually works", the State Government was criticised that two notorious criminals, guilty of the worst pack rapes in NSW, were able to get phones in jail.
Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell said that the Government had a lot of explaining to do.
"What we know is they've been found in one of the most secure prisons in this state and they are owned, apparently, by two of the state's most notorious rapists," he said.
"When courts send serial rapists like the Skaf brothers to jail . . . there is meant to be punishment. The public does not expect them to have access to mobile phones."
The Government hopes to reduce the problems with mobile phone smuggling by creating jamming systems at its jails.
Mr Robertson said he hoped to receive approval from the Federal Government to trial a system at Lithgow jail. He also said the system that allows siblings to stay in the same cells was also being reviewed.
Southwest region corrective services assistant commissioner John Dunthorne said the Skafs were together because: "It's very hard to place any Skaf in any jail and certainly not with any other inmate. Nobody wants a bar of them."
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Kevin 07 I have never been a socialist Rudd ...Chk-chk BOOM
Our cocked-up and loaded leadership
Piers Akerman
News.com.au
Monday, May 25, 2009 at 10:44pm
THE chk-chk BOOM phenomenon has made Clare Werbeloff a household name, courtesy of the internet.
Grabbing at the brass ring of instant celebrity a week ago, the 19-year-old Werbeloff volunteered a colourful commentary on a Kings Cross shooting when she saw a news cameraman on the scene.
With a gift for dialogue that should make her a candidate for NIDA, the Northern Beaches girl composed a thrilling tale of sex, betrayal and deceit, culminating in violence. As Werbeloff put it: “And then they pulled out a gun and went ‘Chk-chk BOOM.”
After enjoying recognition for nearly a full week, however, she recanted in the face of authority. Werbeloff told police she had not actually seen the shooting.
She is now famous for being a phoney. Werbeloff’s reputation? Chk-chk BOOM.
Media students will study this incident for years and argue whether Werbeloff exploited the media in her desire for fame, or whether the media exploited her in its desire to bring as many eyeballs as possible to a particular website.
The finer point of her telling a major untruth will be permitted to slip away because fame for fame’s sake fascinates.
That the chk-chk BOOM phenomenon has played out on the national political scene here and in America and is continuing to affect the political direction of both nations seems to have escaped most media commentators, possibly because they support the aims of these left-leaning leaders.
Yet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and US President Barack Obama are as much creations of the connected world as Werbeloff - and their agendas are far more destructive than a teenager’s desire for fame.
Rudd and Obama used activists behind the political agencies GetUp and MoveOn to sign up supporters and publicise their propaganda before their elections. Having snowed their audiences, it is now chk-chk BOOM time.
Like Werbeloff a week ago, Rudd and Obama were busily saying anything and everything to get their heads on TV and their words into the blogosphere before their respective elections. That their claims were often as false as Werbeloff’s shooting account is only now becoming apparent to many. Chk-chk BOOM.
Remember the computers for schoolchildren? Chk-chk BOOM.
Rudd’s claim that “I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist?” Chk-chk BOOM.
His claims not to know he was to attend a fundraiser with disgraced former WA premier Brian Burke? Chk-chk BOOM.
His lies about knowing nothing about the staged Kokoda Anzac Day Dawn Service? Chk-chk BOOM.
His statement denying plans to roll back the NT intervention? Chk-chk BOOM.
Lies about his mid-air meltdown when he couldn’t get the meal he demanded? Chk-chk BOOM.
The 75,000 jobs his cash splash would create? Chk-chk BOOM.
Denials his soft policy on boat arrivals has driven a new wave of people smuggling? Chk-chk BOOM.
Australia’s emissions trading system will save the Great Barrier Reef? Chk-chk BOOM.
After the travesty of a Budget was delivered a fortnight ago even Rudd supporters like The Sydney Morning Herald’s Ross Gittins were joining more seasoned political reporters like The Australian’s veteran Paul Kelly in noting that the Rudd Government’s spin (a bowdlerised version of the barnyard expletive) was overdone. Chk-chk BOOM.
It would probably be possible to fill these pages with more examples of Rudd’s untruths, fairytales, spin, call it what you will, but as he has not delivered the transparency in Government he promised in Opposition, the above should be sufficient to demonstrate his embrace of Werbeloff’s chk-chk BOOM principle.
It’s worth remembering as he continues his hard-hat odyssey around the nation, reannouncing old schemes for the second or third time, as he tries to bluff his audience into believing that his Government is now spending more than the $1.2 billion it announced for new projects in the current Budget, as opposed to the more than $42 billion it tossed away in its ridiculous cash splash. Chk-chk BOOM.
If Werbeloff’s publicity campaign had not imploded so demonstratively, she would have provided an ideal candidate for one of Rudd’s “look at moi, look at moi” moments. This would have been a couple made in heaven.
While YouTubers have now driven more than 800,000 viewings of the Kings Cross fibber and variations of her narrative, they will unfortunately have to wait for the ultimate duet, Clare Werbeloff and Kevin Rudd rapping together.
Chk-chk BOOM.
Piers Akerman
News.com.au
Monday, May 25, 2009 at 10:44pm
THE chk-chk BOOM phenomenon has made Clare Werbeloff a household name, courtesy of the internet.
Grabbing at the brass ring of instant celebrity a week ago, the 19-year-old Werbeloff volunteered a colourful commentary on a Kings Cross shooting when she saw a news cameraman on the scene.
With a gift for dialogue that should make her a candidate for NIDA, the Northern Beaches girl composed a thrilling tale of sex, betrayal and deceit, culminating in violence. As Werbeloff put it: “And then they pulled out a gun and went ‘Chk-chk BOOM.”
After enjoying recognition for nearly a full week, however, she recanted in the face of authority. Werbeloff told police she had not actually seen the shooting.
She is now famous for being a phoney. Werbeloff’s reputation? Chk-chk BOOM.
Media students will study this incident for years and argue whether Werbeloff exploited the media in her desire for fame, or whether the media exploited her in its desire to bring as many eyeballs as possible to a particular website.
The finer point of her telling a major untruth will be permitted to slip away because fame for fame’s sake fascinates.
That the chk-chk BOOM phenomenon has played out on the national political scene here and in America and is continuing to affect the political direction of both nations seems to have escaped most media commentators, possibly because they support the aims of these left-leaning leaders.
Yet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and US President Barack Obama are as much creations of the connected world as Werbeloff - and their agendas are far more destructive than a teenager’s desire for fame.
Rudd and Obama used activists behind the political agencies GetUp and MoveOn to sign up supporters and publicise their propaganda before their elections. Having snowed their audiences, it is now chk-chk BOOM time.
Like Werbeloff a week ago, Rudd and Obama were busily saying anything and everything to get their heads on TV and their words into the blogosphere before their respective elections. That their claims were often as false as Werbeloff’s shooting account is only now becoming apparent to many. Chk-chk BOOM.
Remember the computers for schoolchildren? Chk-chk BOOM.
Rudd’s claim that “I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist?” Chk-chk BOOM.
His claims not to know he was to attend a fundraiser with disgraced former WA premier Brian Burke? Chk-chk BOOM.
His lies about knowing nothing about the staged Kokoda Anzac Day Dawn Service? Chk-chk BOOM.
His statement denying plans to roll back the NT intervention? Chk-chk BOOM.
Lies about his mid-air meltdown when he couldn’t get the meal he demanded? Chk-chk BOOM.
The 75,000 jobs his cash splash would create? Chk-chk BOOM.
Denials his soft policy on boat arrivals has driven a new wave of people smuggling? Chk-chk BOOM.
Australia’s emissions trading system will save the Great Barrier Reef? Chk-chk BOOM.
After the travesty of a Budget was delivered a fortnight ago even Rudd supporters like The Sydney Morning Herald’s Ross Gittins were joining more seasoned political reporters like The Australian’s veteran Paul Kelly in noting that the Rudd Government’s spin (a bowdlerised version of the barnyard expletive) was overdone. Chk-chk BOOM.
It would probably be possible to fill these pages with more examples of Rudd’s untruths, fairytales, spin, call it what you will, but as he has not delivered the transparency in Government he promised in Opposition, the above should be sufficient to demonstrate his embrace of Werbeloff’s chk-chk BOOM principle.
It’s worth remembering as he continues his hard-hat odyssey around the nation, reannouncing old schemes for the second or third time, as he tries to bluff his audience into believing that his Government is now spending more than the $1.2 billion it announced for new projects in the current Budget, as opposed to the more than $42 billion it tossed away in its ridiculous cash splash. Chk-chk BOOM.
If Werbeloff’s publicity campaign had not imploded so demonstratively, she would have provided an ideal candidate for one of Rudd’s “look at moi, look at moi” moments. This would have been a couple made in heaven.
While YouTubers have now driven more than 800,000 viewings of the Kings Cross fibber and variations of her narrative, they will unfortunately have to wait for the ultimate duet, Clare Werbeloff and Kevin Rudd rapping together.
Chk-chk BOOM.
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