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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Australia votes against Israel at United Nations
Australia switches position to vote AGAINST Israel at the UN
UN vote: Rudd breaks with Howard on Israel
By Phillip Hudson
Sydney Morning Herald
November 10, 2008
Australian officials told the UN the Government had changed its position because it supported a two-state resolution of the conflict to deliver a secure Israel living beside a viable Palestinian state and that Australia believed both sides should abide by their obligations under the Road Map for Peace. Australia said it was concerned activity in the disputed settlements undermined confidence in the negotiations.
It was among 161 countries that supported both resolutions, with two abstaining and six against. The president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Robert Goot, last night was concerned over the Government's switch. "We are concerned that the vote has changed, we do not understand the basis for the change," he said.
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Stephen Smith, last night said there had been no change to Australia's policy on the Middle East. He said he had met the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, in Jerusalem two weeks ago and told them Australia was a strong supporter of Israel and the Middle East peace process. "Australia's friendship with Israel is longstanding and enduring and we understand completely Israel's legitimate security concerns," he said. "As a staunch and longstanding friend of Israel, we want its people to be able to enjoy the fruits of a normal, peaceful existence, within a Middle East that recognizes Israel's right to live within secure and internationally recognized boundaries.
That is an approach that has strong bipartisan support in Australia and it's an approach that will continue."
The Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman, Helen Coonan, called on Mr Smith to explain why Australia changed its vote. "The change in emphasis is concerning unless it can be better explained as giving effect to a bipartisan and balanced approach," she said. Australia maintained its vote on seven other UN resolutions relating to Israel, in particular opposing a resolution criticizing Israel on Palestinian human rights.
Australia said it believed the resolution was too one-sided against Israel and failed to take account of Israel's legitimate security concerns or reflect the responsibility of Palestinians to end attacks against Israel. Australia was one of eight countries, including Canada, to vote against this resolution that was supported by 87 countries with 70 abstaining.
Last month Australia announced new sanctions on Israel's rival Iran but backed down on a pledge to force the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, before an international court on charges of inciting genocide.
UN vote: Rudd breaks with Howard on Israel
By Phillip Hudson
Sydney Morning Herald
November 10, 2008
AUSTRALIA has switched its position to vote against Israel on two resolutions at the United Nations, ending the Howard government's unswerving alignment with the United States and raising concern from the Jewish community. The move also signals to the incoming Obama administration that the Rudd Government plans to take a different approach to the Howard government on the international stage. In the weekend vote in New York, Australia supported a resolution calling on Israel to stop establishing settlements in the Palestinian territories and a resolution calling for the Geneva Conventions to apply in the Palestinian territories.
Kevin Rudd addressing Labor National Conference
April 27 2007
The resolutions on the Middle East peace process are held annually and the Howard government had backed both from 1996 to 2002 but in 2003 began to vote against or abstain. It was a move that aligned Australia with only the US, Israel, the US Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and Micronesia and put the country at odds with Britain, Canada, New Zealand and France.
Kevin Rudd addressing Labor National Conference
April 27 2007
Australian officials told the UN the Government had changed its position because it supported a two-state resolution of the conflict to deliver a secure Israel living beside a viable Palestinian state and that Australia believed both sides should abide by their obligations under the Road Map for Peace. Australia said it was concerned activity in the disputed settlements undermined confidence in the negotiations.
It was among 161 countries that supported both resolutions, with two abstaining and six against. The president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Robert Goot, last night was concerned over the Government's switch. "We are concerned that the vote has changed, we do not understand the basis for the change," he said.
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Stephen Smith, last night said there had been no change to Australia's policy on the Middle East. He said he had met the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, in Jerusalem two weeks ago and told them Australia was a strong supporter of Israel and the Middle East peace process. "Australia's friendship with Israel is longstanding and enduring and we understand completely Israel's legitimate security concerns," he said. "As a staunch and longstanding friend of Israel, we want its people to be able to enjoy the fruits of a normal, peaceful existence, within a Middle East that recognizes Israel's right to live within secure and internationally recognized boundaries.
That is an approach that has strong bipartisan support in Australia and it's an approach that will continue."
The Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman, Helen Coonan, called on Mr Smith to explain why Australia changed its vote. "The change in emphasis is concerning unless it can be better explained as giving effect to a bipartisan and balanced approach," she said. Australia maintained its vote on seven other UN resolutions relating to Israel, in particular opposing a resolution criticizing Israel on Palestinian human rights.
Australia said it believed the resolution was too one-sided against Israel and failed to take account of Israel's legitimate security concerns or reflect the responsibility of Palestinians to end attacks against Israel. Australia was one of eight countries, including Canada, to vote against this resolution that was supported by 87 countries with 70 abstaining.
Last month Australia announced new sanctions on Israel's rival Iran but backed down on a pledge to force the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, before an international court on charges of inciting genocide.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Ruby Russell, another victim of the Socialist State of New South Wales.
"Socialism means equality of income or nothing...........Under Socialism
you would not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed
whether you liked it or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; but while you were permitted to live,
you would have to live well."
Bernard Shaw.
Meet Ruby Russell, the latest victim of Rees' greed
The Daily Telegraph
November 15, 2008 12:00am
RUBY Russell is the latest victim of a cash-strapped State Government that has plummeted to a new low by forcing private hospital patients to pay for blood.
The Government's latest grab for cash runs the risk of jeopardising the entire donor system, already struggling with a lack of blood donors.
And last night it emerged Premier Nathan Rees sacked senior bureaucrat John Pearse - the longest serving state treasurer secretary. And for the first time in Australia, the Rees Government will collect money from private hospitals instead of supplying the blood products free. The move which will net the Government $8 million annually.
Mini-Budget full coverage
Lifelong donors have threatened to stop donating if the Government makes money from their blood.
Insurance giant Medibank has also warned that patients will ultimately have to buy their own blood, as the cost will be passed on from hospitals.
Sydney mother Jane Russell is outraged the Government could stoop so low by taxing blood.
For the past few months she has been encouraging Avalon residents to donate blood to help her seriously ill daughter Ruby, who needs regular transfusions of immunoglobulin. "It is unfathomable, really," she said.
Under the current arrangement, the State Government picks up the bill for all blood supplied to private and public hospitals. Each year, it places its blood order with the National Blood Authority - which is funded by all states and the Commonwealth - who contract the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to collect and distribute the product.
Yesterday NSW Health confirmed it would no longer cover the cost for private hospitals.
The Government's woes continued last night with the shock sacking of Mr Pearse just days after he handed down the mini-budget on behalf of the government. It is believed Mr Pearse was disillusioned with the new administration.
Sources inside Treasury revealed that a number of senior Treasury staff including Mr Pearse believed that their own credibility was being harmed by the Government's handling of the economy.
In what insiders claim was a "appalling dismissal, Mr Pearse found out about his sacking after being phoned by associates.
Mr Pearse then contacted Treasurer Eric Roozendaal to confirm his dismissal and was told it was true. Mr Roozendaal then turned around and asked Mr Pearce if he would still stay on for the interim and go to New York on behalf of the Government to argue the case with ratings agencies. Mr Pearce said no. He will be replaced by former head of Sydney Water Terry Schott.
The majority of the people of NSW DESERVE this,the majority of them voted for it,at the state election then less than twelve months later at the federal election.
you would not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed
whether you liked it or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; but while you were permitted to live,
you would have to live well."
Bernard Shaw.
The "Hell Makers" John .C Grover
Meet Ruby Russell, the latest victim of Rees' greedThe Daily Telegraph
November 15, 2008 12:00am
RUBY Russell is the latest victim of a cash-strapped State Government that has plummeted to a new low by forcing private hospital patients to pay for blood.
The Government's latest grab for cash runs the risk of jeopardising the entire donor system, already struggling with a lack of blood donors.
And last night it emerged Premier Nathan Rees sacked senior bureaucrat John Pearse - the longest serving state treasurer secretary. And for the first time in Australia, the Rees Government will collect money from private hospitals instead of supplying the blood products free. The move which will net the Government $8 million annually.
Mini-Budget full coverage
Lifelong donors have threatened to stop donating if the Government makes money from their blood.
Insurance giant Medibank has also warned that patients will ultimately have to buy their own blood, as the cost will be passed on from hospitals.
Sydney mother Jane Russell is outraged the Government could stoop so low by taxing blood.
For the past few months she has been encouraging Avalon residents to donate blood to help her seriously ill daughter Ruby, who needs regular transfusions of immunoglobulin. "It is unfathomable, really," she said.
Under the current arrangement, the State Government picks up the bill for all blood supplied to private and public hospitals. Each year, it places its blood order with the National Blood Authority - which is funded by all states and the Commonwealth - who contract the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to collect and distribute the product.
Yesterday NSW Health confirmed it would no longer cover the cost for private hospitals.
The Government's woes continued last night with the shock sacking of Mr Pearse just days after he handed down the mini-budget on behalf of the government. It is believed Mr Pearse was disillusioned with the new administration.
Sources inside Treasury revealed that a number of senior Treasury staff including Mr Pearse believed that their own credibility was being harmed by the Government's handling of the economy.
In what insiders claim was a "appalling dismissal, Mr Pearse found out about his sacking after being phoned by associates.
Mr Pearse then contacted Treasurer Eric Roozendaal to confirm his dismissal and was told it was true. Mr Roozendaal then turned around and asked Mr Pearce if he would still stay on for the interim and go to New York on behalf of the Government to argue the case with ratings agencies. Mr Pearce said no. He will be replaced by former head of Sydney Water Terry Schott.
The majority of the people of NSW DESERVE this,the majority of them voted for it,at the state election then less than twelve months later at the federal election.
Socialism IS what Socialism DOES.
Friday, November 14, 2008
President Elect Barack Obama's “Community Organizing” COACH.
Understanding the Alinsky Method of “Community Organizing”
Written by Bob Dill
Times Examiner
Sep 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Meet the Real Obama and Cult of Alinsky
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV)
It is becoming readily apparent that the “change” being proposed vaguely by Sen. Barack Obama is nothing new. It is simply the old Marxism and socialism with a new twenty-first century multicultural face and a New Age twist created by Sixties radical Saul Alinsky and his fellow travelers that is effectively deceiving millions of dumbed-down and brainwashed young adults.
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York was being grilled on one of the Sunday morning television programs regarding the differences between Senators Obama and McCain. Giuliani insisted the Obama tax plan was motivated by his intentions to “redistribute wealth.” On more than one occasion he mentioned the name of Sol Alinsky. That name jogged my memory.
Long term readers of The Times Examiner will recall many articles regarding the deceptive and unethical “Delphi Technique” and the specialized application of the technique applied specifically to teachers called the “Alinsky Method.”
In her 1991book Educating for the New World Order, Beverly K. Eakman describes the Delphi technique and Alinsky method in detail. The technique is used in situations where the “community organizer, change agent, advocate, agitator or facilitator” desiring to achieve change uses proven psychological techniques and deception to manipulate groups of people to agree to something they currently oppose. The technique works and the targets rarely, if ever, know they are being manipulated. If they suspect it, they don’t know how, unless they are aware of the technique and how the organizer and facilitator uses it to manipulate unsuspecting individuals and groups. It has been used effectively on parents in the School District of Greenville County in the past with facilitators trained by a change agent from California. The technique is currently being used quietly by those preparing to implement UN Agenda 21 disguised as a long- term plan for Greenville County created by local citizens.
The socialist and communist radicals of the 60s have had four decades to test their theories, infiltrate the American institutions of learning, media, religion, business and government and select the charismatic leaders they believe have the skills to deceive the voters of America and seize power without shedding their blood.
The technique used is called the “Alinsky Method,” advocated, taught and documented by Saul Alinsky, author of the 1971 book called Rules for Radicals. In his book, Alinsky was critical of some Sixties radical leftists for scaring away potential converts in conservative communities. He taught that true revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism by creating open insurrection. Alinski taught his followers to “cut their hair, put on a suit and tie and infiltrate the system from within.”
The David Horowitz and Richard Poe book, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, traced the rise of Alinsky’s political influence since the 1930s. They write that Alinsky excelled at wooing wealthy financiers to provide start-up funds for his Industrial Areas Foundation, a school for radical community organizers.
There is a mountain of evidence that George Soros, Hillary Clinton and the mother and maternal grandparents of Barack Obama were students of the Alinsky method of community organizing.
Richard Poe writes in The Turrish Weekly that Obama, who never met Alinsky in person, was “trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation,” and that “Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method.” Poe further states that Obama “In 1985 began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project. Later, he worked with Acorn and its offshoot Project Vote, both creations of the Alinsky network.”
FOX News has reported that Acorn has been caught this summer involved in massive voter registration law violations in several states.
As early as 1945, Alinsky was able to influence government officials. Agnes Meyer, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post wrote a six-part series on Alinsky titled, The Orderly Revolution. It made Alinsky famous. President Truman reportedly ordered 100 reprints of the articles. Soon Alinsky was able to get his hands into the federal treasury.
During the turbulent anti-war Sixties Alinsky wielded enormous power behind the scenes. When President Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, Alinsky followers infiltrated the program, steering federal money into Alinsky projects.
Alinsky wrote that he had an “understanding” with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who supported Alinsky’s Jackson style “shakedown” of Eastman Kodak in 1966.
Alinsky recruited a young high school student named Hillary Rodham. They met through a radical church group. Hillary wrote an analysis of “Alinsky Methods” for her thesis at Wellsley College, where, according to Richard Poe, “every professor was a Marxist at that time.”
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1974, Hillary received a prestigious appointment to the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate investigation team on the recommendation of Marian Wright Edelman and her husband. Edelman happens to be a follower of Alinsky, having served on the Board of Trustees of Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation. Edelman has been termed by some as Hillary’s “ideological soul mate.” Hillary was friends with Alinsky until his death in 1972.
“Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite, trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation,” Poe writes, although Obama never met Alinsky personally.
The Alinsky method of organizing is characterized by deception and camouflage. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama did not attend church.
His lack of church involvement negatively impacted his effectiveness. He found it necessary to become an instant churchgoer in order to infiltrate churches.
Poe states that the fact that both Senators Clinton and Obama share an Alinskyite background tells us two things: “They are leftists, dedicated to overthrowing our Constitutional system,” and “They will go to any length to conceal their radicalism from the public.” That is the Alinsky Method.
Written by Bob Dill
Times Examiner
Sep 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Meet the Real Obama and Cult of Alinsky
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV)
It is becoming readily apparent that the “change” being proposed vaguely by Sen. Barack Obama is nothing new. It is simply the old Marxism and socialism with a new twenty-first century multicultural face and a New Age twist created by Sixties radical Saul Alinsky and his fellow travelers that is effectively deceiving millions of dumbed-down and brainwashed young adults.
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York was being grilled on one of the Sunday morning television programs regarding the differences between Senators Obama and McCain. Giuliani insisted the Obama tax plan was motivated by his intentions to “redistribute wealth.” On more than one occasion he mentioned the name of Sol Alinsky. That name jogged my memory.
Long term readers of The Times Examiner will recall many articles regarding the deceptive and unethical “Delphi Technique” and the specialized application of the technique applied specifically to teachers called the “Alinsky Method.”
In her 1991book Educating for the New World Order, Beverly K. Eakman describes the Delphi technique and Alinsky method in detail. The technique is used in situations where the “community organizer, change agent, advocate, agitator or facilitator” desiring to achieve change uses proven psychological techniques and deception to manipulate groups of people to agree to something they currently oppose. The technique works and the targets rarely, if ever, know they are being manipulated. If they suspect it, they don’t know how, unless they are aware of the technique and how the organizer and facilitator uses it to manipulate unsuspecting individuals and groups. It has been used effectively on parents in the School District of Greenville County in the past with facilitators trained by a change agent from California. The technique is currently being used quietly by those preparing to implement UN Agenda 21 disguised as a long- term plan for Greenville County created by local citizens.
The socialist and communist radicals of the 60s have had four decades to test their theories, infiltrate the American institutions of learning, media, religion, business and government and select the charismatic leaders they believe have the skills to deceive the voters of America and seize power without shedding their blood.
The technique used is called the “Alinsky Method,” advocated, taught and documented by Saul Alinsky, author of the 1971 book called Rules for Radicals. In his book, Alinsky was critical of some Sixties radical leftists for scaring away potential converts in conservative communities. He taught that true revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism by creating open insurrection. Alinski taught his followers to “cut their hair, put on a suit and tie and infiltrate the system from within.”
The David Horowitz and Richard Poe book, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, traced the rise of Alinsky’s political influence since the 1930s. They write that Alinsky excelled at wooing wealthy financiers to provide start-up funds for his Industrial Areas Foundation, a school for radical community organizers.
There is a mountain of evidence that George Soros, Hillary Clinton and the mother and maternal grandparents of Barack Obama were students of the Alinsky method of community organizing.
Richard Poe writes in The Turrish Weekly that Obama, who never met Alinsky in person, was “trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation,” and that “Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method.” Poe further states that Obama “In 1985 began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project. Later, he worked with Acorn and its offshoot Project Vote, both creations of the Alinsky network.”
FOX News has reported that Acorn has been caught this summer involved in massive voter registration law violations in several states.
As early as 1945, Alinsky was able to influence government officials. Agnes Meyer, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post wrote a six-part series on Alinsky titled, The Orderly Revolution. It made Alinsky famous. President Truman reportedly ordered 100 reprints of the articles. Soon Alinsky was able to get his hands into the federal treasury.
During the turbulent anti-war Sixties Alinsky wielded enormous power behind the scenes. When President Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, Alinsky followers infiltrated the program, steering federal money into Alinsky projects.
Alinsky wrote that he had an “understanding” with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who supported Alinsky’s Jackson style “shakedown” of Eastman Kodak in 1966.
Alinsky recruited a young high school student named Hillary Rodham. They met through a radical church group. Hillary wrote an analysis of “Alinsky Methods” for her thesis at Wellsley College, where, according to Richard Poe, “every professor was a Marxist at that time.”
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1974, Hillary received a prestigious appointment to the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate investigation team on the recommendation of Marian Wright Edelman and her husband. Edelman happens to be a follower of Alinsky, having served on the Board of Trustees of Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation. Edelman has been termed by some as Hillary’s “ideological soul mate.” Hillary was friends with Alinsky until his death in 1972.
“Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite, trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation,” Poe writes, although Obama never met Alinsky personally.
The Alinsky method of organizing is characterized by deception and camouflage. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama did not attend church.
His lack of church involvement negatively impacted his effectiveness. He found it necessary to become an instant churchgoer in order to infiltrate churches.
Poe states that the fact that both Senators Clinton and Obama share an Alinskyite background tells us two things: “They are leftists, dedicated to overthrowing our Constitutional system,” and “They will go to any length to conceal their radicalism from the public.” That is the Alinsky Method.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Australian PM Kevin Rudd verbals President Bush
Australian PM and President elect Mr Barack Obama groupie, Mr Kevin Rudd,has been called to account by the opposition, the Australian Liberal Party, how a story appeared in the The Australian newspaper, detailing a conversation between President Bush and Mr Rudd part of which is as follows "....Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say: "What's the G20?" . . . "
Mr Rudd made no mention of smelling burning sulpher through the phone line,I guess his good pal Hugo Chavez beat him to that line already.
Why would this former grade three diplomat and UN lick spittle,stick out his neck so far in order to score some cheap laughs with his leftist supporters and his party's hate America glee club? possibly because because "team Kevin 07" feel comfortable now that they have been in power just a few weeks short of a year now, and feel emboldened by this, and want to get a few free kicks in to President Bush before he goes out of office.
Maybe it was another of those nights where he was so pissed he does not know what he did or said however, he does know that he did not do or say whatever it is he has been accused of doing or saying.
PM Rudd's Australian Labor Party and it's Socialist Left sub branches and supporters, have a long standing invitation to American hater and socialist sociopath,Hugo Chavez, to visit Australia (see below) perhaps Mr Rudd has been spending too much time around school teachers.
"Invite Chavez to Australia - sign on.
Dear President Chávez,
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/58
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans.
We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government.
Although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. Every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what Venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.
In this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the Australian people of developments in Venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples.
All signatures will be posted to Nelson Davila, Venezuela’s charge d’affaires in Australia, Canberra.(Todas las firmas de invitación serán enviadas a Nelson Dávila, Encargado de Negocios de Venezuela en Australia, Canberra)
If you would like to confirm the signature of yourself or you organisation for identification and for promotion of President Chavez' visit please contact us: Jody Betzien 0425 887 078 or email
info@venezuelasolidarity.org
To view the full list of signatories CLICK HERE
Signatories include Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division, John Pilger - Independent Journalist, Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006, Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens), Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria, Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW, Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary
Read more Chavez not Bush
Andrew Bolt
Three strikes for Kevin747
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun
October 29, 2008 12:00am
KEVIN Rudd blabs. Kevin Rudd betrays. What's more, Kevin Rudd appears to make things up.
And on Saturday our Prime Minister managed to commit all three fouls at once against US President George W. Bush.
Trying to sell himself as a statesman, he blabbed to The Australian all the details of a private talk he'd had with the President of our most important ally.
Not only that, he betrayed Bush by retelling their conversation in ways to make the President seem a donkey, and Rudd the genius who trained him to behave. And Bush has noticed.
Still not satisfied, Rudd then apparently made things up - to take public credit for a decision Bush had already made.
I can't recall a greater breach of confidence, a more studied insult to an ally or a more craven attempt at big-noting from an Australian Prime Minister.
Is there a single foreign leader who can now be confident Australia's Prime Minister won't blab about their private talks and betray them, too?
Last Saturday The Australian ran an extraordinary story that was fed to them by Rudd or a close aide clearly acting with his approval. (Either that, or Rudd's staff are dangerously beyond his control, trading his secrets without his knowledge - something I doubt a single journalist or politician in Canberra would believe.)
Here are the key details from that article:
Kevin Rudd was entertaining guests in the loungeroom at Kirribilli House in Sydney when an aide told him George W. Bush was on the telephone.
It was 10.40pm on Friday, October 10
(Note that date, by the way. Rudd trips over it.)
What followed was an extraordinary exchange in which Rudd advised the most powerful man in the world that a plan to address the global financial crisis through the G7 group of leading industrialised nations was wrong . . .
It made no sense, he said, to take action on the crisis without engaging China. Rudd argued that the better vehicle for a co-ordinated response to calm the markets and toughen financial regulation was the broader G20 grouping (which includes China) . . .
Two weeks later, Rudd's view has prevailed . . . Perhaps more so than any of his predecessors, Rudd is bringing a new understanding to world politics . . .
(Good heavens. Did Rudd write that bit of halo-polishing himself? Or was that just reporter Matthew Franklin's way of saying "thank you"?)
Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say: "What's the G20?" . . .
He told Bush he had heard through back channels that the Chinese believed the economic collapse underscored the inherent failures of capitalism and the benefits of a planned economy.
Rudd's view on China was probably better informed than he let on to the US President. Just four days earlier, the fluent Mandarin speaker had discussed the global turmoil on the telephone with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao . . .
Sources said Bush spent the first third of the conversation attempting to keep Rudd at bay . . . But over time, Rudd appeared to convince Bush he had a reasonable point.
"He was like a bull terrier," said one source. "He was polite but firm. He was not deferential at all. I could not have imagined John Howard talking to Bush like that."
And right there is the reason Rudd - or his agent - blabbed. To make Rudd seem a player. A tough guy. The man who forced Bush to invite the G20, including Australia and China, into talks about the financial crisis.
What a genius.
Oops. I shouldn't overlook this line, added to distance Rudd from the leak:
Rudd, who refused to comment on his dealings with Bush for the preparation of this article . . .
Yeah, right. Must have been Bush, then, who quietly rang the reporter in Australia to explain in such detail what a goose he'd been.
But let's now check this story that Rudd - or his agent - sold The Australian so successfully. You'll find that it's made up not just of braggadocio, but big dollops of fantasy.
Most obviously, of course, Rudd or his agent passed on to a friendly journalist details of his private conversation with a world leader - or two, actually, because he also let slip what China's Premier told him. He prides himself very much on those calls, you see.
Surely Rudd's arrogance has now overtaken all judgment on this point alone. Which leader will now dare be frank with an Australian Prime Minister so indiscreet?
Note also that Rudd did all this simply to mock Bush and praise himself as a world statesman, just at a time when The Australian was starting to ask a couple of tough questions.
As in: how did Rudd's attempt to stop a run on the banks lead to a run on other financial institutions instead?
As in: why is he about to fly off yet again to solve the financial problems of the rest of the world, when he can't even fix the one he caused back here?
Note further that Rudd in this leak sniggeringly tells a local journalist what he kept secret from the President of the US - that the "back channels" he relied on for his Chinese gossip was actually China's Premier.
All this is extraordinary enough - and another insight in how much Rudd, who exudes arrogance, actually craves status. (Has this chronic name-dropper mentioned lately how often he rings Britain's Prime Minister? American leaders? Cate Blanchett?)
It also reminds us of his tale-telling from the Beijing Olympics's opening ceremony, when he excitedly told journalists he'd seen Bush and Russian leader Vladimir Putin argue about the fighting in Georgia.
But perhaps more brazen still is Rudd's attempt in this latest retelling to belittle Bush and steal his credit.
Go back to the date of this conversation, when Rudd claims to have been "stunned" by Bush's ignorance about the G20, and had to "convince" the fool to use it.
For a start, a search of White House transcripts reveals Bush knew what the G20 was long before Rudd allegedly had to lecture him.
In June 2006, for instance, he gave a press conference in which he explained he had "problems with the G20 position" on global trade.
In July 2006, he said he'd have a "good forum" to discuss trade problems "when the members of the G20 come" to Russia.
And Bush certainly didn't need a "polite but firm" Rudd in their conversation on October 10 this year to tell him to get the G20 involved in talks on this financial crisis.
You see, Bush and his Treasury Secretary had two days earlier already agreed to do just that, and the G20 was already gathering to convene in Washington that very weekend.
As AFP reported the day before Bush called Rudd: "The central bank chiefs and finance ministers of 19 nations, including the United States, Europe's biggest economies, China, India and Russia, are to hold a crisis meeting in Washington on Saturday. . .
"The impromptu gathering of theso-called G20 group to examine the worldwide financial turmoil was called by the Brazilian Government, which currently chairs the body . . . News of the meeting followed telephone calls between US President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva earlier Wednesday."
So if Bush had already agreed to a G20 meeting on Wednesday, how does this square with Rudd's bragging account of their call on Friday - of having to spend "the first third of the conversation" like "a bull terrier", demanding Bush do what in fact he'd already done days before?
In fact, Channel 9's Laurie Oakes last night reported that White House staff deny Bush ever asked Rudd: "What's the G20?" They're on to Rudd.
So we know Rudd is indiscreet. We know he's a braggart. Now we must ask: how much does he make things up?
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Mr Rudd made no mention of smelling burning sulpher through the phone line,I guess his good pal Hugo Chavez beat him to that line already.
Why would this former grade three diplomat and UN lick spittle,stick out his neck so far in order to score some cheap laughs with his leftist supporters and his party's hate America glee club? possibly because because "team Kevin 07" feel comfortable now that they have been in power just a few weeks short of a year now, and feel emboldened by this, and want to get a few free kicks in to President Bush before he goes out of office.
Maybe it was another of those nights where he was so pissed he does not know what he did or said however, he does know that he did not do or say whatever it is he has been accused of doing or saying.
PM Rudd's Australian Labor Party and it's Socialist Left sub branches and supporters, have a long standing invitation to American hater and socialist sociopath,Hugo Chavez, to visit Australia (see below) perhaps Mr Rudd has been spending too much time around school teachers.
"Invite Chavez to Australia - sign on.
Dear President Chávez,
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/58
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans.
We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government.
Although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. Every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what Venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.
In this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the Australian people of developments in Venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples.
All signatures will be posted to Nelson Davila, Venezuela’s charge d’affaires in Australia, Canberra.(Todas las firmas de invitación serán enviadas a Nelson Dávila, Encargado de Negocios de Venezuela en Australia, Canberra)
If you would like to confirm the signature of yourself or you organisation for identification and for promotion of President Chavez' visit please contact us: Jody Betzien 0425 887 078 or email
info@venezuelasolidarity.org
To view the full list of signatories CLICK HERE
Signatories include Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division, John Pilger - Independent Journalist, Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006, Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens), Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria, Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW, Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary
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Video of the unfolding story
Andrew Bolt
Three strikes for Kevin747
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun
October 29, 2008 12:00am
KEVIN Rudd blabs. Kevin Rudd betrays. What's more, Kevin Rudd appears to make things up.
And on Saturday our Prime Minister managed to commit all three fouls at once against US President George W. Bush.
Trying to sell himself as a statesman, he blabbed to The Australian all the details of a private talk he'd had with the President of our most important ally.
Not only that, he betrayed Bush by retelling their conversation in ways to make the President seem a donkey, and Rudd the genius who trained him to behave. And Bush has noticed.
Still not satisfied, Rudd then apparently made things up - to take public credit for a decision Bush had already made.
I can't recall a greater breach of confidence, a more studied insult to an ally or a more craven attempt at big-noting from an Australian Prime Minister.
Is there a single foreign leader who can now be confident Australia's Prime Minister won't blab about their private talks and betray them, too?
Last Saturday The Australian ran an extraordinary story that was fed to them by Rudd or a close aide clearly acting with his approval. (Either that, or Rudd's staff are dangerously beyond his control, trading his secrets without his knowledge - something I doubt a single journalist or politician in Canberra would believe.)
Here are the key details from that article:
Kevin Rudd was entertaining guests in the loungeroom at Kirribilli House in Sydney when an aide told him George W. Bush was on the telephone.
It was 10.40pm on Friday, October 10
(Note that date, by the way. Rudd trips over it.)
What followed was an extraordinary exchange in which Rudd advised the most powerful man in the world that a plan to address the global financial crisis through the G7 group of leading industrialised nations was wrong . . .
It made no sense, he said, to take action on the crisis without engaging China. Rudd argued that the better vehicle for a co-ordinated response to calm the markets and toughen financial regulation was the broader G20 grouping (which includes China) . . .
Two weeks later, Rudd's view has prevailed . . . Perhaps more so than any of his predecessors, Rudd is bringing a new understanding to world politics . . .
(Good heavens. Did Rudd write that bit of halo-polishing himself? Or was that just reporter Matthew Franklin's way of saying "thank you"?)
Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say: "What's the G20?" . . .
He told Bush he had heard through back channels that the Chinese believed the economic collapse underscored the inherent failures of capitalism and the benefits of a planned economy.
Rudd's view on China was probably better informed than he let on to the US President. Just four days earlier, the fluent Mandarin speaker had discussed the global turmoil on the telephone with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao . . .
Sources said Bush spent the first third of the conversation attempting to keep Rudd at bay . . . But over time, Rudd appeared to convince Bush he had a reasonable point.
"He was like a bull terrier," said one source. "He was polite but firm. He was not deferential at all. I could not have imagined John Howard talking to Bush like that."
And right there is the reason Rudd - or his agent - blabbed. To make Rudd seem a player. A tough guy. The man who forced Bush to invite the G20, including Australia and China, into talks about the financial crisis.
What a genius.
Oops. I shouldn't overlook this line, added to distance Rudd from the leak:
Rudd, who refused to comment on his dealings with Bush for the preparation of this article . . .
Yeah, right. Must have been Bush, then, who quietly rang the reporter in Australia to explain in such detail what a goose he'd been.
But let's now check this story that Rudd - or his agent - sold The Australian so successfully. You'll find that it's made up not just of braggadocio, but big dollops of fantasy.
Most obviously, of course, Rudd or his agent passed on to a friendly journalist details of his private conversation with a world leader - or two, actually, because he also let slip what China's Premier told him. He prides himself very much on those calls, you see.
Surely Rudd's arrogance has now overtaken all judgment on this point alone. Which leader will now dare be frank with an Australian Prime Minister so indiscreet?
Note also that Rudd did all this simply to mock Bush and praise himself as a world statesman, just at a time when The Australian was starting to ask a couple of tough questions.
As in: how did Rudd's attempt to stop a run on the banks lead to a run on other financial institutions instead?
As in: why is he about to fly off yet again to solve the financial problems of the rest of the world, when he can't even fix the one he caused back here?
Note further that Rudd in this leak sniggeringly tells a local journalist what he kept secret from the President of the US - that the "back channels" he relied on for his Chinese gossip was actually China's Premier.
All this is extraordinary enough - and another insight in how much Rudd, who exudes arrogance, actually craves status. (Has this chronic name-dropper mentioned lately how often he rings Britain's Prime Minister? American leaders? Cate Blanchett?)
It also reminds us of his tale-telling from the Beijing Olympics's opening ceremony, when he excitedly told journalists he'd seen Bush and Russian leader Vladimir Putin argue about the fighting in Georgia.
But perhaps more brazen still is Rudd's attempt in this latest retelling to belittle Bush and steal his credit.
Go back to the date of this conversation, when Rudd claims to have been "stunned" by Bush's ignorance about the G20, and had to "convince" the fool to use it.
For a start, a search of White House transcripts reveals Bush knew what the G20 was long before Rudd allegedly had to lecture him.
In June 2006, for instance, he gave a press conference in which he explained he had "problems with the G20 position" on global trade.
In July 2006, he said he'd have a "good forum" to discuss trade problems "when the members of the G20 come" to Russia.
And Bush certainly didn't need a "polite but firm" Rudd in their conversation on October 10 this year to tell him to get the G20 involved in talks on this financial crisis.
You see, Bush and his Treasury Secretary had two days earlier already agreed to do just that, and the G20 was already gathering to convene in Washington that very weekend.
As AFP reported the day before Bush called Rudd: "The central bank chiefs and finance ministers of 19 nations, including the United States, Europe's biggest economies, China, India and Russia, are to hold a crisis meeting in Washington on Saturday. . .
"The impromptu gathering of theso-called G20 group to examine the worldwide financial turmoil was called by the Brazilian Government, which currently chairs the body . . . News of the meeting followed telephone calls between US President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva earlier Wednesday."
So if Bush had already agreed to a G20 meeting on Wednesday, how does this square with Rudd's bragging account of their call on Friday - of having to spend "the first third of the conversation" like "a bull terrier", demanding Bush do what in fact he'd already done days before?
In fact, Channel 9's Laurie Oakes last night reported that White House staff deny Bush ever asked Rudd: "What's the G20?" They're on to Rudd.
So we know Rudd is indiscreet. We know he's a braggart. Now we must ask: how much does he make things up?
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Another Islamic weapon of MASS destruction ? : " Make me your sex slave" or I will give you bad grades
Make me your sex slave, teacher Nazira Rafei allegedly saidThe Daily Telegraph
November 11, 2008 03:20pm
A MELBOURNE teacher accused of urging a student to treat her like "a sex slave" threatened to "stuff up" his marks if he ended the relationship, a court has been told.
High school teacher Nazira Rafei, 26, is charged with sexual penetration of a child under 16 and committing an indecent act with a child under 16. She has pleaded not guilty.
The student's best friend told the court the student had told him the female teacher gave him love bites. "That is when they were probably having sex,'' he said.
Police allege the relationship began in February when the pair exchanged romantic songs. It is alleged that on one occasion the student climbed through his bedroom window to meet up with the teacher, he got into her car and they parked at a secluded location.
Court documents say that while in the car, the student laid on top of the teacher, with the teacher instructing him to "treat me like I'm your sex slave, abuse me, tell me to shut the f up and to pinch ... my nipples". A few days later when Rafei was on a teachers' strike, she went to the student's house, blindfolded him, and again urged him to "treat her as his sex slave", it is alleged. They then allegedly had sex on the student's bed.
Documents tendered to the court allege she formed a relationship with the victim when they started exchanging music then SMS messages. The pair kissed and hugged during secret meetings in her car and later had sex in the teen’s bedroom, the boys claim. In May Ms Rafei allegedly gave the boy the answers to an upcoming trigonometry test but when he said he couldn’t memorize all the answer, she allegedly completed the test for him.
She allegedly told him to rub out her handwriting and copy it in his own, saying in a note “Anything to see you smile”. Ms Rafei, who appeared in court wearing a Muslim hijab and long black skirt, wept as her former principal told the court she had been a dedicated and well-liked teacher. He told the court Ms Rafei had not worn traditional head coverings or dress while teaching. Ms Rafei told police she had never been to the boy’s house and denied having sex or being intimate with him. Rafei has been ordered to appear in the Victorian County Court for a directions hearing on November 24.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Religion of Peace's finest, Dispatched back to Satans arms, at last.
The Blood of 202 innocents are on this piece of pig shits hands
Abu Bakir Bashir, Bali Mass Murder mastermind still walks free to this day as his and Islams useful idiots are executed, and enter the Gates of Hell to be re united with the
Antichrist, Beelzebub, Beast, Belial , Evil one, Devil, Father of lies, King of the bottomless pit, King of Babylon, Lucifer, Man of sin, Power of darkness, Ruler of demons, Serpent of old, Wicked one, Son of perdition, Satan, Prince of Darkness or as the members of the
Religion of Peace call it
"allah"
Video below is an Australian TV news report of the aftermath of the execution
of the Bali Bombers
Antichrist, Beelzebub, Beast, Belial , Evil one, Devil, Father of lies, King of the bottomless pit, King of Babylon, Lucifer, Man of sin, Power of darkness, Ruler of demons, Serpent of old, Wicked one, Son of perdition, Satan, Prince of Darkness or as the members of the
Religion of Peace call it
"allah"
Video below is an Australian TV news report of the aftermath of the execution of the Bali Bombers
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Aussie News & Views
I post the following post in the interests of HUMANITY. To not acknowledge and remember the following and similar acts of inhumanity committed by the Nazi's and others, against the Jewish people,then and now,is,in my opinion,an acknowledgement of the success of the collective Humanist lie, that has manifested the Socialist's "New Man",aka.the United Nations 21st Century, Godless savage who
Publisher: Ridge posted at Sunday, 09 November 2008 00:59:21
Barack Obama could worsen crisis: likened to Smoot Hawley by Rupert Murdoch
Barack Obama 'could worsen crisis': Rupert Murdoch Glenda Korporaal The Australian November 01, 2008 NEWS Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has warned that Barack Obama could worsen the world financial crisis if he is elected US president next week and implements protectionist policies. In an interview with The Weekend Australian before delivering the first of six Boyer lectures on ABC
Publisher: Ridge posted at Saturday, 08 November 2008 23:20:16
Can Rudd stem the rise of fortress America Piers Akerman News.com.au Saturday, November 08, 2008 Without wishing to be too harsh on Barack Obama’s self-satisfied supporters, there are valid reasons Australians must watch this pilgrim’s progress with concern. In particular, it would be valuable for those who swooned in front of their flat-screen televisions and partisan blog sites toPublisher: Ridge posted at Saturday, 08 November 2008 23:14:55
The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities City Journal Home. Howard Husock The Community Reinvestment Act funnels billions to left-wing activists, while threatening to destabilize lower-middle-class neighborhoods. Winter 2000 The Clinton administration has turned the Community Reinvestment Act, a once-obscure and lightly enforced banking regulation law, into one of the most
Publisher: Ridge posted at Saturday, 08 November 2008 22:40:45
UNPRECEDENTED AND SECRETIVE (The Obama team's secretive K Street Project.) The American Prowler FreeRepublic.com 11/07/08 Lost amid all of the jubilation of the Obama victory was the announcement by the Obama transition team that it had set up a separate transition program beyond the one that is paid for by the American taxpayer. Called the "Obama/Biden Transition Project," it is a 501(c)4
Publisher: Ridge posted at Saturday, 08 November 2008 21:22:48
North Carolina Teacher Caught on Tape Teaching Pro-Obama Lessons. Video shows North Carolina elementary school teacher harshly questioning a student in class for supporting John McCain By Maxim Lott FOXNews.com Friday, November 07, 2008 The election may be over, but more allegations of political bias in public schools are surfacing. A North Carolina superintendent said Friday that he was "
Publisher: Ridge posted at Saturday, 08 November 2008 20:48:07
Australians fell hook line and sinker for the "Need for change" mantra (code for Communism.. oops sorry Socialism) in November 2007, the UN and its Australian lick spittle lackie, Dear Leader Lu Kewan aka Kevin Rudd are starting to tighten the chains around Australians necks, the CENSORSHIP of the internet was one they were hoping Australians would not notice.
Publisher: Ridge posted at Saturday, 08 November 2008 16:46:05
Is Joe the Plumber Barack Obama's "“Civilian National Security Force” first victim ? I don't think so, In my opinion the Socialist's just wanted to make a public example of their despised aspirational middle / working class, so emboldened are they by their own cheer squad, the MSM, they simply could not help themselves. I can just imagine the party officials discussing how to screw Joe
Publisher: Ridge posted at Saturday, 08 November 2008 01:36:20
Marxism's / Islam's mad dogs let off the leash. See Atlas Shrugs for story re above picture
Publisher: Ridge posted at Saturday, 08 November 2008 01:34:32
Snakes Bad Wallabies Good? Wallabies Bad Snakes Good? Green LOONS take note, Nature at work.
Publisher: Ridge posted at Friday, 07 November 2008 17:05:37
Beyonce loves Barry
Beyonce loves Barry
Publisher: Ridge posted at Friday, 07 November 2008 10:36:36
Kenyans rejoice, following the election of their relative and fellow Kenyan Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, to the office of President of the United States of America, "change we can believe in" "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future...But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to
Publisher: Ridge posted at Wednesday, 05 November 2008 23:50:24
"......Based on Obama’s record, voting for change, solely for change’s sake, is an affront to commonsense and a victory for stupidity." What else has Obama got? Piers Akerman News.com.au Monday, November 03, 2008 at 11:19pm BARACK Obama’s predicted victory in the US presidential election is more likely to usher in a bleaker future for the globe, not the bright new dawn his optimistic
Publisher: Ridge posted at Tuesday, 04 November 2008 21:47:38
Americans BEWARE Australian internet to be CENSORED by Australian Labor Party
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Kristallnacht :Seventy years after
I post the following post in the interests of HUMANITY.
To not acknowledge and remember the following and similar acts of inhumanity committed by the Nazi's and others, against the Jewish people,then and now,is,in my opinion,an acknowledgement of the success of the collective Humanist lie, that has manifested the Socialist's "New Man",aka.the United Nations 21st Century, Godless savage who lies dormant in nations all over the world ready to strike "Jews" whenever their "Messiah's", " The One "declare them an obstacle to their objectives or the reason for the failure of their ability to deliver the perfect Socialist world of International Socialism.
Aldolf Hitler and President elect, Mr Barack Hussein Obama are both former and present leaders of Socialist political party's.
Both these men have enunciated their respect for the objectives of Islam and their right to know what is best for men and women the world over and what they do and do not want or need, both these men were proffered as the answer to their respective nations real and perceived economic and social problems,the world knows what the last great Socialist leader cost the world, President elect Mr Barack Obama has not said anything that would make anyone who knows of or can remember the works of the worlds last great Socialist sleep easy at night.... oh you think it's just whats left of the Jews who are gonna feel the Socialist heat / cleansing of the Messiah's "The One" new order ?
OKKKKK ENJOY!!! and start practicing how to bend over and start kissing your arse hole good bye.. Jew Catholic Anglican Protestant,Hindu,Mormon,Pacifist and Homosexual, Black,White man or woman you are worth nothing more than what the "Party" decides you are worth at any given hour or minute of the day.
KRISTALLNACHT
SEVENTY YEARS AFTER KRISTALLNACHT
THE WORLD REMAINS SILENT
Baruch Cohen
In loving memory of Malca z”l
“Comrades, we cannot allow this attack by international Jewry to go unchallenged!” This was said by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, on November 9, 1938, referring to the shooting of Ernst von Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat in Paris, by Herschel Grynszpan, a young German Jew.November 9, 1938 was a defining moment for the Nazi regime, but in fact it was one day earlier in Munich that Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass, was ordered. According to renowned historian Martin Gilbert, “at November 8, 1938, the first collective punitive measures were announced… All Jewish newspapers and magazines must cease publication forthwith. This ban cut off the Jews from their most accessible contact with their leadership.”
The official German view, that Kristallnacht represented a spontaneous response of angry Germans to a Jewish crime, was so fanciful that nobody believed it.
Local authorities across the country had compiled lists of Jewish-owned stores months before, and the names and addresses of Jewish men were kept on record. If ever there was a thoroughly organized crime, it was Kristallnacht.
At one minute to midnight on November 9, 1938, the Munich city fire department received its first call.
Demonstrators had smashed the display window of a textile business in the Augustenstrauss and set fire to the display.
The fire department’s records note the cause of fire as “anti-Jewish demonstration.” Three minutes later came the first major alarm: the city’s first synagogue was ablaze. The pogrom had begun.
Businesses and residences of Jews may be destroyed. The police have been directed to supervise the execution of this order…. Immediately upon receipt of this telegram, the police are to seize all archives from all synagogues and offices of Jewish community organizations. The archives are to be handed over to the SD security service.—SS Gruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, who would later chair the 1943 Wannsee Conference at which the Final Solution to the Jewish Question would be decided, in Kristallnacht: The Unleashing of the Holocaust by Anthony Read and David Fisher (New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1989).
A Jewish businessman in Munich, J. Littner, wrote in his diary:
The circle of non-Jewish friends will be smaller day by day, we shall soon be living in an invisible ghetto—the mood for November 9 grows worse, massive penalties. We Jews now fear November 9, the great feast of the Nazi party. On the evening of the 9th, the radio broadcast called for the murdering of Jews…—Kristallnacht: The Unleashing of the Holocaust.
For the German people, Kristallnacht—in which at least 90 Jews were killed, and 1,000 synagogues destroyed—proved that the Nazi regime was willing and able to use any kind of terror necessary to carry out its outrageous racial policy.
As Gilbert explains, “[t]he Jewish community in Germany dated back 1000 years. Despite their enthusiastic patriotism, the Nazi regime portrayed them as disloyal parasites on the pure German national body.”
The story of the crime of Kristallnacht has since been told year after year. November 9, 1938 marked a tragic turning point for European Jewry. After that day, there was no safe place for Jews in Europe.
When I was 21, I survived the Bucharest Kristallnacht of January 21-23, 1941, an authentic copy of November 1938. In Bucharest alone 25 synagogues were vandalized, most razed to the ground. One hundred and thirty Jews were murdered, beaten, tortured or maimed. Jewish corpses were hung in the Bucharest slaughterhouse with tags reading “kosher meat.” I went there in search of my father.
The Romanian thugs had exceeded their German counterparts. And the world remained silent! In 1938, Joseph Goebbels was not stopped. The world was silent. Today, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is free to call for the destruction of the State of Israel, and the world is silent!
November 9, 1938 and January 21-23, 1941 are a few of history’s darkest moments. The calamity that occurred on those days was a warning sign pointing to the Holocaust. The world refused to see it.
We must remember Kristallnacht! The appalling resurgence of global antisemitism, the unopposed call—within the walls of the United Nations—to wipe out the State of Israel, must raise the entire world’s consciousness. History is repeating itself. The world must not remain silent again.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s unambiguous demand for the destruction of the State of Israel must not be ignored.
If “Never Again” is to have any meaning, Ahmadinejad’s genocidal ambitions must be stopped. Sadly, the United Nations is silent.
Kristallnacht was the warning that should have been heeded by the civilized world. Nonetheless, the world remained silent!
I call upon all decent persons, all peace-loving nations, to raise their voices, to stand up strongly against the perilous threat of a new Kristallnacht, to oppose, now, Iranian, Hezbollah and Hamas-style terrorism.
It is our solemn and urgent duty to remind the world that a new Kristallnacht against the ewish people must be taken off the agenda for ever and ever.
The world must NOT be silent!
DO NOT FORGET! ZACHOR!
(Baruch Cohen is Research Chairman of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research.
A version of this article appeared in the Canadian Jewish News, November 6, 2008.)
Kristallnacht Remembered
Abraham Foxman
Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2008
I remember how a dozen years ago, a rash of arsons burned more than 30 Black churches, mostly in the Southern tier of the United States. In response, the Anti-Defamation League urged investigations by the Justice Department and published full-page ads in many of America’s major newspapers deploring these acts, asking for letters of support that we passed on to the victimized congregations. We also established a Rebuild the Churches Fund. The response across America was heartening.
As Jews, we felt a special kinship with the victims of these arsons, because we lived with the memory of Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass -- when ordinary Germans committed a so-called “spontaneous” pogrom against synagogues, Jewish shops, homes, hospitals, cemeteries, and against their fellow Jewish citizens. In response, the world was essentially silent.
Now, as we commemorate the 70th anniversary of that horrible and tragic event, some will regard it as ancient history. For some of you who lived through it, saw it, survived it, it was only just yesterday.
I was born after the event, so I must rely on the historians. The numbers may vary some, but no one doubts the overall picture, which is well documented. Throughout Germany and the recently annexed Austria, over 90 Jews were killed, others beaten and humiliated, some 30,000 male Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues were torched along with their Torah scrolls, Bibles, and prayer books, and some 7,000 Jewish shops and business were looted and destroyed.…
There was now no doubt that the Nazis were no longer content to simply strip Jews of their legal rights, and in the immediate aftermath, German and Austrian Jews, and watchful Jews everywhere, would learn that while many newspapers and government officials around the world would decry the violence and barbarity of Kristallnacht, few governments were prepared to act.…
It would, of course, be some time more before the Final Solution was enacted throughout Eastern Europe and all of the Reich. But already on November 9th Hitler told Göring that if war broke out, Germany “will first of all make sure of settling accounts with the Jews.”
The Evian Conference that the Roosevelt administration had organized four months before, bringing together delegates from 32 countries to discuss the exploding Jewish refugee crisis, gave Hitler ample evidence that the world’s democracies would not act to quell his thuggish actions against the Jews, for the delegates at Evian merely confirmed that none would liberalize their immigration quotas.
As in the infamous phrase used by the Swiss when they turned back fleeing Jews at their borders, the free world essentially said the boat is full.
There was no room for Jewish refugees. Kristallnacht barely changed that attitude. There was a brief outcry, and then there was silence. Let us remember and learn the lesson from that terrible silence.
ISRAEL’S UN ENVOY: DANGEROUS WORDS,
LIKE AHMADINEJAD’S, SPARKED THE HOLOCAUST
Shlomo Shamir
Ha’aretz, November 4 2008
“The gas chambers were not the starting point of the Holocaust, but rather the end. The Holocaust began with dangerous words uttered by people,” said Israel’s new United Nations Ambassador, Professor Gabriella Shalev, in a speech at the UN assembly on Tuesday. The assembly was discussing the UN’s 2009 work plan to commemorate the Holocaust, as presented by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
The UN program includes a long list of events to commemorate the Holocaust, within the framework of a historic resolution, passed three years ago. This year, the events marking 70 years since the Kristallnacht pogroms in Nazi Germany in 1938 have been the focus of the UN activity.
The Israeli Ambassador took advantage of the forum to warn and protest against recent inciting remarks that were made by Iranian President Ahmadinejad in his speech to the UN late September.
“Israel and the Jewish people are grateful to the UN for its decision to commemorate the Holocaust,” said Shalev. “But that’s not the end of it. We must learn the lessons of the Nazi genocide and recognize such threats during these times as well. In this very hall we still hear a country leader calling to terminate a country that is a member of the UN as well.”
The Ambassador addressed the delegation representatives saying “May I remind you that in this very place all member countries took a ‘never again’ oath, and it is therefore our duty not only to condemn such remarks, but to take firm and immediate action against a county whose leader says such despicable and dangerous things.”…
ANTI-SEMITISM IS ALIVE AND KICKING IN ROMANIA
Cellu Rozenberg
Ha’aretz, November 2 2008
Anyone in need of additional reminders of how much Romanians love the Jews could have found it in the recent destruction and desecration of some 200 graves in the great cemetery in Bucharest. Even though there are almost no Jews in Romania (their number is estimated at a mere few thousand, excluding Israelis who have gone there on business), anti-Semitism is nevertheless alive and kicking.
The graves that were destroyed and desecrated—a reminder of the large Jewish community, numbering some 800,000 people, half of which was destroyed in the Holocaust not by the Germans, but by Hitler’s loyal allies, the Romanians—give no rest to some Romanians. This is not the first time such things have happened in Romania, but everyone keeps quiet, as if this were merely a bit of mischief.
The roots of Romanian anti-Semitism are planted deep in the country’s soil, which is soaked with Jewish blood. In almost every city and town where Jews lived, they were routinely subject to murder and looting—carried out by ordinary citizens, but backed by the regime—both before World War II and after it. It is no wonder that historian Hannah Arendt described Romania as the most anti-Semitic country of all.
On the morning of June 29, 1941, 12,000 Romanian Jews, who were almost blindly loyal to the state, were led through the streets of the city of Iasi, humiliated and hungry, to the local police station, which became their slaughterhouse.
It was the government that ordered the terrible massacre, in which my family, too, was murdered when the security forces began shooting in all directions. That, we will never forget.…
But if anyone thought that a [after the collapse of Romania’s antisemitic Communist regimes] change had finally occurred over the last few years, if anyone hoped that anti-Semitism had been relegated to the boors who desecrate graves rather than pervading the government, then President Traian Basescu’s remarks at a press conference at the Bucharest Airport upon his return from Syria a week ago reminded us that there is another Romania besides that of pastrami and wine—the Romania of anti-Semitism. Syria, Basescu said, is bordered by the following countries: Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.
It is well known that Romania’s president is not particularly well-educated, but as a former sea captain one would have expected him to at least know a little geography and history. Has it escaped him that there is as yet no country called Palestine, but that another country, admittedly small, nevertheless exists on Syria’s border—one called Israel? It is a pity that the Foreign Ministry did not see fit to respond sharply to these remarks. It is still not too late.
(Cellu Rozenberg is a historian who specializes in national security.)
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To not acknowledge and remember the following and similar acts of inhumanity committed by the Nazi's and others, against the Jewish people,then and now,is,in my opinion,an acknowledgement of the success of the collective Humanist lie, that has manifested the Socialist's "New Man",aka.the United Nations 21st Century, Godless savage who lies dormant in nations all over the world ready to strike "Jews" whenever their "Messiah's", " The One "declare them an obstacle to their objectives or the reason for the failure of their ability to deliver the perfect Socialist world of International Socialism.
Aldolf Hitler and President elect, Mr Barack Hussein Obama are both former and present leaders of Socialist political party's.
Both these men have enunciated their respect for the objectives of Islam and their right to know what is best for men and women the world over and what they do and do not want or need, both these men were proffered as the answer to their respective nations real and perceived economic and social problems,the world knows what the last great Socialist leader cost the world, President elect Mr Barack Obama has not said anything that would make anyone who knows of or can remember the works of the worlds last great Socialist sleep easy at night.... oh you think it's just whats left of the Jews who are gonna feel the Socialist heat / cleansing of the Messiah's "The One" new order ?
OKKKKK ENJOY!!! and start practicing how to bend over and start kissing your arse hole good bye.. Jew Catholic Anglican Protestant,Hindu,Mormon,Pacifist and Homosexual, Black,White man or woman you are worth nothing more than what the "Party" decides you are worth at any given hour or minute of the day.
"Socialism means equality of income or nothing...........Under Socialism you would
not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed whether you liked it
or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all
this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but while you were
permitted to live, you would have to live well."
Bernard Shaw.
The "Hell Makers" John .C Grover
not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed whether you liked it
or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all
this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but while you were
permitted to live, you would have to live well."
Bernard Shaw.
The "Hell Makers" John .C Grover
KRISTALLNACHT
SEVENTY YEARS AFTER KRISTALLNACHT
THE WORLD REMAINS SILENT
Baruch Cohen
In loving memory of Malca z”l
“Comrades, we cannot allow this attack by international Jewry to go unchallenged!” This was said by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, on November 9, 1938, referring to the shooting of Ernst von Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat in Paris, by Herschel Grynszpan, a young German Jew.November 9, 1938 was a defining moment for the Nazi regime, but in fact it was one day earlier in Munich that Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass, was ordered. According to renowned historian Martin Gilbert, “at November 8, 1938, the first collective punitive measures were announced… All Jewish newspapers and magazines must cease publication forthwith. This ban cut off the Jews from their most accessible contact with their leadership.”
The official German view, that Kristallnacht represented a spontaneous response of angry Germans to a Jewish crime, was so fanciful that nobody believed it.
Local authorities across the country had compiled lists of Jewish-owned stores months before, and the names and addresses of Jewish men were kept on record. If ever there was a thoroughly organized crime, it was Kristallnacht.
At one minute to midnight on November 9, 1938, the Munich city fire department received its first call.
Demonstrators had smashed the display window of a textile business in the Augustenstrauss and set fire to the display.
The fire department’s records note the cause of fire as “anti-Jewish demonstration.” Three minutes later came the first major alarm: the city’s first synagogue was ablaze. The pogrom had begun.
Businesses and residences of Jews may be destroyed. The police have been directed to supervise the execution of this order…. Immediately upon receipt of this telegram, the police are to seize all archives from all synagogues and offices of Jewish community organizations. The archives are to be handed over to the SD security service.—SS Gruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, who would later chair the 1943 Wannsee Conference at which the Final Solution to the Jewish Question would be decided, in Kristallnacht: The Unleashing of the Holocaust by Anthony Read and David Fisher (New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1989).
A Jewish businessman in Munich, J. Littner, wrote in his diary:
The circle of non-Jewish friends will be smaller day by day, we shall soon be living in an invisible ghetto—the mood for November 9 grows worse, massive penalties. We Jews now fear November 9, the great feast of the Nazi party. On the evening of the 9th, the radio broadcast called for the murdering of Jews…—Kristallnacht: The Unleashing of the Holocaust.
For the German people, Kristallnacht—in which at least 90 Jews were killed, and 1,000 synagogues destroyed—proved that the Nazi regime was willing and able to use any kind of terror necessary to carry out its outrageous racial policy.
As Gilbert explains, “[t]he Jewish community in Germany dated back 1000 years. Despite their enthusiastic patriotism, the Nazi regime portrayed them as disloyal parasites on the pure German national body.”
The story of the crime of Kristallnacht has since been told year after year. November 9, 1938 marked a tragic turning point for European Jewry. After that day, there was no safe place for Jews in Europe.
When I was 21, I survived the Bucharest Kristallnacht of January 21-23, 1941, an authentic copy of November 1938. In Bucharest alone 25 synagogues were vandalized, most razed to the ground. One hundred and thirty Jews were murdered, beaten, tortured or maimed. Jewish corpses were hung in the Bucharest slaughterhouse with tags reading “kosher meat.” I went there in search of my father.
The Romanian thugs had exceeded their German counterparts. And the world remained silent! In 1938, Joseph Goebbels was not stopped. The world was silent. Today, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is free to call for the destruction of the State of Israel, and the world is silent!
November 9, 1938 and January 21-23, 1941 are a few of history’s darkest moments. The calamity that occurred on those days was a warning sign pointing to the Holocaust. The world refused to see it.
We must remember Kristallnacht! The appalling resurgence of global antisemitism, the unopposed call—within the walls of the United Nations—to wipe out the State of Israel, must raise the entire world’s consciousness. History is repeating itself. The world must not remain silent again.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s unambiguous demand for the destruction of the State of Israel must not be ignored.
If “Never Again” is to have any meaning, Ahmadinejad’s genocidal ambitions must be stopped. Sadly, the United Nations is silent.
Kristallnacht was the warning that should have been heeded by the civilized world. Nonetheless, the world remained silent!
I call upon all decent persons, all peace-loving nations, to raise their voices, to stand up strongly against the perilous threat of a new Kristallnacht, to oppose, now, Iranian, Hezbollah and Hamas-style terrorism.
It is our solemn and urgent duty to remind the world that a new Kristallnacht against the ewish people must be taken off the agenda for ever and ever.
The world must NOT be silent!
DO NOT FORGET! ZACHOR!
(Baruch Cohen is Research Chairman of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research.
A version of this article appeared in the Canadian Jewish News, November 6, 2008.)
Kristallnacht Remembered
Abraham Foxman
Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2008
I remember how a dozen years ago, a rash of arsons burned more than 30 Black churches, mostly in the Southern tier of the United States. In response, the Anti-Defamation League urged investigations by the Justice Department and published full-page ads in many of America’s major newspapers deploring these acts, asking for letters of support that we passed on to the victimized congregations. We also established a Rebuild the Churches Fund. The response across America was heartening.
As Jews, we felt a special kinship with the victims of these arsons, because we lived with the memory of Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass -- when ordinary Germans committed a so-called “spontaneous” pogrom against synagogues, Jewish shops, homes, hospitals, cemeteries, and against their fellow Jewish citizens. In response, the world was essentially silent.
Now, as we commemorate the 70th anniversary of that horrible and tragic event, some will regard it as ancient history. For some of you who lived through it, saw it, survived it, it was only just yesterday.
I was born after the event, so I must rely on the historians. The numbers may vary some, but no one doubts the overall picture, which is well documented. Throughout Germany and the recently annexed Austria, over 90 Jews were killed, others beaten and humiliated, some 30,000 male Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues were torched along with their Torah scrolls, Bibles, and prayer books, and some 7,000 Jewish shops and business were looted and destroyed.…
There was now no doubt that the Nazis were no longer content to simply strip Jews of their legal rights, and in the immediate aftermath, German and Austrian Jews, and watchful Jews everywhere, would learn that while many newspapers and government officials around the world would decry the violence and barbarity of Kristallnacht, few governments were prepared to act.…
It would, of course, be some time more before the Final Solution was enacted throughout Eastern Europe and all of the Reich. But already on November 9th Hitler told Göring that if war broke out, Germany “will first of all make sure of settling accounts with the Jews.”
The Evian Conference that the Roosevelt administration had organized four months before, bringing together delegates from 32 countries to discuss the exploding Jewish refugee crisis, gave Hitler ample evidence that the world’s democracies would not act to quell his thuggish actions against the Jews, for the delegates at Evian merely confirmed that none would liberalize their immigration quotas.
As in the infamous phrase used by the Swiss when they turned back fleeing Jews at their borders, the free world essentially said the boat is full.
There was no room for Jewish refugees. Kristallnacht barely changed that attitude. There was a brief outcry, and then there was silence. Let us remember and learn the lesson from that terrible silence.
ISRAEL’S UN ENVOY: DANGEROUS WORDS,
LIKE AHMADINEJAD’S, SPARKED THE HOLOCAUST
Shlomo Shamir
Ha’aretz, November 4 2008
“The gas chambers were not the starting point of the Holocaust, but rather the end. The Holocaust began with dangerous words uttered by people,” said Israel’s new United Nations Ambassador, Professor Gabriella Shalev, in a speech at the UN assembly on Tuesday. The assembly was discussing the UN’s 2009 work plan to commemorate the Holocaust, as presented by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
The UN program includes a long list of events to commemorate the Holocaust, within the framework of a historic resolution, passed three years ago. This year, the events marking 70 years since the Kristallnacht pogroms in Nazi Germany in 1938 have been the focus of the UN activity.
The Israeli Ambassador took advantage of the forum to warn and protest against recent inciting remarks that were made by Iranian President Ahmadinejad in his speech to the UN late September.
“Israel and the Jewish people are grateful to the UN for its decision to commemorate the Holocaust,” said Shalev. “But that’s not the end of it. We must learn the lessons of the Nazi genocide and recognize such threats during these times as well. In this very hall we still hear a country leader calling to terminate a country that is a member of the UN as well.”
The Ambassador addressed the delegation representatives saying “May I remind you that in this very place all member countries took a ‘never again’ oath, and it is therefore our duty not only to condemn such remarks, but to take firm and immediate action against a county whose leader says such despicable and dangerous things.”…
ANTI-SEMITISM IS ALIVE AND KICKING IN ROMANIA
Cellu Rozenberg
Ha’aretz, November 2 2008
Anyone in need of additional reminders of how much Romanians love the Jews could have found it in the recent destruction and desecration of some 200 graves in the great cemetery in Bucharest. Even though there are almost no Jews in Romania (their number is estimated at a mere few thousand, excluding Israelis who have gone there on business), anti-Semitism is nevertheless alive and kicking.
The graves that were destroyed and desecrated—a reminder of the large Jewish community, numbering some 800,000 people, half of which was destroyed in the Holocaust not by the Germans, but by Hitler’s loyal allies, the Romanians—give no rest to some Romanians. This is not the first time such things have happened in Romania, but everyone keeps quiet, as if this were merely a bit of mischief.
The roots of Romanian anti-Semitism are planted deep in the country’s soil, which is soaked with Jewish blood. In almost every city and town where Jews lived, they were routinely subject to murder and looting—carried out by ordinary citizens, but backed by the regime—both before World War II and after it. It is no wonder that historian Hannah Arendt described Romania as the most anti-Semitic country of all.
On the morning of June 29, 1941, 12,000 Romanian Jews, who were almost blindly loyal to the state, were led through the streets of the city of Iasi, humiliated and hungry, to the local police station, which became their slaughterhouse.
It was the government that ordered the terrible massacre, in which my family, too, was murdered when the security forces began shooting in all directions. That, we will never forget.…
But if anyone thought that a [after the collapse of Romania’s antisemitic Communist regimes] change had finally occurred over the last few years, if anyone hoped that anti-Semitism had been relegated to the boors who desecrate graves rather than pervading the government, then President Traian Basescu’s remarks at a press conference at the Bucharest Airport upon his return from Syria a week ago reminded us that there is another Romania besides that of pastrami and wine—the Romania of anti-Semitism. Syria, Basescu said, is bordered by the following countries: Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.
It is well known that Romania’s president is not particularly well-educated, but as a former sea captain one would have expected him to at least know a little geography and history. Has it escaped him that there is as yet no country called Palestine, but that another country, admittedly small, nevertheless exists on Syria’s border—one called Israel? It is a pity that the Foreign Ministry did not see fit to respond sharply to these remarks. It is still not too late.
(Cellu Rozenberg is a historian who specializes in national security.)
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Barack Obama could worsen crisis: likened to Smoot Hawley by Rupert Murdoch
Barack Obama 'could worsen crisis': Rupert Murdoch
Glenda Korporaal
The Australian
November 01, 2008
NEWS Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has warned that Barack Obama could worsen the world financial crisis if he is elected US president next week and implements protectionist policies.
In an interview with The Weekend Australian before delivering the first of six Boyer lectures on ABC radio tomorrow afternoon, Mr Murdoch said the Democrats' policies would result in "a real setback for globalisation" if implemented.
Mr Murdoch said he did not know whether Senator Obama would implement all of the protectionist measures espoused by the party.
"Presidents don't often behave exactly as the campaign might have suggested because they become prisoners of all sort of things - mainly circumstances and events," Mr Murdoch said.
He warned that any rise in protectionism in the US, including introducing trade measures against China as espoused by some Democratic members in Congress, would risk retaliation and could threaten the world trading and financial systems.
"For the past three or four years, some Democrats have been threatening to do things like put on extra tariffs (against Chinese imports) if they don't change their currency,' Mr Murdoch said. "If it happened, it could set off retaliatory action which would certainly damage the world economy seriously."
Mr Murdoch said Kevin Rudd had been "very sure-footed" in his handling of the financial crisis and defended the Prime Minister against criticism that he acted too quickly in his blanket guarantee of the deposits of the Australian banking system.
But the chairman of News Corporation, which owns The Weekend Australian, warned that politicians should be careful not to make the situation worse by "alarming people more than they should be alarmed, regardless of party".
"You've got to recognise when he (Rudd) did it, he did it the day after the biggest ever fall in the stock market and the US Congress's first refusal of the $700million bailout," Mr Murdoch said. "I think, relatively, over this whole financial period, he has acted very sure-footedly."
He said politicians should be careful that their comments did not further exacerbate the delicate financial situation.
Asked if the comments were meant to refer to Malcolm Turnbull, he said: "I don't think Mr Turnbull has done that."
With the US election five days away, Mr Murdoch criticised Senator Obama's tax policies as "crazy", particularly his plan to hand out tax rebates to most Americans and to increase taxes for people earning more than $250,000. He said Senator Obama's promises to give tax rebates to 95per cent of Americans was "rubbish".
"Forty per cent (of the US population) don't pay taxes, so how can he give them a tax cut?" he said. "But you can give them a welfare cheque which he has promised - a grant of $500 - which will disappear very fast. It's not going to turn the economy around at all."
Mr Murdoch said no one knew what would happen under an Obama administration "but his declared policy would see a real setback of globalisation".
Mr Murdoch said politicians should take heed of the lessons of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the US in 1930, which raised tariffs on American goods to record levels and provoked protectionist retaliation by US trading partners, slashing world trade levels and sending the world economy into depression.
Mr Murdoch said Senator Obama would make the situation worse if he implemented the policies he had promised the American union movement, which represented only 12 per cent of the US workforce, most of them government workers.
"We have the historical precedent of Smoot-Hawley," he said.
"I can't imagine he would do anything as crazy as that. But anything in that direction could add to all sorts of tensions in the world financial system and the world trading system and eventually all the way down to employment. I am not saying all these things are going to happen, but we are living in a dangerous period."
He said the whole world should "fight like hell" for freer trade and the success of the Doha Round of trade talks.
Mr Murdoch rejected suggestions that Tuesday's US election could act as a circuit breaker for the current crisis of confidence in world financial markets.
"To some extent it is beyond the power of politicians," he said. "You are going to find that the politicians are very limited in what they can do: they can make it worse but they can't stop it."
Mr Murdoch said there was a slight easing of the liquidity crisis, as market interest rates had edged down in recent weeks. But he said the financial crisis would inevitably affect economies for some time. Mr Murdoch said a push for freer trade around the world, including the success of the Doha Round, could help the world economies come out of the recession faster.
"But if it (world trade) goes the way that a lot of politicians are talking in a lot of countries, you are really going to slow down trade and business in every way," he added.
Mr Murdoch, who arrived in Australia this week, will record the first Boyer lecture tomorrow in front of a live audience at the Sydney Opera House.
The series of lectures is entitled A Golden Age of Freedom and includes Mr Murdoch's views on the rise of the new global middle class, his concerns about the raising of education levels in Australia and the importance of being ahead of the curve in using new technologies.
The third lecture is a detailed exposition of Mr Murdoch's views on the future of newspapers. Mr Murdoch has been scathing of journalists in the US, whom he argues have been all too eager to predict the demise of their own industry.
He told The Weekend Australian that newspapers would survive, although they might have to live with lower profit margins because of competition from the internet. He predicted that newspapers should see the internet as an opportunity to reach more readers in a world where people were increasingly hungry for more information.
The 2008 Boyer Lectures will be broadcast during Big Ideas on ABC Radio National at 5pm each Sunday between 2 November 2 and December 7 (and repeated the following Saturday at 7pm.)
The lectures will be available as audio on demand, podcast and mp3 for download from www.abc.net.au/rn/boyerlectures/
The first lecture will be published in full in Monday's edition of The Australian and will also be broadcast on ABC1 on Sunday at 10.15pm.
Glenda Korporaal
The Australian
November 01, 2008
NEWS Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has warned that Barack Obama could worsen the world financial crisis if he is elected US president next week and implements protectionist policies.
In an interview with The Weekend Australian before delivering the first of six Boyer lectures on ABC radio tomorrow afternoon, Mr Murdoch said the Democrats' policies would result in "a real setback for globalisation" if implemented.
Mr Murdoch said he did not know whether Senator Obama would implement all of the protectionist measures espoused by the party.
"Presidents don't often behave exactly as the campaign might have suggested because they become prisoners of all sort of things - mainly circumstances and events," Mr Murdoch said.
He warned that any rise in protectionism in the US, including introducing trade measures against China as espoused by some Democratic members in Congress, would risk retaliation and could threaten the world trading and financial systems.
"For the past three or four years, some Democrats have been threatening to do things like put on extra tariffs (against Chinese imports) if they don't change their currency,' Mr Murdoch said. "If it happened, it could set off retaliatory action which would certainly damage the world economy seriously."
Mr Murdoch said Kevin Rudd had been "very sure-footed" in his handling of the financial crisis and defended the Prime Minister against criticism that he acted too quickly in his blanket guarantee of the deposits of the Australian banking system.
But the chairman of News Corporation, which owns The Weekend Australian, warned that politicians should be careful not to make the situation worse by "alarming people more than they should be alarmed, regardless of party".
"You've got to recognise when he (Rudd) did it, he did it the day after the biggest ever fall in the stock market and the US Congress's first refusal of the $700million bailout," Mr Murdoch said. "I think, relatively, over this whole financial period, he has acted very sure-footedly."
He said politicians should be careful that their comments did not further exacerbate the delicate financial situation.
Asked if the comments were meant to refer to Malcolm Turnbull, he said: "I don't think Mr Turnbull has done that."
With the US election five days away, Mr Murdoch criticised Senator Obama's tax policies as "crazy", particularly his plan to hand out tax rebates to most Americans and to increase taxes for people earning more than $250,000. He said Senator Obama's promises to give tax rebates to 95per cent of Americans was "rubbish".
"Forty per cent (of the US population) don't pay taxes, so how can he give them a tax cut?" he said. "But you can give them a welfare cheque which he has promised - a grant of $500 - which will disappear very fast. It's not going to turn the economy around at all."
Mr Murdoch said no one knew what would happen under an Obama administration "but his declared policy would see a real setback of globalisation".
Mr Murdoch said politicians should take heed of the lessons of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the US in 1930, which raised tariffs on American goods to record levels and provoked protectionist retaliation by US trading partners, slashing world trade levels and sending the world economy into depression.
Mr Murdoch said Senator Obama would make the situation worse if he implemented the policies he had promised the American union movement, which represented only 12 per cent of the US workforce, most of them government workers.
"We have the historical precedent of Smoot-Hawley," he said.
"I can't imagine he would do anything as crazy as that. But anything in that direction could add to all sorts of tensions in the world financial system and the world trading system and eventually all the way down to employment. I am not saying all these things are going to happen, but we are living in a dangerous period."
He said the whole world should "fight like hell" for freer trade and the success of the Doha Round of trade talks.
Mr Murdoch rejected suggestions that Tuesday's US election could act as a circuit breaker for the current crisis of confidence in world financial markets.
"To some extent it is beyond the power of politicians," he said. "You are going to find that the politicians are very limited in what they can do: they can make it worse but they can't stop it."
Mr Murdoch said there was a slight easing of the liquidity crisis, as market interest rates had edged down in recent weeks. But he said the financial crisis would inevitably affect economies for some time. Mr Murdoch said a push for freer trade around the world, including the success of the Doha Round, could help the world economies come out of the recession faster.
"But if it (world trade) goes the way that a lot of politicians are talking in a lot of countries, you are really going to slow down trade and business in every way," he added.
Mr Murdoch, who arrived in Australia this week, will record the first Boyer lecture tomorrow in front of a live audience at the Sydney Opera House.
The series of lectures is entitled A Golden Age of Freedom and includes Mr Murdoch's views on the rise of the new global middle class, his concerns about the raising of education levels in Australia and the importance of being ahead of the curve in using new technologies.
The third lecture is a detailed exposition of Mr Murdoch's views on the future of newspapers. Mr Murdoch has been scathing of journalists in the US, whom he argues have been all too eager to predict the demise of their own industry.
He told The Weekend Australian that newspapers would survive, although they might have to live with lower profit margins because of competition from the internet. He predicted that newspapers should see the internet as an opportunity to reach more readers in a world where people were increasingly hungry for more information.
The 2008 Boyer Lectures will be broadcast during Big Ideas on ABC Radio National at 5pm each Sunday between 2 November 2 and December 7 (and repeated the following Saturday at 7pm.)
The lectures will be available as audio on demand, podcast and mp3 for download from www.abc.net.au/rn/boyerlectures/
The first lecture will be published in full in Monday's edition of The Australian and will also be broadcast on ABC1 on Sunday at 10.15pm.
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