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Monday, November 7, 2005

LETTER TO BUSH FROM MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ALICIA CASTRO

In November 4-5 the Summit of the Americas will take place in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Below is the translation of an astounding letter sent to Bush by an Argentinean Member of Parliament, Alicia Castro. The letter speaks for itself.

As Member of Parliament of the Argentinean Nation. I am one of the 257 representatives of the Argentinean people in Parliament; the second time I got into the Chamber of Deputies half a million citizens voted for me, but I can guarantee that what I will be expressing to you in this letter represents the majority of the Argentinean people.

President Bush:

We do not want you to come to our country. Maybe for diplomatic reasons, our Chancery will not have made you aware how reviled you are by our people. It is not simply that we disagree with your policies, but that you represent a danger to the democracies of South America.

Not long ago, at an OAS Summit where you defended interventionism, you dared to mention the name of Jose de San Mart’n in your speech. You must know that this father of our nation fought against imperialism and in favor of the unity of South America.

The people of San Martin do not want you, Mr. Bush, because you represent neo-imperialism, which, as in the 19th century, is an attempt to dominate regions by means of financial measures or armed actions.

We Argentineans know full well the consequences of the policies that you promote: our country, being immensely rich, was driven to misery by irresponsible leaders who followed each and every of the recipes of the International Monetary Fund. We know that international credit organizations are not neutral and respond to the policies of the United States.

Bolivar's prophecy is fulfilled: "the United States of America seem destined by providence to sow misery in Latin America". We Argentineans have nothing against the American people, but much against the government that has put the largest political and military might in the planet at the service of bloody ambition, which does not doubt to annihilate lives to appropriate someone else's oil, to make money from arms trade and, moreover, to expand its most sinister industry: the one that reconstructs what you destroy. You represent the decadence of Western values. Your people, which used not to tolerate lies in political practice, has to endure your having lied with a brazen face to the entire world regarding the existence of nuclear weapons in Iraq, in order to justify invasion.

The Nobel Peace Prize recently awarded to Mohamed El Baradei, who revealed the existence of these deceptions, is an eloquent display of the importance that the international community attaches to Truth in the construction of Peace. The theory of "pre-emptive war", one of the distasteful novelties in your political discourse, places your government outside any known law and presently threatens concretely Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba, in sum, the whole world.

You threaten us, but you do not confound us. You do not fool us with your proclaimed "war on terrorism", while you practice state terrorism. This is borne out by the tortures at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons, the distraught mothers of American soldiers taking part in the carnage of women and children in Iraq, and the advances to militarize and control our region. You are a terrorist protecting other terrorists such as Luis Posada Carriles, escaped from a Caracas prison and who, among other crimes, has confessed his authorship of the explosion, in 1976, of a Cuban airliner causing 73 deaths.

Spare us your undesirable presence. We do not share anything that can be debated at the Summit of the Americas, to be held the next 4 and 5 November in the city of Mar del Plata. No government supporting your policies could guarantee its own stability. We the peoples of South America have already chosen.

We choose Energy sovereignty: we want Petrosur; we need to recover our Food sovereignty, and for that, American companies must stop infecting our seeds with their pesticides and their trademarks; we reject your patents which leave our sick without a cure; we do not want your dangerous "Open Skies".

Do not come here to promote the FTAA, we do not want your "free trade" from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, we choose our solidarity and fair trade to complement and benefit the peoples of South America. We have already constituted the South America Confederation of Nations: larger and wealthier than the United States, which we shall unify following the ideals of San Mart’n, Bolivar, of O'Higgins, of Artigas, of Mart’.

Your values, Mr. Bush, are not within our scale of values nor are your aims compatible with out principles. We have our own South Agenda: we foster a Latin American Monetary Fund, a South Bank, a great South University; we want to inform ourselves from the south and for the south.

Unearth already, the antennas of CNN and your international machinery of lies, spare us your crude conspiracies. Your government, which rejected the Kyoto protocol, and your terrible management, which drowned your own people in New Orleans, represents a concrete threat to the environment and to planet Earth. We South Americans are for the happiness, freedom and life of peoples, we are also for peace. You are on the side of war, of predation and of death. Regarding practical matters, responsibly and as a national representative, I consider it evident that nobody could guarantee your safety in Argentina. Not yours, nor that of our citizens.

Proof of this is that Argentina has suffered terrible terrorist attacks, which remain unpunished and unsolved. Today terrorism travels on public transportation and the vengeful threat that you profess like a dogma, has already cost the lives of worker and users of public transport in Madrid and London, and has made unsafe such disparate places as Roma, Bali, Miami and New York. I ask you in the name of the Argentinean people, that you spare us of these risks; you could make yourself present at the Summit of the Americas through a teleconference from Washington, which, at the same time, would keep you safe from physical expressions of our repudiation of you.

Awaiting your response, I greet you with distinguished regards.

Alicia Castro
Member of Parliament of the Argentinean Nation


Argentina

By Alicia Castro posted 7 November 05

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Bush, God and Transnationals
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Monday, October 17, 2005

Hitler, what a legend!

Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all, if parallels are drawn and modern day comparison accepted. He just saw things a little differently that's all, no worse and no more diverse, if the results of today's leaders behaviour are seen for what they really are.

I have to mention the Jew thing other wise pr will cremate me, with good reason. There is too much blame placed upon the Jew as too much blame is/was placed upon Hitler. A Pro Hitler message is too often disregarded out of hand because of the Holocaust story, which allows the same ideology to infect present thinking while under the guise of right wing willingness to repeat history.

In both cases each leaders of regimes acted or act as part of a collective push to establish rule and to gain economic benefit. And to further shatter any similarities drawn, between the Nazi idea that Jews were the cause of the rift, Israel's population is currently not a great deal bigger than the tourists who visit India annually for a vacation.

India doesn't claim to suffer a invasion or take over as migratory grockles infest ashrams and take snap photo's so please don't think that a piss weak isolated colonial nation parked within the Middle East wishes to rule the world, as some round here are repeatedly suggesting.

Such a notion is brainless, maybe the link is not to rule but to offer strategic assistance and tender administration consultancy services as general managers in the region where we Anglo's need a hands on body count in the continued conflict .

In these parallels, between current coalition behaviour and third Reich aspirations our willing leaders steal assets from brown people, there is the third reich link. like any ancient leaders with colonial ambition.

Muslims or those who inhabit weaker nations are the current targets of our race, we intend to gain control of the world, establish a United Nation of right thinking Anglo White Nations to head up a G1 forum, eventually as the G8 is whittled down one by one until the essence of the Clone is extracted, managed maintained and protected.

Brown people who are to be exploited, cheap labour, and their health is to be ruined, no health care, none of this is our concern, we give them no respect now, so why should our benevolence in globalisation terms change our behaiviour?

Who's heard of Timor recently? You remember the youngest nation of democratisation, blah, blah, bling, just one victim in many. Our nation still thinks we did them a good turn which just shows you how we are treated by our media.

We poison lands in the third world nations with industrial/mining tailings, pollute their rivers and dump toxins into their environment, not in Timor yet but in PNG or Europe Africa and Asia, we really don't care where the toxic waste kills, just not in America's back yard, the Mantra reads quite clearly, not anywhere where there is a EPA with the Authority.

Here in this colonial nation of ours, acid leaching and high pressure water mining flushes the uranium from beneath our deserts using the nation's water reserves and ruining the environment for ever. But we have no voice heard over our masters wish to please the Mother country.

There is no hope for the Murray, its will become the polluted inland sea, and somewhere on its banks an Esmeralda arsenic mercury gold mining operation that threatens to turn it into the Danube of the southern hemisphere.

There really is no reason to believe old growth forests will survive the next decade any where in this wide brown land, we stuffed it , squeezed every dollar out of it but forgot to leave it, perhaps we will as future environmental refuges..

I'm not speaking of Grandmothers here, its motherland, you missed the generation shift. Sometime ago, old country grandmother handed over the reins to her daughter America, and a new Fatherland was born, post ww2.

We know who wears the trousers in this household , just because we cannot use the male term, because of the Hitler hate campaign the terms of reference are clearly unchanged, over free trade agreements, don't we Love the American way?, so the parallels knit together quite nicely.

There are so many ways we Anglos stamp misery upon the world, for consumerist sake.

Our rich fatty diet here in Australia is supplemented with Palm oil which finds its way from Indonesia Cambodia Vietnam and Thailand into most supermarket convenience foods. The food industry reliance upon Palm Oil means a rainforest or two are clear felled daily as a monoculture replaces nature, which means Mudslides during the Monsoons. Brown People die. And White people have a obesity epidemic.

Our first world diet needs to control all types of oils otherwise consumerism fail, but its all quiet on the oil subject in Iraq, isn't it? as it gets shipped out and taken in its crude form and is geosequestered back underground state side to replenish exhausted stocks, while Iraqis die.

The results of globalisation will spread the message that western ways are better at killing non white nations, unless they submit to Anglo way. Please read Anglo/Arian in this parallel.

We get the term Anglo from a French definition that describes the mixed blood of German and Saxon stock after the migration of Germanic tribes in 800 bc, I know its ancient history but it's a good Arian tie in for this article, I'm pleased.

Anglo Saxon can during this age of semantics' fit any creed or race that aspires to emulate the behaviour of the nation of origin, a full blood African can be an Englishman if born into the nation, he must believe British ways and speak with a British accent and has no other values than those of his citizenship, then he is Anglo, who cares about skin.

For any definition describing race you cannot be sure of definition unless the context is mentioned, declaring Jews Semitics for example indicates that the terms are corruptible, one must accept that the terms to describe a race are changeable and can be used to describe a religious cult like Jews, because amongst them are Ethiopians. In truth Semitic could not describe a Jew only Palestinians or those indigenous to the region. Jews mostly come from Europe, so how on earth Jews gain the title Semitic can only be explained only because its not worth the argument

HITLER is remembered for the things that went wrong with the big plan, if given a go, and left alone, he would have created a perfect world, the kind GWB and his followers now strive to achieve.

I'm sure, the idea has crossed your minds, by now after 60 years of that type of new world order, had Hitler been successful we would be in a better position by now, we would have advanced as a nation, under German high command instead of flapping around acting on America's behalf.

Under the German empire, we would have order, respected leaders, better beer than America offers and trains that run on time, we would have strong links with employer federations not these union squabbles. Under a Hitler style of political dictatorship we could have everything and more, we missed out then, but now we have a chance to reclaim the title under a different heading

Here's a list I found while surfing all I did was change the spelling, it's a bit dated but I kind of support the message.

1. Like Hitler, President Bush was not elected by a majority, but was forced to engage in political manoeuvring in order to gain office.

2. Like Hitler, Bush began to curtail civil liberties in response to a well-publicized national outrage, in Hitler's case the Reichstag fire, in Bush's case the 9-11 catastrophes.

3. Like Hitler, Bush went on to pursue a reckless ultra-nationalist foreign policy without the mandate of the electorate.

4. Like Hitler, Bush has accordingly improved his popularity ratings, especially with veterans and conservative Republicans, by mounting an aggressive public relations campaign against foreign enemies. Just as Hitler cited international communism to justify Germany's military build-up, Bush uses Al Qeader and the Axis of Evil to justify our current military build-up.

5. Like Hitler, Bush promotes militarism while in the midst of a major economic recession (or depression). He uses war preparations to help subsidize defence industries (Halliburton, Bechtel, etc.) and presumably the rest of the economy on a trickle-down basis.

6. Like Hitler, Bush glorifies patriotism to stir up public support. He treats our nation's unique historic destiny almost as a religious cause sanctioned by God.

7. Like Hitler, Bush quickly makes and breaks diplomatic ties, and he makes generous promises that he soon abandons, as in the case of Mexico, Russia, Afghanistan, and even New York City.

8. Like Hitler, Bush envisages a future world order that guarantees his own nation's hegemonic supremacy rather than cooperative harmony under the authority of the United Nations (or League of Nations). He is willing to break the U.N. Charter in promoting this end.

9. Like Hitler, Bush scraps international treaties, most notably the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Prohibition of Land Mines, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Kyoto Global Warming Accord, and the International Criminal Court.

10. Like Hitler, Bush depends on an axis of collaborative allies, which he describes as a "coalition of the willing," to give the impression of having a broad popular alliance. These include the U.K. as compared to Mussolini's Italy, and Spain and Bulgaria as compared to, well, Spain and Bulgaria, both of which were aligned with Germany during the thirties and World War II.

11. Like Hitler, Bush possesses a war machine much bigger and more effective than the military capabilities of other nations. Today, Bush depends on a "defence" budget roughly equivalent to the combined military expenditures of the rest of the world.

12. Like Hitler, Bush is willing to invade other nations despite the opposition of the U.N. (League of Nations). He also has no qualms about bribing, bullying and insulting its members, even tapping their telephone lines.

13. Like Hitler, Bush pursues war without cutting back on the peacetime economy. He actually seeks to reduce taxes while conducting an expensive invasion and occupation of an "undesirable" nation.

14. Like Hitler, Bush launches unilateral invasions on a supposedly preemptive basis. Just as Hitler convinced the German public to think of Poland as a threat to Germany in 1939, Bush wants Americans to think of Iraq as a "potential" threat to our national security.

15. Like Hitler, Bush is willing to inflict high levels of bloodshed, with many thousands of casualties anticipated in Iraq, especially since the city of Baghdad--with a population of between 5 and 6 million--will be a primary target.

16. Like Hitler, Bush depends on a military strategy that features a "shock and awe" blitzkrieg beginning with devastating air strikes, then an invasion led by heavy armour columns.

17. Like Hitler, Bush is perfectly willing to sacrifice life as part of his official duty, as indicated by his unique record as a governor of Texas who was reluctant to commute death sentences.

18. Like Hitler Bush began warfare on a single front (Al Qeader quartered in Afghanistan), but then expanded it to a second front with Iraq, only to be confronted with North Korea as a potential third front. Much the same thing happened when Hitler expanded German military operations from Spain to Poland and France then was distracted by Yugoslavia before invading the USSR in 1941.

19. Like Hitler, Bush has no qualms about imposing "regime change" by installing Quisling-style client governments reinforced by full-scale military occupation under a military governor.

20. Like Hitler, Bush curtails civil liberties and depends on detention centres (i.e. concentration camps) such as Guantanamo Bay.

21. Like Hitler, Bush repeats lies often enough that they come to be accepted as the truth. Bush and his spokesmen argue, for example that every measure has been taken to avoid war (hardly true), that an invasion of Iraq will diminish (not intensify) the terrorist threat to the world, and that the U.S. is staging an invasion because the risks of inaction would be greater (not less). All of this is highly debatable. They likewise argue that Iraq is linked with Al Qeader (which has only recently become true and that nothing whatsoever has been achieved by U.N. inspectors to warrant the postponement of U.S. war plans (which simply isn't true).

22. Like Hitler, Bush incessantly finds new excuses to justify warÑfrom Iraq's WMD threat to the elimination of Saddam Hussein, to his supposed Al Qeader connection, to the creation of democracy in the Middle East as a model for neighboring states, and back again to the WMD threat. As soon as one excuse for war is challenged, Bush shifts to another, but only to shift back again at another time.

23. Like Hitler Bush and his cohorts exaggerate ruthlessness by their enemies in order to justify their own. Just as Hitler cited the threat of communist violence to justify even greater violence on the part of Germany, the Bush team justifies a full-scale invasion of Iraq by emphasizing Saddam Hussein's crimes against humanity that were for the most part committed when Iraq was a client-ally of the U.S., supplied with both advisors and materiel (poison gas included) by our own government.

24. Like Hitler, Bush's Messianic ambition to bring about America's hegemonic dominance in the world makes him perhaps the most dangerous President in our nation's history, a rogue chief executive capable of waging any number of illegal preemptive wars.

25. Like Hitler, Bush has become so obsessed with his vision of a Manichaean conflict between good (U.S. patriotism) and evil (the anti-patriotic "other") that for many in contact with the White House he is beginning to seem as if he has lost touch with reality.

26. Like Hitler, Bush takes pleasure in the mythology of frontier justice. As a youth Hitler read and memorized the western novels of Karl May, and Bush retains into his maturity his fascination with simplistic cowboy values. He also exaggerates a cowboy twang despite his elitist education at Andover, Yale and Harvard.

27. Like Hitler, Bush misconstrues evolutionary theory, in Hitler's case by treating the Aryan race as being superior, in Bush's case by rejecting science for fundamentalist creationism.

By Simon Willace posted 17 October 05

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

I'm in a right f***kin mood

This story is all about how the Australian public were conned out of their democracy by Lib/Lab. The agreement made between the government and its opposition to maintain complete power over its representative constituents and the falsehood that people could vote and make changes to this country.

But not by a country mile...


Given Enough Rope the opposition stands naked with the allegations made by ex-leader of the Labor opposition Mark Latham that the Labor right sabotaged its own party time and time again to ensure the neo-Liberals stayed in power, sold the government to the USA and went on to take full control of the Senate.

That's what you call the Sin-ate!

All the while the Labor right maintained the States, received big fat pay cheques and toured the world as well paid losers with no intention or ambition whatsoever to even try to be elected into government office and were prepared to sabotage anyone in their own party who disagreed. Having inside information did help.

A facade

Who needs power when you're second in command of a country that is being sold to the USA and living fat on prawns and lobster?

For all these reasons everything the government want the opposition wants because they both want the same thing including illegal and degrading wars on foreign nation states like Iraq or any other war for that matter. The sale of Telstra where 80 per cent of the people said no. The Medicare debate or any other worthwhile debate we've had in the last twenty years that meant allot to the community but not much to the government of the day or its alleged opposition.

But when Labor had to make those difficult decisions, decisions that most people were unlikely to want to agree with easily like the hard decisions about Peace and Industrial Relations laws where you just have to be seen to be doing the right thing in opposition and then the horse bolts through just like the election 9 lengths in front.

Remember for years now the election goes like this. Howard says, it will be close. The media on the right seem to give Labor every chance in the world but maintain that the government will be hard to beat. Neck-a-neck to the death but Howard romps home 9 lengths in front. Why?

Well paid losers that's why!

Because it was always meant to be that way. The government were the salesmen and Labor shook hands and toured the world.

That's how you sell the country and make any draconian law you want to control the people of this country who don't agree with what you're doing. All 80 per cent of them.

Why would I care like Kim Sleazely if I were in on the deal and getting paid well in a comfortable position for the rest of my life and the life of my party - until I get a big fat pension and go on more well paid holidays - all the days of my life?

Mark Latham was an honest family man who had a conscience big enough to change the world and all it has got for the community!

Mark Latham employed Peter Garrett to help him out because he was being stabbed in the back and undermined for his belief - that we could do a lot better for the community and that that wasn't being done.

When the Labor right found out Mark wouldn't toe the party line they stabbed him in the back. Out came the knifes folks and the rest is history until Mark sold his story. A story that was attempted to be highjacked by News Limited so they could control the fall-out and kick Mark Latham to death for being so "stupid" as to blow himself up.

You know the hand-grenade that blew up in his hand as he threw the pin away. Ha, ha, ha.

In a way thank you Andrew Denton that that didn't happen quite the way News Limited meant it to happen and the full truth was exposed for what it was including the undemocratic sham by the media giants to cover it up.

I'm angry at what this government and its opposition have done to our community and I demand answers from the top now. I'll bet like so many other people that this farce we've been calling democracy has now been seen for what it is.

We are being fully controlled by one government call Lib/Lab who have deceived us and that my friends is what you've really been voting for. For many years they've bluffed everyone and just like thieves sold public infrastructure and resources owned by this country out from under our very own feet.

I'm not going to say anymore at the moment because I'm angry even though I could remind you of many instances that prove what I have said and I could go on forever but I'm going to leave it up to you.

Comment:

More than enough rope...

How could he bite the hand that feeds the well paid losers?

That was the easy part he was honest to some degree!

After they stabbed him in the back!

And the ABC stole the show...


Enough Rope: Mark Latham

In December 2003, Mark Latham became the youngest leader of the federal Labor party in over a century. Thirteen months later after a leadership marked by flashes of brilliance, personal controversy and illness, he quit politics altogether, having led Labor to one of the worst defeats in the party's history. Since his resignation in January he has said not one word in public, until now.

MEDIA WATCH: Latham strikes! (again)

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Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Trade Justice Events Sydney 10 -16 April

AFTINET has joined with community groups around the world to plan a program of events for the Global Week of Action for Trade Justice from 10 - 16 April 2005.

In this week, thousands of people globally will take action to say that free trade is not working and to call on governments and the international financial institutions to stop forcing economic liberalisation on the world's poor.

The demands of the week are:

NO to the rich and powerful imposing unjust trade agreements, indiscriminate liberalisation and privatisation on the poor.

YES to everyone's right to food, a livelihood, water, health and education.

The events planned for the Global Week of Action are:

* Lunchtime book launch of Trade Justice, 12pm Tuesday 12 April, Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney
* Public rally Trading Away Sydney Water, 1pm Tuesday 12 April, Sydney Water Head Office, 115-123 Bathurst
Street, Sydney
* Postcard campaign on the right to water and WTO trade in services (GATS)
* Oxfam fair trade coffee: 12pm 11 - 15 April, Hyde Park, Sydney

More information about these events is below.

Please join us at these events to continue the campaign for trade justice and to set out alternatives for people-centred development. Please circulate this information to your networks!

1. Lunchtime book launch of Trade Justice: 12pm Tuesday 12 April, Pitt Street Uniting Church

Please join us for the book launch of the publication Trade Justice, written by Sister Suzette Clark of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council and Dr Patricia Ranald of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and convenor of AFTINET.

Where: Pitt Street Uniting Church, 264 Pitt Street, Sydney CBD
When: 12pm - 1pm, Tuesday 12 April 2005


Speakers:

* Bishop Patrick Power, Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn Archdiocese and Deputy Chair of Australian Catholic Social Justice Council

* Sharan Burrow, National President of Australian Council of Trade Unions and President of International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The book, Trade Justice, is part of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council series of publications on social justice issues. It analyses the global trade system from the critical perspectives of social justice, human rights and Christian values. It shows how current trade agreements are influenced by the most powerful economies and transnational corporations at the expense of the majority of the world's people in developing countries.

The book argues for changes to Australia's trade policy and the global trade system to achieve trade justice goals.

2. Public rally Don't trade away Sydney Water! 1:00 Tuesday 12 April, Sydney Water Head Office

Over 1.1 billion people in developing countries lack access to safe drinking water and many areas of Australia remain drought-stricken. Global water corporations see access to water as a source of profits and are lobbying governments to include water services in the WTO's trade in services agreement (GATS). To include water in the GATS would treat water as a traded good. It would be a step towards privatisation of Sydney Water and would reduce the ability of governments around the world to regulate to ensure water services are affordable and environmentally sustainable

In May 2005, the Government will list the services it wants to include in the second roundâ of the GATS negotiations and negotiations will continue over the next 18 months.

Join us for a public rally at Sydney Water to say Don't trade our water away!

Where: Sydney Water Head Office, 115 - 123 Bathurst St, Sydney CBD
When: 1:00pm - 2:00pm, Tuesday 12 April 2005

Speakers:

Sharan Burrow, National President of Australian Council of Trade Unions and President of International Confederation of Trade Unions

* Sally McManus, Branch Executive President of Australian Services Union
* Dr Patricia Ranald, Principal Policy Officer of Public Interest Advocacy Centre and Convenor of AFTINET
* Robert McLean, President of Water Committee of Management, Australian Services Union

This rally will be the culmination of a petition campaign to the Federal and NSW Government by the Australian Services Union, AFTINET and others.

3. Postcard campaign on the right to water and WTO trade in services (GATS)

AFTINET has produced a postcard for the Global Week of Action on the right to water and the WTOâs trade in services agreement (GATS). The postcard highlights the threat in developing countries and in Australia of listing water in the GATS. The postcard is addressed to Trade Minister Mark Vaile, care of AFTINET, and calls on the Trade Minister not to include water services or any other essential services in Australia's offers in the GATS negotiations and not to make requests about essential services to developing countries. We will collect signed cards and present them to Mark Vaile later in the year. The postcard will be distributed nationally in coffee shops, theatres and other venues from 1 April. We will send a postcard to all AFTINET members.

If you want to order copies of the postcard to distribute amongst your networks, please contact Jemma Bailey on 9299 7833 or at jbailey@piac.asn.au.

Please sign a card and send it back to us by 30 May. Please tell your friends and encourage them to do so too. Join with people around the world to tell governments to keep water and other essential services OUT of trade agreements. Water is a human right, not a traded good.

You can also visit our website: AFTINET to send an electronic version of the postcard.

Thanks to Avant Card, the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, the Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes NSW and the Sisters of Charity for their generous support.

4. Oxfam fair trade coffee: 12pm 11 - 15 April, Hyde Park

Oxfam Community Aid Abroad will give away cups of coffee - piccolino latte - in Hyde Park, near the Archibald Fountain, to mark the Global Week of Action from 12pm each day from 11 - 15 April.

The coffee, from different countries each with their own distinctive flavour, will feature both ground and instant varieties.

The aim of the week is to encourage city workers to use fair trade coffee in the workplace. Each coffee is easily obtainable directly from the roaster via their website and most are obtainable through the Oxfam shop located in Centrepoint.

For a list of roasters and retailers in Sydney please go to Oxfam/Fair Trade.

All are invited to join us at Hyde Park anytime during the week. If you'd like to help hand out the coffee to passersby please contact Margaret Di Nicola at margaretd@caa.org.au or 8204 3902.

To find out more, to help in organising for the Global Week of Action or to organise an event of your own, please contact Jemma Bailey on 9299 7833 or at jbailey@piac.asn.au.

To find out more about the Global Week of Action, please visit Global Week of Action

By Jemma Bailey posted 6 April 05

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Monday, October 11, 2004

Nothing will save us from gullibility and greedy self-interest


A small book turned up last week entitled How to Kill a Country. It was written by three Sydney academics about our "free trade" deal with the United States.

They could as easily have been writing about what, spare us, happened on Saturday.


How on earth could we have put this scheming, mendacious little man and his miserable claque back in office for another three years? Worse, how could we have brought them to the very brink of absolute control of the nation's entire parliamentary process and authority?

Very easily, as things turned out, to the cost of the rest of us and our national self-respect.

For almost nine years this Government, incompetent in most everything except mediocrity, debauched its word and the people's trust, along with voters' gullibility, their ignorance, their taxes and, in the end, their greedy self-interest.

It deceived and dissembled about joining us with Washington's military adventurism in Iraq, and it went on deceiving and dissembling, irrespective of the heightened threat to our national interest, to keep our minuscule presence there purely for the political pleasure of George Bush and his cronies.

Then when we reached the one time every three years of a people's audit, 4.6 in every 10 of us turned round and said, thank you, gimme the money and flog us for another three years. Most times, despite the thick and the avaricious and those who feel it's just all beyond them, we get it right as a nation.

Not this time. This time we've really buggered things. A politically immoral man who, by any civilised measure, disqualified himself from public life, has been given a pat on the back and even more power. This time the people's will has got it dreadfully wrong.

Now we all have to pay for the comfortable idiocy of the manipulated minority. And it is a minority: the 46 per cent who voted for the Coalition, or 4.6 in every 10. The other 5.4, in the main, wanted something better, and were denied by a lowest common denominator system in which all the spoils go to a degraded 50 per cent plus one.

I thought we had more brains, more self-respect. I was wrong in thinking enough voters "just might" see through the confidence trickery of John Howard, master illusionist and toad of a human being. I apologise for nothing.

However, don't get snowed by the spin merchants about the size of the Government's win. Howard's real achievement is the Coalition's Senate victory. In the House of Representatives, Labor went into the election with 63 seats, the Government 83, with three independents and one Green MHR.

By midday yesterday, with a bit over 10 million votes counted in an electorate of 13 million, the most likely result, after the doubtfuls are finally sorted, is that Labor will have a net loss of between one and three seats, no more.

Labor's loss was great in votes, not seats. It's primary vote (38.3 per cent) is only marginally better than under Kim Beazley's losing leadership three years ago (37.8 per cent). What is different this time is the Liberal Party (40.3 per cent) out-polling Labor in primary votes (as distinct from a joint Coalition vote of 46 per cent).

That happens rarely: twice only in the Liberals' 60-year history, the last time, ironically, in the Fraser victory of 1975 that buried the government of Latham's political father figure, Gough Whitlam.

Still, Latham's time will come. Believe it.


By Alan Ramsey 11 October 04

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The agreement for going to war on Iraq carried with it and incentive and that was free trade with the US. The Howard Government knew about it and went along with it with the US under the guise of Iraq's WMDs. In criminal law this is commonly know as collusion to commit a crime.

John Howard's war crimes blameworthy
General Peter Gration is the spokesman for a group of 43 ex-military leaders, diplomats and departmental heads who have criticised the Government, saying involvement in Iraq has put Australia at greater risk of a terrorist attack.

Auditor Generals damning defence report
The Defence Department computer system upgrade has cost Australia tens of millions of dollars in a gigantic bungle, according to the Federal Opposition. The Commonwealth auditor-general has issued a damning report into the project.

Court reserves decision on 'no war' protest appeal
Two men have asked the Court of Criminal Appeal to accept that they painted "NO WAR" on the Sydney Opera House, to defend people in Iraq and Australia from war.

PM's Fox Defence? Less the evidence?
The Fox went out on a chilly night. He prayed for the moon to give him light. For he had many a mile to go that night....

Australians to be sacrificed: Howard
Howard vowed hostages wouldn't sway policy? The Federal Government say they would not negotiate with terrorists if an Australian were taken hostage in Iraq.

PM Howard Morally Bankrupt
Prime Minister John Howard insists the war in Iraq was justified despite his British counterpart Tony Blair's concession that weapons of mass destruction might never be found.

Howard 'should be tried for war crimes'
Former Liberal Party federal president John Valder says Prime Minister John Howard should be tried and punished for war crimes over Australia's involvement in the Iraq conflict.

Troop deployment not a deepening of effort: Hill
Deploying an extra 30 troops to Iraq was not a deepening of Australia's involvement because they were being sent to protect those already there, Defence Minister Robert Hill said yesterday.

War on terrorism' could take a generation: Downer?
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has launched the Government's terrorism white paper, saying the "war" could take a generation.

JUDGEMENT: HOWARD'S WAR CRIMES
Howard Vs Regina in Canberra the Capital Territory of Australia- Friday January 30 2004.

'FACTOPHOBIA' HOWARD, BLAIR AND BUSH

Well think about this! Australia's intelligence agencies look set to receive a substantial funding boost in this year's Federal Budget, with the Prime Minister saying it is an obvious step to take.

Howard, where's your head at?
Australians living on the edge! Seems each time the bombs go off overseas Australians are living on the edge.

Should John Howard be locked up indefinitely?
Australian convicted mock terrorist John Howard is seriously considering appealing the precise time limit on detaining terrorist suspects.

Daily Terror rolled-over for Howard's war games
The DAILY TERROR is suspected of being the source of the news this morning that Willie Brigitte is a terrorist and that Sydney faces a bomb attack.

Monday, September 6, 2004

Australian government selling us out!

United States authorities are still assessing the deal? Yummy....

The Federal Opposition says it now has proof the Government has been "playing politics" with the US free trade agreement (FTA), [Free Raid Agreement (FRA)], after the Trade Minister Mark Vaile admitted the future of the deal will not be affected by a change in government.

United States authorities are still assessing the deal?

But the United States authorities are assessing 'nothing' because there is nothing to asses, otherwise the deal would not have passed the Senate, [Sinate], here in Australia.

The changes 'collaborated' by LIB/LAB to protect the pharmaceutical benefits scheme? (PBS) and media cultural content? After selling out our 'Sovereignty' to the US, makes sense?

Perhaps in order to be paid back for the war on Iraq they have to take the 'black money' any way they can get it, even if it means selling Australia to the US corporation!

The Government has repeatedly claimed Labor has put the deal at risk.

Oh, It does sound risky doesn't it? Otherwise the grand illusion wouldn't work! That's the game, just add a little risk and people will think they're fair dinkum, even when they collaborated!

Vaile now says Australia's political processes are unlikely to influence the decision on whether the agreement still stands.

"I would expect that they would make a decision on the enabling legislation based on the merits," he said.

"We have continued to say that the amendments that were forced upon the Government by Mark Latham and the Labor Party were unnecessary and did put this agreement at risk. [?]

"Now we wait to see what response it going to come from Washington on those matters."

Labor's trade spokesman Stephen Conroy says Mr Vaile's admission the US will treat the changes on their merits, without regard for Australia's own political processes has revealed the truth.

"The indications when my office spoke with the Trade Minister's office were that they would consider these on their merits and that's always been their position," he said.

"It's just been disappointing that the Prime Minister and Minister Vaile have been prepared to play politics with something as important to Australia's national interest as this."

By Free Raid Agreement 6 September 04

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Australian Community Newspoll

Oh! Did I forget a party or two? Well perhaps not! If Ch/9's Sunday program can pose the same question asking its viewers to choose between two other parties not listed above then I guess we can do the same? But that wouldn't be fair! So if you get the time here is another party to choose from:

Hostages' Ruddock's political capital
Scum of the earth, war criminal, Philip Ruddock exploits Russian hostages. The Opposition accused Philip Ruddock of using the terrorist crisis in Russia for tasteless political point-scoring.

Cheesed-off voter tells PM he's past his best
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Governance a misfortune to experience
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Democrats call for improved accountability
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Latham stands by Scrafton in children overboard affair
[War criminal], Prime Minister John Howard needs to apologise to Mark Latham over the children overboard affair! The Federal Government lies and John Howard's integrity is in the sewer after attempts to discredit a defence, [war], whistleblower over allegations he did not tell the truth before the last election.

Children overboard continues to haunt PM like the plague...
War criminal, John Howard's lack of integrity and morality will be under question "again" today after Labor seized on claims that a Liberal Senator called Scumbo Howard a 'lying rodent'.

Un-Australian Polling Pill Boosts Illusions
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Howard 'Scumbo': Community
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Trust John Howard like you can trust George Bush...
Once again, [war criminal], Prime Minister John Howard unleashed his "politics of fear" to win his election campaign trying to scare ratepayers. Looking back it makes me shiver, don't be scared to kick the past, selling losers down the river.

Howard can't look back
War criminal, John Howard's election pitch to focus on future because Howard can't look back! Prime Minister 'Honest John' Howard, [?....], says he will use the election to outline his 10-year vision for Australia.

When the going gets tough, THE TOUGH GET GOING!
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PM LIES! AND THE LIBERALS ARE 'IMPLODING'
Hard yards paying off...Opposition Leader Mark Latham back at work yesterday after his short rest. The Community warned that John Howard's dishonesty would implode him and his own party at the coming election. A large majority of voters have said this issue will influence their polling booth choice; there is no doubt that the Prime Minister lied.

Costello, Howard's Disciple
JOHN HOWARD AND PETER Costello lost their vision for Australia from the time they were elected and embarked on a vision for the neo-Liberals.

Gillard stirs Liberal leadership pot
[War criminal], Peter Costello yesterday said that the Federal Government should aim to get all children out of immigration detention and he suggested there should be an increase in immigration levels.

Public wants accountability: Latham
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Don't rock the Boat Howard!
PRIME Minister John Howard today denied the children overboard affair had swayed the 2001 election? Mr Howard has spent the week defending himself against claims he had been informed that nobody in Defence believed children had been thrown overboard by asylum seekers.

Australia an unfair nation, say young and all!
Young people and older people think Australia is undemocratic and unfair. Young people cite their teachers as having the greatest influence on their political thinking, according to a provocative new national survey funded by the Government. Older people cite "injustice" amongst other things as a "bent legal system" favouring hi profiled superstars, corporations and politicians.

Not happy, John
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HOWARD'S LIE DETECTOR TEST: CHILDREN OVERBOARD AFFAIR
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Children Overboard Affair: Howard 'unfit to lead'
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Howard's war crimes, Turnbull, at least he's honest
HIGH-profile Liberal candidate Malcolm Turnbull has told voters the Iraq invasion was "an unadulterated error".

Alexanda Downer guilty of war crimes!
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John Howard's war crimes blameworthy
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Human Rights Watch slams Iraq war attacks
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Genocide and Torture in Iraq: Justice in the balance?
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Auditor Generals damning war report
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Truck drivers working for US face death: resistance
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Ancient Babylon ruined by foreign troops: Iraqi minister
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UK report propaganda
Damaged basic services, cover up of key intelligence and prisoner abuse........They got that right but they got the remedy of the report wrong. Sure as hell they're using this as serious "propaganda".

Iraqis accuse British troops of war crimes.........
British troops committed "war crimes" in post-war Iraq, unlawfully killing civilians and beating and torturing prisoners in their custody, lawyers for the victims have alleged. Soldiers played cruel "games" with prisoners, forcing them to recite lists of English or Dutch footballers and beating them if they failed, Phil Shiner, a British lawyer leading six test cases in the High Court this week, said.

Fifteen "resistance" killed in Iraq shootout
The US military said insurgents opened fire on Iraqi security forces as they provided security for the 1st Infantry Division during a raid in a nearby farming area.

US:Military Draft expected
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US accused of butting into Australian election
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Whatcha Gonna Do, When They Come For You? Bad boy!
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Saddam trial US propaganda
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US liars warn against 'fortress Australia'
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Fahrenheit 9/11: Cannes ends in controversy
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IRAQ: CPT Colleagues Describe Massacre in Fallujah
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Lose the Occupation and Win the War on Liberty!
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Spain demands 'radical change' in Iraq strategy
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'FACTOPHOBIA' HOWARD, BLAIR AND BUSH
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Missile defence program 'will lead to arms race'
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Pope calls for sanctions on leaders who violate rights
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War criminals should be tried: Human Rights
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Who cares wins? Those who inflict or those who endure?
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Coalition of the Killing's alliance against law 'the wrong way'
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A STRUGGLE ON TWO FRONTS: PRISONS & IMPERIALIST WAR
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Police surround protesters outside US Embassy
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David Burchell: Paradox of anti-Americanism
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Pilger said White House knew Saddam was no threat
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Illegal and degrading war crimes: Society on the New World Order (OWN)! While Australia and the US are very distinctive societies war criminal, Prime Minister John Howard and war criminal, President George Bush share core values.

Thousands march for peace! But does that mean no war?
THOUSANDS of people took to the streets around the country yesterday to march against the war in Iraq and for world peace.

US disturbed over 'biased' reporting in Arab media! But the US lies to the world! How could anyone describe pre-emptive strikes on a sovereign nation, occupation, genocide, torture, and human rights abuse by the Coalition of the Killing in a positive light?

Coalition force 'surprised' by stiff resistance for food aid
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Explosions rock Baghdad, jets overhead Iraq
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Bin Laden calls? CIA blind man's bluff!
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U.S. AMBASSADOR WARNED TO STOP MEDDLING:
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War: Part one The human cost
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Mandela speaks out against Bush, Blair
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All the way with (LPK) Love Peace and Kindness: Dalai Lama
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Pleas for peace ring the globe
Anti-war demonstrators turned out in their hundreds of thousands around the world on Saturday to protest against United States military preparations for an invasion of Iraq.

Not too late for Iraq peace, Blix says
But we all know that's rubbish now. The Coalition of the Killing were not seeking WMD in Iraq, they were there for their resource wars. So who gave the 'UN' and Blix the wrong information back then? War criminals!

George Bush's other poodle
John Howard, Australia's PM, is the mouse that roars for America, whipping his country into war fever and paranoia about terrorism within.