Describes the subversive takeover of Australia with every 'rights group' (minorities) being used to storm the gates of power and disenfranchise democracy in Australia and the US.
Lawyers are getting hate laws passed and using 'political correctness' to enforce their power on democracy. Prepare for totalitarianism.
Rudd speaks of innovation in this self-worshiping article but does he realize that by cutting the ANSTO budget when he first became Prime Minister that it did not cause innovation? I think Kevin Rudd only speaks of Labor innovation since there is none other......
When Australia last experienced a global recession worse than this one, Jim Scullin and Joe Lyons were prime ministers of Australia, Don Bradman had just begun his Test cricketing career and Charles Kingsford Smith had just made his first flight across the Pacific. Of Australia's current population of nearly 22 million, only 1 million of our number were alive to experience the traumatic impact of the Great Depression.
In its response to the global recession, Australia has sought to learn some lessons of recessions past. To cushion the impact, the Government took strong, early and decisive action through the Nation Building for Recovery plan to support jobs, small business and apprenticeships today by investing in infrastructure for tomorrow.
So where does he mention business? He doesn't say innovation by business. His 'broadband' revolution will 'change' the way business operates he says.....
Innovation
The Government will invest up to $43billion to construct and operate a national broadband network in partnership with the private sector. The network will give all Australian homes, schools and workplaces the capacity to access the superfast broadband services necessary for productivity improvements across our economy. The network will help transform the Australian economy and facilitate the shift to more knowledge-based industries, as well as radically change the way businesses manage inputs, customers and resources. This digital revolution will arguably be the single greatest multiplier of productivity growth.
A long, long report on the ABC’s AM program this morning on the extraordinary corruption scandal in New Jersey that’s led to the arrest of three mayors, as well as developers and even rabbis. The reporter was particularly struck by the arrest of the young Hoboken mayor, and suggested New Jersey could be the “most corrupt” place in the US.
Only one detail was - unaccountably - missing. Which corruption-plagued party were these miscreants from?
The silence spoke volumes, but I turned to Bloomberg to confirm it:
The mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, New Jersey, and five rabbis were among 44 people charged by the U.S. with public corruption and money laundering.
Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, 32, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, 64, and Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez, 42, all Democrats; Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega Jr., 59; State Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, 44, a Republican from Ocean Township; and Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith, a Jersey City Democrat, were charged today in an FBI complaint. All except Smith appeared in U.S. court in Newark, New Jersey.
Geoffrey Robertson’s latest publication (The Statute of Liberty) might well be the most important book you could read this year. Robertson is a London-based human rights lawyer, writer, and sometimes war-crimes judge for the United Nations. Since 2008 he has been a member of the UN’s Internal Justice Council. He is a strong supporter of “international law”, particularly as defined by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and now overseen by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Before proceeding, it is best to look briefly at the UNHRC. The Council is made up of forty-seven members from forty-seven countries. The UN resolution establishing the UNHRC states that “members elected to the Council shall uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights”. Of the forty-seven member countries perhaps only eight could be considered as complying. What countries such as Saudi Arabia, Madagascar, China, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, Bolivia, Angola and Cuba (to name just a few) are doing on this “human rights” council is anybody’s guess.
The Council’s latest agenda items have included such issues as abolishing “country-specific investigations”—that is, investigations into the human rights violations of the governments of Cuba, Belarus, Burma and North Korea. Readers will recall that the UN was struck almost speechless and motionless when it came to the genocide in Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, the Congo, the Balkans and the present-day mess in Sudan. In most cases UN troops were present when these atrocities occurred.
Environmentalism, says Czech President Vaclav Klaus, is the new communism, a system of elite command-and-control that kills prosperity and should similarly be condemned to the ash heap of history.
The provocative Mr. Klaus, an economist by training and former prime minister, said in an interview that today's global warming activists are the direct descendants of the old Marxists who trampled on individual freedoms and undermined free markets in pursuit of a greater good.
In his Budget reply speech last night, Mr Rudd talked of the need to maintain a conservative fiscal policy for Australia's economic stability.
He is also appearing in television commercials where he says he is proud to be "conservative" on the economy.
Mr Howard has told Southern Cross Radio that Mr Rudd's behaviour does not bear out his claims of conservatism.
"When you've opposed industrial relations reform, when you've opposed the sale of Telstra, the proceeds of which help pay off the $96 billion debt, in other words when you've opposed all the fiscally conservative measures this Government's put up over the last few years, it's a bit rich to turn around and say 'despite all that just forget my behaviour just read my lips, I'm a fiscal conservative'," he said.
Rudd's chameleon act actually involves a much deeper ingratiation with his audience. He changes not just his message, but his tone, his colloquialisms and even his accent.
Good God, he's even known to have changed his faith. In short order, he's switched from a professed "Christian socialist" to "not a socialist" to a "fiscal conservative" to a "social democrat", changing colour - pink-blue-bluer-pink - to suit whatever you think you'd like best, given the change in the economic weather.
In fact, I've never known any prime minister or even opposition leader to speak so differently to different audiences.
Just before the last election, Kevin Rudd boasted that being an ”economic conservative” was “a badge I wear with pride”.
That was just a year after he’d boasted in The Monthly that he was in fact a ”Christian socialist”.
Now, a year after his election ads, and in the very same Monthly, Rudd has pinned yet another badge to his chest. Forget “economic conservative”:
Not for the first time in history, the international challenge for social democrats is to save capitalism from itself:..(T)he time has come, off the back of the current crisis, to proclaim that the great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years has failed, that the emperor has no clothes ...(T)he social-democratic state offers the best guarantee of preserving the productive capacity of properly regulated competitive markets, while ensuring that government is the regulator, that government is the funder or provider of public goods and that government offsets the inevitable inequalities of the market...
Which is the real Rudd? The socialist, the conservative or the “social democrat” rejecting the “great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years” and demanding a “a new contract for the future”?
It is quite astonishing to come across the economic and political philosophy of a prime minister and find that a self-described economic conservative turns out to be anything but. After years of seeing the phenomenal success of market-based economies in comparison with all other varieties of economic organisation, and having watched the fall of the Berlin Wall not all that long ago, there is a frightening recognition that amongst some people, nothing much at all has been learned. The same ideas that have populated and driven the Left for the past two hundred years just seem to come out of the woodwork at the first sign of an economy in trouble. Read on.....
The PM has been revealed as a Whitlamite in conservative clothing.
EVERY now and then you see a change in the political spin-cycle that is so audacious, so contradictory that you have to go back and check the facts — just to make sure you haven't imagined the whole thing.
That's what happened on the weekend.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd briefed the newspapers that "the great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years has failed" and "social democrats (will have) to save capitalism from itself". That's what he's saying now.
Go to the record. Twelve months ago, on January 21, 2008, Kevin Rudd laid out the path for his Government as follows: "Prior to the election, we ran as fiscal conservatives. With the election behind us, we now intend to govern as fiscal conservatives … Today I announce a fiscal target that will guide our decision making … a budget surplus of at least 1.5 per cent of GDP … This will require a determined, disciplined approach to spending."
From Andrew Bolt. On Communists and environmentalists. What is the difference? I think the difference is that environmentalists are communists but call themselves environmentalists.
My desire to live a free, mundane life is a fundamental cog in our messy, glorious, capitalist democracy. It is built on millions of such small entrenched postitions. Red-filtered, my desires are despicable and bourgeois and must be beaten out of me with indoctrination or force. Green-filtered, my small desires are despicable acts of ecological vandalism. My house is a carbon factory. My desire to travel, to own stuff, to eat meat, to procreate, to heat my house, to shower for a really, really long time; all are evil.
The word evil is used advisedly. Both the green and red positions are infused with overpowering religiosity. Dissenters from the consensus are shunned apostates. Professor Ian Pilmer, the Australian geologist and climate change sceptic, could not find a publisher for his book Heaven and Earth, which questions the orthodoxy about global warming. He is the subject of hate mail and demonstrations. It is entirely immaterial whether he is right or wrong. An environment that stifles his right to a voice is worse than one that is overheating.
(15 July 09) If Al Gore Jr. ever runs for President, he'll have to answer some embarrassing questions about the source of his family's wealth....
“.....One of the minor mysteries of American politics has been the source of wealth for the family of Vice President Albert Gore Jr.," observes Joseph Goulden of Accuracy in Media. "When Gore's father was first elected to the House of Representatives in the late 1930s," Goulden continues, "he was an impecunious Tennessee school teacher who eked out extra dollars by playing fiddle at church weddings. But later, as a United States Senator, he lived in the plush Fairfax Hotel on Embassy Row in Washington, and sent his son, Al Jr., to the pricey St. Albans School, the haunt of kids from Social Register families."..... In a recent issue of the Washington Inquirer, Goulden summarizes the contents of a new book called Dossier, written by investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein, which "shows that the senior Gore had a silent partner who for several decades insured that his pockets remained comfortably filled. He was Armand Hammer, the multi-millionaire businessman and oil promoter who apparently collected art and politicians with equal zeal." Goulden notes that Al Gore Sr. was "Hammer's designated door-opener in official Washington......” Communist Ties, F R Duplantier “..... The handsome compensation that Gore Sr. received for his services culminated in a half-a-million-dollars-a-year position with Armand Hammer's oil company, Occidental Petroleum. Al Gore Jr. picked up where his father left off and "put the family's Senate seat at Hammer's service." .... Hammer's powerful influence on Al Gore Sr. and Jr. would have been bad enough had he been nothing more than an unscrupulous businessman. Like his father Julius, however, he was a lifelong Communist and a friend of the Soviet Union. "Some scattered hints that Hammer's ties with the USSR went beyond business friendship have surfaced over the years," says Goulden. Documents discovered in Soviet archives, however, leave no doubt that Hammer was "a man who bribed and cheated his way to great wealth -- and who started with Soviet gold." Edward Jay Epstein's new book, Dossier, makes a compelling case that both Al Gore Sr. and Al Gore Jr. were the willing partners of a very powerful and very wealthy man, Armand Hammer, who was not loyal to the United States of America. A truly independent press would have exposed these connections decades ago, long before Al Gore Sr. and Jr. rose to their prestigious and influential positions.....”
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