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EYE-BALL’s Herman on – Simplex –
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– 19th May – The Tears of a Prime Minister – – 24th Mar – An Example of bureaucracy gone mad – – 10th Mar = The Carbon Tax – Post Election … – 7th Mar – Wayne Swan – Please Stop 28th Feb – The Australian Labor Party View – 6th Feb – Corruption – 25th Jan – Anti Discrimination – – 17th Jan 2013 – Atheism – – 12th Nov – Hegemony – 2nd Nov – A March early Federal election – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Herman’ posts: |
Title: – Simplex – | Author: EYE-BALL’s Herman O’Hermitage | 24th May 2013 | |
T he very art of spin means too often the good guy gets painted black. Everything is just a hue.
Socrates said all attempts at logic ultimately collapse on themselves. All rational ultimately becomes irrational. Being in sanity is itself insanity. Over belief. Oscar Wilde said about “Do unto others” how would any other know what I would like done to me? The absolute Socratic of all logic collapsing on itself, the bizarre with a modicum of justification. That may be termed argument. Happiness and success is when one doesn’t rationalise too hard. They expresses thru their eyes what others know to be simple pleasures thereby tapping into the feel good factor (love of existence). Addressing adversity while remaining detached and don’t over complicate or sensationalise. Demanding rationality the ego becomes highly emotional in their own persona. Too often there is no answer. There is no black and white, there are only hues, (or shades). Shades is also a synonym for filters. We wish for our world a greater respect and transparency. A healthy ego without excess pride, arrogance or greed. The capacity to say what you think and then let go. We only see or hear a fraction of what is going on in the varying dimensions. These thoughts have many applications in our world and the varying sectors of our social fabric, the tapestry we call existence. Try Sport. The Sydney Swans won the flag last year, and Melbourne Storm won the NRL Telstra Premiership, Qld won the SOO. Then into the new year, what is left, history, hangovers and individual memories, conjecture and it is time to do it all again. This year the hotshots are Essendon, then Geelong; Storm then Rabbitohs, throw in the Chooks and now there are just contenders. Ben Barba after winning the Dally M is in rehab. And so it goes. Who ran second to Hi Jinx in the cup of 1960? Who cares. Take the car industry. In 1945 Ben Chifley wanted an Australian built car. It was part of the logics post world war II, we could not depend upon the pacific shipping lanes in wartime for supply, it was imperative we had that internal capacity and know how. Chifley negotiated with the British Motor Corporation, and General Motors and Ford. None were that interested. Holden were originally South Australian saddlers who went on to build chassis for motors and drive train sourced from General Motors (Buicks and Chevrolets). It was finally agreed a new joint venture company, called General Motors Holden would stump up pounds 1,000,000 plus technology and the government would add 3,000,000 and by 1948 the first all Australian car was produced at the Pagewood production facility. GMH was so successful that by 1963 Detroit had bought out the Australian Government, and had received dividends way beyond the initial 4,000,000 pound (or AUD8,000,000) so in 1961 Ford decided to build a locally made Falcon for the Australian market. Chrysler joined the rush with the Valiant. The first R model had a dash board sourced straight out of Detroit, adapted from left hand drive to right hand drive. The indicators were back to front. The Japanese car industry was in its infancy. Toyota until 1948 only built trucks. Honda until 1961 only built motor bikes. My friend at school his Dad had bought a Datsun, and we all called it “Jap Junk”. By the time British Motor Corp evolved to Leyland, they too decided to build an Australian car in the P76, and by 1974 were haemorrhaging money. My Dad worked at Holden til 1956 and then BMC til 1962. In the summer of ‘73 I personally was building 16 carbies that were going into the first police pursuit Chargers. They were growth industries. By 1969 the Aussie straight six was exported extensively to the Middle East, much more suited to the dry hot and arid conditions than European or American built offerings. In the Federal election of October 25th, 1969 it was going to be close, and the Liberals were led by John Gorton, and their coalition partner then was John McEwen (black Jack) to his adversaries, and while Gorton promised to smash the monopolies (BHP in steel manufacture & ACI in glass), McEwen gave a blank cheque of protection to Ford and Holden to maintain the Aussie export of cars, still fighting the Pacific War. The Bathurst 500 was the ultimate of car rivalry. Holden stretched the HT to manufacture the Brougham (which in time became the Statesman) to compete in the Middle East against the prestige machs (Mercedes and Rolls Royce). Ford introduced the Landau. Holden imported a 327 cubic inch V8 motor from Detroit while they tooled up a locally built 307. Ford matched them by first importing the Mustang 289 while tooling up in Australia for a 308. Chrysler first had a 269 but smashed them all with a 366, and still couldn’t win Bathurst. (The brakes couldn’t perform as well as the motor, and most cars were out of the race within 100 miles). In history every decision is now seen as simple. The choices get eliminated in history. Just a scintilla of conjecture. Disputing the facts. Yet today as Caltex is closing the Kurnell petrol refinery, Shell will soon not distil petrol in Australia at all, Ford announces a 3 year plan to cease production of the Falcon, choices are not simple, they are complex! Or are they? The above example could easily have been around Bitumen Oil Refineries Aust. Ltd (Boral) or it’s fraternal twin Australia Motorists Petroleum Oils Ltd (AMPOL) and Shell and Caltex and the petrol game. I have skipped the Button plan, the floating of the Dollar, Quantitative Easing and a whole lot more. I want to stay simplex. The government and the AMWU both promise answers into the future for whatever that is worth. There are definitely no easy answers to such upheaval, just worries. It is just far easier to stay with happiness and its causes. All things will pass away. Will the trench war that was WWII ever be fought again. Mounted troopers gave over to trenches to guerrilla tactics, and now to terror and improvised explosive devices. Do the shipping lanes matter? How many key decision makers even understand how the Pacific War was largely fought on supply. None of this affects this year’s return on funds employed or the share indices. The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – 5 (DSM V) has just been released. The psychiatrist, who led the composition of DSM IV in the 1970’s, is now regretful of his earlier work and scathing on the mental health industry. He says that DSM IV had led to a plague of Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism and Bi-polar diagnosis. All fuelled by the drug companies and their greedy share market returns. The Benzo group of drugs simply don’t work. After 3 months you need stronger doses and they are a terrible addiction. There are border line cases (self harm) who need lithium. There is schizo’s (people who hear voices) and a bit more, but too many depressions just need cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT) or other rational arrivals. Psychology only dates back to circa 1900. Once more what causes happiness? Fortune tellers have an unwritten rule of not foretelling of disaster or ruination. It can be self fulfilling. Nostradamus while fun spoke of a pig man flying in a metal horse and dropping a mushroom, while all is interpreted because all written in very obtuse and rarely spoken latin, so that today believers say this was a gas masked pilot flying the Enola Gay and dropping the H Bomb on Hiroshima. Simplex! Believing in Sanity is insanity. |
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EYE-BALL’s Herman on – The Tears of a Prime Minister –
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| Links to Previous ‘Herman’ Posts:
– 24th Mar – An Example of bureaucracy gone mad – – 10th Mar = The Carbon Tax – Post Election … – 7th Mar – Wayne Swan – Please Stop 28th Feb – The Australian Labor Party View – 6th Feb – Corruption – 25th Jan – Anti Discrimination – – 17th Jan 2013 – Atheism – – 12th Nov – Hegemony – 2nd Nov – A March early Federal election – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Herman’ posts: |
Title: – The Tears of a Prime Minister – | Author: EYE-BALL’s Herman O’Hermitage | 19th May 2013 | |
| T HIS IS TRULY AMAZING – AND WORTH THE EFFORT….MATH QUIZ: Reveals your favourite movie!!
I did it in my head, then on paper, and finally on a calculator just to confirm my numerical capabilities. Each time I got the same answer, and sure enough it IS my very favourite movie EVER! You will be AMAZED at how scary true and accurate this test is. Movie List:
I received this joke by e-mail in mid February. The strangest part is the sender was a former ALP member and Candidate. Such is the disaffection for this government. On November 24, 2007 I worked with this fellow at Narraweena Public School in the seat of McKellar, passing out ALP how to vote info. To each person as they walked out I said “Have a nice night” and to those who took ALP paraphernalia off me, I commented “you will have a good night”. Recently I have been asked to enter a sweep on election night what time will Julia make her concession speech? At the last election I predicted that the result would be unknown at the time of closing the national tally room on the Saturday night, I predicted the result would be called mid Sunday afternoon. I was only out by 2 plus weeks, and I believed that Windsor, Oakschott and Katter would join a coalition government. As the Coalition won 73 seats, that appeared to be consistent. For some time, I have been doubting this parliament will last until September 14. Now I am convinced it will. To hear Abbott last Thursday affirm September 14, means that the opposition are working to this schedule. Therefore the polling stations will close on the east coast at 6pm, and meaningful data will be available from 7.30pm. By 8pm Central Australia polling stations will be showing a tiny glimmer of hope for the ALP, but by 8.30pm when the first data comes in from the West Coast the East Coast will have about 65% of votes counted, and a 9% swing in Qld, a 8% swing in NSW, and a 6.5% swing in Victoria and 5% swing in Tasmania will see the coalition already having won 75 seats. At that time in Tasmania the Coalition will have won 3 of the 5 seats. At that time it will be announced Julia Gillard is expected to address the nation in about 10 minutes. It will be about 9pm before the cameras finally cross to the PM. There will be no tears. By that time our Julia will have cried herself out. She will be stoic, and composed. She will have been marginally conceded her own seat of Lalor in Melbourne’s Central Western suburbs with a reduced majority. Her current 1st preference vote is over 64%. Knowing she is to vacate the lodge, she will want to retire, and will definitely state she will throw open the ALP leadership. Wayne Swann will lose his seat of Lilley. Kevin Rudd will be regularly featured on Channel 7. Even for him it will be uncomfortable. He will refrain from saying I told you so, and he will be constantly asked if he will seek the leadership only to respond he will do what it takes to rebuild the ALP brand. What he really wants is to break the grip of the ACTU and several unions that include AWU, TWU and ETU. Prime Minister Abbott will be an ally in that cause, at that time. I bumped into John Murphy today. He is the ALP member for Reid. That seat is right in the coalition targets. I asked him how he is doing? He replied OK. He was betting on the gallops and while ever the politician that was his focus. He asked where I live, and I told him in Grayndler. He mentioned what Albo was up to. They always assume you are a stool pigeon. This week parliament has been illuminating. On Tuesday Swan gave a rather commanding budget speech, but afterwards I felt very hollow. On Thursday I was truly shocked how Abbott turned his speech into a campaign launch. And it was so effective. His promise on conclusion to work for the people of Australia, looking straight into the camera. Simply so effective. This brings me to the tears, and the sad part. For the next 4 months we are basically rudderless. A government only interested in improving their electoral stocks, an opposition hell bent on meticulous planning and no bad publicity, ipso facto by election day the only real issue is how can you cast a senate vote, so that the coalition is kept in check. On Thursday morning our PM was nearly in tears talking about the NDIS in Parliament. It is to be her epitaph. Sorry Julia, as hard as people may try you don’t get to write your own history. It is hard to expunge the Schools Building program. We will go on giving a Gonski for decades to come. Most importantly, Disability care is still rather conceptual, and the detail is still to come. On March 11, 1983 John Malcolm Fraser gave his concession speech to Bob Hawke, and nearly broke down in tears. Hey Mal, life wasn’t meant to be easy! So choke on it! Thirteen years later Paul Keating knew his time was up, and his speech was so confident, it was even vain glorious. That what I see for our first female PM. The tears will be in trying to turn things around. By 9pm on September 14th there will be no tears left. John Murphy turns 63 in a fortnight. By September he will be just shy of 15 years as MHR. He can retire gracefully. In late September Julia Gillard turns 52. She will have 15 years as a MHR and over 3 years as PM. She will constitute our 7th surviving former PM. 52 is just too young to retire. Any job offers out there? |
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EYE-BALL’s Herman on – An Example of bureaucracy gone mad –
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– 10th Mar = The Carbon Tax – Post Election … – 7th Mar – Wayne Swan – Please Stop 28th Feb – The Australian Labor Party View – 6th Feb – Corruption – 25th Jan – Anti Discrimination – – 17th Jan 2013 – Atheism – – 12th Nov – Hegemony – 2nd Nov – A March early Federal election – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Herman’ posts: |
Title: – An Example of bureaucracy gone mad – | Author: EYE-BALL’s Herman O’Hermitage | 24th Mar 2013 | |
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| The following is an example of the due process involved when dealing with Public Service bureaucracy when a long-term unemployed and mature aged person applies for employment within the public service.
The ease at which rejection is decided upon by the HR Departments within the Public Service ranks leaves applicants with only a single course of action – that is to pursue discrimination options to force the HR personnel into a contest to justify their selection criteria and attitudes, and how the system protects from within. What follows is a presentation of the documentary evidence needed to pursue such an anti-discrimination application.
List of Annexures – copies not provided:
Application to the Federal Court:
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EYE-BALL Opinion – American Gun Laws – will to change is just not there for Legislators –
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Title: – American Gun Laws – – will to change is just not there for Legislators – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 17th Dec 2012 | |
| Every body is reeling and has an opinion on the recent mass shooting in Connecticut USA. Another 27 people died including 20 children aged from 5-10, and the teachers who tried to protect them. The shooter and his mother, one of the teachers, also died.
‘People kill people’, the gun does not point or pull the trigger all by itself – this oxymoron statement is the standard response that comes out after each one of these mass shootings. There has been 41 USA mass killings – [i.e. 4 or more deaths constitutes as mass shooting] – since 1997 when Australia introduced its gun buy-back legislation. Before that date, there were 25 odd mass shootings in America. In Australia there had been 13 mass shootings before the 1997 Howard introduced legislation culminating with the Port Arthur shooting of 35 people. There has been no mass shootings in Australia since that Legislation was introduced. This is evidence that legislation has had an influence in Australia in reducing gun related mass shootings. In the time since 1997 there have been family massacres where guns were not used … how can you have mass murders by guns when guns are not used – again a oxymoron type debate. If guns were readily available would there have been mass gun shootings – of course … so in part the legislation is seen to have worked because it took guns off the streets and made it harder to obtain gun licenses. American gun laws revolve around the US Constitution and the 2nd Amendment – the Right to bear Arms. That Law states: [Wikipedia source – linked here.]
The ‘Bill of Rights’ (1689) and the ‘US Constitution’ are documents that most modern day society’s have adopted in part in the forming of their own Constitutions. The defining reasoning in all those who have used the ‘Bill of Rights’ and ‘US Constitution’ – is they have removed the ‘right to bear arms’ clause and amendment. Make no mistake, if America really wanted to rid their communities, the drug dealers, the gang-bangers, and the 200 million registered guns, assault weapons and the like, they would have done so. The will is not there because to own a gun in America is a freedom of expression. The crime rates dictate people want to protect themselves – you have a gun, I’ll buy a bigger or even two guns to fight back. The Gun Lobby’s financial support to the Republican Senators who vote as a block on any move to amend the gun ownership laws have deep pockets, and the money made in the gun retail and wholesale business represents a massive chunk of American commerce. Take tobacco as an example in this debate – Government’s worldwide have increased taxes on tobacco to astronomical levels to create a deterrent to stop people killing themselves. The medical expense for tobacco induced cancers reduce all the tobacco taxes collected to a negative sum – the rest of the community pays the shortfall. Why not ban the product all together under the Drug Legislation because tobacco kills people – it’s a freedom and whilst the science in the last 40 odd years has connected cancer and tobacco – in all that time tobacco lobbyist’s have kept the tobacco industry alive despite the US$ billions paid out in compensation to dead and dying tobacco smokers. If legislators really wanted to rid their communities of their guns – a first step would be to lift license fees, annual and initial, increase the cost of weapons via sales like taxes, make it so expensive to own a gun that people will hand them back if an incentive is involved – much the same as the strategy was for tobacco. This has not been achieved with any effectiveness. 87 people die or are injured in gun related crime every day in America – that is day after day every day of the year … for a society to accept these numbers and go about their business as if unconcerned says much about where American values reside. You then turn the American debate to abortion and the like and all of a sudden Americans are up in arms over civil liberties concerned with the ‘right to choose’. The two debates, guns and abortions are opposites – hence the conundrum that is the complex society America represents. The gun ownership debate is as much about a freedom of choice as opposed to the death and destruction guns create. The debate needs to be framed differently if it is to have any chance of success. America is a brutal society – crime is rampant and even more so since the GFC impact – store ownership is an invitation to be robbed and so they take to defending themselves – with guns. It is all an escalation equation based on a society where freedoms have turned the American morality and conscience to a level that threatens the very basic freedoms it was meant to protect. Killing somebody is destroying all the freedoms and civil liberties that person was entitled to … America is a society out of control and when the East looks to America and says ‘stay away’ … ‘we don’t want you infecting us with your lewd and morally depraved societal values’ – they are not wrong. Porn, grotesque violence, suggestive video games, comic strips, music lyrics, cult movies based on depraved psycho’s, all in the name of entertainment – for most it is just that – but for the twisted and confused mind it means a whole different thing and the message it gives provides the thought and mentally disturbed with options they carry out in real life. Who committed the crime – the messenger delivering the concept, or the mentally disturbed person pulling the trigger? I don’t have an answer – but while man fights wars with guns and the like – while he finds that killing people is acceptable, be it sanctioned via war, or law-abiding execution, or tolerance of drug dealers killing themselves and innocents caught in the cross-fire, man’s right to defend themselves will lead to revenge and like retribution killings. It is as simple as it is complex – this kid who carried out these murders used his mothers guns who by all reports was an enthusiastic gun owner and user. There is only the motive left to understand because access and opportunity was provided by third parties in a free and open society. Could the mother have seen this coming – an unanswerable question … but when school grounds and classrooms become the battlegrounds where sicko’s target for whatever reason … there is something horribly wrong with our teachings and the societal examples being provided. The parents of these children will never have another Christmas where they don’t have the sense of loss this tragedy has created. In a week or so the media and people will have moved on and be thinking about their own Christmas and family – this is a hard issue for America and if Obama is to achieve anything in his second term of office – riding the streets and homes of assault type weapons would be a defining achievement.
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EYE-BALL Opinion – “International men of mystery” – An Australian modern day Bank Heist story –
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Latest ‘EYE-BALL Opinion’ Posts: – 13th Dec – eBay Traders on welfare tracked – for income and tax investigations – – 12th Dec – Roxon joins Gillard as Enemy of the State – The Slipper verdict 1s Justice denied – 11th Dec – Gillard is Dividing A NATION – It’s not about Politics, but rightful entitlement – – 6th Dec – Gillard’s Judgement again challenged – what she’ll do for any positive publicity – – 5th Dec – ALP Senator John Faulkner – Perhaps a dark horse for the PM job – – 5th Dec – QLD ALP Badguys land plum jobs – Gillard continues to add to the mediocrity – – 3rd Dec – Bob Katter’s Australian Party – an alternative – – 3rd Dec – Some ‘Carbon-Tax’ reality – – 29th Nov – A Slithering, Slimy, Spitting Lizard – Part II – Gillard’s been hiding in the Tall Grass – A follow-up Story – – 28th Nov – A slithering, slimy, spitting Lizard – Gillard’s been hiding in the Tall Grass – now exposed – – 26th Nov – The Collective v the Abstract – Gillard is aware of her wrong doings – – 25th Nov – Distressed Damsel Gillard’s Black Knight – Bruce Wilson’s 11th hour offer to defend Gillard – – 24th Nov – The Jewish v Arab problem – A naive perspective – – 24th Nov – Hedley Thomas plunges the knife – Gillard mortally wounded – – 23rd Nov – Immigration and Asylum Seekers – What is the real answer – – 20th Nov – Schoolies Week Starts – The Booze for Kids debate again heats up – – 16th Nov – How Deep does the AWU corruption cover-up go? – An exposé on innuendo, evidence, hearsay and conjecture – – 15th nov – Hedley Thomas exploding on Gillard – Gillard has a case to answer … – – 14th Nov – Gillard behaves like a Guilty Person – Asks for allegations to be made – – 14th Nov – The Australian Media – Lapdog’s at best – absolutely lost the plot on integrity, and their charter of responsibility – – 9th Nov – Open Letter to “The Independents” Re: – – 9th Nov – “Courage is an Angle” – the difference between a good day and a great day – – 8th Nov – RUDD fires a broadside aimed at GILLARD – done under a burka to hide its true intent – – 6th Nov – Gillard’s caucus and union support in revolt – her position becoming more untenable by the day – – 5th Nov – Referendum Discussion Part 1 – Compulsory Voting – Eye-Ball’s – “None of the Above Campaign” – – 4th Nov – Gillard Sunburnt – the flames of discontent begin to impact – – 2nd Nov – A Montage of AWU Scandal Reports – Gillard to become “Open-Season” – – 1st Nov – Education … A white Elephant – Politicising the future of young Australians – – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Opinion’ posts: |
Title: – [Copied Story] – “International men of mystery” – – An Australian modern-day Bank Heist story – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 16th Dec 2012 | |
| The SMH Senior Reporter – Kate McClymont wrote a story last week about an ‘Ocean’s 11’ type Bank heist that is worthy of reading. I for one had not heard of this ‘heist’ until I read the story and wanted to share – it’s a worthy piece of journalism by a quality writer …
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EYE-BALL Opinion – eBay Traders on welfare tracked for income and tax investigations …
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Title: – eBay Traders on welfare tracked – – for income and tax investigations – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 13th Dec 2012 | |
| The Department of Human Services have become the new ‘jackboots’ in Gillards Nazi like approach to welfare recipients doing some on-line eBay trading. The Dept now has the ability with new laws now allowing them to track eBay traders responsible for threshold trade limits. It can also match these people with the Centerlink database to catch out undeclared incomes.
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In a sure sign that the Government is in a revenue crisis – eBay sales and or purchases by people on welfare are now being targeted as a new source of welfare savings. The welfare system has a program where recipients can become eligible for credits, or work a number of hours and not have their pension offset. All designed to supplement the welfare payment which is grossly inadequate. What is this message telling welfare recipients? What the above story does not tell us is what types of pension these people were receiving, except for the small numbers quoted as earning ‘child-support’ benefits. Surely with the ‘tax minimisation’ schemes operating that effectively reduce the tax paid by high net worth individuals through Trusts, and off-shore registrations, the Tax office could come up with better ways to use the Human Resources investigators to catch larger fish. This Government is so desperate for positive news during thus AWU hiatus, the Department Minister Senator Carr, believes this is a big enough story to warrant national broadcasting – if they wanted to really catch people why broadcast the technology? Genuine welfare cheats are a problem – but if you are a middle-income earner and work on commission incentives – estimating incomes forward to allow Social Security to make child-support payments can be a tricky business. Under and over estimates happen all the time – what is the Dept telling those on child-support welfare – declare your eBay trades. That is a stone best left unturned – because then ‘losses’ can become a part of the equation with tax offsets. If one was to compare the taxpayer cost of say – former Speaker in the House of Representatives Mr Slipper and his ‘rorts’ and overseas ‘junkets’, it would take how many welfare cheats to cover what Slipper has ripped out of the ministerial expense system? The latest report had Mr Slipper spending $300k on parliamentary expenses since he stood down as Speaker. This included $100k worth of overseas trips for himself and family – see linked story here. Slipper cried foul recently and declared he would go bankrupt if he had to pay his own legal costs to fight the Ashby case. The Judge did him a favour yesterday by giving him a favourable verdict – see story here. EYE-BALL wrote a post on this story and it can be read here – the point being is that income accountability shout start at the highest level – if Slipper can escape punishment with ‘pay-back’ deals if he gets caught, why would he not continue to test the system for all he can rip off.. I’m a little on the fence on this subject – unemployment benefit is less than $400 a week – where is the Human Resources Dept targeting – child support type welfare, disability, or single mother support welfare. Rents around Australia are pushing $300 a week in rural areas, and 4-$500 in metropolitan zones. How can the unemployment benefit allow anyone to survive. Rent assistance has not been increased on any index basis since the early 2000’s. In that time rents in some areas have more than doubled. Advocates have argued for years about the inadequacy of the welfare payment to genuine applicants. It is a political football – the perception in giving welfare increases to unemployed persons over and above normal indexing is always a negative poll trigger. Targeting disability and middle-income child support type welfare is a vote winner. There are many mixed messages in this announcement. Tax evasion is a National past-time for everybody – if someone is arbitraging eBay buyers and sellers good luck to them – what is the margin/profit being made … if turnover is the benchmark criteria, not all sales would be profitable. These traders are paying GST on new store items sold/purchased on eBay – many bored home makers do eBay trading whilst at home taking care of their children. Would the Government rather them be watching TV, or down the pub playing the pokies … if they are intuitive and smart enough to make good use of the time and make a few bucks doing it – why should the Government want to intercede and try and make a case to have child-support welfare removed, reduced and/or paid back. Where is the incentive in life when the Government has its hand in you pocket all the time. The GST is supposed to take care of the tax on these types of items … second-hand goods don’t attract GST nor should they. |
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EYE-BALL Opinion – Bob Katter’s Australian Party – an alternative –
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Title: – Bob Katter’s Australian Party – – an alternative – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 3rd Dec 2012 | |
| There is an alternative if you like your Politics Nth Queensland style. Bob Katter is winning friends in Queensland politics with LNP defections. His numbers look set to rise after last weeks turmoil involving QLD Premier Campbell Newman.
Talk is that Clive Palmer is looking to form an alliance to take on Newman and see him forced out of the LNP Leadership. Just how they do that up against a 75 odd seat majority is still an unknown. Perhaps Bob’s ‘Australian Party’ is worth a look. The following was sent as a promotional ‘tongue in cheek style’ message.
To get a better understanding of Bob Katter and his family values – his support for his daughter during her ‘assault’ charges hearing, arising from a physical altercation with her children’s kindergarten teacher earlier this year – shows Bob has raised interesting children. Bob stood outside the courtroom distributing flyers about the injustice and read to the attending press a statement of support. It speaks volumes for Bobs committment to family … see linked story with video here – To find out more about Bob Katter and his policies and what he stands for – use this link to visit – Bob Katter’s ‘Australian Party’ |
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EYE-BALL Opinion – The Case for A Beheading – A Requiem – What’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander –
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Title: – The Case for A Beheading – A Requiem – – What’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 1st Dec 2012 | |
There is much debate and bluster over her continued denial to answer direct questions – the upshot is that the burden of proof is with those trying to prove she has done something wrong. All else is conjecture, supposition, and conspiracy theory. During the week that was, a week that – ‘will live in infamy’ to use Winston Churchill like rhetoric, Gillard has survived – be it with a mortal legacy that has cast a toxic pail all over and around her. Those standing close to her have also become toxic. One might say Gillard is ‘a dead woman walking’ – and the longer the ALP caucus align up behind her – the damage to the ALP brand name become bigger and ever looming large as we approach an election year. Some of the Gillard wounding during the week was internal – the defeat of the PM by the Cabinet and the Caucus over the UN Security Council vote on Palestine wounded her more that anything the Opposition threw at her during Question Time. Out of that Caucus defeat a new contender has emerged – Bob Carr staked his claim … and for Bob Carr his narrow ego will now be unstoppable. One has to take stock after a week like we have just had – a review process and acknowledgement of just how much has been won, and what was the political cost in gaining the ground achieved. Firstly – The Opposition: Abbott’s absence from the dispatch box for the first two days was tactical and obvious. He emerged and ask a question on the UN Security Council defeat of the PM on Wednesday, and then on the Thursday, he spoke to a special suspension of Standing Orders to allow a 15 minute debate on Gillard’s criminality. The rating for the Opposition for the week was 5 out of 10 – it was a mixed bag or results. Another way to weigh up the week is to say that the Opposition landed light-weight blows in the latter part of the week – but Gillard had them covered all week. A more detailed summation:
The ‘text’ of that interview was reported in EYE-BALL’s previous post – “A slithering, slimy, spitting Lizard – Gillard’s been hiding in the Tall Grass – now exposed” and – linked here. Secondly – The Government: It was a roller-coaster ride for the PM and the Government – full of fire and brimstone – Gillard came out on Monday fully prepared for the declared WAR the Opposition had promised. In one foul swoop – Gillard destroyed the Oppositions options – she held her Press Conference and answered another marathon barrage of questions. The Press gallery was again under prepared and intimidated – and they did what they always do … soft pedal …
The week is best summarised by Paul Kelly and his ‘Editor at Large’ story in the ‘Weekend Australian‘ – it is reproduced below:
Paul Kelly has a well-respected and highly regarded reputation. His Wikipedia profile can be read using this link. The above piece is unbiased and a true appraisal of how most disenfranchised ALP supporters might feel. They largely agree Abbott is not the alternative … they agree Gillard has Leadership skills … but they also agree she is not their elected Leader. Collectively – these disenfranchised ALP supporters, when joined by the Coalition supporter base – all agree that this PM has a past that dishonors the Office of the Prime Minister – she is not a ‘fit and proper’ person to serve as our Prime Minister. Do you think she would want a do-over – hardly given the way she is clinging on in a desperate attempt to right a sinking ship. Too many Ministers have hooked themselves to her hip and connected to the ships anchor – they have all vowed to go down with the ship with her. Time will tell how committed they are to self-sacrifice. This continued daring and recklessness by a Government fully committed to supporting a PM with a criminal past, is too big to admit it’s error. Replacing Rudd was when it all started from the electorate’s perspective – but the Union plan and strategy to replace Rudd was years in the making. Rudd was but the puppet to win Government from Howard – his fate was sealed the first day he took office – it was just a matter of time before the Unions aligned the circumstances before they acted. Gillard represents the face of Unions – allowing Craig Thompson to continue to serve as an ALP endorsed MP was evidence of that. His becoming an Independent was a disguise and stunt to give Gillard deniability in that she could continued to allow him to serve in her caucus. That is an evil that has embraced this Government and the Independents who hold the balance of power know it all to well. The AWU revelations thus far are but a scratch of the surface – the Unions are corrupt to the core. This whole exercise started with Rudd’s assassination and Gillard just could not say no when her loyalty was tested and she was offered the PM role by the assassins. The Unions will rue the day their collective decision was to purge themselves of Mr Rudd and go with Gillard. The Union Mantra: Let’s go with full disclosure here – the concept of a Union being representative of the workers and fighting for the rights of the workers is the stage setting the Unions want everybody to see. Behind that setting is another story that has been exposed and talked about for decades. Employers, i.e. the Corporate world have for ever done deals with Union boss’s to free up their workplace and make them free of industrial actions. The way this has happened is by payments disguised as ‘workplace safety’ and the like, as in the AWU scandal case. These payments are made to Union Boss’s and the corrupt Boss’s within the Union Management – i.e. the likes of Wilson and Blewitt, turn these ‘slush-fund’ type payments into their own personal expense treasure to do with as they want. The employer gets a bona-fide tax deduction to boot, and if the money trail was followed – as with the AWU scandal – these funds will never see the light of day – they disappear through laundered transactions to turn them into personal wealth or expended in lifestyle choices. The Mike Williamson HSU fraud is estimated at some $20 million over his time in charge – remember he was the National Secretary of the ALP at one stage. Another fact – the 1.8 – 2.2 million Union members across Australia depending on who you listen to – pay over $1 billion in membership dues in a single year – only the members get a financial statement of how those funds are accounted for. There is no regulatory requirement to account for the expenditure of those members funds other than to the members … a $billion dollars a year of members subscriptions – where does it go? Now if an employee was to embezzle funds from an employee and is caught – it is a crime and they will do time. For Unions to extort/blackmail funds from Contractors to secure ‘strike-free’ work zones – can they be deemed the same if those funds are not reported to the Union, or are kept off-book for alternative purposes? Do the members have entitlement to these funds – is this theft by deception? If the funds are returned for the benefit of members – is there still a crime visa viz the extortion/blackmail aspect of the transaction? Now look again to Mike Williamson, and Craig Thompson’s Union activity – both were Union boss’s who are now facing criminal proceedings for their personal use of funds from these types of transactions. If it was just a rorting of the Members funds that is clear embezzlement. But to set up a complicated scam where Associations are registered, Bank accounts opened to received the cash, and all this wass done in the AWU case, under the nose of the primary AWU through the same Law Firm. Wilson used his girlfriend to argue a case to allow the Association to be registered after being first refused – surely the ALP caucus are not fools. Their problem is that they are all neck deep in it – they dump Gillard they risk her turning on them all and putting them all in it. This is the crux … Gillard having had her past cleansed by the Union thugs intimidating the connected people, she can now turn on them if they leave her like a shag on a rock. This corrupt Union exposure has a long way to go and it will involve many of Australia’s largest Corporate employers. Thiess for example – it was Wilson’s brother-in-law that made the cash/cheque payments to the ‘AWU Workplace Reform Association. What was the split – did the brother-in-law get a kickback for the contribution, and did the ‘Schools Rebuilding’ program managed by Gillard during the GFC cash injection, and the $100’s millions of contracts handed to Thiess have links to Gillard and the Thiess connections from 1992-95? Now consider this scenario and look again to the AWU scandal – Wilson was king in WA, yet he needed Gillard his girlfriend to help him set up the scam. The firm Gillard worked for – Slater & Gordon – a well known ALP law firm – do you not think that as lawyers they would be aware of how to launder funds – and in particular these lumpy and large monies paid by Corporate employers and contractors. This has to have been a well-tried and tested practice for decades, if not centuries. This is the heart of the matter before all Australia now – have the Unions and their declared workforce representation now turned into a buggering of those workers so they can use the membership loyalty to leverage site payments from the contractor to guarantee ‘strike-free’ work zones, and then use those payoff’s as personal funds for personal use? It is time to find out once and for all – and nothing less than a Royal Commission to investigate every Union in Australia, their books, their site management records, and the forensic investigations of the Contractors to find out who paid the money, and how that money was used and who it was used by. This is what Gillard and her Union cronies are worried by – it is plausible to consider that Peter Gordon’s silence was purchased with his appointment to the High Court – if that is the case how high does the corruption go? What lawyers do at the bequest of their clients is privileged – if it is knowingly unlawful or intended to defraud – what is the lawyers responsibility? A lawyer can not knowingly be associated or connected with the committing of a crime, in its setup, its operations, and in the disposal of proceeds from crime. Many are and their defence is to challenge others to prove the wrong doing – how is Gillard’s defence any different to this. Lawyers who are involved on the shady side of life are very clever in protecting themselves and covering their tracks. Hedley Thomas files a story today titled: “Time for union inquiry, says Michael Costa” – can be read below:
Evidence remains the key – the AWU scandal has two missing files that would sink Gillard – the file she set up off-book when she was a partnered lawyer at Slater & Gordon, and the file containing the letter Gillard wrote to the WA Corporate Affairs Commission in support to have them reverse their decision and allow the new Association to be formed. Without the evidence contained in those files – Gillard can carry on posturing and not answer the direct questions being asked. Until someone has hard evidentiary proof Gillard knows she is safe. The aftertaste is bitter for all who want her gone. All Australia know something happened here – whether it will ever be fully exposed is a countdown exercise with reset buttons all in the ALP’s favour. Hedley Thomas wrote a second story in today’s Weekend Australian on his thoughts for a Judicial enquiry. His story appears below:
I am not in full agreement that a short judicial enquiry will fix or fully expose this Union mess and how far it encroaches into the political arena. Any Judicial or Royal Commission type enquiry focused solely on the AWU, and perhaps the HSU as well, will represent a narrow reach. The concept of Unionism needs a complete overhaul with any result needing to have accountability along the lines of Company Directors and the fiduciary responsibilities put in place. In the short-term – the investigative journalist pursuing this story would love to hear from anybody who is in a position to assist. It is time for a short break – this site will focus on much lighter matters over the next few weeks – some JOKE updates, some Movies and TV reviews, more GURU stuff, and perhaps a few days where the beach sounds good. I wish to thank all who have supported the site over the past year and remind all that free speech is alive and well at this site. |
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EYE-BALL Opinion – A slithering-slimy-spitting-Lizard-Part II – Gillard’s been hiding in the Tall Grass – A follow up Story
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Latest ‘EYE-BALL Opinion’ Posts: – 28th Nov – A slithering, slimy, spitting Lizard – Gillard’s been hiding in the Tall Grass – now exposed – – 26th Nov – The Collective v the Abstract – Gillard is aware of her wrong doings – – 25th Nov – Distressed Damsel Gillard’s Black Knight – Bruce Wilson’s 11th hour offer to defend Gillard – – 24th Nov – The Jewish v Arab problem – A naive perspective – – 24th Nov – Hedley Thomas plunges the knife – Gillard mortally wounded – – 23rd Nov – Immigration and Asylum Seekers – What is the real answer – – 20th Nov – Schoolies Week Starts – The Booze for Kids debate again heats up – – 16th Nov – How Deep does the AWU corruption cover-up go? – An exposé on innuendo, evidence, hearsay and conjecture – – 15th nov – Hedley Thomas exploding on Gillard – Gillard has a case to answer … – – 14th Nov – Gillard behaves like a Guilty Person – Asks for allegations to be made – – 14th Nov – The Australian Media – Lapdog’s at best – absolutely lost the plot on integrity, and their charter of responsibility – – 9th Nov – Open Letter to “The Independents” Re: – – 9th Nov – “Courage is an Angle” – the difference between a good day and a great day – – 8th Nov – RUDD fires a broadside aimed at GILLARD – done under a burka to hide its true intent – – 6th Nov – Gillard’s caucus and union support in revolt – her position becoming more untenable by the day – – 5th Nov – Referendum Discussion Part 1 – Compulsory Voting – Eye-Ball’s – “None of the Above Campaign” – – 4th Nov – Gillard Sunburnt – the flames of discontent begin to impact – – 2nd Nov – A Montage of AWU Scandal Reports – Gillard to become “Open-Season” – – 1st Nov – Education … A white Elephant – Politicising the future of young Australians – – 30th Oct – How do you awake a slumbering nation – Politicians – the most empty of vessels – – 30th Oct – Whistleblowers – love ‘em’ or hate ‘em’ – – 29th Oct – Polls pressure Abbott’s Leadership – Worst PM ever holds lead and flaunts her position – – 28th Oct – Eye-Ball’s “YUCK FILES -1” – ABC’s “Insiders” – Barry Cassidy – – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Opinion’ posts: |
Title: – a slithering-slimy-spitting-Lizard-Part II – – Gillard’s been hiding in the Tall Grass – – A follow-up Story – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 29th Nov 2012 | |
That story appears below:
There is need to take a breath … in a world filled with challenges that are overwhelming Leaderships all over the World – there is an equally decisive battle being engaged in the evil our Leaders are involved with, verses the good being done by others opposing that political corruption. That battle is a losing battle where political and corporate corruption abounds. This AWU scandal has been a 20 year fraud and many attempts to expose it have failed. Failed in part because those who run the Nation have influence and control over the cover-up. One can now see a glimmer of light shinning brightly in the distance – indicative of a small victory in this AWU Scandal cause. Gillard’s role has been exposed and her tenure is a matter of time, yet she is in a position to continue her denial because of the evidence having been ‘cleansed’, as a part of the cover-up. There is a long way to go before the full extent is revealed – but the first crack has appeared. Conclusions are easy – the hard evidence is hard and that small crack will prove defining. For the MP’s on the ALP side who have known about this all along and hid behind the Union bullyboys – we all now get to watch who among you will come out over the next few days to continue their line to protect the PM. The ‘evil’ is now exposed – the dam wall has burst and if justice be served – the flood gates will open up on new evidence. Those who have known about this all along will perhaps re-appraise their position and fall into line, agreeing to whatever is necessary to fully expose the AWU Management’s handling of the cover-up of the fraud. Rob McClelland needs to make his position clear – as does Nicola Roxon and the allegations that she took over the Gillard/Wilson file. Bill Shorten is next and his explanation is required on why he as the ACTU Secretary did not pursue this matter given his knowledge of the fraud when he became the boss of the ACTU. Paul Howes will be pressured as the ACTU boss to act as well … Bill Ludwig needs to be asked under oath about his involvement – as does Ian Cambridge and how his appointment to the NSW Industrial Commission came about. Bob Carr will not escape his role, nor Graham Richardson. What ever transpires in the House this afternoon – none of the Gillard supporters will enjoy their Xmas break. How the Independents respond to this new tranche of evidence may see this Parliament dissolved some time soon – I won’t hold my breath! Congratulations to all who have pushed this matter are premature, but today is a good day … and Hedley Thomas, Mike Smith, Pickering, Dowling, Bolt, Jones, and the many other bloggers and media editors who have given this story air – are entitled to champagne type celebrations. Gillard and her minders will figure on a strategy to deal with this and the Australian people will be left to decide via polls and the like. Gillard’s performance this afternoon will decide if she remains the PM into the new year. This matter will continue and will gain coverage in the void of Parliament over the Xmas recess … speculation will become rampant – Ministers will go to ground on the matter as the caucus canvass’ numbers for alternative Leaders … The odds on a Leadership change before the next election are now long odds on … when it happens is still the question. Well done to all … but the fight continues, we may have won a battle – but the War is still to be won. |
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EYE-BALL Opinion – A slithering, slimy, spitting Lizard – Gillard’s been hiding in the Tall Grass – now exposed –
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Latest ‘EYE-BALL Opinion’ Posts: – 26th Nov – The Collective v the Abstract – Gillard is aware of her wrong doings – – 25th Nov – Distressed Damsel Gillard’s Black Knight – Bruce Wilson’s 11th hour offer to defend Gillard – – 24th Nov – The Jewish v Arab problem – A naive perspective – – 24th Nov – Hedley Thomas plunges the knife – Gillard mortally wounded – – 23rd Nov – Immigration and Asylum Seekers – What is the real answer – – 20th Nov – Schoolies Week Starts – The Booze for Kids debate again heats up – – 16th Nov – How Deep does the AWU corruption cover-up go? – An exposé on innuendo, evidence, hearsay and conjecture – – 15th nov – Hedley Thomas exploding on Gillard – Gillard has a case to answer … – – 14th Nov – Gillard behaves like a Guilty Person – Asks for allegations to be made – – 14th Nov – The Australian Media – Lapdog’s at best – absolutely lost the plot on integrity, and their charter of responsibility – – 9th Nov – Open Letter to “The Independents” Re: – – 9th Nov – “Courage is an Angle” – the difference between a good day and a great day – – 8th Nov – RUDD fires a broadside aimed at GILLARD – done under a burka to hide its true intent – – 6th Nov – Gillard’s caucus and union support in revolt – her position becoming more untenable by the day – – 5th Nov – Referendum Discussion Part 1 – Compulsory Voting – Eye-Ball’s – “None of the Above Campaign” – – 4th Nov – Gillard Sunburnt – the flames of discontent begin to impact – – 2nd Nov – A Montage of AWU Scandal Reports – Gillard to become “Open-Season” – – 1st Nov – Education … A white Elephant – Politicising the future of young Australians – – 30th Oct – How do you awake a slumbering nation – Politicians – the most empty of vessels – – 30th Oct – Whistleblowers – love ‘em’ or hate ‘em’ – – 29th Oct – Polls pressure Abbott’s Leadership – Worst PM ever holds lead and flaunts her position – – 28th Oct – Eye-Ball’s “YUCK FILES -1” – ABC’s “Insiders” – Barry Cassidy – – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Opinion’ posts: |
Title: – a slithering, slimy, spitting Lizard – – Gillard’s been hiding in the Tall Grass – now exposed – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 29th Nov 2012 | |
The HOR Hansard record of Question Time events yesterday can be read using this link – HOR Hansard 28th Nov 2012 – [Page 50 of the Hansard record, and page 66 of the PDF file record. The link to the Hansard record of all sittings of the HOR this week is here.] The arrogance shown all week by the PM does not carry the levity of say a Keating, or a Bob Hawke. Howard could never behave like this and that was one of his strengths … but to see some of the facial masks Gillard has used this week, her tone changes turning her into whining, screeching, ‘bitch in heat’ type performances, and though she be the PM, she has never shown the Office she represents the respect it deserves. This behaviour coming from a sitting PM – whilst playing down the woman aspect for fear of being labeled a ‘misogynist sexist nutjob’ … the performance of the PM all week and for her time in the job has and continues to makes one very uncomfortable. Gillard’s performance in the House this week will be her undoing – the Australian people do not like bully’s – and Gillard has proved to what lengths she will go to prove she is a misandryst and will use her sex leverage to attack anybody who threatens her. Australian women and men will judge her … the pride the women had in her becoming our first female PM will and is evaporating – all a result of the way she has behaved in the position of PM – and how her misandryst mantra is damaging women’s issues all over the world. To add to this – how can anyone respect a ‘crook’ with a past that besmirches the integrity of the Office of the Prime Minister. Close inspection by observers of body language inform the signs Gillard has put out this week is not all bravado. She has wavered at times. Just how close some of the Opposition’s questions have come near the mark can only truly be known by Gillard. The body language observers confirm that Gillard is showing she has something to hide in her return fire. Her tactic all week has been to counter-attack and for the most it has worked, as demonstrated by her early fire press conference an hour before Question Time on Monday last. The Opposition has looked largely ineffective in their performance allowing Gillard to dance around the Deputy Opposition Leaders questions. That was up until last night … the shit hit the fan and today’s House session will be defining. On Lateline last night – the ‘smoking gun’ was revealed – or evidence that it did exist. It’s existence was alluded to earlier that day when Shadow AG Senator George Brandis spoke in the Senate and labeled Gillard in a way that many have wanted to hear for a long time. Mr Brandis’ Senate speech is presented below: [Hansard record linked here – refer page 36 of the Hansard Record – and page 48 of the PDF file.]
These are explosive allegations under privilege and are based on the evidence trail. This statement began to trickle into the media arena late last night which led to the Emerson v Pyne Lateline debate that further ignited the flame under Gillard. [Link to Lateline Iview replay with transcript of the Emerson v Pyne debate.] ‘The Australian‘ published further extracts from the S&G Gillard ‘exit interview’ to use Brandis’ language – which confirms what he alleged in the Senate – that extract is reproduce below:
The Opposition’s tactic yesterday and all week has been to draw Gillard into a lie or a misleading of the House – yesterday’s question was asking Gillard whether she signed the ‘letter’ alluded to by Brandis. The question was asked four times and Gillard ‘danced-around’ the question each time. The question was: [page 56 of Hansard record – page 72 of the PDF file record.
This question is different formats was asked several more times during the session – not once did Gillard give a direct response to the question. It was obvious she was avoiding the answer because she knew that a truthful response would have her on the record and admitting her involvement in setting up the vehicle that was used to accomplish the fraud. The evidence of the letter sent to the This WA Corporate Affairs has ‘gone missing’. The file has been reported lost, as has the S&G file where a copy of this letter would normally be held on file. It is not hard to make a case that a protective ‘cleansing’ has happened to protect Gillard and goes to a larger crime – that is t cover up a crime and will involve a great number more people and their connections that have the ability to make files disappear. The evidence of the ‘letter in question’ is a part of the ‘dare-game’ Gillard is playing – ‘produce the letter or else it is all hearsay’. She knows or has been advised by her puppet masters that the file has ‘gone’, and she can carry on the way she has in the House all week in the knowledge that all that she has to deal with is hearsay. Should she get through today without losing too much more skin in the game, she will lead the Government into next year and perhaps beyond. The Opposition need a defining day in the House today – a lot of it will play out before Question time happens … but the Speaker – all week struggling with remaining unbiased – will again be tested. Both Independents – Windsor and Oakeshott appeared on ‘Capital hill’ late yesterday afternoon and expressed their desire to see the Parliament run full term. A ‘vote of no-confidence’ can be discounted on the comments they both made. They still have stars in their eyes over their position of importance in this minority Government. This author has sent numerous e-mail messages to both these MP’s on the matter of Gillards integrity and her right to serve as the Prime Minister – never once have either sent a reply response. I think they are both men who want to do good – and they both feel that this is their last term … why would they want to cut it short ? Any talk by either of them about the people’s interest being served is false rhetoric – much as Emerson makes a fool of himself when he states the Australian people don’t want to hear or read anymore about the AWU scandal. The misread is there … the Australian electorate may be treated as fools by this Government – yet they understand criminal behaviour and Gillard as a bees-dick away from being caught in her own honey trap. If justice be served it will happen – but then how often is justice really served? All the morning the lovesick Emerson continues to prostituted himself on National TV protesting Gillards innocence and that she ‘has done nothing wrong’ … he remains the biggest fool in Parliament. He behaves like a juvenile love-sick goon who still pines for Gillard in a romantic way – he is blinded by his affection for his Leader. It is obsessive like, and to think that in the context of him being a Minister serving the highest office in the land – Emerson’s continued defense of the PM is sheer lunacy. As a ALP voter all my life – with the alternative – ‘None of the Above’ vote cast in half a dozen elections during that life – I find this ALP Government not worthy of office – I never voted for Gillard, I did vote for Rudd … and most of Australia who did vote for Rudd have never forgiven Gillard and the Unions for what they did. That is my motive in pursuing Gillard – she has never been worthy in my eyes … yet this Cabinet full of her ex-lovers feel they are safe as long as Gillard is safe – hence their unqualified support. If Gillard goes so do they … one hell of a motive to stand before the whole Nation and lie about what they know about what happened and give Gillard their support based on what they have been told – not on what the evidence proves did happen. Prediction: Today – more of the same mis-direction and obfuscation by Gillard – she will not give a direct answer – if she does she knows the flood gates will open … this will be decided by Caucus who will respond to the poll data – if Gillard retains her current levels then she will not be rolled – that is what Politics has come to in this Nation – A PM with a past that will see her former friend and ex-lover most probably go to jail for deeds that were facilitated by Julia Gillard – our PM … where has the integrity of all MP’s gone … where is the moral ground example from our Leadership? Gillard has besmirched the office of the PM for the next in line to serve and for those that follow. She has no idea what her performance means in the long term. She demonstrates daily that she is without conscience, without morality, she possesses integrity that can be best described as – ‘you’ve done nothing wrong unless others can prove you have done something wrong’ … This Nation is a step away from protests and violence over this issue … if that happens will Gillard then get the message … Comment contributor Gerry was right – a joint Task Force by Victorian and WA police to investigae this matter in full is a solution if the Opposition can’t get the job done in setting up a Royal Commission … |
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EYE-BALL Opinion – The Collective v the Abstract – Gillard is aware of her wrong doings –
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Latest ‘EYE-BALL Opinion’ Posts: – 25th Nov – Distressed Damsel Gillard’s Black Knight – Bruce Wilson’s 11th hour offer to defend Gillard – – 24th Nov – The Jewish v Arab problem – A naive perspective – – 24th Nov – Hedley Thomas plunges the knife – Gillard mortally wounded – – 23rd Nov – Immigration and Asylum Seekers – What is the real answer – – 20th Nov – Schoolies Week Starts – The Booze for Kids debate again heats up – – 16th Nov – How Deep does the AWU corruption cover-up go? – An exposé on innuendo, evidence, hearsay and conjecture – – 15th nov – Hedley Thomas exploding on Gillard – Gillard has a case to answer … – – 14th Nov – Gillard behaves like a Guilty Person – Asks for allegations to be made – – 14th Nov – The Australian Media – Lapdog’s at best – absolutely lost the plot on integrity, and their charter of responsibility – – 9th Nov – Open Letter to “The Independents” Re: – – 9th Nov – “Courage is an Angle” – the difference between a good day and a great day – – 8th Nov – RUDD fires a broadside aimed at GILLARD – done under a burka to hide its true intent – – 6th Nov – Gillard’s caucus and union support in revolt – her position becoming more untenable by the day – – 5th Nov – Referendum Discussion Part 1 – Compulsory Voting – Eye-Ball’s – “None of the Above Campaign” – – 4th Nov – Gillard Sunburnt – the flames of discontent begin to impact – – 2nd Nov – A Montage of AWU Scandal Reports – Gillard to become “Open-Season” – – 1st Nov – Education … A white Elephant – Politicising the future of young Australians – – 30th Oct – How do you awake a slumbering nation – Politicians – the most empty of vessels – – 30th Oct – Whistleblowers – love ‘em’ or hate ‘em’ – – 29th Oct – Polls pressure Abbott’s Leadership – Worst PM ever holds lead and flaunts her position – – 28th Oct – Eye-Ball’s “YUCK FILES -1” – ABC’s “Insiders” – Barry Cassidy – – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Opinion’ posts: |
Title: – The Collective v the Abstract – – Gillard is aware of her wrong doings – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 26th Nov 2012 | |
Who are her detractors, who among them want to see Gillard on a spike? Who among us all want to see her expose for all her lies and her maleficence as a puppet on behalf of the Union heavies who resurrected her life and her career? Yesterday – a day where Wilson finally comes out and offers his ‘fraud based’ view that ‘Gillard is innocent’ – created pause before the final assault in the House today. The Opposition have as much to lose as does the Government in this sitting week. The theatre will be important and the Speaker will have her task put to the test early. Preparations are being made, strategy planned on both sides, and the anticipation for all those who think Gillard a ‘crook’ they are hopeful the Opposition can do their task. On the other side, Albanese spent the weekend trying to find precedence to intervene if the questions to be put to the PM have foundation – his role will be to obfuscate the Oppositions time at the dispatch box, to create mis-direction and raise ‘point’s of order’ and have the Speaker rule. All a part of a plan to waste time and obstruct the Oppositions declared intent. In essence it is a ‘chess game’ where opening moves will declare intent and strategy giving the Government a chance to respond in kind. Those hoping for a clear winner on this first day of the House’s last session before rising for the two month Xmas break, will be disappointed. If by Wednesday the Opposition has not drawn blood, then it will be safe to say that Gillard will survive the week and possibly into next year. There are some ‘jokers’ – the Independents and what they intend to do should a motion of ‘no confidence’ become a part of the Opposition strategy. The Opposition will not play that move unless they hold indications from the cross-benches as to their vote intention and they feel sure they have the numbers. It’s a card you don’t play more than once in a sitting week. The money trail is for the physical evidence – the questions for Gillard are based in Law and her role as a lawyer and Partner in the Slater & Gordon Law Firm. For Gillard to claim as she has in that – ‘I have done nothing wrong’ – all the Opposition have to do is trap her in her own testimony in the House. Examples:
The issue of the attorney client privilege can and is working to protect S&G and Gillard. That same protection is working for Roxon in that sh can stay silent and argue that she is complying with the law. As Gerry – a frequent commentator on this site has stated – nothing less than a Royal Commission into this, with an expanded mandate into all Union funds and the reporting of their use for all Unions in Australia will discover what really happened. The AWU wanted this matter kept quite – and that includes ALP heavies including current MP Bill Shorten, past Senator Graham Richardson, Premier Carr and his connection to the Ian Cambridge appointment to the NSW Industrial Commission at a time when Cambridge was pursuing a Royal Commission in 1996 into the AWU scandal. This toxic sludge has been buried and gathering a catharsis of pent up emotion and conjecture – a Royal Commission will uncover the deep roots of Union fraud at the highest levels. This is the achilles heel of the Union movement – snap it now and you get rid of a century of corruption and intimidation dominating the ALP faction groups and the backroom deals done withe the faceless men to get their charges appointed as Senators and pre-selected in safe Labour seats. Australia has a chance here to cleanse the stacked deck. All Australians should see this opportunity for what it represents. Write you local Member and give them your view and dare them to do the right thing. It begins this afternoon – tune in for Question time at 2:00pm AEDST – let the games begin. |
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EYE-BALL Opinion – Distressed Damsel Gillard’s Black Knight – Bruce Wilson’s 11th hour offer to defend Gillard –
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Latest ‘EYE-BALL Opinion’ Posts: – 24th Nov – The Jewish v Arab problem – A naive perspective – – 24th Nov – Hedley Thomas plunges the knife – Gillard mortally wounded – – 23rd Nov – Immigration and Asylum Seekers – What is the real answer – – 20th Nov – Schoolies Week Starts – The Booze for Kids debate again heats up – – 16th Nov – How Deep does the AWU corruption cover-up go? – An exposé on innuendo, evidence, hearsay and conjecture – – 15th nov – Hedley Thomas exploding on Gillard – Gillard has a case to answer … – – 14th Nov – Gillard behaves like a Guilty Person – Asks for allegations to be made – – 14th Nov – The Australian Media – Lapdog’s at best – absolutely lost the plot on integrity, and their charter of responsibility – – 9th Nov – Open Letter to “The Independents” Re: – – 9th Nov – “Courage is an Angle” – the difference between a good day and a great day – – 8th Nov – RUDD fires a broadside aimed at GILLARD – done under a burka to hide its true intent – – 6th Nov – Gillard’s caucus and union support in revolt – her position becoming more untenable by the day – – 5th Nov – Referendum Discussion Part 1 – Compulsory Voting – Eye-Ball’s – “None of the Above Campaign” – – 4th Nov – Gillard Sunburnt – the flames of discontent begin to impact – – 2nd Nov – A Montage of AWU Scandal Reports – Gillard to become “Open-Season” – – 1st Nov – Education … A white Elephant – Politicising the future of young Australians – – 30th Oct – How do you awake a slumbering nation – Politicians – the most empty of vessels – – 30th Oct – Whistleblowers – love ‘em’ or hate ‘em’ – – 29th Oct – Polls pressure Abbott’s Leadership – Worst PM ever holds lead and flaunts her position – – 28th Oct – Eye-Ball’s “YUCK FILES -1” – ABC’s “Insiders” – Barry Cassidy – – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Opinion’ posts: |
Title: – Distressed Damsel Gillard’s Black Knight – – Bruce Wilson’s 11th hour offer to defend Gillard – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 25th Nov 2012 | |
The timing could not be more calculated with the House set to resume Monday [tomorrow] – and the Opposition’s fore-warning to the PM over the past week that they plan to strip back her life and expose her in full for her past sins connected with the criminal aspects of the AWU fraud. Why didn’t Gillard report the fraud to the police when she claims she discovered it for the first time in 1995? As a lawyer it was her duty to report the crime … she has not responded to this question when asked by Julie Bishop in the House on the 1st Nov ’12 – see this link to Hansard [edit updated 26/11/12] on the questions posed. Bruce Wilson has made his first on the record comment to be published in papers around the Nation tomorrow [Monday]. Snippets released in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ today highlight Wilson saying –
These statements released a day before Gillard was to face her possible demise in the Parliament House sitting over the next week has caused a pause in the media’s thinking and momentum in building the story. The past weeks has seen a build up of revelations and presentation of circumstantial evidence all painting Gillard into a corner. To reassess some of these events – please visit the following links to get first hand reporting on the past matters raised in the last week:
There had been a building expectation about next week’s Parliamentary House sittings. Yesterday Gillard appeared to be a fully cooked turkey awaiting a thanksgiving feast … today with the release of the Wilson statement it has caused a holding pattern where the turkey has put back in the oven for further cooking. Perhaps the Wilson ‘fork-test’ reveal some blood ooze indicating more cooking is required – maybe the story is still a little underdone and has more to offer. Some questions for Bruce Wilson –
Swan’s claims in his defence of Gillard yesterday that Blewitt has ‘creditability’ issues, and S&G former Partner Styant-Browne was ‘disgruntled’. If one was to use Swan’s pretense for discrediting both Blewitt and Styant-Browne – what can be said of Wilson’s creditability? What about the Ian Cambridge diaries, the Bob Kernohan claims, the acknowledgement by Gillard that she knew of the fraud in 1995 and did nothing about it other than to break off her relationship? Blewitt has taken a risk in coming back to Australia to make his statements. His request for an immunity deal has been granted and it will keep him out of jail. He has nothing to lose in the claims he has made other then to either confirm his creditability over the events of the AWU fraud, or settle old scores with Bruce Wilson and Julia Gillard. Either way claims that Blewitt is less than creditable have foundation, but then the same applies to responses from Bruce Wilson and Julia Gillard. One could be cynical and draw some lines in the sand and allow a constructive appraisal of Swan’s defense of Gillard. Take Swan’s tirade against Rudd earlier this year, … see YouTube clip below with Swan’s and other Gillard Minister’s comments about Rudd and the ALP Leadership earlier this year – comments begin from 3:50 sec mark – Watching this clip will bring back painful memories for ALP supporters, and again remind us how far the ALP caucus has disconnected from the ALP support base. To compare Swan’s comments with his concession days ago about Rudd being the architect of the GFC response that saved Australia – give Swan’s own creditability a sewer dump as well. The EYE-BALL Guru has called Swan the dumbest Treasurer ever in many of his posts where he highlights Swan’s ineptness at his responsibilities as the Treasurer … this might be a biased opinion … but then when the facts and figures are measured, Swan has given us all plenty of reasons for this assessment. How should anyone regard any statement from Bruce Wilson given Mr Swan’s easy dismissal of Ralph Blewitt and Nick Styant-Browne’s statements under creditability issues? One could say it is all smoke and mirrors – and any real evidence will come from a ‘follow the money’ type investigation. It is still the best way to get to the bottom of the matter and that goes again to Hedley Thomas, the Ian Cambridge diaries, and the investigative journalism underway in digging up the Bank account statements and obtaining copies of the cheques and deposit slips and pursuing the trail of funds. This is a timely exercise but it will be precise. If Gillard is involved there is no chance of her or her ‘cleaners’ tinkering with this type of evidence – i.e. – past history over the lost files from Slater & Gordon, and the West Australian storage facilities can only point to a previous ‘cleansing’ of the background evidence to protect Gillard.
Reading between the lines on this Shane Dowling story, one might thing Keane reward in a High Court posting, was for doing his part in losing files crucial to the AWU fraud. As Shane Dowling states – there will be more in this as the ‘missing files’ becomes more of an issue. The ‘Bolt Report’ discussed the Bruce Wilson comments this morning – view YouTube clip of this discussion below: Gillard and her media team have made a complete mess of what should have been a clean skin-issue from the outset. Had she gave a full and frank account of her involvement many years ago – this issue would not be coming back at her as it has done time and time again. The reason why she has not been able to give a full account is because it would incriminate her. It would reveal how her behaviour as a Lawyer is the reason for the ’cause and effect’ of the scandal in the first place. Since she first responded to the AWU allegations – the comments have been about her being ‘a young and naive’ person that has not flown, then it became – ‘I did nothing wrong’, and the evidence has shown that she did do plenty wrong. What will her next defense be? What will she now offer – will she claim that Bruce Wilson’s account of her involvement is something we all should take on face value … hardly. Nothing has changed and the headlines about the Bruce Wilson comments has allowed the turkey to now become fully cooked, rested and now awaiting a feast for all of Australia’s ‘disgruntled’ voters. |
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EYE-BALL Opinion – The Jewish v Arab problem – A naive perspective –
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Latest ‘EYE-BALL Opinion’ Posts: – 24th Nov – Hedley Thomas plunges the knife – Gillard mortally wounded – – 23rd Nov – Immigration and Asylum Seekers – What is the real answer – – 20th Nov – Schoolies Week Starts – The Booze for Kids debate again heats up – – 16th Nov – How Deep does the AWU corruption cover-up go? – An exposé on innuendo, evidence, hearsay and conjecture – – 15th nov – Hedley Thomas exploding on Gillard – Gillard has a case to answer … – – 14th Nov – Gillard behaves like a Guilty Person – Asks for allegations to be made – – 14th Nov – The Australian Media – Lapdog’s at best – absolutely lost the plot on integrity, and their charter of responsibility – – 9th Nov – Open Letter to “The Independents” Re: – – 9th Nov – “Courage is an Angle” – the difference between a good day and a great day – – 8th Nov – RUDD fires a broadside aimed at GILLARD – done under a burka to hide its true intent – – 6th Nov – Gillard’s caucus and union support in revolt – her position becoming more untenable by the day – – 5th Nov – Referendum Discussion Part 1 – Compulsory Voting – Eye-Ball’s – “None of the Above Campaign” – – 4th Nov – Gillard Sunburnt – the flames of discontent begin to impact – – 2nd Nov – A Montage of AWU Scandal Reports – Gillard to become “Open-Season” – – 1st Nov – Education … A white Elephant – Politicising the future of young Australians – – 30th Oct – How do you awake a slumbering nation – Politicians – the most empty of vessels – – 30th Oct – Whistleblowers – love ‘em’ or hate ‘em’ – – 29th Oct – Polls pressure Abbott’s Leadership – Worst PM ever holds lead and flaunts her position – – 28th Oct – Eye-Ball’s “YUCK FILES -1” – ABC’s “Insiders” – Barry Cassidy – – To see more EYE-BALL ‘Opinion’ posts: |
Title: – The Jewish v Arab problem – – A naive perspective – | Author: EYE-BALL Opinion | 24th Nov 2012 | |
| To the naive the senseless genocide, the bombings, the hatred, the politicking, the view from the outside world where they think – ‘over there who cares’ … they all add up to the diminished concerns normal people have for the ongoing conflict between Jews and Arabs. It’s a conflict that has no context in an advanced and educated world.
I pose a few questions –
They’re simple type questions, but they form the basis for a debate about how religious belief has been responsible for conflicts over many thousands of years. I can count just three Nations formed and based on a Religion faith – Israel – formed out of the WWII persecution of the European jewish population, and Pakistan formed out of the separation of India into muslim and hindu states. Most of the arab world were already formed Nations well before the post WWII formation of a Jewish Israel, and a muslim Pakistan. In answer to question 2 – the answer is all the Muslim Nations, and the Jews. i.e. Indonesia, the Arab States, and Israel. The most populous Nations, China, Russia, The Americas, Europeans, many with Roman Catholic origins do not place religious beliefs above the State … hence the separation of Church and State statutes in their constitutions. You look at a global map and take in from Pakistan, Iran, to Syria, to the Nth African Muslim Nations, Indonesia, they are all generally dictated by a religious belief ahead of State affairs. It is changing in some Nations, but the hard-liners still have sway in places like Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, western ways are shunned, where moderate Nations have allowed progression on human rights issues. In answer to question 3 – well that is a question for each of us to answer dependent on our education and history lessons. If you take religion out of the conflict between the Jews and Arabs, would there still be a conflict? Is the solution connected with diminishing religious beliefs, or would the conflict of hatred born from generational revenge continue? To Westerner’s the stupidity of lobbing bombs across borders, either by uncontrolled rockets, or from precise war planes, it is all about the resultant deaths of innocents. The respect both sides have toward human life is unfathomable in the modern world. Women and children are dying and all the Leaders can think about is escalating the conflict to kill more of the other side. Surely an appropriate response would be for the rest of the world to admonish both sides – yet America, and much of he Western world support Israel unconditionally in the conflict and there begins the problem. I read a story recently – linked here – that made sense … logical sense. A story is titled: “CIA Document Declared Israel Founded Upon Terrorism” – and the passage referred to is copied below:
The comment resonated – it gave some clarity about the conflict and allowed a review of opinions that were based on 1960 history lessons, and modern day reading when the arab, jewish conflicts escalated. Trying to understand what Arab’s and Israeli’s feel toward one another becomes a perspective in arrogance and stupidity. These populations don’t respect the rights of each other, and for the rest of the world to have respect for either side – the opinion comes down to our own religious beliefs. Is there not such irony in that conundrum? I accept the holocaust, I accept the efforts to create the Jewish state, but the continued cost in innocent human life terms that allow both these mandated religious and fanatical Governments to keep warring with one another – is grossly unacceptable. Arming both sides is a West verses East contest … and that is a recipe for a disaster the West has experience with when wars between Iraq and Iran, Iraq and the West, Afghanistan and the West, are all considered in human life and financial terms. Yes it is disgraceful to measure human life and financial costs in the same context. Just about as respectful for the feelings the Arabs and Jews have for one another. This conflict is spreading with Jews among the most assimilated people around the globe. The muslims are also becoming integrated and Western Governments have open their borders for this migration out of the racist position card being played if they close their borders to either race. This is an underbelly problem with societies and it will not be long before the hatred these two races have for one another infects our own society. |
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EYE-BALL Opinion on – The MEDIA – Peddlers of Truth – or just GRUBS without morality!
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| Title: – The MEDIA – Peddlers of Truth – or just GRUBS without morality! 11th June 2012. |
| Who reads daily newspapers anymore? Who believes what newspapers print and vision media deliver? When is the truth stretched until it is no longer believable? Who has a mind to tell the truth as it really is, or just a watered down version because the real truth would not suit or help a cause?
Who are the biggest peddlers of the ‘dish-washed’ version of a news story – who writes their own ‘copy’ with a view to cause a media ‘beat-up’? It is easy to sling the mud – and with a news cycle normally limited to 24 hours or so, the next news story is always only a heart beat away. Let us get real for a moment –
In this mayhem of news uncertainty – who can be trusted to deliver the truth – research is long forgotten – too time consuming and someone else might beat you to the story. _______________________________________ Lets us examine some evidence –
_______________________________________ The western perspective on human existence has become a soft perspective. Soft in the sense that unless it comes easy – via debt purchase or creature comforts – living in hardship is not an option. News delivers confronting images and stories – the western response is to not watch and believe out of sight is out of mind. It is the same with the ease at which media reporting is believed to always be the truth. Yet time and time again stories get altered, retold with new facts, i.e. The Azaria Chamberlin story is about to have another inquest verdict some 30 years later – this was a story that changed on its verdict many times and was retold as new generations of law enforcement revisited the facts. What is the truth – the Chamberlains told their story and it was never believed. How much responsibility of that tragedy rests with the media and their speculative imput that swayed public opinion. How much sway does the media have in forming opinions on any issue. Take the ‘children overboard’ scandal. John Howard never faced charges in the way he fooled all Australia into believing that ‘boat-people’ threw their own children into the ocean to force the navy to rescue them. The truth eventually came out after the election – yet Howard rained for another six years. The truth behind Gillard’s coup to gain the Prime Minister job was revealed after the fact – she lied about when she began to join the plotters, and when her staff started to write her acceptance speech. These issues were big news stories at the time and all found to be based on lies and fodder fed to the press to print and promote vested interests. The MEDIA are as linked to the slant of truth that suits a MASTER – a master that pays for the collusion, the lies, the agenda, everything but the absolute truth. It is right to question, and to question everything put out there – for if we don’t then we are sheep and deserve all that comes forth. _______________________________________ Have your say where it counts: – contact your Local Federal Representative via the links below and let them know how you feel about this, or any other topic that you feel strongly about – or you can just post a comment below and let off some steam.
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EYE-BALL Opinion on – The UN – as useless as a Bull with no dick!!!
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| Title: The UN – as useless as a Bull with no dick!!! |
| This morning at a special gathering if the UN Security Council called to discuss the Syrian crisis – the best the UN could come up with was a resolution that was toothless as a ‘fire ants’ with no fire.
When will World Leaders call a spade a spade and get their collective ass’ out of their self-serving and perpetuating condoning of the slaughter of innocents. This is a ‘genocide’ – we’ve seen in in Bosnia, Rwanda, Libia, Tunisia, Balkans, and many other ‘hot-spots’ around the world in the last century, and that does not include the two World Wars, of the other major conflicts including Vietnam, Kuwait, Korea, Indo China, South America, and so on – it is abhorently irresponsible that the World Leadership does not recognises the ‘genocide’ taking place and the best it can do is slap the Syria Leadership on the wrist and tell them to withdraw the military tanks and troops. Read the ABC story on this below: [Linked On-line here.]
Australian media cycles give more airtime to the Thompson affair then to the 1,000’s being massacred in Syria – we are numbed to the fallout – out of sight out of mind. Where is the ‘human conscience – condemning it only leads to it escalating and Syria leadership thumbing their noses and saying – what aer you really going to do about it? It puts in clear perspective where Leadership priorities truly lie and they are not about trying to stop the human carnage. Shame! Shame! Shame! Where is a real Leader when one is needed? Bob Carr – this is your chance to show some Leadership and get the UN ambassador to do what ‘you’ think is the right thing. Right now – threaten to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and send them to Syria would make you a demigod and might just allow you to stake a claim for the PM’s job. Shame the rest of the World and fight a winnable battle as opposed to the lose lose battle in Afghanistan. It’s a ‘hail-mary’ play but the shame felt by the rest of the world would be put in clear view of those World Leaders all too happy just to sit back and read about the daily loss of civilian life. _______________________________________ To have your say where it counts: – contact your Local Federal Representative and have your say – please use the links below to find your Local Member and let them know how you feel about this or any other topic that you feel strongly about – or you can just post a comment below and let off some steam.
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