14 February 2015

Top Secret America – Boston Bombings

In the early hours (1:40 – 2:40am) of Saturday 14th of February 2015, on Australia’s TV channel SBS ONE a documentary was screened about the intelligence agencies of the U.S of A, covert overseas operations and the threat of ‘terrorism’ on U.S soil.

The documentary showed how U.S’s intelligence agencies gathered information in Iraq pertaining to Saddam Hussein being a treat. When the agencies found that there was no real treat from Hussein, a secret department was created to (fabricate) intelligence in order to invade Iraq. For this fact alone, there should have been an international commission into the war crimes of the U.S.

It is mentioned in the documentary that apparently a secret budget worth billions of dollars funds facilities where the nation’s top intelligence personnel work with the most sophisticated technology at their disposal to ensure the slaves people of America go about their daily lives uninterrupted.

Two ‘terrorist’ plots against the people of the United States were undetected by the multibillion dollar intelligence community, one being that of Northwest Airline Flight 253, where a failure either human error or technology, prevented a bomb from being detonated, and the other when a bomb was detonated at the Boston Marathon event.



The Northwest Airlines Flight 253 passenger Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went undetected because of the software failing to recognise a spelling error in the search, a feature that has been available for a very long time in commercial products in the I.T. industry.

In the Boston Marathon bombings explosion, the intelligence community was unable to locate the alleged perpetrator, despite security cameras on every street corner, and enlisted the help of the general populous, to capture the alleged assailant.

These (deliberate?) failures should have prompted an overhaul of the entire intelligence community, and the sacking and accountability of the people in charge.

If the U.S.’s multibillion dollar budget fails to detect and stop two apparent amateurish ‘terrorist’ plots, then what (covert) operations does this budget really fund?

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Inc.) the world’s largest terrorist organisation?


13 February 2015

New law will require Japan’s workaholics to take days off

36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi worries she’ll never get married or find a boyfriend if she’s
36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi worries she’ll never get married or find a boyfriend if she’s not in the office. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko. Source: AP
 
COLLEGE-educated and gainfully employed 36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi should be a sought-after friend or date, planning nights on the town and faraway resort holidays. But she works in Japan, a nation where workaholic habits die hard. 

Often toiling 14 hours a day for a major trading company, including early morning meetings and after-hours “settai,” or networking with clients, she used just eight of her 20 paid holiday days last year. Six of those days were for being sick.

“Nobody else uses their vacation days,” said Sekiguchi, who was so busy her interview with The Associated Press had to be rescheduled several times before she could pop out of the office.

36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi often toils for 14 hours a day for a major trading company. A
36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi often toils for 14 hours a day for a major trading company. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko Source: AP
 
The government wants to change all that.

Legislation that will be submitted during the parliamentary session that began January 26 aims to ensure workers get the rest they need. In a break with past practice, it will become the legal responsibility of employers to ensure workers take their holidays.

Japan has been studying such legislation for years. There has been more impetus for change since 2012 as a consensus developed that the health, social and productivity costs of Japan’s extreme work ethic were too high.

Part of the problem has been that many people fear resentment from co-workers if they take days off, a real concern in a conformist culture that values harmony.

After all, in Japan, only wimps use up all their holiday days.

Most of the affected workers are “salarymen” or “OL” for office ladies like Sekiguchi, so dedicated to their jobs they can’t seem to go home. They are the stereotypes of, and the power behind, Japan Inc.

Workers fear resentment from other co-workers if they take days off. AP Photo/Shuji Kajiy
Workers fear resentment from other co-workers if they take days off. AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama. Source: AP
 
That has come with its social costs. Sekiguchi worries she will never get married or even find a boyfriend, unless he happens to be in the office. She wishes companies would simply shut down now and then to allow workers to take days off without qualms.

The workaholic lifestyle and related reluctance of couples to raise children have long been blamed as a factor behind the nosediving birthrate that’s undermining the world’s third-biggest economy.

Working literally to death is a tragedy so common that a term has been coined for it: “karoshi.” The government estimates there are 200 karoshi deaths a year from causes such as heart attacks or cerebral haemorrhaging after working long hours. It’s aware of many cases of mental depression and suicides from overwork not counted as karoshi.

Eriko used just eight of her 20 paid holiday days last year. Six of those days were for b
Eriko used just eight of her 20 paid holiday days last year. Six of those days were for being sick. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko. Source: AP
 
About 22 per cent of Japanese work more than 49 hours a week, compared with 16 per cent of Americans, 11 per cent of the French and Germans, according to data compiled by the Japanese government. South Koreans seem even more workaholic, at 35 per cent.

Barely half the hoilday days allotted to Japanese workers are ever taken, an average of nine days per individual a year.

The problem in Japan in some ways parallels the situation of American workers, many of whom don’t get guaranteed paid holidays at all. But those who get them usually do take all or most of them.

Japanese must use their holidays for sick days, although a separate law guarantees two-thirds of their wages if they get seriously ill and take extended days off.

That means workers save two or three holiday days for fear of catching a cold or some other minor illness so they can stay home, said Yuu Wakebe, the Health and Labor Ministry official overseeing such standards.

Workers taking a rare lunch break. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi.
Workers taking a rare lunch break. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi. Source: AP
 
Wakebe himself routinely does 100 hours of overtime a month, and took only five days off last year, one of them for staying home with a cold. He managed to take a holiday to Hawaii with his family.

“It is actually a worker’s right to take paid vacations,” he said. “But working in Japan involves quite a lot of a volunteer spirit.”

Younger workers feel uncomfortable going home before their bosses do. Working overtime for free, called “sah-bee-soo zahn-gyo,” or “service overtime,” is prevalent.

Job descriptions also tend to be vague, especially in white-collar occupations, meaning a person not coming in translates to more work for others in his or her team.

The new law will allow for more flexible work hours, encouraging parents to spend more time with their children during summer months, for instance, when school is closed.

Commuters walk through a train station during morning rush hour in Tokyo. AP Photo/Koji S
Commuters walk through a train station during morning rush hour in Tokyo. AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Source: AP
 
Although Japan is notorious for hard work, it’s equally known for inefficiency and bureaucracy. Workers sit around in the name of team spirit, despite questionable performance and productivity.

Experts say the law is a start, while acknowledging the roots of the dilemma lie deep.

When night falls in Tokyo, groups of dark-suited salarymen can be seen, drinking at drab lantern-bobbing pubs under the train tracks, unwinding before heading home. They laugh, guzzle down their beers and pick at charcoal-broiled fish.

Ask any of them: they haven’t taken many days off. One said the 12 days he took off last year were too many.

Regulating time off might be easier to implement if the economy improves under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s anti-deflationary policies that weakened the yen, a plus for giant exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp.

The overwork problem intensified during the past two decades of economic stagnation in Japan. The use of cheap labour became common to stay competitive in a rapidly globalising economy, while the culture of loyalty to the company stayed.

Abe, not a person noted for taking long holidayss, has been stressing the need for change.

Japan’s work ethic, he said, is “a culture that falsely beatifies long hours.”

New legislation in Japan aims to ensure that workers get the rest they need. AP Photo/Eug
New legislation in Japan aims to ensure that workers get the rest they need. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko. Source: AP

news.com.au 10 Feb 2015

The brilliant brainwashing of an entire nation into mindless corporate slaves.

Well done!
 

11 February 2015

Rabbi Yosef Feldman tells royal commission he didn’t know it’s illegal for adults to touch children’s genitals

 Sydney-based Rabbi Yosef Feldman, president of the Rabbinical Council of NSW, is fighting calls for his resignation after he...
Rabbi Yosef Feldman
 
A HIGH-profile Jewish leader says he didn’t know it was illegal for adults to touch the genitals of children. 

Giving evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Rabbi Yosef Feldman said he was unfamiliar with child abuse laws.

He said even while director of the Yeshivah Gedola Rabbinical College he didn’t bother familiarising himself with the laws.

“Obviously I knew I had certain obligations. I didn’t know what they were. I relied on my father,” he said.

Rabbi Feldman’s father, Pinchus Feldman, has been Sydney’s top Rabbi since 1968.

Counsel assisting the commission Maria Gerace asked directly: “Did you understand that it was against the law for an adult to touch the genitals of another child?”

“I didn’t know that as a fact,” he said.

Rabbi Feldman said he was a director of the Yeshivah corporation, that ran a school, from the age of about 25.

But he said he didn’t consider child sexual abuse to be a common problem.

“There are many issues of life and child sexual abuse I didn’t believe was very common. Even now I don’t think its common. It happens,” he said.

“I haven’t seen the statistics, but I would believe it (the prevalence of child sexual abuse) is about five to 10 per cent.

“Based on things I’ve read about it,” he said.

Feldman shocked victims of sexual abuse in 2011 when he urged rabbis to deal with allegations themselves rather than report it to police.

He sparked widespread outrage after emailing other rabbis to say it should be up to them to decide whether a paedophile should be reported.

The rabbi also said that, where possible, allegations of abuse should be dealt with outside the legal system.
Rabbi Feldman admitted allegations should be reported to police, but only if there were no doubt over their truth.

He said if a child disclosed abuse but you doubted the truth of it, you should go to a rabbi first.

Rabbis could “threaten” the child abuser with publicity instead of reporting them.

“I really don’t understand why as soon as something of serious lashon hara (evil talk) is heard about someone of even child molestation should we immediately go to the secular authorities (sic),” Rabbi Feldman wrote.

“One must go to a Rov (rabbi) who should firstly investigate the veracity of the complaint and if thought to be serious, warn the culprit etc and act in a way that could scare him by threatening him with publicity by internet to the whole community.

“I feel that if we as a Jewish leadership can’t deal with this and other issues bifnim (internally) we are showing ourselves to be impotent.”

The hearing continues.

heraldsun.com.au 6 February 2015

First and foremost in Australia, AUSTRALIAN LAW must be obeyed!

Also, in law: Ignorance of the law is NO EXCUSE.

E.g: 

"Sorry Officer, I did not know traveling down the freeway at 160km/h was illegal".

Let's see how Australia's corrupt legal system handles this one.

Paedophiles, are they really supported by the 'system' where the punishment is letting them back out into the community?

Abbott's faceless men of the IPA

There is one group to which Tony Abbott has kept his promises since becoming prime minister: the Institute of Public Affairs.

The data is in, and it shows Australia now overwhelmingly thinks Prime Minister Tony Abbott is a man whose word cannot be trusted. Depending on which poll you look at, and the exact nature of the questions asked of respondents, somewhere between two-thirds and three-quarters of voters think the first budget of the Abbott government was nasty, unfair and littered with broken promises. They consider the man himself to be a liar.

But Abbott didn’t lie about everything, and there are some people who can trust him to keep his promises. They are his people, the ones who moulded him and his party, who shape its policies, who helped him to power.

We are talking about the members and generous benefactors of the Institute of Public Affairs, Australia’s – and, it claims, the world’s – oldest right-wing think tank.

So old is the IPA that when his father helped establish it, Rupert Murdoch was but a callow youth of 12. Gina Rinehart, another of its most prominent members, was not then even a gleam in the eye of Lang Hancock. But age has not wearied it. The IPA has never been more powerful than it is right now.

Before he won the prime ministership, in April last year, at a dinner celebrating the IPA’s 70th anniversary, Abbott took the opportunity to commit to a whole raft of big promises, with Rinehart, Murdoch and Cardinal George Pell as his witnesses.

He noted the IPA had given him “a great deal of advice” on the policy front, and, offering “a big ‘yes’”, promised them he would act on it.

“I want to assure you,” he said, “that the Coalition will indeed repeal the carbon tax, abolish the department of climate change, abolish the Clean Energy Fund. We will repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, at least in its current form. We will abolish new health and environmental bureaucracies. We will deliver $1 billion in red-tape savings every year. We will develop northern Australia. We will repeal the mining tax. We will create a one-stop shop for environmental approvals. We will privatise Medibank Private. We will trim the public service and we will stop throwing good money after bad on the NBN.”

Abbott has been good to his word. It may well be that not all of these measures will get through the parliament, but there is no doubting Abbott and his government are absolutely serious in their intent.

In fact, one might argue that Abbott under-promised at that dinner and has over-delivered since. Other major items on the IPA’s published wish list included stopping subsidies for the car industry (done), eliminating Family Tax Benefits (part-done), the cessation of funding for the ABC’s Australia Network (done), abandonment of poker machine reforms (done), the introduction of fee competition for Australian universities (done), and negotiating free trade deals with Japan, South Korea, China and India (more than half done).

There is a bunch of others, too, where the government has made significant moves. It might not have abolished the Human Rights Commission, but it has cut $1.65 million from its budget, refused to renew the position of its disability commissioner and appointed – absent the usual due process – one of the IPA’s own, Tim Wilson, as one of the remaining six commissioners. Attorney-General George Brandis has flagged an intention to “further reform” the HRC.

As the Melbourne Age’s economics editor, Peter Martin, noted in a piece of post-budget analysis: “Big food, big tobacco and big alcohol have been thrown the carcass of the Australian National Preventive Health Agency.”

The abolition of that agency was also on the IPA’s policy wish list, as was the demand to put the kybosh on food and alcohol labelling, and end “all government-funded Nanny State advertising” against unhealthy habits such as smoking, drinking and junk food consumption.

And so in February we saw the health department ordered to take down its new healthy food ratings website.

Alastair Furnival, chief of staff to Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash, eventually fell on his sword over that one, although not for the act itself, but because of the subsequent revelation that he had not declared his connection to a lobbying company that worked for junk-food makers.

The IPA, via its “FreedomWatch” site, cited one of the many right-wing commentators of the Murdoch press, Nick Cater, in defence of Furnival on the basis that: “It was clear that Furnival was acting on the minister’s orders, while the bureaucrats were not.”

The bigger question is: on whose behalf was Nash acting? Clearly not on behalf of those bureaucrats derided in FreedomWatch’s apologia as the “Nanny State activists that dominate Australia’s health department”.

There are numerous other policy suggestions on the IPA’s wish list – or more properly lists, plural, as the original 75 item list was later supplemented by another 25 items – on which the government is still working, and on which the IPA can expect at least partial success. The institute wants all media ownership laws eliminated, for example, along with the relevant regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, and requirements put in place that radio and TV broadcasts be “balanced”.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull is duly considering changes to Australia’s regime of cross-media ownership. The likely outcome: more concentration in Australia’s media, already the most concentrated and least diverse in the developed world. More influence for the IPA and Rupert Murdoch.

We could go on with examples of the extraordinary influence of the institute, but perhaps more interesting is who these people are.
IPA's corporate supporters

The IPA and the Liberal Party share DNA. The institute came first, formed in 1943 by a group of Melbourne businessmen concerned by the decline of the Liberals’ predecessor, the United Australia Party, and by the increased role of government during World War II. It was in turn one of the groups that helped found the Liberal Party. Initially, it served as a vehicle for fundraising as much as for policy formulation.

Its core concerns were those of big business: it was for smaller government and less regulation, and against labour unions and the Labor Party. In the 1980s and early ’90s, particularly under the leadership of John Hyde, the prototypical Liberal “dry”, it adopted more rationalist economics, and pushed privatisation, deregulation and internationalisation of the economy.

“I was told that a number of big corporates, like the ANZ, cancelled their funding, because they found it just too nasty.”

More recently still, the IPA has moved increasingly into other issues not directly related to business or economics. It became a major combatant in the so called “culture wars”, in some ways to its cost.

Notably, the institute was a strident supporter of those who would deny the ugly reality of Australia’s treatment of Aboriginals. It fostered the likes of revisionist historian Keith Windschuttle.

Melbourne city councillor and former Liberal staffer Stephen Mayne, himself an economic dry, was once close to the IPA inner circle. He says they lost him over their social policies, particularly their denialist positions on Aboriginal issues, climate change and their “cosying up to the hateful Bolt”.

Mayne is not alone. “They lost a lot of funding when they ran a lot of that Aboriginal denialist stuff,” he says. “I was told that a number of big corporates, like the ANZ, cancelled their funding, because they found it just too nasty.”

The current IPA executive director, John Roskam, will not talk about the institute’s donors, and certainly not ex-donors. Back in 2003, though, Roskam’s predecessor Mike Nahan was more forthcoming, revealing the names of some big corporate donors: Caltex, Esso, Philip Morris and British American Tobacco. He admitted the institute had “lost” Rio Tinto because the company wanted to maintain good relations with the Aboriginal community.

Roskam won’t confirm any of this, or that Shell went the same way. He does acknowledge, though, that corporate donations have sharply declined over the past decade or so, from more than two-thirds of the institute’s income to well under one-third. He concedes, too, that “culture war” issues might have had something to do with it, and that the IPA was “perhaps unduly negative”.

Instead of speaking against Aboriginal land rights, he says, the institute might better have framed its argument as support for “real private property rights for Aboriginal communities”.

The implication is that the problem was not with the institute’s position, but with the way it sold its message.
Getting their message out

And that brings us to one characteristic that has come, over the past decade or so, to most distinguish the IPA from other conservative think tanks in Australia.

It is not its ideology, which is basically cookie-cutter rationalist/libertarian right, which closely reflects that of similar think tanks elsewhere, particularly those associated with the Tea Party right of the US Republicans. No, the IPA’s distinguishing characteristic is the way it does propaganda.

In the year to June 2013, according to the IPA’s annual report, it clocked up 878 mentions in print and online. Its staff had 164 articles published in national media. They managed 540 radio appearances and mentions, and 210 appearances and mentions on TV. No prizes for guessing in which publications most of the print media references were to be found. Did we mention Rupert Murdoch was a long-time IPA director?

The surprise is that the national public broadcaster, the ABC, which the IPA would break up and sell off, features heavily. One count, by the left-leaning Independent Australia, clocked 39 appearances by IPA staff in the year 2011-12 on just one ABC TV program, The Drum. That’s almost as many Drum appearances as the combined total of all other think tanks, left, right and centre.

Roskam attributes this media success to the fact that the IPA takes firm positions on subjects that “other people haven’t been able or prepared to talk about”.

“In the US you’ll have the Tea Party saying it, Cato Institute saying it, Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute saying it,” he says. “You have a plethora of Republican and right-of-centre voices saying it. In Australia, if you don’t have the IPA saying it, you don’t really have anyone saying it.”

And indeed that’s true. Ask yourself: where was the public concern about the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act before Murdoch columnist Andrew Bolt, the IPA’s “good friend”, as Roskam calls him, fell foul of it?

There was none. But in defence of Bolt’s incredibly sloppy, error-ridden journalism, the IPA took up this case.

On October 5, 2011, the IPA ran a full-page advertisement in The Australian supporting Bolt, paid for and signed by more than 1200 people. The signatory names give a clue as to why an organisation with a staff fewer than 30 and a membership of only a few thousand wields such influence.

It was like a who’s who of the Liberal Party right wing: current federal politicians including Mathias Cormann, Jamie Briggs, Michaelia Cash, Mitch Fifield and Andrew Robb, to name a few, and literally dozens of other ex-pollies, staffers, advisers and influential fellow travellers.

The repeal of section 18C of the RDA became number four on the IPA’s policy wish list, and before you knew it, Attorney-General George Brandis had personally drafted changes to protect, as he memorably put it, the right to be a bigot. Alas, the public debate has run overwhelmingly against them. Roskam fears “we’ll lose that one”.
Front organisations

The other way the IPA gets its message out is through front organisations, such as the Australian Environment Foundation. It was publicly launched on World Environment Day, June 5, 2005, as a “membership-based environmental organisation having no political affiliation”. One which would take an “evidence-based”, “practical” approach to green issues.

In fact, two of its directors were IPA staff, including executive director Mike Nahan, now the treasurer in Western Australia’s Liberal government. For its first two years, the AEF shared the IPA’s postal address.

It was actually an anti-environment group. It opposed new marine parks and plans to increase environmental water flows in the Murray-Darling Basin, and supported Tasmanian woodchipping, genetically modified foods. Above all, it promoted the work of climate change deniers.

Currently the AEF is engaged in lobbying the World Heritage Committee in support of the Abbott government’s plan to de-list parts of the Tasmanian forests.

These days, the IPA denies any formal ongoing relationship, but IPA members regularly speak at AEF events and the AEF’s head, Max Rheese, remains an IPA stalwart.

There are other examples, such as the Owner Drivers’ Association, which purports to represent the interests of independent contractors in the transport industry. In reality, says Tony Sheldon, National Secretary of the Transport Workers Union, the ODA has consistently campaigned against laws improving working conditions and safety for drivers.

A driving force behind the ODA was Bob Day, an alumnus of both the IPA and another right-wing think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies. He is particularly interesting for he is now a senator. Not for the Liberals, but for the Family First Party.

Day and David Leyonhjelm, who was elected as a Liberal Democrat, are both “long-term IPA members” who Roskam expects to be “a breath of fresh air” in the parliament.

Which is to say, they represent the right-wing, libertarian views of the institute even more faithfully than the Liberal Party itself.

Not only have the IPA’s front organisations now penetrated the federal parliament, they will be crucial to the passage of the Abbott government’s legislation through the senate.

Notwithstanding all this government has done towards implementing its agenda, the IPA is still not satisfied. There are more items on its lists of aims and, as Roskam says, they’re continuing to “hold Abbott’s feet to the fire”.

For the IPA, the concern is that this government is not tough enough.

thesaturdaypaper.com.au 31 May 2014

Kerry Packer, Elle Macpherson linked to secret HSBC Swiss accounts


Elle Macpherson was connected to seven HSBC client accounts, and was the beneficial owner of five. Photo: John Sciulli/Getty Images


Kerry Packer with son James in 2004. Kerry Packer with son James in 2004.
A cache of leaked files shows prominent Australians, including business people and celebrities, are among thousands identified as having held secret Swiss accounts with one of the world's largest banks.

The files, released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, show the Swiss arm of HSBC had almost 500 clients linked to Australia, with 856 accounts, and total combined holdings of about $US959.2 million ($1.24 billion).

Elle Macpherson was connected to seven HSBC client accounts, and was the beneficial owner of five. Photo: John Sciulli/Getty Images

Elle Macpherson was connected to seven HSBC client accounts, and was the beneficial owner of five.One client with connections to Australia had accounts worth $US142.9 million ($184.21 million).

The data in the ICIJ report was secreted away by former HSBC employee Herve Falciani, who turned the information over to the French government in 2008 after which its tax authority launched an investigation.

Australians named include the late media baron Kerry Packer, model Elle Macpherson and former ANZ chairman Charles Goode. There are others with adverse findings against them at the hands of regulators or the courts.

According to the ICIJ report, Mr Packer was the beneficial owner of a client account under the name of C.P. International Management Services Limited, set up in 1994, closed in 2000 and linked to his Consolidated Press media empire.

Mr Packer died in 2005.

Ms Macpherson is listed as a model, entertainer and entrepreneur.

The report says Ms Macpherson was connected to seven HSBC client accounts, and was the beneficial owner of five.

"The four client accounts still operative in 2008 were linked to 25 bank accounts that together held as much as $US12.2 million ($A15.73 million) in 2006/2007," the report said.

In a statement, Ms Macpherson's lawyers say she "is an Australian citizen who has accounted for UK tax on the basis of full disclosure in accordance with UK law".

Three of the accounts for which she was the beneficial owner were closed in 2000, 2001 and 2004.
Mr Goode said his account was never used.

"There were no deposits (expect to open it) and no withdrawals (except to close it)," Mr Goode said in a statement to The Guardian.

There is no suggestion that any of the individuals have broken the law.

However, while it's not illegal for Australians to hold Swiss bank accounts, the report raises concerns about the potential for high net worth individuals to used them to avoid or minimise tax.

International tax avoidance was a key issue at the G20 leaders summit in Brisbane in November with world leaders vowing there would be crackdown.

Treasurer Joe Hockey said then the leaders were "very determined" to eliminate tax avoidance, particularly by multinational companies.

"Wherever companies engage in extraordinary activity in order to avoid tax, we will go after them," Mr Hockey said.

smh.com.au 9 Feb 2015

Apparently in Australia, tax avoidance is a criminal activity, but this is not the case if you have supporting 'brethren' in politics / law offices.
 
Whereas others who are not supported by the network of the 'brotherhood', like Paul Hogan are taken through the 'ringer' and labelled as tax cheats.

The is how white collar criminals get away with crime, literally untouchable by law, where the public's purse is left to mop up the damage

09 February 2015

Captain Cook - Martial Law

Apart from disease and pestilence, what else did Captain James Cook bring to the inhabited land commonly known as Australia?


Martial Law.

Whereas the (British Crown) invaders of  'New Zealand' made a treaty (Treaty of Waitanagi) with the original inhabitants.