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Lib/Lab Truth Scale TV
by Soothsayer Sunday March 11, 2007 at 07:56 AM

Yeah there was Johnny Howard lecturing about how the Liberals could lead NSW with a Peter Debnam's 'Let's fix NSW' campaign. But the way I see it they know how to 'fix it', all right! In more criminal ways than one. You just have to think like a war criminal and invite the spirits in for a chat about history...

Lib/Lab Truth Scale ...
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PM launches Debnam's 'Let's fix NSW' campaign

Source: http://www.abc.com.au/news/items/200702/1856353.htm?nsw

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The first problem I've got is how the Liberals use the NSW police to just 'Fix it', when there is a federal disgrace looming!

The Howard government, RAMSI, and the April 2006 Solomon Islands’ riots Part 2

The Howard government immediately moved to derail the official investigation, using all the dirty tricks at its disposal. Former Australian Federal Court Justice Marcus Einfeld, who was appointed head of the inquiry, became the target of an extraordinary media witchhunt in Australia, ostensibly over an unpaid $77 speeding fine. Following Einfeld’s announcement that he was resigning from the Solomons’ investigation, the barrage of sensationalist stories disappeared from the headlines as suddenly as they had emerged.

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/140729.php

Then there's this fiasco when the feds need to ramp up terrorist fears:

Xenophobic rocket launcher, so why was it reported really?

Police say they are unsure if the claims, published in a 'Sunday newspaper', are true and they are now being investigated. [So why was it reported today by howard's 'abc' and the 'Melbourne age'?

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/50226

Another federal fix it for NSW police:

ADA defends security despite rocket launcher theft

"There were all these hysterical stories a couple of weeks ago about military armouries being open to terrorists and it just wasn't true," he said.

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/138906.php

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So amongst many other developments....That I won't go into here because I want to get this message across - about the second biggest problem for both NSW voters and the federal election 2007.

The second problem I have is that Lib/Lab have had this deal for a long time now. Whereby they have long discovered that if they can deliver the people of Australia the grand illusion that they are against each other especially at election time and at the same time work with each other then they can sell us out and get rich at the same time.

Howard runs and sells the Australian central government and Labor runs the states and terrirtories hence the need for (COAG) allegedly, Council of Australian Governments but really a very undemocratic Lib/Lab!

In addition to get all this done they needed to null and void the Senate now reduced to the Sin-Ate. Or Sell-Out! On a grand scale folks!

You see the deal works like this:

The Libs run the Central Gov't. Labor runs the States and Territories. Now the 'Fix it' men know this but they can't let you in on it because they could not get away with it if you knew. So after many long years some of us do know about it. Because it doesn't add up! Cannot fathom it!

But guess what ladies and gentlemen? You are so lucky. Because I am a soothsayer to at least 10 percent of the population here on the net.

Prediction:

Labor will win the NSW State election and Liberal will win the Federal election because ladies and gentlemen now the opposition Attorney General doesn't exist and has been blackmailed himself out of existence, there is a very good reason to explain it all away. Bummer!

Standing Ovation!

On the one hand I disagree with the letter that was written to Tony Mokbel for the liquor licence like all like minded people it wasn't the right thing to do, maybe based on his criminal record.

But on the other hand that letter was obviously horded away in the Liberal blackmail box for 5 years or so and only brought out of that box for this grand illusion called the Australian federal election 2007.

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Rudd says Thomson's resignation inevitable

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1868006.htm

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You see what is inevitable is that Labor will have to lose the federal election based on the revelations and both Howard and Rudd know it.

So why don't you?

Because 90 percent of the population are not soothsayers like me and you, now that I have told you, that's why?

So aren't you so very lucky that only 10 percent of the Australian population will ever know about it because we don't have the power like of the mass media like they do to tell 90 percent of the people of Australia?

Not so fast.......I post world wide that is 10.1 percent more IMHO!

Illustration:

Net Foreign Debt Promises Board!

Related:

Govt attacks after Thomson's shock resignation

The Federal Government has gone on the attack after the unexpected resignation of Labor frontbencher Kelvin Thomson.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1868166.htm

Gallop calls for corruption watchdog to monitor Fed Govt

Former Western Australian premier Geoff Gallop has questioned why a corruption watchdog has not been established to monitor the Federal Government.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1868370.htm

NSW Libs livid with Green preference deal

The New South Wales Opposition says it wants to know what promises Labor has made to the Greens in order to reach a preference deal for the March 24 state election.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1868500.htm

THE POLITICS OF CRIME IN AUSTRALIA TODAY

How is it that Prime Minister John Howard can accuse other people of some crime or lies? No, you do not need to be clairvoyant or have any special supernatural talents to meet up with or to see one of the more see-through inhabitants of politics in Australia today. You just need a strong heart and an eager mind. While other people, who are being accused, belittled, tainted or desecrated by numerous criminal politicians and their media allies. Politicians who don't lead us by any form of example and who break their own morals, principals, values, and ethics. Politicians who break their own laws in order to deceive us and to suit their own political ends.

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141552.php

Australia: The New 51st State

John Howard's servility to the US is even greater than Tony Blair's and has earned him the nickname Bush's deputy sheriff. The conspiracy between Washington, the media and politicians is eroding the country's freedoms

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141471.php

High Court More Vulnerable To War Criminals?

Lawyers for Mr Thomas have argued the order imposed by the Federal Court is at odds with the Constitution.

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/140409.php

If you're waiting for Lib/Lab then you're just waiting for a catastrophe!

What about all the scapegoats the Howard government has produced for their war on terror/resources? Most, still languishing in isolated segregation prisons and still waiting to be heard. Rendition and torture of our citizens? 20 years for thought crimes? Jury asked to push on when they couldn't make up their mind? Rules of evidence and standards lowered in our local courts? 5 years in Guantanamo without trial or charge? Military style Kangaroo Courts, Control Orders? Detention Orders? Indefinite Detention? Then we have Australian citizens being held in detention and even being deported?

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139474.php




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Forbes 2007 list: Nearly one thousand billionaires in the world,
by David Walsh Sunday March 11, 2007 at 08:41 AM

Forbes magazine released its annual list of billionaires Thursday. There are now nearly one thousand billionaires worldwide—946 to be exact, according to the magazine’s calculations—and their combined wealth in the past year grew by 35 percent to $3.5 trillion.

The latter figure is larger than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of every nation in the world with the exception of the US, China, Japan and India. The combined GDP of all the countries in Africa, a continent of nearly one billion people, was some $2.3 trillion in 2005. More than a third of the African population lives on less than $1 a day. The combined GDP of South America’s largest trading bloc, Mercosur, whose full members are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, is $1.1 trillion.

The proposed US federal budget for 2007 amounts to $2.8 trillion. The sum devoted in that budget to Social Security, Medicare and education for a population of 300 million people is approximately one-third of the combined wealth of those 946 individuals. The European Union countries spend something more than half a trillion dollars annually on education. The Chinese government expended some $15 billion in 2005 on science and technology, education, health and culture for its population of more than one billion people.

The co-editor of the lead Forbes piece on the billionaires, Luisa Kroll, explained that in 2006 the rich cashed in on globally strong equity markets, real estate and commodity prices. The Associated Press (AP) quoted Kroll, “It’s just been kind of an extraordinary year for markets worldwide.”

http://wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/bill-m10.shtml

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Stop Muslim immigration, NSW Christian Democrats say
by Parrot Press Sunday March 11, 2007 at 09:24 AM

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The New South Wales Christian Democrats are calling for an immediate moratorium on Islamic immigration.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1868622.htm

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What's good for the goose is good for the gander?

Why not stop Christian Democrats from immigration?

How is that democratic?

So that's false advertising and racist!

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Oh!
by sam Sunday March 11, 2007 at 09:39 AM

Oh!...
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I get the picture!

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Bush (Custer) Last Stand In Iraq - War Drums in Washington
by story teller Sunday March 11, 2007 at 10:05 AM

The majority of American citizens have the delusion that they actually decide who governs them, when in practice the Democrats and Republicans are only two wings of the same ruling class that owns Congress, just as it owns the land, the banks and big corporations, the newspapers, and radio and television companies.

As a rule the big capitalists prefer the Republicans, the natural party of Big Business and therefore, the natural party of government. The Republicans stand (or used to stand) for cheap government, low taxes, less government interference in business, a strong dollar, balanced budgets.

This is the kind of programme Big Business - especially finance capital - likes. But occasionally, a Republican government can get into trouble.

Then Big Business calls on the services of its reserve party - the Democrats. It shifts nimbly from the right foot to the left foot, without for a single moment relinquishing a single atom of its power over the affairs of the nation.

Therefore, when George W Bush came to power (by highly questionable methods), the champagne bottles were undoubtedly popping in Wall Street. Here was a President in their very image of the American ruling class: crude, ignorant, narrow minded, provincial. All right, so he can hardly put two sentences together, but after all, he is one of ours. He made all the right noises: tax cuts, make the poor work, cut wasteful state expenditure (i.e. welfare) and so on.

Oh, this was music to their ears! And when he ordered the invasion of Iraq, this also seemed good for Business at the time, and as everybody knows, what is good for Business is good for America.

But now things have changed. The war did not work out as planned and is already deeply unpopular in the USA. Many Republicans are now expressing doubt about the war. The only Republican candidate to give vocal support to the "surge" is right winger John McCain. Other candidates, some more, some less, are calling for a withdrawal. But Bush remains obdurate. He has refused to accept the verdict of the Iraq Study Group and is acting against the collective interests of the ruling class. This will seal his fate.

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139901.php

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With a little help from the Mass Media Giants
by Parrot Press Sunday March 25, 2007 at 08:33 AM

Why do you think Peter Debnam claimed he'd lost the election before it had even began?

Debnam admits Labor may win

Opposition Leader Peter Debnam has publicly acknowledged Labor is on course to beat the Coalition at the March 24 NSW election.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/16/1173722703058.html

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The NSW State Election with a little help from the ABC

It all started here:

Mrs Debnam 'outraged' by election ads

The wife of New South Wales Opposition Leader Peter Debnam has sent a letter to residents in his eastern Sydney electorate of Vaucluse, expressing outrage at Labor's "vicious" advertising campaign against her husband.

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Polls predict Labor landslide

Another two polls are predicting a landslide win for the Labor State Government at tomorrow's New South Wales election.

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Iemma says Labor deserves to win NSW election

New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma says the Government deserves to win tomorrow's state election because, unlike the Opposition, it will continue to improve services for voters.

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Poll tips Labor win in NSW election

The last opinion polling of the state election campaign shows the Labor Party will hold its majority but may lose several seats.

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Labor looking safe in early figures

Early results in the New South Wales election are showing a swing towards the Nationals in some key country seats, including Tweed, Murray-Darling and Tamworth.

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Labor to be returned in NSW

The ABC election analyst Antony Green has called the result of the New South Wales election, saying Labor has been returned.

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Iemma to retain NSW Govt despite swing

Results across New South Wales show there has been a general swing against the Labor Government of Morris Iemma of just over 4 per cent, but the latest figures indicate it will win enough seats to stay in power.

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Federal leaders can take heart from NSW result, Labor figure says

Former ALP national president Stephen Loosley says both Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd can take some heart from the results of the New South Wales state election.

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This is what happens same as it does in the USA. The media chooses the party but really there is a deal between Lib and Lab to sell the country out. Back to the: Lib/Lab Truth Scale TV.

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Stop Voting - Stop Supporting Pseudo Democracies: Updated Repost

Stop Voting - Stop Supporting Pseudo Democracies [254]
Just as communicating with the Feds about abandoning the way we live now is a futile process that only buttresses the legitimacy of old ways of thinking and living, continuing to vote within centralised political processes only reinforces their continuing relevance. Citizens who continue to reside within totalitarian-democracies can, at least partly, abandon them by not voting at elections that will never lead to abundance and a better way of living.

http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50448



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