Political Correctness = Language and Thought Control. 3rd April 2016 By Makia Freeman Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Political correctness is language control.
The rich people who pay no tax. Only the little people pay taxes.
For a small, select cohort of rich Australians, the famous quote of New York property billionaire Leona Helmsley rings not as an outrage but as an inspiration. In the most recent documents released by the Australian Tax Office, there were 55 people who had a reportable annual income of more than $1 million, but who managed to reduce their taxable income to zero. No Cookies. Aotearoa and Australia are not for sale. Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Reveals Real Intentions Behind The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been seeking refuge for close to three years inside Ecuador’s Embassy in London where he has political asylum.
Facing both investigations in Sweden and the US, he claims that he is doing well despite his circumstances. Assange is wanted in Sweden for questioning on claims of sexual misconduct, however no charges have been formally filed against him. TPP could force Australia to American-style health system. TPP could drive up costs and hit patients in the pocket.
Photo: Glenn Hunt Few Australians would see America's healthcare system as one we'd choose to emulate. But obligations we acquire via the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement could drive us inexorably towards the US model. CONSTITUTIONAL TIMEBOMB: Pakeha government in Aotearoa NZ is illegal and fraudulent. INVESTIGATE: FEB 00 A CONSTITUTIONAL TIMEBOMB: Is New Zealand’s Government and court system unlawful?
It could be the most fundamental New Zealand issue of the century: if a group of Australian lawyers and researchers is correct, the Treaty of Waitangi ceased to be valid on January 10, 1920, and the New Zealand Government does not, lawfully, exist. In an even bigger potential crisis – nor do the laws. Dialogue: Steven Price. If our government's not legal, what a time we could have!
By STEVEN PRICE According to "investigative journalist" Ian Wishart, New Zealand's Government does not lawfully exist. The good news, for some: Peter Ellis was unlawfully convicted after all, photo drivers licences are invalid, the Waitangi Tribunal is a legal fiction, the Inland Revenue can't tax us, and the number of MPs must indeed be reduced (to zero). Tasmanian woman fined $8,500 for failing to pay tax she says is used 'to fund wars' By Damian McIntyre Updated A northern Tasmanian woman who has not filed a tax return since 1996 on "religious grounds" has been fined $8,500 for failing to pay tax.
Key points: Clemencia Barnes has failed to pay tax since 1996 on "religious grounds"In January she was ordered to file tax returns from 2000 to 2010She refused and was fined $850 for each of 10 counts of failing to comply with a court orderMs Barnes says she is prepared to go to jail Clemencia Barnes of White Hills in northern Tasmania said she objected to paying tax to the Australian Government on religious grounds because her taxes could be used to pay for war or conflict.
The Bitcoin of politics: Flux Party offers radical new model for democracy. Founders of the Flux Party, Max Kaye, left, and Nathan Spataro.
Photo: Janie Barrett When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull encouraged Australia's young innovators to go out and disrupt traditional industries, he may not have been expecting anyone to propose an alternative model to the entire party-political system. But two Bitcoin consultants want to make a mark on the 2016 election with a promise of "democracy reimagined" through a market-based online "ecosystem" that allows voters and sectional interests to exert direct control over elected representatives.
The Flux Party, which has gathered more than the 500 members it needs to stand senate candidates in all states, has designed a rival system underpinned by "vote tokens" that can be traded between party members and other participants – which could include rival minor parties. Flux, which expects to be registered as a federal party by April, will begin by trying to revolutionise the much-maligned preference system. "A critical analysis of the Australian government’s rationale for its v" by Judy Wilyman. Recommended Citation Wilyman, Judy, A critical analysis of the Australian government’s rationale for its vaccination policy, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong, 2015.
Abstract Vaccination policies in Australia need to be scrutinised because the use of a medical intervention in the prevention of infectious disease has serious health and social implications. Deaths and illnesses to infectious diseases were significantly reduced due to environmental and lifestyle reforms prior to the widespread use of most vaccines in the mid-20th century. Mass vaccination campaigns were adopted after this time as the central management strategy for preventing infectious diseases, with many new vaccines being recommended in the National Immunisation Program (NIP). Challenging Big Pharma's lucrative over-vaccination of people and animals. Battlers and plutocrats: How political connections reward Australia's super-rich - The Drum. Opinion Posted Research reveals a huge proportion of Australia's richest people amass their wealth via political connections rather than via innovative businesses - which is helping them at the expense of everyone else, write Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster.
The Washington Post ran an article last week reporting that 65 per cent of the richest people in Australia had amassed their wealth via political connections rather than via innovative businesses. According to the quoted research, Australian residents are rewarded for their political connections about as much as Indonesian or Indian residents, with Colombia offering the biggest rewards.
Police door knock 'known activists' ahead of TPP protests. Police are checking in on "known activists" around the country ahead of TPP protests later this week. Scout Barbour-Evans, a Dunedin transgender activist who goes by the gender-neutral pronoun "they", said an officer knocked on their door about 10 this morning. The officer wanted to know what the plans were for anti-Trans-Pacific Partnership action in Dunedin, Scout said.
Scout compared the situation to the Springbok tour, saying the increased surveillance feels akin to 1981, particularly following the presence of armed police at Prime Minister John Key's State of the Nation speech in Auckland yesterday. Prominent anti-TPP protestor Professor Jane Kelsey said such monitoring of critics to the controversial agreement was "entirely predictable" behaviour from the Government, and shows the "disrespect the Government has had throughout to people's right to voice their dissent about this negotiation and this agreement". "That's an image the Prime Minister I'm sure is quite desperate to dislodge. No surplus in sight: Deloitte says budget billions worse than forecast as revenue crumbles. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Budget deficits 'worse than predicted' Deloitte reports budget deficits worse than forecast, with sagging growth in China and sliding commodity prices cutting into tax collections.
Vision courtesy ABC News 24. The Australian budget is facing deficits $38 billion worse than forecast and on present settings will never return to surplus, an authoritative new analysis has found. Brinsmead. Expenses rorts point to the widespread rot in Australia's democracy. The public is fed up with politicians, and not just because of the expenses row. Once upon a time, Australia was regarded as a leader in democratic innovation, the “social laboratory” of the world. We were at the forefront of the fight for women’s suffrage in the late 19th century, we developed new forms of public institutions at arm’s length from executive government, and gave the world the “Australian ballot”. We still do many things well. In 2014, Australia remained in the top 10 of the the Economist’s “Democracy Index”, despite dropping three places.
And while the Australian Electoral Commission may have misplaced Senate ballot slips during the last federal election, we’re still lucky to have it – the existence of an independent nation-wide body to manage elections and enrolment is still something of a rarity internationally. It's the end of politics as we know it, and I feel fine - The Drum. Opinion Updated How much longer are we going to go on imagining things will get better if only Labor or the Coalition could get their acts together or find the right leader?
Folks, it's over. We need to reinvent the way we do politics, writes Tim Dunlop. Politics: the ugly game where the melee rules. Bronnie living the high life Money money money, always sunny, in Bronwyn's world. Denis Carnahan and Rocco Fazzari, with apologies to ABBA. #choppergate ‘investigation’ Fact Check by @margokingston1. TPP Grants Banks Terrifying Secret Powers. Cameron: Britain Is Too Tolerant & Should Interfere More In People’s Lives. Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (trailer) More than 750 public servants now axed. The Forgotten Indian Holocaust Caused By Britain. Fact-Checking Is More Popular than Politicians.
Free education and the Liberal Democrats: a student's perspective - Anarchist Federation. The forgotten coup - how America and Britain crushed the government of their 'ally', Australia. Abbott government gives $4m to help climate contrarian set up Australian centre. ‘Any reader of Orwell would be perfectly familiar’ with US maneuvers – Chomsky to RT — RT USA.
Noam Chomsky: Exceptionalism Is a Concept Held by Every Great Power and It’s Always Wrong. Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems. When It Comes to Copious Water Consumption, Animal Ag is the Biggest Offender. First Hologram Protest in History Held Against Spain's Gag Law. The Radical Dissent of Helen Keller by Peter Dreier. How America Became an Oligarchy. There's a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn. Final nail in the coffin for TAFE - Echonetdaily. $1 Billion Lawsuit: Government Funded Studies Intentionally Infected People with STDs. Self-Acceptance is an Act of Civil Disobedience - Francesca Martinez. This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System. Poverty, Inc. (trailer) It's Bizarre: Libertarians Are Clueless About the 'Free Market' That They Worship. Christopher Pyne interview imitating Clarke and Dawe comedy.
Preventing Dissent - How Britain’s new police state will radicalise us all. Robert Reich: 3 Biggest Myths Blinding Us to Economic Truth. 'Abbottsolutely hopeless' poster hits Sydney. After Banksy: The Parkour Guide to Gaza. Welcome To Gaza - With Your Guide, Banksy. The Greatest Speech Ever Made. The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think. Dangerous Delusions - 7 Interactive Infographics Challenging the Myths of the Elites.
Martin Luther King's Economic Dream: A Guaranteed Income for All Americans - Jordan Weissmann. We need to talk about TED. Walking the Line Between Good and Evil: The Common Thread of Heroes and Villains. Less Labor Works Better: The Value of Mind-Wandering. An Open Letter From Assata Shakur: "I Am a 20th Century Escaped Slave" Noam Chomsky (2014) "Why Politicians Lie?" [MUST WATCH!]