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Political Correctness = Language and Thought Control. 3rd April 2016 By Makia Freeman Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Political correctness is language control. And language control is thought control. Period! The rise of modern political correctness (PC) is a great example of the cunning way in which social engineers (such as the New World Order manipulators) operate. Just as George Orwell laid out so precisely in 1984, political correctness is the ‘Newspeak‘ which is threatening to limit our ability to freely speak and think, by reducing the number of available words in our vocabulary. Political Correctness: Based on the Non-Existent “Right” to Not Be Offended Truth is stranger than fiction. Right off the bat there are several problems with this. Secondly, since when did “feeling offended” or “having your feelings hurt” become such an important issue that it legally justifies restricting everyone’s freedom?

Since when did we humans become such crybabies that we couldn’t stand hearing or being called a word, a name, a label or a phrase? 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.

In total the untaxed 55 had incomes totalling more than $129 million, at an average of $2.35 million. But that was before they – or, more correctly, their tax planners – went to work on reducing their liabilities. I don’t pretend to understand how they did it. The ATO stats serve to enumerate but not to enlighten. To wit: We are informed these rich “losers” collectively received $8.8 million in franked dividends, which allow the recipients to cut their taxable incomes to take account of company tax already paid. Some recorded healthy capital gains, some huge capital losses. We’ll see. 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. In the US, a secret grand jury is investigating him for his role in publishing a collection of leaked documents regarding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well as state department modes of communication known as cables. And despite Assange’s asylum, WikiLeaks continues to disclose documents from leaked drafts of the British nuclear submarine whistleblower William McNeilly, and hidden information about a European union plan that seeks to use military force in order to curb the influx of migrants from Libya. It would allow them to cover 40 percent of the global economy. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! 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. And on Wednesday, the US Congress granted President Obama "fast track" negotiating authority – so the conclusion of the TPP is now in sight. In the US, healthcare costs more, per person, than anywhere else in the world. Spending a lot doesn't always deliver results. Paying a lot of money doesn't mean better access to care, either. In fact, the values driving US healthcare seem the very antithesis of those that underpin ours. The community's resounding rejection of the Government's plans to introduce co-payments for GP services shows how firmly Australians remain wedded to this principle.

So how could the TPP put these values at risk and drive us towards a higher cost, lower equity system? 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. As Ian Wishart reports, even New Zealand constitutional lawyers can’t rule out the possibility they may be right. If it sounds like the Coalition Government’s worst nightmare multiplied by a factor of ten, you’d be right. 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). On the downside: watch out for those intoxicated 12-year-olds driving on the wrong side of the road (traffic laws are invalid, too).

It's not as if they have to be in school any more. On that note, though, keep an eye out for Malcolm Rewa and all the other prisoners who now have to be released. You could hire your own bodyguards, but they wouldn't have to honour their contracts. You get the picture. In his new magazine Investigate, Wishart says New Zealand became a sovereign nation in 1920, when we joined the League of Nations. They can't, he says. Comments: sxprice@hotmail.com. 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. In January, Ms Barnes was ordered to file tax returns for the financial years between 2000 and 2010. She refused and was found guilty on 10 counts of failing to comply with a court order and fined $850 for each count. Outside court, Ms Barnes maintained she had the right not to file tax returns. She said she was opposed to armed 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).

The implementation of mass vaccination programs occurred simultaneously with the development of partnerships between academic institutions and industry. OVER-VACCINATION | 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. Notably, the Australian situation is in stark contrast to that of the US, where only 1 per cent of the billionaires reportedly made their wealth through political connections. Is Australia really such a plutocracy? In fact, we put the figure closer to 80 per cent, making Australia potentially on par with Colombia. 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. Released just a fortnight before Treasurer Scott Morrison officially updates the budget in the mid-year review, the Deloitte Access Budget Monitor finds this year's deficit will be about $40.3 billion rather than the forecast $35.1 billion, the next year's $34.1 billion rather than $25.8 billion, and the deficits in 2017-18 and 2018-19 $11.3 billion and $12.7 billion worse.

That line on the budget graph that shows the deficit disappearing, it never gets there on our projections. Superannuation tax collections will be $2.2 billion less than forecast. Brinsmead. Expenses rorts point to the widespread rot in Australia's democracy | Miriam Lyons. 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. But like a fish that has to keep swimming to stay alive, democracy must be constantly defended and extended to survive.

This tactic is widespread. 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. It's time we faced it: the image we have of democratic politics as one where major parties use the power of office to generate a viable and coherent platform for governing in the name of a majority of citizens is dead. The divisions that caused Labor's leadership ructions, and that are causing the current unrest within the Coalition, are not some passing phase that the parties are going through and that can all be put to rest if they could just find the right leader to unite them. They are part of the wider disruption of how we organise our society.

Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten are not the problem, any more than they are the answer: they are the symptoms of a crumbling paradigm. Folks, it's over. But we don't. And why wouldn't it? Good idea. 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. The NRL this week announced its rule changes for next season.

The AFL will do that later, but for now its community is engrossed in a frenzied debate about what those changes should be. What both codes know is that this cannot simply be left to the coaches. Hereabouts we learn politics and football aren't quite identical. Politics, of course, has no equivalent of this. Illustration: Dionne Gain I could recite any number of examples to illustrate this. There's little disputing the offence here. That, of course, is retaliation for the sordid Peter Slipper affair. In this sort of politics, nothing has an existence beyond winning and losing. We're playing politics by newly unvarnished rules now; a kind of total politics, where nothing has an existence beyond winning and losing. All this inevitably exacts its price in policy. Illustration: Andrew Dyson. #choppergate ‘investigation’ Fact Check by @margokingston1. TPP Grants Banks Terrifying Secret Powers.

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