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  1. I would like to know if David Von Pain or David Reitze have been members here and if they were put on moderation or banned and if so why?

    DVP is saying he can no longer post here because he was promoting the truth.

    It seems they have never been members here, so Mr Von Pein's claim that he can no longer post here because he was promoting the truth is obviously wrong.

  2. Though Quigley was an eminent historian Tragedy and Hope was one of his more obscure works which seems to have tried to distance himself from later, AFAICT only conspiracy nuts especially far right John Birch types paid it any heed

    What's the point of this comment? It's chocked full of false assertions. The influential Macmillan family published the book, so they seemed to think it was important. And how many printings has this book been through since it was first published in 1966(?).

    Then he further lies when he asserts that only conspiracy nuts especially the John Birch types, pay it any attention. Pure bull cr ap. Then he claims Quigley tried to distance himself from his own book. More bull cr ap having nothing to do with the issue at hand.

    And based on an online version never documented the claims he made simply stating that, “ I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments

    Quigley tells his readers that he has studied the operations of this network for twenty years! That he was permitted to read their papers and secret records.

    But even so he never said that Morgan was British only that it worked with “a group of international financiers in London

    "A group of international financiers in London"? That's as good a definition of the British Empire as anyone is going to get. This slime mold includes JP Morgan as well as the other Wall Street financial houses.

    You can look at the records of the Pecora Commission, and you'll find that JP Morgan was shown to be an "instrument" for carrying out financial warfare and credit policy for British interests. JP Morgan has always been a tool of the British Empire. Physical address withstanding.

    Maybe the problem is we havent agreed upon the definition of an American institution or a British institution? That might be where the problem is.

    Terry,

    There has been a complaint regarding this post, specifically accusing Len of being a xxxx ("...Then he further lies when he asserts that..."). I invite you to amend your post.

    Please remember Rule IV.

    Thank you.

  3. The head of South Korea's military marine operations said, "No North Korean warships have been detected [in] the waters where the accident took place."

    The reference to "accident" suggests the warship struck a reef and broke in two.

    Not meaning to hijack the thread, but there is no way the ship hit a reef and broke in two. Absolutely no sign of coral impact and it just doesn't happen that way.

    The more I look at it, the more I believe it was a DPRK submarine though I still have some doubt. I can't see this as having being sanctioned by Pyongyang since there is no real gain for them. It could have been a rogue action taken by a CO, but again i wonder why they did it (if they did).

  4. Democracy 101: the powerbrokers

    ALEX MITCHELL

    July 4, 2010 Battle-scarred NSW voters took the Canberra coup in their stride because we've seen it all before.

    In the past two years, two premiers have been ousted by a combination of unelected ALP powerbrokers from Sussex Street, faction bosses and union bureaucrats.

    In September 2008 Morris Iemma was unceremoniously deposed and in December 2009 Nathan Rees was overthrown.

    The electorate was not consulted nor the rank and file of the Labor Party.

    The Iemma-Rees coups became blueprints for the political execution of prime minister Kevin Rudd - same back-room forces, same lack of democratic accountability and same dismissive treatment of the electorate-at-large and the ALP.

    However, public intellectuals, spin doctors, political insiders from the ABC and Sky News as well as commentators across the political spectrum all hailed Rudd's removal and the elevation of Julia Gillard to the highest elected office in the land.

    Four of the main participants in Rudd's overthrow were from the Senate, and not the House of Representatives, and three of them made their way to the Senate from senior ALP jobs.

    Senator Mark Arbib was a NSW ALP general secretary, Senator David Feeney was a Victorian party official, and Senator Don Farrell was a president of the South Australian ALP and secretary of the right-wing shop workers' union.

    All three are public nobodies who entered the Senate on July 1, 2008.

    The fourth plotter, Senator Joe Ludwig, son of Queensland ALP strongman Bill Ludwig, was a former industrial advocate for the Australian Workers Union.

    The scenario went something like this: Rudd's popularity started a calamitous collapse;

    The global mining giants threatened to support Opposition Leader Tony Abbott at the election and wipe out Labor seats in Queensland and Western Australia;

    The bosses of the Australian Workers Union, the Transport Workers Union and the miners' union became spooked by threats to jobs and their billion-dollar superannuation balances;

    Federal MPs were shown "internal party polling" and "focus group" findings - how NSW Labor MPs laughed when they heard that one - and they rushed like lemmings to vote for a new leader capable of defeating fundamentalist Abbott.

    All well and good, until the Liberals, down the track, dump a prime minister for a reactionary demagogue and then watch the Laborites howl to high heavens.

    In the meantime, can we change the school syllabus on Westminster-style democracy to show that powerful vested interests and factional powerbrokers hold unwritten reserve powers to decide the prime minister and premier of the day and we, the voters, have no say?

    Welcome to the banana republic.

    http://www.smh.com.a...00703-zuzp.html

  5. I probably didn't really explain myself clearly, Andrew. Using the quote function is fine - it's just you should delete the image in the quote.

    Andrew, do you have any other ideas about how we could reduce our bandwidth usage without compromising on the utility of the Forum? We've established the Photobucket site that members can use but I don't know if that reduces bandwidth.

    Other members - any ideas?

  6. Did you take note of the time, position and direction of flight?

    Did you check with ATC to ascertain what the type, altitude, direction / flight route, registration and destination of the aircraft was?

    Did you check with a meteorologist to ask what condition existed at that time and if they were favorable to the formation of contrails?

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