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2007-10-02 Down Under

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Posted by Oztralian 2007-10-02 01:21|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 ION, WAPO > FORGET THE ISRAELI LOBBY, THE HILL'S NEXT BIG PLAYER IS MADE IN INDIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-02 05:03|| 2007-10-02 05:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Also from WAPO > back in 2002, the USDOD dev a way of using microwaves to send remote signals/
instructions to the human brain - IOW, PYWAR MIND CONTROL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-02 05:05|| 2007-10-02 05:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Marion Le, from the Independent Council for Refugee Advocacy, said the Government appeared to be allowing in more Iraqi Christians in preference to refugees of other religions.

"I'm a Christian but I don't think I have the right to say the only people we're going to let in are committed Christians," Ms Le said.

After all, the Muslims have done such a splendid job of integrating.

"It is simply inhumane for the Australian Government to close the door on these people based on perceptions that some African refugees are not integrating into the Australian community," he said.

Perish the thought that Australia's citizens might have the right to be joined by well-adjusted immigrants.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-02 06:09|| 2007-10-02 06:09|| Front Page Top

#4 What the hell are Africans doing, being so close, or are trying to migrate to Australia for anyway! Send them packing! Tell them to go home and cultivate their own continent...and double dare ANY Mexicans, who may think same, before it's too late for you to!

Posted by smn 2007-10-02 07:30|| 2007-10-02 07:30|| Front Page Top

#5 and there I was thinking that immigrants had to be an asset to the people they were joining...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-10-02 07:48|| 2007-10-02 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Article: Marion Le, from the Independent Council for Refugee Advocacy, said the Government appeared to be allowing in more Iraqi Christians in preference to refugees of other religions.

"I'm a Christian but I don't think I have the right to say the only people we're going to let in are committed Christians," Ms Le said.

Let's see - Australians - alone among the peoples of the world in this respect, have no right to determine who gets residency in the country? Doesn't Vietnam, her country of origin, have the right to determine who it lets in - Christians or otherwise?

Article: "It is simply inhumane for the Australian Government to close the door on these people based on perceptions that some African refugees are not integrating into the Australian community," he said.

It's inhumane - to Australians - to let in people from certain regions if their experience has been that people from those regions don't contribute to their personal well-being. If this guy is so gung ho about African immigration, maybe they can have a special quota for him - a half-dozen people per year - in his home and on his dime.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-10-02 09:03|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-10-02 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 The problem isn't limited to Australia, as I've heard plenty of ranting lately. I heard Nebraska ranks 1st in immigrants and the Plains states called "Little Africa". Nothing against laborers but bringing in Muslims as legal workers to replace deported Mexicans, already traumatized by war and torture, giving them long knives to process beef in packing plants so repulsive most people cannot endure a tour let alone work there, and expecting them to fit into nice white towns once settled by German immigrants is not a well thought out plan. Giving immigrants federal stipends to buy houses and cars doesn't go over well with those struggling to get by because their good paying jobs were exported along with the loss of benefits like health care leaving them impoverished in drying up ghost towns. The Christians aren't feelng very charitable, especially in states with many serving in the military.

Posted by Danielle 2007-10-02 12:53|| 2007-10-02 12:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Australia should let them in with no benefits at all. You'd see a drop off in refugees imediately.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-02 13:43|| 2007-10-02 13:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Even better Australia should pick a spot on the North Coast (Papau would be better but I'm unclear on Australia's claim there these days) and create a Hong Kong like city with laws and immigration rules similar to Hong Kong and the sink or swim capitalism would remove the attraction of the welfare sponges that have been drawn to Australia (and the West) in the past.

They should have built such a city in the years prior to Hong Kong's joining the PRC and they would have had a million tenants instantly.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-02 13:46|| 2007-10-02 13:46|| Front Page Top

#10 The issue about African immigrants in the USA is a different sort of problem. African immigrants like Caribean immigrants are culturally very different than African-Americans. They don't buy the victim angle and see the promise of America and are thus not accepted so much into many black communities (who tend to be reluctant to admit this).

It would be fascinating if the US (a) cut off most Mexican immigration (b) replaced it with African immigration combined with an assimilation policy. It would drastically change the race dynamics in the USA and I think in a positive way. Democrats would disagree.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-02 13:50|| 2007-10-02 13:50|| Front Page Top

#11 rjschwarz, what prism of beautiful harmony are you looking through? You can't be more wrong on your assumption of...'They don't buy the victim angle...'. Black Africans who weren't taken during the 'Slave Trades Era' remained free to develop on their own to whatever level of 'civilization' they attained. American whites cannot escape the history trauma and cruel brutal effacasies the embedded horrors of servitude perpetrated on African Americans kidnapped 300+ years ago! Such racism is far more ingrained white on black than white on brown (ie; indians, mexicans etc). Indians (native americans) were given reservations, why weren't they forcibly assimilated into American society? Why weren't blacks given their "forty acres and a mule"? Why did 600,000 whites fight amongst each other over the disposition of 'Negroes' and it's affects on slavery (killing up to 80,000 blacks and other 'bystanders') and the national economy? No, the USA would never substitute a brown immigration policy for a black one, the scars are too deep, the fears of homogeneous coexistence too frightening! If Australia doesn't want to deal with the fears of race purity and it's demons, then they need to close off their nation to immigrants, and bask in the peace of a united peaceful and 'unfearful' Aussie society!

Posted by smn 2007-10-02 19:54|| 2007-10-02 19:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Sorry, left out "to the death" after 600,000. The total committed to the war effort was far higher!

Posted by smn 2007-10-02 19:58|| 2007-10-02 19:58|| Front Page Top

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