"Great minds pioneer, innovate and lead the way. Phil Anderson is indeed one such rare breed. I regard him to be World Class in the field of Real Estate and Land Cycles, a true Thomas Edison in this field. Whilst most so called 'experts' are lost in the fog of information, I have found Phil to confidently and decisively pave the way.
"Truly fortunate are those who are 'awakened' by Phil's works. It takes a remarkable life to contemplate the enormous endeavour to integrate knowledge of Land Values and Financial Market Cycles.
Phil does this with the elegance of a true genius. It feels almost unfair to possess the advantage which Phil so generously shares.
With intelligent application, this organised knowledge is literally [? figuratively] a 'Government Granted Licence' in itself. History teaches us that ignorance is at one's own peril, transcending this is now your choice."
– R.E.Dogan, Melbourne 2007
The latest real estate downturn in the US (and in other countries) is just one of many that have occurred since 1800 with astonishing regularity. [18-year intervals.] (from dust jacket)
Banks do not lend money, they create credit – out of thin air. The critical thing to understand is this: the process itself is actually desirable. It is the lifeblood of any economy and is always needed by business. … Banks own the earth not because they create credit but because we permit them to mortgage it. … The violence of the boom, then bust, of the real estate cycle begins here.
… It's just the way the system is … it behoves investors to borrow as much of this created credit as possible, secure as much rental value as possible with it, and then have someone else work to pay off the interest expense. Just don't begin the process into the peak of a real estate cycle.
(pp 382-83)
Phillip J Anderson is Managing Director and founder of Economic Indicator Services (EIS), an economic forecasting service operating out of London and Melbourne. EIS advertises itself as the world's foremost authority in the area of business, real estate, and commodity cycles. Subscribers to the service are educated to the movements of these cycles in the economy, none more important than the real estate cycle. http://www.businesscycles.biz (dust jacket p 3)
[RECAPITULATION:
Banks do not lend money, they create credit – out of thin air. … the process itself is actually desirable. It is the lifeblood of any economy and is always needed by business.
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COMMENT: But, why can't business finance itself out of its own profits? Is there some gap this author has not noticed? Could it be that the financial system is not self-liquidating? That it lurches along on debt creation, i.e., credit creation?
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ISBN 978-0-85683-263-5; 452 pp, hard covers with dustjacket, 16 x 24 x 4 cm (6 3/8 x 9 1/2 x 1 1/2 in), contents, index, 10 appendices, footnotes, further reading lists among the chapters, diagrams, graphs.
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Have you ever noticed the odd fact that the papers never report a rise in the price of milk or bread or clothing as if it was good news, yet they report a rise in the price of housing as if it were a blessing?
In fact it is not the price of houses that is rising so much as the land underneath. … since the late 1980s, the cost of … buildings … has actually dropped slightly, relative to average income. So, when the [news] media talks about the soaring cost of 'housing' they are really talking about the soaring cost of land.
… the cost of land … more than doubling in both Melbourne and Sydney … to 2003 and increasing … in Perth … Canberra.
… Could the continuous rise in the cost of land be due to people and groups manipulating the market?
… Organized speculators … lobbying for high immigration … import buyers … investors know that land prices rise fast in countries with soaring populations. …
Newspaper editors, well aware that without real estate advertising they would probably fold, avoid seeing faults in this logic. The Australian … even endorses the Replacement Rate Fallacy and the Ageing Population Scare. …
In short, we are pyramid-selling Australia. … we depend on drawing more and more people into our 'investment scheme' …
(p 120-22)
… the Housing Industry Association's (HIA) chief economist, Simon Tennent told the ABC [Australian] that a major reason for rising house prices was the increased intake of skilled migrants. …
(p 124)
It is no surprise that the housing industry [in general] lobbies not for the size of housing industry that Australia's population needs, but for the size of Australia's population that the industry needs.
(pp 125-126)
… governments are full-participating accomplices in the housing racket, with a vested interest in letting land prices rise.
(p 126)
In July 2008 when Pope Benedict XVI [Ratzinger] visited Sydney … (just after World Population Day), Sydney's Cardinal [George] Pell told the media that Western nations faced a population crisis … no country in the Western world is producing enough children to keep the population stable. The Holy Father disagreed with Pell on global warming, and warned of 'scars which mark the surface of the earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.' … drought … global warming …
(p 153-54)
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[2008]
•
Face it. The world is no closer to consigning poverty to history.
Why is there still poverty – not only in poor countries, but in the back streets, slums and trailer parks (caravan parks) of the rich West?
The good intentions, the money, the rhetoric, the pity and the media histrionics are but pinpricks to a world-rampaging monster. They say there is no silver bullet.
Neither Geldof nor Bono, nor the United Nations, nor the vast assembled hosts of international aid and development agencies have the answer.
Doesn't every citizen of the world have an equal right to the good life? With so much wealth in the world, why are so many of us so poor, when we could rid ourselves of this monster?
And the fact is, there is only one way to kill poverty…
"You ain't no kind of a man if you ain't got land'
– Pete, in 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? (adapted from back cover)
This is a remarkable book that explains how a combination of natural resources and community effort creates what is called "economic rent," which ought to be a community resource. Instead of this revenue going back to the citizens or being used for community purposes, in all countries (in varying degrees) the money flows into private hands.
Usually the result is a stifling of community effort, leading to poverty and ignorance alongside huge fortunes, and often corruption and/or violence.
Examples from around the world include Australia, whose prosperity and spread of wealth is partly attributed to its past (but eroding) policy of taxing the capital value of land.
In India, the landlord areas are the breeding grounds for Communist insurgency and violence. (p 160).
In Venezuela, the election of President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías led to United States backing a plot to remove him in 2002 (pp 161 ff). Chávez wanted land reform, but instead ought to have announced tax reform. If he had done so, the U.S.A. would not have been able to trumpet that he was attacking private property (nor have silly reformers and Church people parroting the same line).
Other examples include Brazil, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Britain, the United Kingdom, and the contrast between Taiwan's spread of wealth and the concentration of wealth in Communist China and capitalist Russia. Taiwan partly follows the teaching of Sun Yat Sen, who followed the Adam Smith and Henry George line that it was right to relieve people of unfair taxes, and shift the burden to land.
Fred Harrison is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London. He was a Fleet Street journalist, and then spent 10 years in Russia, trying to convince the federal parliament to adopt land-value taxation. (back flap)
He is research director of the London-based Land Research Trust, and is a director of Economic Indicator Services.
Alanna Hartzok, a U.S. environmental and economic reformer, has put articles and essays of more than 20 years into this book, which also discussed the idea of the citizens' dividend, and green economics.
She described how corporate-led globalisation was and is pushing people off their lands, patenting seeds for private profit and control, and seizing the genetic code. (p 17)
In Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries masses of peasants were evicted from their farms or saw the common lands fenced off for sheep. (p 31). In Germany in 1524 the peasants of Swabia presented their complaints to Dr Martin Luther (p 32). In 1549 Robert Ket, leader of the Peasants' Revolt in England, explained how the nobility was stealing the common lands of the people. (p 32)
Who owns the earth? For 83 countries, 5% owned 75% of rural land, 342 rural properties in Brazil cover 183,397 square miles, 86% of South Africa is owned by some of the white minority, 60% of El Salvador is owned by 2%, 80% of Palestine by 3%, 74% of Great Britain by 2%, 84% of Scotland by 7%, and 95% of private U.S. land by 3%, the worst concentrations being in Florida, Maine, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Oregon.
(pp 69-70)
The author quotes some great thinkers of the past -- St Ambrose, St George the Great, Clement of Alexandria, St John Chrystostom, St Basil the Great, Jesus of Nazareth, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Henry George, Charles Avila, and Thomas Paine, regarding the need for fair land usage (pp 93-97). And she quotes former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple (p 105), and Adam Smith, Count Leo Tolstoy, and Dr Sun Yat-Sen on page 145.
There are now 128 municipalities in Pennsylvania that have changed their property taxes, shifting the burden away from buildings and onto land according to site value. The number of building permits increased after the change. (p 99)
The polluters ought to pay (p 158). In the United States, the federal government owns and manages over 650 million acres of public land, which contains huge amounts of natural resources. (p 158)
Intensively-managed small farms producing a diverse range of food, fibre, livestock and energy for local markets would be best. The establishment of labour-intensive and bio-intensive small farming operations would be greatly furthered by land value tax policies, that remove taxes from labour and productive capital, while at the same time making access to land more affordable. (p 242)
Taking control of Iraq has been a long-running strategic design of the oligarchy that has come to rule the United States, she writes. An article in Harper's magazine in 1975 outlined "how we could solve all our economic and political problems by taking over the Arab oil fields (and) brining in Texans and Oklahomans to operate them." Today there are 41 members of the George W. Bush administration with direct links to the oil industry. (From her talk on March 5, 2003, opposing the proposed invasion of Iraq, on pp 271-74)
She quotes U.S. Marine Corps General Smedley Butler's 1934 book: "I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. ... I was a racketeer, a gangster ... War is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." (pp 303-4)
There are many examples of how the International Monetary Fund has forced weak nations to open their borders to subsidized food from abroad, destroying their own farming industries and, perhaps more importantly, preventing state spending on land reform. (p 317)
(Alanna Hartzok visited Australia in recent years.)
The carbon taxes, or emissions trading scheme (ETS), proposed for Australia will cost huge numbers of jobs, according to David Archibald, a Perth (Australia) scientist operating in the fields of climate science, cancer research, and oil exploration.
Man-made carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions will account for only a tiny amount of warming, because its warming effect is strongly logarithmic. ("Logarithmic" in this sense indicates that changes in one factor do not make changes in the other factor at a simple rate, but it could be at a rapidly decreasing, or increasing, rate.)
With atmospheric carbon dioxide rising at about 2 parts per million per year, temperature will rise at 0·1 degree Celsius (= centigrade) every 50 years (see page 1).
If carbon dioxide didn't cause the warming of the 20th century, what did? The sun has been more active in the 20th century than at any time in the previous 8,000 years (see p 1).
The way that Solar Cycle 23 is declining, combined with the very weak ramp-up of Solar Cycle 24 sunspot activity, suggests that the month of solar cycle minimum will be July 2009. If that transpires, the cooling will amount to over 2° (pp 1-2).
In spite of much publicity about the "Greenhouse effect" supposedly threatening life as the earth gets warmer than now, the rural United States is cooler now than it was 70 years ago (see p 10).
Cycles of lower temperatures (ice ages), and higher temperatures, have occurred during pre-historic and in historic times, all seemingly unaffected by humanity's actions.
England has kept the longest temperature records in the world. (p 11). There was a 2.2° temperature rise in the 36 years between 1696 and 1732. Such a rise was four times as large and three times as fast as the rise in the 20th century.
The world can experience very rapid temperature swings, all due to natural causes -- this is quite significant.
But, the major "greenhouse gas" is water vapour (82 per cent), the next is carbon dioxide 10%, followed by methane 4% and ozone 4%. (This is formed in the atmosphere by stray atoms of oxygen (O2 ) being transformed naturally into a three-atom form, ozone (O3 ).
Carbon dioxide's cycle includes being dissolved in the seawater, where it is estimated the carbon content is 38,000 billion tonnes (see p 43), compared with 760 billion tonnes in the atmosphere, plus 2300 billion in vegetation and soils.&nbps; So, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, it is in near equilibrium through its continuous exchanges with vegetation and soils, breathing animals, and the oceans. (Note that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has risen 30% since the pre-industrial level, but it is still only 10%.) (see p 43)
The carbon "taxes" are wrong in science; the plant world thrives if there is more carbon dioxide in the air, which is shown by the way that people who have greenhouses sometimes pipe a lot of extra carbon dioxide into them.
More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be better for humans and other living things. How did the IPCC, the CSIRO, NAS, NOAA, the Bureau of Meteorology and other worthy "acronyms" get it wrong? Part of the story of the scientific fraud that led to this is in Appendix 3. (p 6)
Global warming alarmism has penetrated Europe, whose suffering will be made more bitter by longer winters (pp 61-62)
The global warming alarmism has been compared to the Y2K scare (the computer and internet scare before the year 2000 came, that would have us believe aeroplanes might fall out of the sky and whole electricity and water-supply systems would close down because the year part of computer dates were shown by two figures instead of four. Lots of computer work ensured that the Y2K "Millenium bug" caused no damage.)
But the more apposite analogy was the internet "bubble" on world stockmarkets. During the unmerited increase of internet share prices, tens of thousands of the world's most intelligent and highly-paid people succumbed to a mass hysteria (see p 62).
The Preface is by Professor David Bellamy, OBE . His many British Broadcasting Corporation series were not re-contracted when he questioned the "received wisdom" about Climate Change. "I rapidly found myself confronted by what can only be termed a state of McCarthyism in Science ..." wrote Bellamy (p 5).
Others to praise David Archibald's book are: Professor Folke Stenman, Professor of Physics at the University of Helsinki 1970-2003
,
Prof. Ian Plimer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia
,
Prof. Bob Carter, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Queensland
.
A game of economic corruption played around the globe "Economic hit men (EHMs)," John Perkins wrote in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.
Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."
John Perkins exposed this shocking secret world in
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, his first-person account of his own life as an EHM, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Here, other economic hit men, journalists, and investigators join Perkins to reveal many more deeply disturbing stories of greed and international corruption. In gripping detail, they describe the schemes and subterfuges that multinational corporations, governmental agencies use to enrich themselves behind the façade of "foreign aid" and "International Development".
"If my Confessions could send such a strong message to the public, it made sense that multiple confessions might reach even more people"
-- John Perkins author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman (more than 500,000 copies sold).
"The authors are all well-informed and very credible people, many with front-line exposure to the issues they discuss. Their analysis and evidence cannot be ignored. … Australian individuals and corporations are not immune to the lure of offshore bank accounts and trusts in tax haven[s], and corrupt activities are not unknown, as the Australian Wheat Board's scandalous dealings with Iraq demonstrated. …
The publication of an Australian edition of A Game as Old as Empire will help to raise our awareness of, and interest in, the disastrous consequences of the abuses and excesses of unfettered global markets and corporations for the world's poor. … we need some real leadership [by] … national governments …
-- Bernie Fraser (former Secretary to the Australian federal Treasury and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia) (p 3)
A few extracts:
[In occupied Iraq] In August 2003 ... union called a strike ... shut off ... oil production. ... The following month, U.S. administrator Paul Bremer proposed ... wages for Iraqi workers ... starting from just 69,000 Iraqi dinars ($40-$45) per month. ... pressuring Halliburton subcontractor to replace its 1,200 imported foreign workers with Iraqis ...(p 199)
In the mid 1990s EFIC (Australian Export Finance and Investment Corporation) guaranteed $250 million ... Rio Tinto Zinc ... gold mine ... Papua New Guinea ... annually dumping 110 million cubic meters [metres] of cyanide-contaminated waste into the sea ...
(p 283)
... EFIC deal ... $80 million guarantee in the 1980s for ... Rio Tinto Zinc Panguna copper mine ... Bougainville, ... contaminated major rivers and bays ... destroying the land, forests, and fish ... thousands of villagers ... civil war ... deaths of 15,000 people. (p 283)
Some 30 percent of the UK [United Kingdom] ECA's budget in the 1990s and a third of export credits granted by France's ECA went to subsidize arms exports. In 1999 the Indonesian military used British Aerospace fighters purchased with UK ECA credits in its battle for East Timor, leading to outraged protests ... [and to the deaths of many East Timorese.] Germany's ECA offered $407 million ... to enable ... thirty-nine obsolete East German PT boats. Suharto government ...
(pp 283-4)
... nuclear ractors ... China in 1996 ... Turkey in 1997 ... Romania in 1998 ... opening of India ... President George W. Bush ... March 2006 – revoking an international arms embargo ...
(p 285)
Introduction by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman: … transformation in public attitude … my book has to share that honour with a number of others, such as Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents, David Korten's When Corporations Rule the World, Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, Chalmers Johnson's Sorrows of an Empire, Jeff Faux's Global Class War, and Antonia Juhasz's
Bush Agenda, as well as films such as
The Constant Gardener, Syriana, Hotel Rwanda, Good Night, and Good Luck and
Munich. … Mine is definitely not a voice in the wilderness.
Despite the overwhelming evidence … the mainstream press ignores the obvious. (p 9)
1. Global Empire: The Web of Control. By Steven Hiatt. He is a professional editor and writer, whose first street demonstration, for housing justice, was in 1965, and co-edited a book on radical politics published in 1989.
2. Selling Money – and Dependency: Setting the Debt Trap. By S.C.Gwynne, executive editor of Texas Monthly. Wrote Selling Money: A Young Banker's Account of the Rise and Extraordinary Fall of the Great International Lending Boom (1985). Has won Loeb and Anderson reporting awards.
3. Dirty Money: Inside the Secret World of Offshore Banking.
By John Christensen. Worked in the tax haven of Jersey. Director of the International Secretariat of the Tax Justice Network ( www.taxjustice. net ).
4. BCCI's Double Game: Banking on America, Banking on Jihad. By Lucy Komisar, a New York journalist. See www. thekomisarscoop.com .
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a useful tool for many powerful clents … CIA … Medellin cartel … Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda … as much as $15 billion had been lost or stolen.
5. The Human Cost of Cheap Cell Phones.
By Kathleen Kern. Coltan in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has worked with Christian Peacemaker Teams since 1993. These teams in Haiti, Chiapas, etc. have found that the economic violence installed by the corporatocracy can cause as much suffering as the physical violence.
6. Mercenaries on the Front Lines in the New Scramble for Africa.
By Andrew Rowell and James Marriott.
Mr Rowell, an award-winning writer is regularly published in Alkhaleej, an Arabic newspaper in the Gulf, and is a director of the group that runs the websites
www.spinwatch.org and
www.nuclearspin.org .
Mr Marriott is an artist and naturalist, and since 1983 has been co-director of PLATFORM ( www.platform london.org ) working for social and ecological justice
7. Hijacking Iraq's Oil Reserves: Economic Hit Men at Work. By Greg Muttitt. He is a researcher at PLATFORM, who since 2003 has monitored and exposed the hidden plans to open Iraq's oil reserves to Western corporations for the first time since 1972, and investigates Shell Oil's plans for the Russia's Far East.
8. The World Bank and the $100 Billion Question.
By Steve Berkman (has been a fraud investigator).
9. The Philippines, the World Bank, and the Race to the Bottom.
By Ellen Augustine (earlier wrote as Ellen Schwartz).
10. Exporting Destruction.
By Bruce Rich, a senior attorney at Environmental Defense, Washington, D.C. He works to reform export credit agencies; see www.eca -watch.org .
11. The Mirage of Debt Relief.
By James S. Henry. U.S. investigative journalist who identified how a central bank enriched Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, and how U.S. banks facilitated capital flight, money laundering, and tax evasion. Newsblog "SubmergingMarkets" is at
www.submerging markets.com .
12. Global Uprising: The Web of Resistance.
By Antonia Juhasz. A Washington scholar and author; for example, see
http://www.thebushagenda.net .
• Unlocking the Riches of Oz: A case study of the social and economic costs of real estate bubbles (1972-2006), 2007, Bryan KAVANAGH.
"Economic rationalism" has been little more than 30 years of government acquiescence in the private plunder of Australia's natural resources. The environment has suffered greatly as a consequence. (see p 7)
LAND price is now the greater part of residential property values in Australia. A greater public capture of annual land values has much to commend it on at least four fronts:
• Reducing land PRICES, or at least dampening SPECULATIVE price increases by imposing a holding cost on speculators.
• Providing scope to redress a Mad Hatter's tax regime that penalises work and employment, while pardoning speculation.
• Establishing a citizens' claim to Australia's natural resource values.
• Assisting to foster a natural job shift, away from further intensive urban agglomeration, towards cheaper and more decentralised locations. (see p 3)
In a recent UK book, Ricardo's Law: House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback Scam, Fred Harrison points out that London has a parasitical dependence on the far-flung areas northwards to Hadrian's Wall.
(see p 5)
A "property" bubble is really a land bubble. The capture, for public purposes, of even HALF the rental value of land (a gift of nature) would permit the reduction of taxes that feed into prices, thereby reducing inflationary tendencies, so allowing more accommodating monetary policy and internal interest rates. (see pp 19-20)
Accommodation for industry, business and homes would become more affordable, because the public capture of site revenue would mean that owners would be financially encouraged to find a productive use for land, or sell it. (see p 20)
The elimination of land price "bubbles" would eliminate the slowdown of the economy that occurs during and after the collapse of these bubbles. (see p 20)
Property owners, too, would probably gain additional spending power because of the cuts to other taxation, and these affects on the rental and resale value of their properties. (see p 20)
(An interesting question is: How much of existing "investment" is speculative? Some people who gain windfall profits from land had no intention to "invest" at all, but merely inherited or bought a farm, farmlet, or house to use. The growth of urban sprawl, or for example the building of a railway, highway, or port, then raises the value – and the rates and taxes
– above the expected growth measured against the cost of living index of the land, which if and when sold or bequeathed gives someone an "unearned increment.")
When people had cheap access to land, and paid the then-new federal land tax, Australia experienced the highest standard of living in the world. (see p 23)
DETAILS: Published by the Land Values Research Group (Melbourne, Vic., Australia) www.lvrg. org.au, printed by The Print Press, Australia, 2007; 32pp, soft covers, 17.5 x 25 cm (7 x 9 7/8 in), references, pictures, cartoons, graphs, tables.
ISBN 978-0-909946-03-6, Dewey 333.332'30'994; AUD$5.00
Why have the incomes of corporate executives dramatically outstripped those of other workers? Do people's income and wealth reflect differences in their contributions to the Australian economy? Do big economic inequalities damage productivity and social cohesion? Why isn't Australia a more egalitarian society?
Who Gets What? explores questions like these. It looks at recent trends in income and wealth in Australia and examines the economic evidence in a way that makes fascinating reading for both general and specialist audiences.
The book looks at who is rich and who in Australia still lives in poverty - and why. It explores the causes of economic inequality and the possibility of making our society more equal. Ultimately, the authors offer their own solution to these problems, with policies which could redistribute income and wealth more equitably.
In Australia since the mid-1970s there has been a long-term redistribution of income away from labour and towards capital. (p 21)
It means more work for (relatively) less pay (quoting M. Pusey 2003, The Experience of Middle Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 6-7) (p 23)
The John Howard (Liberal-National) government's decision, in 1999, to reduce capital gains taxes also had a markedly regressive effect on income inequalities -- it halved the tax on income from capital relative to income from labour. (p 205)
The income tax cuts in the 2005-06 federal budget were worth $42 a week to someone on $80,000 or more, but only $7 p.w. to someone on $50,000. (p 205)
Landowners capture unearned income at the expense of everyone else, by benefiting from rising land values that are, typically the product to social processes, and this contributes to income inequality. (p 207)
Land values being higher where land price inflation is more pronounced, a more comprehensive land taxation on site values would assist decentralisation. (p 208)
Using such revenue to substantially increase the supply of public housing would help redress the economic and social stresses in the housing market. (p 209)
The authors also discuss the possibility of a citizens' dividend, to largely do away with the complicated rules of the welfare safety net, and so to free up people for more social purposes.
Frank Stilwell is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Kirrily Jordan is a research assistant in political economy at the University of Sydney.
DETAILS: Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne and New York, 2007; 266pp, soft covers, 15.5 x 23 cm (6 x 9 in), contents, index, bibliography, graphs, tables.
ISBN 978 0 52170 032 0,
Dewey 339. 220'994; AUD$34.95.
This book from celebrated Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey takes us on an incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years.
His eye for detail and evocative style bring to vivid life many of the events that marked the 20th century: two world wars, the rise and fall of communist states, the worst economic slump in the world's history, the decline of European monarchies and empires, the ascent of the first female prime ministers, the resurgence of Asia, and exploration of outer space.
Yet it is not only through such grand markers that we have come to know and understand our history. As ever, Blainey brings the past alive by recording the minutiae of daily life - nine-year-old mothers with puny babies, the whiff of chaff and manure, the bustle of crowded cities. It brilliantly captures the excitement of the times, the triumphs and the tragedies of perhaps the most significant century of all.
Praise for A Short History of the World 'Truly illuminating … a remarkable achievement'
–Australian Book Review 'Immediately accessible and entertaining …
an engaging story and well told'
–West Australian 'No one has an excuse for not buying and reading it'
–Weekend Australian
DETAILS: Penguin Group Australia, (orig. 2005) 2007, Camberwell (Victoria),
ISBN 978 0 14 300614 5; Dewey shelf number 909.82, 562 pp, soft covers, 13 x 20 x 4 cm (5 x 7 7/8 x 1 1/2 in), contents, index, sources, maps, front cover picture Chrysler Building (Mitchell Funk / Getty Images).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: KJJM and SMcG.
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[IMPORTANT SIDELIGHTS: Hubbert pointed out that Spain was inadvertently devastated by New World gold and silver. During the years Spain plundered the Americas, Spain could buy food, manufactured goods, art objects -- anything it wanted, from other countries. By the time the flow of gold and silver ceased, Spain had lost the ability to produce anything, and lost its place as a world power (p 179).
While going around giving talks in colleges, Deffeyes noticed that very few students were studying earth history and earth resources, i.e., real geology. Princeton (his own university) had an endowment to support "a Freshman Seminar in environmental studies, exploring environmental issues primarily through literary, philosophical, ethical, spiritual, or other humanistic perspectives." Prof. Deffeyes' comments: We've elevated scientific ignorance to an art form (p 169).
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[2006]
• Who Owns Britain; The hidden facts behind landownership in the UK and Ireland, 2002 (orig. 2001), Kevin CAHILL.
WHO OWNS BRITAIN "It is hard to believe that we've waited for a hundred years for this book… a vital and illuminating study of great political significance." ANDY WIGHTMAN, author of the best-selling WHO OWNS SCOTLAND A startling piece of research, and a searing critique of both the landowning aristocracy and the Land Registry, WHO OWNS BRITAIN is an eye-opening
examination of the nation's most valuable asset - its land. Cahill argues that our present system of landownership is of material detriment to the vast majority of homeowners in Britain, while many of the nation's wealthiest landowners pay no rates and actually receive money
in the form of grants and subsidies.
WHO OWNS BRITAIN is relevant to every resident in the UK. It is a vital piece of investigation that should lead to a closer examination of our land laws
and regulations.
"A book of prime - even sublime - importance." IRISH TIMES "Every library should have a copy of this book." BUSINESS A.M. "In this brave work, Cahill makes a plea for the last great social reform, land reform, already high on the political agenda for Scotland… Cahill has called his book WHO OWNS BRITAIN. He might equally well have called it WHO RUNS BRITAIN." THE TIMES JACKET DESIGN BY JAMES HUTCHESON
DETAILS: Canongate Books www.canon gate.net , Edinburgh ; 2002 (first published 2001), ISBN 1 84195 310 5.
466pp, soft covers, 19 x 26 centimetres (7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches), contents, index, endnotes, UK £16.99.
• Hijacked Inheritance; The Triumph of Dollar Darwinism?
2005, Philip DAY.
Hijacked Inheritance is an angry expression of concern at the decline of mateship and community and the pervasive greed, self-interest and inequality of wealth and influence in our increasingly violent society.
Dr Phil Day, a lawyer, town planner and respected public administrator and academic, challenges the mindless consumption of the planet's resources in the frenetic pursuit of development and economic efficiency regardless of the social and environmental consequences.
Hijacked Inheritance compares the public revenue potential of charges upon the consumption of natural resources with the punitive taxation of labour and capital and the production of goods and services.
It exposes the enormous revenue forgone through the private appropriation of the unearned increment in community land values.
Challenging a seemingly immutable mindset, it asserts that the sanctity still associated with land and land-owning derives from nothing more noble or pre-ordained than the fact that in the later Middle Ages, following the erosion of feudal obligations, Anglo-Australian culture was shaped by parliaments dominated by baronial land-owners, elected by land-owners.
For a nation pausing uncertainly in the aftermath of a divisive election, this is an important book whose Australian message deserves to be spread throughout western society. (Back cover)
Dr Day gives an excellent history of how humanity had moved from instinctively knowing that land was a community asset, to allow it to become a mere commodity able to be "cornered" and charged out for whatever its scarcity value could make.
Many will be delighted to learn that an excellent study in taxation reform was undertaken by the Brisbane City Council, which in its September 1989 unanimous report stated that, in principle, the unimproved value of land was a logical and appropriate bases for revenue-raising irrespective of the level of government. The committee noted that a tax on land value was:
• Virtually impossible to evade.
• Represented a contribution by every member of the community either directly as a property owner or indirectly by way of rent or board.
• Simple and inexpensive to administer.
• Encouraged the use of city land for its best and most intensive permissible use. (pp 103-04)
Dr Day claimed that the report argued that land was NOT in fixed supply, so a same-percentage charge on it would not affect the free market allocation of resources. (p 104) This sentence overlooks the fact that local and State governments have zoning and other prohibitions to prevent willy-nilly development, and so the amount of land AVAILABLE to users is, in a sense, "fixed" – until some clever operators move in and "arrange" through political and bureaucratic contacts to have it freed up for their speculative advantage. (Something of this sort seems to have been going on in Western Australia in relation to Coogee and Smith's Beach, if the WA Corruption and Crime Commission exposures up to around October 2007 are on the right track.)
Reformers ought to enjoy the excerpts from Winston S. Churchill's speech in Edinburgh on July 17, 1909, while he was going through his "reforming" phase. "… every step in material progress is only undertaken after the land monopolist has skimmed the cream off for himself …" (pp 180-81). (Quoted from Hill, M., 1999, Churchill: His Radical Decade, Othila Press, London.)
AUTHOR: Philip Day, LL.B. (Qld), Dip. TCP (Sydney), Ph.D. (Qld), Life Fellow Planning Institute of Australia. (p. i)
DETAILS:Copyright Publishing Co Pty Ltd, Brisbane, 2005; 192pp, soft covers, 13.5 x 21 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/4 in), contents, no index, chapter notes, references and further reading;
ISBN 1 876 344 41 5. Delivery paid in Australia AUS $19.80, other countries US $22.10, by air US $26.35.
Copyright Publishing Co, GPO Box 2927, Brisbane, Queensland, 4001, Australia;
info@copy right. net.au ;
Clickwww.copy right. net.au .
[2005]
• Unintended Consequences: The United States at
War, 2007, by Kenneth J. HAGAN and Ian J. BICKERTON.
This is an important work that traces the stated aims, and actual effects, of ten US wars.
[Picture] Unintended Consequences - Amazon webpic. CHECK Amazon Books: www.amazon. com/Unintended- Consequences- United-States- War/dp/1861 893108 (sighted March 16, '07)
DISCUSSION: ABC (Australia) www.abc.net. au/rn/latenight live/stories/ 2007/1852242. htm (sighted March 16, '07)
[2007]
• Fascist Europe Rising; The repression and resurgence of democratic nations, 2001, Rodney ATKINSON.
As the constitution of the Danish people rightly asserts "It is by law you build the land" and no other regime in world history has achieved so much imperial conquest by merely generating the law to build their land as has the so-called "European Union".
The European Union extended that body of law to questions of "free movement of people" but the whole purpose of the free movement of capital is to make the movement of people largely unnecessary. It was the movement of people which interested them most, for that would more quickly break up the cohesion of the nation states.
'The Commission should not get carried away by the idea of transparency - it is necessary to learn to conceal aspects of information which give rise to bad interpretation.' European Commission internal memorandum.
Eastern Europe wants only to trade freely with the countries of Western Europe but the European Union forcefully prevents that, offering to remove trade barriers only when those nations surrender their hard-won constitutional nationhood.
In the modern era of the universal franchise each Parliament only represents (for its statutory term) the true sovereigns, the people. The end of sovereignty is the end of democracy.
We do not speak of Californian fishing grounds because all the wealth in those grounds is an asset of the US Dollar. The step which really creates the European Superstate is the introduction of its currency – the Euro. Democrats know that you do not need a single currency to enjoy free trade. Dictators know that you cannot conquer countries without a single currency.
Hitler destroyed Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and created petty nationalist states in Slovakia and Croatia. German Europe has broken up Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, Slovakia driving out its gypsies, Croatia its Serbs and Albanian Kosovo its gypsies, Jews and Serbs.
During the 1930s and 1940s, as today, there were few terms with which European Fascism was more happy than The New World Order reflecting as it does notions of power, global ambition, order (ie control) and contempt for democratic nationhood. (back cover)
… a massive economic corruption at the very heart of the European [Union] institutions. The annual loss of up to £6,000 million by fraud and mismanagment in the European Commission …
… Paul van Buitenen … who leaked the details was taken by an employee of the European Commission to view some guns! -- very subtle. Bernard Connolly who was head of the Commission's EURO department and who wrote
The Rotten Heart of Europe was excluded from the commission buildings, his picture was put up in public corridors, he was ordered -- illegally -- not to leave the country, his phone was tapped, his wife was followed and received many nuisance telephone calls, and his house was broken into. (p 41)
The Author: Rodney Atkinson, B.A., M.Sc., M.I.L.: He is a British political economist, who predicted the collapse of oil prices in 1983, the fall in British house prices in 1989, and the end of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1990.
A linguist and linguistic theoretician, he was formerly a lecturer at the University of Mainz, Germany, and a merchant banker in the City of London. He is chairman of Heritage Media Ltd. Previous books include Government Against the People (1986), and Treason at Maastricht (with Norris McWhirter, fourth edition 1998). See author's website at:
http://www. rodneyatkinson. freeuk.com/
(from p 213)
DETAILS: Compuprint Publishing, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; 240pp, soft covers, 14.7 x 21 cm (5 3/4 x 8 1/4 in), contents, index. (Although the book is well-produced, it was not done by a professional traditional publisher, as evidenced by its having the odd page numbers at the left of the spine, and other telltale details.)
AUS$40.
[2001]
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, 1984 (orig. 1974), Victor MARCHETTI and John D. MARKS.
"AN INSIDER'S INDICTMENT OF THE ENTIRE AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE INDUSTRY…" * The CIA tried to stop it. But former CIA senior official Victor Marchetti and ex-State Department intelligence expert John D. Marks took their case to the Supreme Court. The story they tell–with many blanks now newly filled in–is fascinating… and still frightening.
The Cleveland Press called The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence the book that "ripped the bloodstained cloak off the CIA." Time called it "the most detailed expose of CIA tactics to date…a book bound to pose embarrassing questions about the aims and activities of American espionage…sure to be must reading in quiet offices around the world."
Victor Marchetti is a veteran of fourteen years with the CIA, where he rose to be executive assistant to the deputy director. He is currently at work on a novel.
In five years with the State Department, John D. Marks worked as analyst and staff assistant to the Intelligence Director. He has since written the award-winning Search for the Manchurian Candidate, has been a fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics and an associate of the Harvard Negotiation Project, and is currently the director of the Nuclear Network in Washington, D.C.
* Myron Beckstein, The Chicago Daily News Some of the passages that the CIA had forced the publishers to delete have been published, after vigorous court action, but quite a number remain, shown by such notes as "9½ lines deleted". Under the Freedom of Information Act all but 168 of the deletions had been reinstated, with more being freed as the book went to press. Some of the CIA's activities are explained in the introduction by Melvin L. Wulf, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Introductions by Anthony Lewis (ex-journalist), AND Melvin L. Wulf, ACLU.
DETAILS: Laurel / Dell Books, U.S.A., ISBN 0-440-31298-1; 336 pp, soft covers, 11 x 17.25 cm (4 1/4 x 6 3/4 in), contents, index, US$3.95.
NEWS ITEM: "CIA hired mafia to kill Castro," The West Australian,
p 32, Thursday, June 28, 2007. (This book entry was then put onto this webpage.)
[1984]
Hidden Agendas, 1998, John PILGER.
This is a wide-ranging book that demolishes the smokescreens around and double-dealing of many "revered" public figures on all continents. One example:
[Myanmar, formerly Burma] One Australian business group was led by the former [Labor] Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, who lauded the regime as having a 'genuine commitment to improving the economic condition of the country and its people'. … He had not raised the issue of human rights or the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi, then in the sixth year of house arrest. (p 179)
Subjects covered include: Fake opposition to terrorists, the armaments industry arming the world, Undemocratic Burma backed, Australia's flawed leaders, East Timor betrayal and Indonesia, the famine road, how The Mirror was broken, Vietnam, and the "new" South Africa's failure to revive the lives of thousands displaced by the white apartheid regime, while its leaders flirt with the powerful companies that profited from them.
[COMMENT: Mr Hawke, like many other world leaders, does NOT care a fig about cruel governments, in spite of his tears on television when Communist Chinese tanks crushed students in the great Tienamin Square demonstrations for democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi, who was elected and ought to have been Prime Minister of her country, is now [2007] still deprived of liberty, while the military dictatorship attacks and tries to wipe out dissenters and racial minorities.
ENDS.] [1998]
•
Some years ago The Economist carried a lead editorial 'The puzzling failure of economics'. This frank admission was provoked by the publication of a new edition of Paul Samuelson's Economics, probably the most widely used textbook in universities according to The Economist. The editorial concluded that it 'is not a failure of economics, in fact, but of modern [neo-classical] economics'
The authors argue there is nothing puzzling about this failure. They document how the integrity of economics as a discipline was deliberately compromised towards the end of the 19th century. Classical economists like Adam Smith had described wealth as the product of three factors – land, labour and capital, whereas the new theorists reduced these to two, labour and capital, treating land as capital.
The effect, the authors reveal, was to deprive professional economists of the ability to diagnose problems, forecast important trends and prescribe solutions. Neo-classical economics condemns the post-industrial economy to protracted periods of economic failure.
The contributors are ... in tune with the increasing realisation by economists of the importance of the property market to the macro economy – British Review of Economic Issues
Mason Gaffney, professor of economics at the University of California (Riverside), is a leading authority on the economics of natural resources and has published extensively on urban economics and public finance.
Fred Harrison, executive director of the Land Research Trust in London, spent the 1990s advising Russian academic and political bodies, including the Russian parliament, in their efforts to implement a more equitable transition to a market economy. He has now turned his attention to the failure of economic analysis and public policies in the market economies.
Cover design by Alan Downs;
ISBN 0 85683 244 8;
For other books on Ethical Economics visit www.shepheard-walwyn.co.uk (from back cover)
[2006 (orig. 1994)]
The Growth Illusion; How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many, and endangered the planet, 1992, Richard DOUTHWAITE.
The idea that growth is beneficial
underlies the economic strategies of all
major political parties, but the reality of
recent years is that the negative effects
of growth have far outweighed any
positive ones.
In Ireland growth has
been the root cause of unemployment;
in Britain it has led to an eightfold
increase in crime, the breakdown of
family life and a deterioration in
general levels of health and education;
in the USA real incomes have fallen; in
India people have been driven from the
land into urban slums; and the natural
world suffers increasing threat and
inexorable erosion.
The growth process generates the
profits it needs by the introduction of
labour-saving technology.
Until recently,
the resulting job losses were conveniently out of sight - in the Third
World.
Now, industrial nations can no
longer maintain full employment at the
expense of jobs overseas, and compete
among themselves for a shrinking pool
of available work.
The Growth Illusion exposes the real nature of undirected economic growth, and refutes Adam Smith's belief in the 'invisible hand' ensuring that self-interest would serve the common good.
Rather than strive for constant expansion to stave off collapse, nations must learn to build stable economies.
Richard Douthwaite was born in Yorkshire in 1942 and studied at Leeds and Essex universities. A former
professional economist, he was adviser
to the governments of Jamaica and
Montserrat. In 1974 he moved to
Westport, Co. Mayo, and now works as a
writer and journalist, specializing in
business and the environment. DETAILS: Resurgence Books by Green Books, Bideford (UK), ISBN
0 870098 41 2; 368 pp, hard covers, 15.5 x 23.5 cm (6 x 9 1/4 in), contents, index, graphs and illustrations, bibliography, endnotes.
[1992]
Burke's Shambles; Parliamentary Contempt in the Wild West, 1987, Anthony McADAM and Patrick O'BRIEN.
… the great Midland abattoir affair [to make an extra brickworks] is more than just another tale of skulduggery from the "Wild West" … an "international story." ISBN 0 0587698 0 X
[TRANSFERRED TO: Australian Books.
[1987]
The Burke Ambush; Corporatism and Society in Western Australia, 1986, Patrick O'BRIEN (ed.).
… while surrounding himself with advisers and other retainers who are hostile to the democratic capitalist tradition, the Premier has used the powers and purse of the State to assist the businesses of those Perth-based millionaires who bankrolled the coffers of the
ALP's
John Curtin Foundation, thus providing the bulk of the funds being used by the ALP to campaign against free enterprise. …
It was in only the last six weeks of the life of the State Parliament that the Liberal Party came out of its state of torpor … by asking a series of detailed questions concerning the expenditures of taxpayers' funds on WADC, EXIM and the Seaman Land Rights Inquiry. … Burswood Casino … the M.R.P.A. … funding of the arts. […] ISBN 0 949901 04 0
[TRANSFERRED TO: Australian Books.
[1986]
The Executive State; WA Inc. & The Constitution, 1991, Patrick O'BRIEN and Martyn WEBB (editors).
This book describes how the extraordinary powers in the Westminster system under the Western Australian Constitution have been misused, costing present and future generations $1,000,000,000, and eroding their democratic rights.
… The book proposes radical constitutional reforms. (back cover)
… report … into the sale of the Midland Abattoir was tabled three minutes before the assembly was dissolved in late 1986. […]
… the government's involvement … Bond Corporation … Petrochemical Industries Company Ltd (PICL) joint venture.
… Rothwells rescue operation … over $300 million of taxpayers' funds … government's secret guarantee for the project to the tune of approximately $1.2 billion. …
(p 108)
[…]
AUTHORS: Hal Colebatch, Ann Duffield, Anthony Ley, Leslie R. Marchant, Patrick Mugliston, Patrick O'Brien (a Fulbright Scholar), and Martyn Webb (retired professor of geography).
ISBN 0 646 04875 9, Dewey 354.941009. A FULLER SUMMARY is in Australian Books.
[1991]
Reluctant Indonesians: Australia, Indonesia, and the future of West Papua, 2006, Clinton Fernandes, Published by Scribe,
RRP $AUST. 22.00
WHEN 43 West Papuans claimed asylum in Australia in February 2006, it marked the beginning of yet another crisis in the fragile relationship with our closest neighbour.
Anxious to allay Indonesia's suspicions of Australian motives in the wake of East Timorese independence, the Howard Government proposed reforms to policies on asylum-seekers to preclude the arrival of more boats, and loudly proclaimed its support for Indonesian territorial integrity and sovereignty - despite the fact that a great many Australians support the right of West Papuans to
determine their own future.
Clinton Fernandes traces the history of West Papua from the
colonial era to its incorporation and full-scale transformation
under Indonesian rule, and offers a penetrating analysis of
the problems posed by the rise of the West Papuan
independence movement for Australia's relations with
Indonesia.
Reluctant Indonesians issues a timely, provocative, and profound challenge to the orthodox views of the foreign policy establishment and its various supporters in the media. It is essential reading for those interested in West Papua, Australia's relationship with Indonesia, and Australian foreign policy in general.
THE AUTHOR Clinton Fernandes is senior lecturer in strategic studies at University College, the University of New South Wales. He specialises in international relations and strategy with a focus on the 'national interest' in Australia's external relations. He is the author of Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the independence of East Timor (Scribe, 2004).
-- Dated: 03 October 2006, by e-mail of Oct 31, 06
[2006]
Hitler's secret bankers; how Switzerland profited from Nazi genocide, 1997, by Adam LeBOR.
(From back cover) An explosive new account reveals how the Swiss became Hitler's secret bankers. Switzerland, supposedly neutral in the Second World War, seemed a safe have to desperate Judaists who entrusted their wealth to its banks, believing that even if they died their families would inherit it. Millions of pounds were deposited in banks, who later refused to hand the money to the relatives of the Holocaust mass-murder victims unless they had written proof of death.
For more than 50 years the money has provided free working capital for the banks.
Now Adam LeBor uncovers evidence of Swiss economic collaboration with the Nazis, playing a vital role in the Nazi war effort. Even Swiss diplomats and the Swiss-based Red Cross are implicated in channelling Nazi money. The money went on to other neutral countries. Swiss banks profited from Nazi genocide.
(From page xvii) Swiss banks supplied the foreign currency that the Third Reich needed to buy vital war materials.
At the Basle-based Bank for International Settlements, Nazi and Allied nationals even worked together all through the war as their compatriots were slaughtering each other on Europe's battlefields.
Spain and Portugal supplied tungsten, Turkey chrome, and Sweden steel.
There is another book with a similar title. In his thanks in the acknowledgments, Mr LeBor lists (page xii): Hitler's Secret Bankers; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer; Jews for Sale? by Professor Yehuda Bauer; and Hitler's Spies, by David Kahn.
-- Hitler's secret bankers; how Switzerland profited from Nazi genocide, 1997, by Adam LeBor; Simon & Schuster, Sydney and London, ISBN 0-671-01027-1. (First published 1997 in Great Britain.)
354pp, soft covers, 13 x 19.7 centimetres (5 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches), index, endnotes and sources, photographs. ($12.99 Angus & Robertson, 1997.)
[1997]
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East , 2005, by Robert Fisk.
Part of review By Masood Haider,www.dawn.com/ 2005/11/18/ int11.htm , November 18, 2005.
NEW YORK: Distinguished British journalist Robert Fisk, an outspoken critic of the US-British war in Iraq, … launched his latest book The Great War for Civilization in New York the other day.
Mr Fisk … has met Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on three occasions, … the attacks of Sept 11 might have been to turn the innocent against the innocent and not just Muslims against the West.
He also spoke about a revealing radio interview immediately following the Sept 11 attacks when he encountered American lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who, when Mr Fisk said that we must ask the question Why?, retorted angrily To ask the question why means that you are sympathetic to terrorists hence you are anti-American and being anti-American you are anti-Semitic.
See also: Press Gazette Ltd.,
www.pressgazette. co.uk/article/131005/ mouse_journalism_is ,
October 13, 2005
[2005]
Dictators of the Labor Party of Australia; The autobiographic memoir of Frank Rooney 1914-2005, 2005, by Frank Rooney. AUSTRALIA: Launched by Peter Westmore, National President of the National Civic Council, and Editor of News Weekly, in the Adam Room, Castlereagh Hotel, 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney at a luncheon on 20 December, 2005.
www.hschap man.org/auto biographical_ memoir_of_ frank.htm .
Orders to The Treasurer, HS Chapman Society, PO Box 159, Rose Bay, NSW 2029. $20 each (including postage).
[2005]
Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter Terrorism & Threat to Democracy, ? 2005, by Jenny Hocking.
AUSTRALIA: Detention without charge, indefinitely? Organisations banned without trial? Children kidnapped off the street, strip-searched, and interrogated without charge? Those things don't happen in Australia you say? Wake up Aussie or you are in for a rude awakening!
Our once jealously guarded civil and political rights - freedom of expression, freedom of association, protection from arbitrary detention, the right to independent legal advice - have been deceitfully and cunningly tossed aside in the name of the "war on terror". Jenny Hocking traces the growth of Australia's internal security organizations to the powerful 'counter terrorism' networks that now reach into every corner of our lives.
Price: $AUD 43.00 posted, from Heritage Book Services, GPO Box 1052, Melbourne, Vic, 3001, Australia; or PO Box 163, Chidlow, WA, 6556, Fax 08 9574 6042; or Veritas Publishing Co, PO Box 1334, Midland DC, WA, 6936, Fax 08 9574 6042, veritaspub@avon.net.au , etc.
[? 2005]
The collapse of globalism, and the reinvention of the world, 2005, by John Ralston Saul.
GLOBALIZATION, LIKE MANY GREAT GEOPOLITICAL IDEOLOGIES BEFORE IT,IS NOW OFFICIALLY DEAD. CANADA: Despite the near-religious conviction with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds its original promise that nation-states were heading toward irrelevance, to be replaced by the power of global markets; that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of human events; that growth in international trade would foster prosperous markets that would, in turn, abolish poverty and change dictatorships into democracies.
Yet, contends Saul, little has transpired as predicted. The collapse of Globalism has left us struggling with a paradox -- a chaotic vacuum. The United States appears determined to ignore its international critics. Europe is faced with problems of immigration, racism, terrorism and renewed internal nationalism. Many of these issues call for uniquely European solutions born out of local experiences and needs. Elsewhere, the world looks for answers to African debt, the AIDS epidemic, the return of fundamentalism and terrorism, all of which perversely refuse to disappear despite the theoretical rise in global prosperity.
Saul also objectively analyses the successes of Globalism, such as the astonishing growth in world trade and the unexpected rise of India and China, which seem slated to become twenty-first-century superpowers.
Insightful and prophetic, The Collapse of Globalism is destined to take its place as one of the seminal books of our time. (from the front dust jacket)
Publisher: Viking, a division of Penguin Books, Camberwell (Victoria, Australia),
www.penguin.com.au ,
2005. 310pp, 13.5 x 20.5cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches), hard covers, endnotes, index. $AUD 32.95 at Perth Airport bookshop Nov 24, 2005.
ISBN 0 - 670 - 04267 - 6.
[COMMENT: "GLOBALIZATION … IS NOW OFFICIALLY DEAD." This claim seems to be somewhat premature! The global meltdown of banks, which have indulged in wild over-lending for years, is just a symptom of the failure of globalization. -- John C. Massam, October 9, 2008.
COMMENT ENDS.]
[2005]
The Stolen Election according to Frank Hardy, 2005, by Amy McGrath.
AUSTRALIA: The electoral fraud at the Australian federal elections in 1987 was boasted about afterwards by a Labor Party stalwart. It even led veteran left-winger Frank Hardy to say there had been fraud, and afterwards to write a fable about it. So author Dr Amy McGrath's full title for her latest book is The Stolen Election, Australia 1987, according to Frank Hardy. The late Mr Hardy had previously won national fame through a court case against him for his book exposing business frauds in political circles, Power without glory.
But Dr McGrath also tells of the 1993 computer hacking of the Electoral Commission's computer, affecting the enrolments of 11.5 million Australians.
The book explains how the mass media, the electoral officials, and even the political parties that have been denied office by the frauds seem unable to get their mind around how fraud prevents democracy from working. Dr McGrath and the H.S.Chapman Society must be doing something right -- she has been attacked by Gerard Henderson of the Sydney Institute.
Union electoral fraud in Queensland led to an inquiry, which the Premier of the day suddenly shut down by withdrawing all funds and even put decorators into the premises! According to a 1996 report a postman named Mr Cook was dismissed after objecting to the denial of 1000 ballots to workers.
The Stolen Election, according to Frank Hardy, 2005, Amy McGrath, Towerhouse Publications for H.S.Chapman Society, 232pp, no index, 16.5cm x 24.2cm (6 1/2 inches by 9 1/2 inches), soft covers, $28 posted,
ISBN 0 95871045-7. H.S.Chapman Society, PO Box 39, Brighton-le-Sands, NSW, 2216.
It used to be: The H. S. Chapman Society, G.P.O. Box 2391, Sydney, N.S.W., 2001, Australia, http://www.hschapman.org/ [COMMENT: In the 1989 Western Australian election, the evidence was gathered by volunteers, but the Liberal Party declined to speedily prosecute or to tell the news media the most important facts. To read more, click Electoral Fraud in Western Australia, 1989]
[2005]
You Enjoy a Share of the earth's resources, 2005,
by Tanya Marwood and Reworking Tomorrow members (eds).
AUSTRALIA: Reworking Tomorrow in WA was formed in response to the Robert Theobald lectures and Conversations, which were organised by the University of Western Australia Extension Service in 1997 and early 1998. Robert Theobald was a futurist visiting from the USA where he worked as an academic for a number of years, after leaving his native England. Originally an economist, Robert produced a seminal work titled "Reworking Success" which revealed alternatives to the doctrine of economic rationalism.
The Reworking Tomorrow group invited Katrina Bercov and Tanya Marwood to organise this project. The articles are:
Locally-grown organic food, by Ross Mars.
Waste re-use, by Ross Mars.
New Ways of Housing -- climate adjustment without using energy, by Richard Hammond.
Child-centred Education, by Jarrod Burns and Victor Guest.
Money and Banking - local initiatives in credit and savings, by John Croft.
Decision-making in Local Communities, by John Croft.
Work today, and the future in Western Australia, by Mary Jenkins.
Leisure. The Bibbulmun Track, by Steve Sertis.
WWoof Your Way Around the World, by Lionel Pollard. Willing Workers on Organic Farms. (Internet: www.wwoof.com.au )
Real Alternatives to Cars, by David Wake.
Preface by Trevor Muller.
Introduction by Rodney Vlais.
To get involved with Reworking Tomorrow Conversation Groups, telephone Phil Johnson 08 9306 1859
Self-published by Reworking Tomorrow WA, Perth, Western Australia.
96pp, 15 x 21 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches), soft covers, illustrations, no footnotes, no index,
ISBN 0 646 49976 9, $AUD 10.00 plus GST, packing and postage (March 2005).
Orders to Mr Trevor Muller, Perth, Tel. 08 9309 4581.
* See book review by Deryn Thorpe in The West Australian Habitat (magazine), p 14, Friday, June 17, 2005.
One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story, 2005, by Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, with Steven Strasser.
UNITED STATES: In her new book Karpinski makes a strong argument that she was made a scapegoat by George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, her immediate bosses and military intelligence commanders.
Karpinski never steps up and takes responsibility, in any way, for what happened at Abu Ghraib.
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski HAD arrived in Iraq in June 2003 with the understanding that she would be in charge of the 800th Military Police Brigade as it transitioned from guarding EPWs (enemy prisoners of war), to helping Iraqis retake control of their own prison population.
But although Karpinski was in charge of the military police at the prison, she had no control over interrogations being handled by military intelligence, the CIA or even private contractors. In April 2004 we first saw the shocking photos.
-- Salon (subscriber site), "Salon interviews Karpinski,"
www.salon.com/ books/int/ 2005/11/10/ karpinski/ index.html ,
Nov. 10, 2005
[2005]
Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World, ? 2005, by Kishore Mahbubani.
WASHINGTON: United States policy has unwittingly made terror leader Osama bin Laden nearly the most popular figure in the Middle East, says an Asian scholar whose new book has triggered debate on why Muslims hate America.
Kishore Mahbubani, once Singapore's chief United Nations diplomat, warned Islamic anger would get stronger if the US did not improve its image among Muslims quickly.
In his book the Singaporean university dean described positive US contributions to global society and how the superpower abruptly walked away from the world when the Cold War ended.
-- The West Australian , "When Americans leave, the real talk begins," Agence France-Presse, p 23, Tuesday, March 8, 2005
[? 2005]
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, ? 2005, by Noam Chomsky.
-- Information Clearing House, "It's Imperialism, Stupid,"
www.information clearinghouse. info/article9387. htm , By Noam Chomsky, July 5, 2005
[? 2005]
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, ? 2005, is certainly the kind of book whose introduction and conclusion alone raise enough questions and spur enough dialogue for an entire semester course. But hopefully students and teachers won't stop there. What each chapter offers is extensive information, insight, and analysis into some of the issues regarding U.S. influence throughout the Americas from the time just before WWII through the lens of the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC military training camp, Fort Benning.
-- School of the Americas Watch, "Less than one month until thousands gather to close the SOA: November 18-20, 2005!" SOA Watch Update, October 20, 2005
[? 2005]
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 2005, by John Perkins.
UNITED STATES: According to notes on Amazon.com's website: "John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this exposé of his former professional life." --
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The New Times Survey, Australia, states: The inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire. "Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder." John Perkins should know - he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the US -from Indonesia to Panama - to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative profits were contracted to the US corporations. Saddled with huge debts these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank and other US dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks.
Price: $AUD 52.95 posted (June 2005 issue, p 8). Heritage Book Services, GPO Box 1052, Melbourne, Vic, 3001, Australia.
[? 2005]
"Help Save Telstra: What has to be done", 2005, Heritage Book Services, Melbourne (Vic) Australia.
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[2005]
Leisure, the basis of culture, by Joseph Piper Unequal freedoms: The global market as an ethical system, by John McMurtry.
Inside the Wire, due 2005, by Erik Saar, tells the story of torture by U.S. forces of supposed terrorists. It is due out some time in 2005. A former US army sergeant, Saar, 29, worked as a translator at Guantanamo camp in Cuba from December 2002 to June 2003.
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing miniskirts and thong underwear and, in one case, smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, an insider has stated.
-- The Weekend Australian,
"Female interrogators 'taunted terror suspects'," AP, page 11, January 29-30, 2005.
AND see Globe and Mail (Canada),
"Ex-officer describes lewd tactics at Guantanamo,"
www.theglobe andmail.com/ servlet/story/ RTGAM.20050128. wxsexx0128/BN Story/Internat ional , By PAISLEY DODDS, AP, Friday, January 28, 2005
[due 2005]
Hoodwinked, 2004, by John Prados.
"Americans do not like to think of themselves as aggressors, but raw aggression is what took place in Iraq," national security and intelligence analyst John Prados concluded after his careful, extensive review of the documentary record in his 2004 book Hoodwinked Prados describes the Bush "scheme to convince America and the world that war with Iraq was necessary and urgent" as "a case study in government dishonesty … that required patently untrue public statements and egregious manipulation of intelligence."
-- Information Clearing House,
www.information clearinghouse. info/article9387. htm , "ICH", By Noam Chomsky, July 5, 2005
[2004]
America's Secret War, 2004, by Dr. George Friedman.
In America's Secret War, you'll discover what's really behind America's anti-terrorism strategy, and what was really behind the 9/11 attacks. Dr. Friedman draws on Stratfor's vast intelligence networks - not rumours or theories - so you have the facts on stories you've never heard about before:
Al Qaeda's war plans and how they led to 9/11.
The threat of a suitcase nuclear bomb in New York and how that changed the course of the war.
The deals the U.S. made with Russia and Iran to make the invasion of Afghanistan possible - and how those deals affect the United States today.
How fear and suspicion of the Saudis after 9/11 tore apart the Bush-Saudi relationship, and why Riyadh's closest friends in the administration became the Saudis' worst enemies.
The real reasons behind George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq and how WMD became the cover for a much deeper game.
How the CIA miscalculated about Saddam Hussein's and Iran's real plans, leaving the U.S. bogged down in the war.
How the war in Iraq began with a ruse.
The real story about why the U.S. raises and lowers its alert status and why it can't find and destroy al Qaeda.
The strategic successes that are slowly leading the United States to victory, and much more.
Take a look now: www.americas secretwar. com
-- Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) e-mail, October 5, 2004.
[COMMENT: Yet, some of us had thought the real reason for the US and Britain's attack (with Australia tagging along) was that Russia and France were signing oil contracts with the dictator Saddam Hussein! COMMENT ENDS.]
[2004]
The SAUDI Royals, the BIN LADENS and the BUSHES: The close ties between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family and the Saudi royals go back some decades. George Bush Senior's Carlyle Group did a lot of business with the Saudis in selling weapons ... a chunk of the $170 billion the Saudis bought in the 1970s. Prince Bandar is also an investor in the Carlyle Group ...
(p 12)
9/11 KILLERS: Fifteen out of the 19 plane hijackers in the 9/11 attacks were Saudi Arabians, but the papers just called them "terrorists." When the US Congress released its report into September 11, then-President George W. Bush censored out 28 pages that dealt with the Saudis' role in the attack
(p 17).
Saudis get quickie visas to enter the USA without going through the normal vetting process.
(p19)
Why did President Bush allow aircraft to fly around the U.S. after September 11 to pick up 24 members of the Bin Laden family, to be flown out of the US? All air travel in the U.S. had been banned, except it seems for the Bin Ladens (pp 19-21). They were not questioned for information about Osama Bin Laden, who was stated by Bush to be the leader of the terrorists (p 5).
CORPORATE AMERICA: Disney, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Dow Chemical, JP Morgan Chase, and Wal-Mart have been secretly taking out life insurance policies on their low- and mid-level employees and then naming themselves – the Corporations – as the beneficiary! [...]
And what does Corporate America privately call this special form of life Insurance? Dead Peasants Insurance. ...sometimes ... "Dead Janitors" insurance ... I read about this in The Wall Street Journal last year (April 19, 2002) ... the writers, Ellen Schultz and Theo Francis ... (Other sources are listed on p 236)
Congress is considering a bill that will let companies put less money into your pension funds if you work in a blue-collar job because ... you aren't going to live that long anyway. (pp 145-8)
... George W. Bush ... Kenneth Lay (Chairman of Enron ...Before its collapse ... Enron donated $736,800 to Bush from 1993 on. ... Lay also graciously gave candidate Bush use of the Enron corporate jet ... so he could fly his family around the country and talk about his plan to "restore dignity to the White House."
(p 149)
The book exposes the non-existent "Weapons of Mass Destruction" of Saddam Hussein, the BLUSH tax cut for the better-off while the deficit skyrocketed, etc.
Stay informed. Listen to National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, read newspapers, and regularly check www.buzzflash.com , www.commondreams.org , or www.cursor.org (p 246).
DETAILS: By Michael Moore, Penguin Books, www.penguin.com.au , 2003, Melbourne.
ISBN 0 7139 9761 3; 250 pp, soft covers, 14·5 x 22·5 x 2 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/8 x 3/4 in), contents, no index, notes and sources, acknowledgements.
AUD $29.95 (later $12.99). (To webpage 15 Aug 2009.)
Pakistan was not a nation that seemed susceptible to the pressure of Islamic fundamentalism.
However, as years passed it has become increasingly clear that there has been a process of creeping Islamization. This ostensibly secular state now has a mandatory death sentence for crimes 'defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed'. A state formed with the intention of protecting religious minorities from persecution has seen the persecution of its own minorities gradually increase to the point where the Christian community is under great pressure.
This book is a thorough analysis of the Christian Community in Pakistan. It reveals a gradual shift in the Pakistani State, and is a clear warning to the West and minorities in other Muslim countries around the world of what can happen when conservative Islamic voices come to the fore.
"While Western Political leaders rightly call for tolerance of Muslims within their own nations the plight of Christians in one of the most prominent Muslim nations goes largely unreported - this is an attempt to correct that deficiency. The basic question is 'Can there be freedom for Christians in an Islamic state?' and the result of the developments in Pakistan recorded here suggest a rather negative answer to that question."
LORD MACKAY OF CLASHFERN
PATRICK SOOKHDEO is Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, a Christian research institute specialising in the status of Christian minorities in the Muslim world. Dr Sookhdeo is a well-known lecturer and author who holds a Ph.D. from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies and a D.D. from Western Seminary, Oregon, USA. His previous books include A Christian's Pocket Guide to Islam, ISBN 1 85792 699 4
Christian Focus Publications, Fearn (Ross-shire, Scotland) and Isaac Publishing, Pewsey (Wiltshire, England), 2002, 460 pp, 14 x 22 cm (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches), hard covers, glossary, bibliography 50pp, index.
ISBN 1 85792 785 0. (Displayed 13 March 2005)
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[2002]
Gone Whaling -- Stumbling towards Sustainability,
R. Graham Chittleborough, ? 2003, 114 pp. His latest book recounts experiences as a marine scientist working for the CSIRO from the early 1950s and researching whaling on both the west and east coasts of Australia. The Federal Government set quotas that were related to the capacity of the whaling stations, instead of to the whale stock. When numbers fell, quotas were reduced in an arbitrary fashion. The Russian whalers under-stated their reports to the International Whaling Commission. (The original reports were found after the Cold War ended.) (Source: SPA newsletter No 59, Sep 2003, p 11)
[? 2003]
Deep Futures, Doug Cocks, of CSIRO, ? 2003, launched August 12 2003 in Canberra. See speech by Ian Lowe in Sustainable Population Australia newsletter No 59, Sep 2003, p 5.
Straw Dogs, John Gray, 2002, Granta Books, Britain. He is a brilliant contemporary philosopher who writes in plain enjoyable English prose. He writes that "Cities are no more artificial than the hives of bees." But he also forecasts that humanity will disappear, and the Earth will recover, and forget humankind. Australian price $39.95, hardcover, 199 pp. Details from:
Sustainable Population Australia newsletter No 59, Sep 2003, p 10.
[? 2003]
The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg, ? 2003. The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) in a report stated: "… EIA estimates are based on non-technical considerations that support domestic supply growth to levels necessary to meet projected demand levels." In other words, Americans should believe there will be no lessening of petroleum, and "should continue buying and consuming with no care for the future." In 2002, George Bush [an oil baron] said: "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."
Book review by Peter North in
Sustainable Population Australia newsletter No 59, Sep 2003, pp 9-10.
[? 2003]
Gangs of America by Ted Nace, 2003, can be obtained off the internet at www.gangsofamerica.com/read.html , with a few chapters in ordinary format (HTML) for sampling, and the rest in Acrobat PDF format. At an early age Ted Nace became interested in corporations riding roughshod over local communities. After writing for computer magazines, he started a publishing business.
After eleven years as publisher, Nace sold Peachpit Press to British conglomerate Pearson Plc, and he returned to freelance writing. In seeking to understand the institutional structure of power in America, he investigated the historical roots of the corporation, as well as reflecting on his own experiences as a community organizer and a publishing entrepreneur.
According to Nace, the optimistic view after the Great Depression was dashed in the final decades of the twentieth century, as Big Business mounted a remarkable comeback. The corporate political resurgence began with a 1971 memorandum written by Lewis Powell, Jr., shortly before Powell was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon. In the memorandum, Powell urged corporate America to apply its full
organizational and strategic resources to politics, a course of action that proved highly successful.
Gangs of America is the result of that research and reflection.
Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Cloth, 296 pages, $US 24.95, ISBN: 1-57675-260-7, Available: August 2003 free off the internet, Official publication date: September 1, 2003.
[2003]
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, The Truth About Globalisation, Corporate Cons and High Finance Fraudsters, by Greg Palast, 2002, Pluto Press, Britain. BRITAIN: Newsitem discussing this and other books exposing how the Iraq war was engineered, climbing the U.S. bestseller charts, April 20 2003, follows:--
Beneath the uniformity of a US media high on victory in Iraq, a wave of books of a heretical flavour is flooding the bestseller lists.
At number five in the New York Times bestsellers and climbing Amazon's
chart is The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, a collection of essays by journalist Greg Palast, one of a triad known as the 'Angry White Men' - a play on the title at number six in the chart, Stupid White Men by film director Michael Moore, with 500,000 sales.
The third in the 'axis of anti' is Noam Chomsky, whose controversial 9/11 -- in which he calls America 'a leading terrorist state' -- has 205,000
copies in print.
The books are comfortably outselling titles which might seem at first to better reflect the zeitgeist*, such as Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism and similar.
Concluding his recent book tour, Moore said: 'I look out into the
auditorium or gymnasium and I see Mr and Mrs Middle America, who voted for George W Bush and believed in the American dream as defined by the Bushes and Wall Street. Then they woke up to realise it was just that, a dream.'
On Iraq, a number of fast-selling books have joined British writer Con Coughlin's Saddam: King of Terror with less conventional attacks not on the fallen tyrant but on America's war. They include Targeting Iraq: Sanctions, Bombing and US Policy by Geoff Simons and Gore Vidal's Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Bush-Cheney Junta.
Palast's book - published by Pluto Press in Britain last year - is the latest to appear in America. Subtitled The Truth About Globalisation, Corporate Cons and High Finance Fraudsters, Moore endorsed it with an enthusiastic 'Read this book'.
The essays include Palast's investigation into vote-rigging during the Florida campaign that won Bush the election and into the place where Americans fear to tread: alleged close ties between the Bush and bin Laden families.
Once Palast's book was published in America, the media took a cue from Tony Blair's aide Alastair Campbell, who issued a political health warning on the author in Britain.
Plans by CNBC television to have him as a commentator on the Phil Donahue chat show were reversed after one performance, following an internal company memo recommending against guests who were 'sceptical of the Bush administration' when 'other networks are taking every opportunity to wave the flag'.
But his book is selling without the name recognition or marketing behind Moore and Chomsky.
'Michael Moore was the battering ram through the media Berlin Wall,' he said, 'and Chomsky and I are rushing through.
'There is a whole number of Americans who have been hypnotised,
propagandised, and short-changed, who know something is wrong.
Apparently the moment has come for the awful truth.'
-- The Observer, (London), "Bestseller success for anti-US war books,"
www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,940140,00.html , by
Ed Vulliamy, New York, Sunday April 20, 2003
_________
* zeitgeist, (pron. tsuyt'-guyst) the spirit of the time, general trend of thought or feeling of an era. (Random House Dictionary, 1968)
The problem: Exposures as in Queensland's electoral scandals demand a Royal Commission, namely:
• A Labor Party foot-soldier veteran claims that he and others helped to rort the 1987 election in the federal seat of Fisher... "it's been going on for years in numerous seats... there's a whole stack of people like me around". (H. Thomas, Courier Mail, 4.11.2000)
• Marshall Cooke QC, whose inquiry into Queensland unions uncovered massive voting fraud a decade ago, said the practises he found had probably spread to state and federal elections. "Why would you stop? If you think it's all right to get power in a union, why not when the prize is bigger? I would be very suspicious about 2 or 3 of the Hawke elections and perhaps one of the Keating elections." (based on a promotional leaflet)
• And, How easy it is for those who know computers to do things that the scrutineers would not completely understand. -- New Yorker, November 7, 1988 (p 189)
Australia is no longer the custodian of the original secret ballot, which was a limited secret ballot system, based on vote-tracing with the ballot-paper itself the defence against fraud. This system originated in Victoria in 1855-56, and was altered by the South Australian system from 1856, and superseded throughout Australia, including eventually Victoria itself.
This occurred although all the colonial governors of the day considered the Victorian model as the best means to defeat personation and fraud; hence the United Kingdom copied it.
Thus Australia made the wrong choice of the electoral path to follow last century. As a result we have tried to solve the insoluble all this century; namely, how to protect a secret ballot system through the electoral roll.
That electoral road has led to increasing pervasion of centralised control throughout the electoral system, and increasing isolation from the neighbourhood sensitivities of the United Kingdom and United States of America systems. These still leave all elections to the states and municipalities. That electoral road also puts the system at greater risk in an era of computerised democracy by its very gigantism.
Today individuals both within, and without, the system are advocating re-introducing elements of Victoria's original limited secret ballot. Such are identification on enrolment, a voter's card to present on voting, and precinct voting. Bound books of numbered ballot paper books are even being re-introduced instead of loose papers in federal and NSW elections.(based on page 189)
DETAILS: Tower House Publications, ? 2001, Kensington (NSW, Australia).
ISBN 0 9591879 9 5; 190 pp, soft covers, 15·5 x 23 x 1·3 cm (6 1/8 x 9 x 1/2 in), contents, no index, photographs and early pictures of the struggles for the vote and women's hard-won right to vote, photostats.
Available from Tower Books Wholesalers, 19 Rodborough Rd, French's Forest, and, the H.S.Chapman Society, GPO Box 2391, Sydney, NSW, 2001, Tel 02 9599 7915.
(To this webpage 03 Oct 09)
[? 2001]
Lucky be Damned, John Cumming. Exposes how Australians have been kept in the dark! The book tells how Australia can win back its freedom of speech and become the wealthy country it should always have been. The book led to the discovery of "The Great Australian Swindle." Send $20 (P&P) to J.Cumming, PO Box 173, Noosa Qld 4567, or pay $33.50 to Austand for video.
Source: Nexus,, Oct-Nov 1999, p 87.
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Shouldn't our grandchildren know?
R. Graham Chittleborough, 1992, South Fremantle, Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
This masterly autobiographical book covers pollution (even a large section of Albany's harbour had to be closed to fishing), salination and other destruction of soil, the water shortage, declining rainfall, smog, and the destruction of the ability of the earth to refresh itself. He writes: "… do we really need another million people in Perth? Or, to put it more bluntly, can we afford another million?
"The well-worn arguments of conventional economists for more people are looking rather thin as we approach the capacities of our life-support
systems. … Since in Australia birth rates are now barely
at replacement levels, the only ways in which Perth's population can double
are by immigration and the continued exodus from rural areas." (p 135)
Graham Chittleborough was trained under Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson, and spent 25 years studying ocean creatures. He then began battling a "monolithic bureaucracy" that just didn't want to know that Australia was going seriously wrong. On the issue of mining in national parks, he was forced by an industry-led clique and others into early retirement from the W.A. Environmental Protection Authority in 1987. He refused to give up his struggle to make the world safe for future generations.
Sir Ninian Stephen, Ambassador for the Environment, describes the book: "His focus is Australia but his reach is global …" This book's royalties are being shared with the Conservation Council of Western Australia. 196pp, ISBN 1 86368 015 2, Dewey 333.79092
[1992]
This Tired Brown Land, Mark O'Connor, Duffy & Snellgrove, 1998, distributed by Tower Books, $17 and by Mark O'Connor at 8 Banjine Street, O'Connor, Canberra A.C.T. 2602, Australia. Information from
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aespop/welcome.htm . In August 2003 a rewritten edition, tentatively entitled Boundless Plains? was announced. Keep in touch with http://www. population. org.au/ .
[1998]
•
Few books of the past decade have offered as penetrating, as dramatic, or as memorable an account of the inner workings of American business as the number one bestseller Barbarians at the Gate.
In his new book, Vendetta, Barbarians co-author Bryan Burrough tells the astonishing story of American Express's campaign to discredit one of its rivals, the international banker Edmond Safra.
It began with a sordid article in an obscure French newspaper that charged Safra with links to the CIA, the Iran-Contra scandal and, most seriously, South American drug traffickers.
To a financier renowned for his irreproachable standards, these claims were disastrous, with potential to damage irreparably both his reputation and his business.
When several months later the theme was taken up by a virulently right-wing anti-Semitic newspaper - and when it became clear that similar articles had already appeared in South America -Safra became convinced the rumours could be the work of only one party: his one-time partner, American Express, which he believed would go to any lengths to prevent him from opening a new, competing bank in Geneva.
Vendetta is the thrilling story of the investigation to uncover the truth behind the covert campaign to ruin Edmond Safra's reputation.
How American Express executed its plan, and how that plan was exposed, makes for a riveting tale of corporate intrigue and business ethics, told by one of the most respected investigative journalists now at work.
BRYAN BURROUGH, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York, is a two-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Financial Journalism, which he received most recently for the 1990 article that served as the basis for this book.
He is also a past recipient of the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism.
In 1990 his first book, Barbarians at the Gate, co-written with his Wall Street Journal colleague John Helyar, was a bestseller in Britain and in the U.S.
A graduate of the University of Missouri, he lives in New Jersey with his wife, Maria Burrough, a magazine editor.
Author photograph by Elena Seibert. (from dustcover)
DETAILS: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992, London,
ISBN 0 00 215957 0; 494 pp, hard covers, 16 x 24 cm (6¼ x 9½ in), index, photographs and photostats, notes on sources, footnotes, UK £20.
[COMMENT: In October 2008 the large Australian retail store David Jones had ceremonies to launch a David Jones version of the American Express credit card. Meanwhile, consumer groups in Australia and overseas bewail the fact that credit-card debt of households is in the millions and millions.
COMMENT ENDS.]
[1992]
• Bankers and Bastards, 1992, Paul McLEAN and James RENTON, Hudson Publishing, Hawthorn (Victoria, Australia).
This book is all about the way banks and bankers have moved from providing a service and advice, into being profit-oriented purveyors of dubious "products" (back cover). An example was that the Commonwealth Trading Bank had emptied out the trading account with a woman by putting the money on term deposit, stopping her from making the interest payment on her capital loan from the Commonwealth Development Bank (page 3). The CTB then took her to the Bankruptcy Court, even though she sold other assets and had paid the proceeds to the CTB.
There were also the famous Westpac Letters, revealed in the Australian Senate. These documents ought to have been referred to the National Crime Authority in February 1991 (p 88), but weren't. The book covers the Foreign Currency Loan scandal. The "Establishment" managed to squash Senator McLean's exposures, which had been made with the help of anonymous faxers from overseas.
(Inserted 21 Dec 04)
Back Cover's wording:
Bankers and Bastards
… is all about the way banks and bankers have moved from being the respected pillars of the community, providing a trusted service and reliable advice, into being profit-oriented purveyors of dubious 'products'. It's also about how we suffer the consequences and the government mainly looks on and watches.
The authors became involved because people came to them for help: Renton as a lawyer, McLean as a politician.
Paul McLean (right) has been a teacher, an army officer and a social planner. But it was as Australian Democrat Senator for New South Wales that he became interested in bank malpractice. His battle to get the Westpac Letters before the Senate is now history.
James Renton (left) is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia. He has made a speciality of white-collar crime, and has advised hundreds of victims of bank malpractice. It was his files which provided many of the cases tabled in the Senate by Paul McLean.
Jacket design by Vane Lindesay. (back cover)
Hudson Publishing, Hawthorn (Victoria), 1992. 178pp, 13.7 x 21.4 cm (5 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches), soft covers, well illustrated with documents proving main points, no footnotes, epilogue, index, ISBN 0-949873-40-3, $AUD16.95 in 1992.
[1992]
•
From two award-winning journalists comes the story of the largest corporate takeover in United States history.
The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco (biscuits, Camel cigarettes, etc.) during October and November 1988 became a symbol of the greed and power-mongering of the 1980s.
Management buyouts and leveraged buyouts (LBOs) are explained. People without the necessary cash were able, if lent sufficient credit by banks added to some investors' funds, to take over huge companies, collecting huge fees, and then paring back other people's incomes to help pay for the mountainous debts.
The rules were simple: Never pay in cash, never tell the truth, and never play by the rules.
The reader will learn about PIKs, or pay-in-kind securities, which could be used instead of cash. Bankers Morgan Stanley were among the firms in the negotiations.
At one stage, in the few weeks before the U.S. Congress outlawed them, company takeovers could be partly financed by "installment notes," a document that delayed taxation for 10 or 20 years, saving in the Nabisco case as much as
$4 billion in taxation.
On the last page, the authors paint an imaginary picture of the founders of both RJF and Nabisco coming back to life, seeing the carnage the financial war had caused, and then asking themselves why had those who did this thought so much of what came out of their computers and so little about what came out of their factories. Why were they so intent on breaking up instead of building up? (p 627)
THE AUTHORS: Bryan Burrough, a reporter for The Wall Street Jorunal, won the John Hancock Award in 1987.
John Helyar worked for the same paper for nine years, and later became a senior editor of Southpoint, a business magazine based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
For their coverage of the RJF Nabisco takeover, Burrough and Helyar received the Gerald Loeb Award.
DETAILS: Arrow Books, 1990, London,
ISBN 0 09 982330 6; 654 pp, soft covers, 11 x 18 cm (4¼ x 7 in), index, footnotes, photographs, principal characters list. UK £5.99, AUD $14.95,
[FRONT COVER IMAGE: The webpage image shows the book name in black, but in reality it is metallic gold on a raised surface, which presumably made the scanner err.
ENDS.]
[ADDED to this website around October 16, 2008, when the collapse of the funny-money financiers' dreamworld around the globe was supposedly causing governments to create even more "fiat" money to prop up banks and others. The same leaders who made these emergency "rescue packages" for millionaires who pay themselves figures in the millions, and take retirement packages in the tens of millions, had only a few short days or weeks before told the public that their systems were sound, and there was no need for any government action. Already, these fictitious payments are now being used as an excuse to avoid making industry etc pay pollution costs, which had already been disguised by focussing leaders' comments on "carbon trading" – as if carbon dioxide (CO2 ) was the only pollutant that might be harming the earth's ecological and climate systems. ENDS.]
[1990]
Towards a New Society, Sir Allen Fairhall, 1999, Sydney. Unemployment and poverty stem from our current taxation system, which is so flawed that abolition is the only sensible way for reform. The taxing of land is simple, fair, and produces much better outcomes. He finishes with a plea for a non-partisan inquiry to look at the issue of tax reform. Send orders with $12.70 per copy to the author at 7 Parkway Avenue, Newcastle, NSW, 2300, Australia, or to Prosper Australia (formerly Tax Reform Australia), 1st floor, 27 Hardware La, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia, fax 03 9670 3063.
[1999]
See below: Alive and Global, Brenda C. and Scott Ludlam (eds.) 1999, Perth, Gaia Foundation. There is a sinister side to Globalisation, that is, the misuse of power by large corporations in pushing towards globalised so-called "free" markets, which may really mean monopolies, which are the very opposite of free.
[1999]
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Elementary Economics, George Charles, $8.50
True and False Economics, W.A.Dowe, $13.50
Rehabilitation of Rural Industry, Graham Hart of Perth, $5.00
Monopoly & the Individual, George Hardy, $11.00
Natural Resources Rental Taxation in Australia, A.R.Hutchinson,
$3.50 Why Capitalism & Socialism Failed, A.R.Cannon, $13.00
Land, Phil Day of Queensland, $18.00
The Recovery Myth, Bryan Kavanagh of Melbourne, $8.00
Canberra in Crisis, Frank Brennan, $6.50
Overseas Authors That All May Live, Godfrey Dunkley, $20.00
The Corruption of
Economics,
M.Gaffney,
F.Harrison, $28.00
The Trial of Chaka Dlamini, S.Meintjes, M.Jacques, $16.50
The Land Question, Shirley-Anne Hardy, $3.50
From Waste Land to Promised Land, R.V.Anderson, J.M.Dawsey,
$27.00
BARGAIN BASEMENT
Six Booklets (set) by Henry George, $4.00 the set
Thy Kingdom Come; Thou Shalt Not Steal The Crime of Poverty Justice the Object/Taxation the Means Moses Study of Political Economy
Georgist Perth
campaigner
in Western Australia. If visiting Perth, telephone John Massam,
08 9343 9532,
and buy or order one or more books, including.
Natural Resources Rental Taxation in Australia,A R Hutchinson,
1979, 62pp $2.00 including postage
An assessment of the annual value of all lands in Australia as at 1976/77.
This is updated to 1996 as an annexure to the submission to be rebutted in
the $25,000 Tax Reform Challenge, which closed on 31 March 1998.
The Recovery Myth: A Positive Response,Bryan Kavanagh 1994,
20pp $7.95
Graphs, charts and a commentary explaining the critical role of land prices
and taxation in triggering the economic downturn of the 1990s.
LAND: The elusive quest for social justice, taxation reform & a
sustainable planetary environment,Philip Day, Australian Academic
Press, Brisbane 1995 (120pp) $17.95 A study of an enigma: "of how vast wealth
is made and disbursed within a tangled maze of institutional arrangements
and practices - practices which are seemingly pre-ordained, notwithstanding
their manifestly questionable consequences for the welfare of society."
The
Lost Science of Money http://www.monetary.org/lostscienceofmoney Published in German in 1999 by Conzett Verlag of Zurich. The expanded English version was released in 2002, $US48 plus $22 postage and packing, from American Monetary Institute, PO Box 601, Valatie, NY 12184, U.S.A.
(Old webpage
The
Lost Science of Money)
Synopsis of single tax approach to eradicate the cause of recessions and poverty, persistence of poverty alongside progress. Addresses free trade, urban sprawl, slums, crime.
Order through nearest Geonomics office, or to the publishers' one-at-a-time system online, Trafford Publishing, 3050 Nanaimo Street, Suite 2, Victoria, B.C. V8T 4Z1, CANADA.
Land reform in Guatemala would be a threat to investors, according to a US
State Department document (p. 122). Land proprietors were created in India
during the British "permanent settlement" of affairs (p. 116). Dacca at one
time was as big and as prosperous as London, until the multinationals of
a couple of centuries ago ensured that its textile industry was swamped by
regulations and "free" trade, thus ensuring wealth for their Manchester
factories. Nowadays the Indian Government's minister of finance must report
directly to the World Bank in Washington (p. 127).
Economic rationalists and the market economy theorists are working in the
interests of the masters of the global economy, and to the detriment of the
rest of the world, Chomsky writes in this book.
Chomsky, author of many books including
The Prosperous Few
and the Restless Many, Turning the Tide, The Culture of
Terrorism, and
Necessary
Illusions, is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachussets Institute
of Technology. He co-authored Manufacturing Consent, in which the
claim was made that the consent of electors in so-called democracies is
"manufactured" by very clever and unscrupulous people working for the super-rich.
For a wide review of his writings and speeches up to recent times, including
audio and video online, try:
http://www.worldmedia.com/archive/.
In "Free Market Fantasies" which can be heard online from that link or from
http://206.9.170.150/archive/audio/fmf.html, he said that all of the
top 100 transnational corporations in the world had benefited from government
assistance in their alleged "home" country, and 20 of them had been saved
from collapse. Yet these companies were strongly advocating "free market"
theory, while receiving government subsidies or being baled out. He covers
the reasons for over-fishing through government subsidies while "free" trade
was introduced.
Newt Gingrich was one of the most successful politicians in obtaining government
help for his electorate's industries, while preaching the "market."
The Losses of Nations
Edited by Fred Harrison: "Economists have produced estimates of the
staggering annual shortfall in production caused by current forms of taxation.
The authors connect several political crises, like recession and unemployment,
to the way in which taxation distorts economic incentives by encourage land
speculation at the expense of investment in industry and services."
£UK14.95 paperback, £UK30 hardback, postpaid from Othila Press
Ltd, 7 Kings Rd, Teddington, Middx, TW110QB, United Kingdom; $US15
paperback postpaid from Robert Shalkenbach Foundation, 41 East 72nd St, New
York, NY, 10021, United States of America, Tel. (212) 988 1680
BOOKS WORTH READING Gangs, Counter-Gangs and other Political Crimes
David Syme College
for information about "Gangs" that infest Reform Groups; see book Gangs, Counter-Gangs and other Political Crimes, Don Veitch , B Comm, B Arts, Dip Ed, 2 vols = 1161 pp, 1997, Flemington (Victoria, Australia), David Syme College,
$60.
First Abolish the Customer 202 Arguments Against Economic Rationalism
by Bob Ellis, 1998, Ringwood (Victoria, Australia), Penguin Books.
Paperback 222pp, $17.95.
"House prices will go up to consume disposable income … Whatever
savings are made on the prices of smaller goods, the price of houses and
the rent of houses will always go up to consume the difference. Prove
that I lie. For a roof is the one thing you cannot do without, and
will, if you are employed, pay anything for. Prove that I lie.
And the argument that smaller families mean cheaper housing is fallacious."
"Real estate became the preoccupation of a whole generation, and family fortunes
made and lost with its manipulations." (pp 109-110)
"On a true level playing field, products would compete for customers
on the basis of product quality; not Orwellian sales pitch. Local soft
drinks, local biscuits, local cheeses, local beers, local shoes and hats
and radios would have a chance. … But not in a globalised economy.
There, because of television, the big automatically prevail, and the small
have to struggle to be noticed. So economic rationalism hurts, and
often mortally hurts, small business. And therefore abolishes competition.
(p 98)
COMMENT: There are many facts, too, about the unethical practices of some
huge corporations in the past and at present. However, the book will
be spoiled for some people by the claims on pages 23 to 25 that the Soviet
Union had not been a threat to world peace, and by the lack of an index.
The Evil Empire: Globalization's Darker Side
Former Canadian Cabinet Minister Paul Hellyer, interviewed
on Australian Broadcasting Commission around 15 April 1999, wrote this
book exposing the world centralisation he used to be party to. THE
EVIL EMPIRE: Globalization's Darker Side, 1997, Canada, Chimo Media,
114 pages, $CAN 9.95 Softcover. See:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/25/046.html
Free Men and Free Markets
Professor Robert Theobald [died 27 Nov 1999] was based in New Orleans, U.S.A., wrote
Free
men and Free Markets, (originally 1963, Clarkson N. Potter), 1965,
New York, Anchor Books - Doubleday & Co
A webpage advertising a 3 May 1999 talk by him in Canberra, Australia, says: "Robert Theobald has been one of the leading voices arguing that only radical changes in direction can avoid massive breakdowns throughout the world. His talks on the ABC [Australian Broadcasting Corporation] and recent lecture tours have made him one of the most sought after speakers in Australia. He was recently recognized by the
Encyclopedia
of the Future as one the top ten living futurists. His latest book
is
Reworking Success, which has been on the Australian best-seller list." Read
it on:
http://www.transform.org/transform/tlc/rsuccess.html
A satellite program had been planned for late May 1999.
Details from Professor Theobald's
homepage
are: "On January 22nd and April 8th, 1999 Resilient Communities hosted its
first live-satellite programs. Please check the
Resilient Communities site
for details. The next broadcast will be on May 27th and will feature
Robert Theobald, Rachel Bagby and Vicki Robin looking at 'Making Meaning:
A Challenge for the New Century.' Plans are being developed now for
additional programming via satellite later this year." (died 27 Nov 1999)
Alive and Global
Brenda C. and Scott Ludlam (eds.), 1999, Perth, Gaia Foundation,
40 A4 pages, $5.
There is a sinister side to Globalisation, that is, the misuse of power by large corporations in pushing towards globalised so-called "free" markets.
"Free markets" may only be free for the very rich and powerful, and may really mean monopolies, which are the very opposite of free. Published 18 June 1999. Preface by the then
Greens WA Senator Dee Margetts (who was later an MLC in the WA Parliament around 2001), an article on the proposed anti-globalisation actions for 18 June
and the caravan of Indian and other
farmers going to European capitals to end at the G7 meeting at Cologne,
and articles by Brian Jenkins of
Stop MAI WA
Coalition, Amnesty International
Australia, Chris Lee, Fabian for
Western Australian forest campaigners,
Scott Ludlam for Jabiluka Action
Group of WA [and see the Mirrar
website], Anti-Uranium Coalition
of WA(AUCWA), Phil Sparrow and
Veronica Johnson for Jubilee 2000
Coalition [around the weekend of publication the world's richest
seven countries agreed to forgive debts of billions of dollars, on certain
conditions], Dion
Giles regarding the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Karel Eringa
& Phil Sparrow for Community
Aid Abroad and the Indonesia Mining Campaign,
One World Centre,
Peter and Marya Stewart of Christian Centre for Social Action,
Rob Lambert about the WA Trades
and Labour Council (affiliated with
ACTU), Kathryn Driver for LETSystems
(see
http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/~wallets
), Dora Byrne for
Permaculture Association of
WA, Brenda C. for
City Farm
of East Perth, Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown, Leith Maddock
about Nonviolence, Kerry Calcraft about the Giblett forest,
Rodney
Vlais about Ladakh monastery, Pallas Sarney about peaceful
thinking, John Croft of Gaia Foundation [perhaps look
at http://forests.org/
].
The High Court In Mabo - Legalist Or L'egotiste
"It is arguable that Mabo, all factors considered, is an unjust decision
which involves legal change but not law reform. It has created a platform
for further unjust legislation drafted by the Commonwealth Government and
enacted by Parliament. Deep divisions in the Australian community will be
the ultimate consequence.
"Bill Hassall asks: What kind of madness is it that leads the established
organs and institutions of a nation which prides itself on its legal, democratic
and constitutional traditions, to deliberately create a monster; a legal
monster of separateness based on race, of divisions of its people based on
race, of legal privilege, of uncertainty, of vast indeterminate cost, of
certain injustice, of indeterminate consequence, of upheaval of long established
and sound legal principles; and in doing so put at risk a groping towards
a free and equal society in which an indigenous people can take their place
as equals?" (Hassall 1993:11).
Book by Professor L.J.M. Cooray, at:
www.ourdecline. com/cooray/ mabo/ index.htm Candle of Light, Thomas L. Fielder. Those who defend freedom … many times have to fight .. to retain freedom for those who remain. One of the saddest things to see has been the apathy of so many … A terrorist society is being built under the pretext of "stopping terrorism" and few see the contradiction.
Covers philosophy, government, political power, finance, debt, health, and individual freedom. Self-published, Melbourne, ? 2002, 170pp; MEA, Box 248, E. Caulfield, Vic, 3145, Australia. $22 incl. p & p.
I flew, I fell, I survived,, Thomas L. Fielder. The story of an Australian aircrew member, later prisoner of war. $58 incl. p & p.
BOOKS ON TERRORISM (Communistic and Extremist Islamic), WAR, GLOBALISM, PERSECUTION, AND RELATED SUBJECTS
(Many current journalists do not know about the terror bombings around 1900 of the Nihilists and Anarchists as well as the Communists in the Russian Empire, New York, etc.) HARCLERODE, Peter, Fighting Dirty: The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden, Cassell Military Paperbacks.
McGEOUGH, Paul, Manhattan to Baghdad: A journalist's despatches
SINGER, Peter, One World: The ethics of globalisation
"SULIMA" and "HALA", Behind the Burqa: Our life in Afghanistan and how we escaped to freedom
PILGER, John, The New Rulers of the World. LEWIS, Bernard, What went wrong? Western impact and Middle Eastern response
SARDAR, Ziauddin, and DAVIES, Merry Wyn, Why do people hate America? CHOMSKY, Naom, Power and terror: post-9/11 talks and interviews.
CLANCY, Greg, The People Smugglers: The people smuggling industry and the secret cost to Australia., Sunda Publications.
DERSHOWITZ, Alan M., Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the threat, responding to the challenge
ORBÁN, Dr J.G, Violence against Christians in the year 2001. 2002, Aid to the Church in Need (Netherlands), 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
288pp, 15 x 21 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches), soft covers, illustrations, footnotes, no index, sources list (5 1/5 pages), appendices (about 45 pp), ISBN 90-806189-2-6, $AU 10 (March 2003)
• Alternative History Books List Perth, Western Australia, Monday, June 26, 2006
ALTERNATIVE HISTORY BOOKS LIST
Perth, 26 th June 2006, 'Whatever Happened to the History of the Twentieth Century?'
Andics, Hellmut, RULE OF TERROR
Baker, John R., RACE
Bearse, Ray, CONSPIRATOR (Tyler Kent)
Belgion, Montgomery, THE WORSHIP OF QUANTITY
Berlyn, Philippa, THE QUIET MAN (lan Smith)
Belloc, Hilaire, THE JEWS
Benson, Ivor, THE ZIONIST FACTOR
Biggs-Davison, John, HOPE DEFERRED (Africa)
Biggs-Davison, John, THE HAND IS RED (Ireland)
Bolin, Luis, SPAIN: THE VITAL YEARS
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON
Bramwell, Anna, BLOOD AND SOIL (Nazi agriculture)
Brennan, James, B.U.F. - OSWALD MOSLEY AND BRITISH FASCISM
Brenner, Lenni, ZIONISM IN THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS
Bristow, R. C. B., MEMORIES OF THE BRITISH RAJ
Bulgakov, Mikhail, THE WHITE GUARD
Burton, Sir Richard, THE JEW, THE GYPSY AND EL ISLAM
Butler, Eric D., THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
Butler, Eric D., THE TRUTH ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE OF RIGHTS
Butz, A. R., THE HOAX OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Campbell, Graeme and Mark Uhlmann, AUSTRALIA BETRAYED
Carr, William Guy, PAWNS IN THE GAME
Carr, William Guy, THE RED FOG OVER AMERICA
Chambers, Whittaker, WITNESS
Chapman, Colin, WHOSE PROMISED LAND?
Charmley, John, CHAMBERLAIN AND THE LOST PEACE
Chesterton, A. K., THE NEW UNHAPPY LORDS
Chesterton, Charlton, THE REAL CASE FOR RHODESIA
Coomaraswamy, Rama P., THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CHRISTIAN
TRADITION
* Crozier, Brian, FRANCO: A LIFE
Courtney, Anthony, SAILOR IN A RUSSIAN FRAME
Dallas, lan (as Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Murabit), FOR THE COMING MAN
Dallas, lan, THE NEW WAGNERIAN
Dallas, lan, THE TEN SYMPHONIES OF GORKA KONIG
Dax, Olga Davidoff, ON THE ESTATE
De Goulevitch, Arsene, CZARISM AND REVOLUTION
De Korostovetz, Vladimir, EUROPE IN THE MELTING POT
De Poncins, Vicomte Leon, JUDAISM AND THE VATICAN
De Poncins, Vicomte Leon, STATE SECRETS
De Poncins, Vicomte Leon, THE SECRET POWERS BEHIND REVOLUTION
De Shishmareff, Paquita (L. Fry), WATERS FLOWING EASTWARD
De Villiers, David, THE CASE FOR SOUTH AFRICA
Degrelle, Leon, HITLER: BORN AT VERSAILLES
Dewar, John, FREEDOM FIGHTER
Dillon, George F., GRAND ORIENT FREEMASONRY UNMASKED
Domvile, Barry, FROM ADMIRAL TO CABIN BOY
Douglas, C. H., THE BRIEF FOR THE PROSECUTION
Douglas, C. H., THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD DOMINION
Duke, David, JEWISH SUPREMACISM
English, Peter B., LAND RIGHTS - BIRTH RIGHTS
English, Peter B., STORM OVER ULURU
Evola, Julius, MEN AMONG THE RUINS
Evola, Julius, REVOLT AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD
Ewell, Mark, MANACLES FOR MANKIND
Ferguson, Robert, ENIGMA: THE LIFE OF KNUT HAMSUN
Findley, Paul, THEY DARE TO SPEAK OUT
Foley, Charles, COMMANDO EXTRAORDINARY (Otto Skorzeny)
Frolik, Josef, THE FROLIK DEFECTION
Gauss, Ernst (ed.), DISSECTING THE HOLOCAUST (Gerrnar Rudolf)
Gibbs, Philip, EUROPEAN JOURNEY
Glyn, Alan, WITNESS TO VIETNAM
Gourley, Alan, DEMOCRACY AND TREASON IN AUSTRALIA
Griffin, G. Edward, THE FEARFUL MASTER (The UNO)
Griffiths, Richard, FELLOW TRAVELLERS OF THE RIGHT (Thirties UK)
Guenon, Rene, THE REIGN OF QUANTITY AND THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Harrer, Heinrich, SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
Hayek, F. A., THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
Hilton, Richard, IMPERIAL OBITUARY
Hoggan, David L., THE FORCED WAR (causes of World War Two)
Hohne, Heinz, CANARIS
Huddleston, Sisley, PETAIN: PATRIOT OR TRAITOR?
Hunt, Inez and Wanetta W. Draper, LIGHTNING IN HIS HAND (Tesla)
Hutson, H.W., MAJORITY RULE - WHY?
Irving, David, ADOLF HITLER: THE MEDICAL DIARIES
Irving, David, CHURCHILL'S WAR (Vols 1 and 2)
Irving, David, GÖRING
Irving, David, HESS: THE MISSING YEARS 1941 -1945
Irving, David, HITLER'S WAR
Irving, David, UPRISING (The 1956 Hungarian Revolution)
Johnston, Reginald F., TWILIGHT IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY
* Kay, Hugh, SALAZAR AND MODERN PORTUGAL
Kirk, Russell, ENEMIES OF THE PERMANENT THINGS
Kirk, Russell, THE CONSERVATIVE MIND
Kirk, Russell, THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN ORDER
Knupffer, George, THE STRUGGLE FOR WORLD POWER
Koestler, Arthur, DARKNESS AT NOON
Kravchenko, Victor, I CHOSE FREEDOM
Kulaszka, Barbara (ed.), DID SIX MILLION REALLY DIE?
Landau, Rom, PERSONALIA
Landau, Rom, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
Lardner-Burke, Desmond, RHODESIA: THE STORY OF THE CRISIS
Lee, Jeremy, WHAT WILL WE TELL OUR CHILDREN?
Lenski, Robert, THE HOLOCAUST ON TRIAL
Lilienthal, Alfred, THE ZIONIST CONNECTION II
Ludovici, Anthony M., THE SPECIOUS ORIGINS OF LIBERALISM
MacDonald, Kevin, THE CULTURE OF CRITIQUE, 2002
MacDonald, Kevin, A PEOPLE THAT SHALL DWELL ALONE
MacDonald, Kevin, SEPARATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS
McDonald, Geoff, RED OVER BLACK (Aboriginal land rights)
Manifold, Bill, NEVER A DULL
Marsden, Victor E., WORLD CONQUEST THROUGH WORLD GOVERNMENT
Martin, James J., THE SAGA OF HOG ISLAND
Martin, Rose L., FABIAN FREEWAY
Martin, Rose L., THE SELLING OF AMERICA
Mattogno, Carlo, AUSCHWITZ: THE END OF A LEGEND
Mazcaj, Paul, THE ACTION FRANCAISE: REVOLUTIONARY SYNDICALISM
Mitchell, lan, THE COST OF A REPUTATION (Nikolai Tolstoy libel case)
Morgan, Charles, LIBERTIES OF THE MIND
Mosley, Diana, A LIFE OF CONTRASTS
Mosley, Sir Oswald, MY LIFE
Nogueira, Franco, THE THIRD WORLD
Nogueira, Franco, THE UNITED NATIONS AND PORTUGAL
Oliver, Revilo P., AMERICA'S DECLINE: THE EDUCATION OF A
CONSERVATIVE
Oliver, Revilo P., THE ENEMY OF OUR ENEMIES
Orwell, George, INSIDE THE WHALE AND OTHER ESSAYS
Orwell, George, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
Ouspensky, P. D., IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
Ouspensky, P. D., LETTERS FROM RUSSIA 1919
Palumbo, Michael, THE PALESTINIAN CATASTROPHE
Pearce, Joseph, SOLZHENITSYN: A SOUL IN EXILE
Peck, A. J. A., RHODESIA CONDEMNS
Phillips, C. E. Lucas, THE SPANISH PIMPERNEL (Spanish Civil War)
Pinay, Maurice, THE PLOT AGAINST THE CHURCH
Pound, Ezra, IMPACT
Powell, Enoch, FREEDOM AND REALITY
Putnam, Carleton, RACE AND REALITY
Putnam, Carleton, RACE AND REASON
Quigley, Carroll, TRAGEDY AND HOPE
Ramsay, A. H. M., THE NAMELESS WAR
Rassinier, Paul, THE HOLOCAUST STORY AND THE LIES OF ULYSSES
Rassinier, Paul, THE REAL EICHMANN TRIAL
Rawicz, Slavomir, THE LONG WALK (Poland in World War Two)
Reed, Douglas, ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Reed, Douglas, A PROPHET AT HOME
Reed, Douglas, DISGRACE ABOUNDING
Reed, Douglas, FAR AND WIDE (America c. 1950 and before)
Reed, Douglas, FROM SMOKE TO SMOTHER
Reed, Douglas, INSANITY FAIR
Reed, Douglas, LEST WE REGRET,
Reed, Douglas, NEMESIS (Otto Strasser)
Reed, Douglas, RHODESIA BETRAYED
Reed, Douglas, THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION
Reed, Douglas, THE PRISONER OF OTTAWA (Otto Strasser)
Reed, Douglas, THE SIEGE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Robertson, Wilmot, THE DISPOSSESSED MAJORITY
Robison, John, PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY
Ross, Malcolm, SPECTRE OF POWER
Santamaria, B, A., AGAINST THE TIDE
Schmidt, Hans, END TIMES/END GAMES
Schmidt, Hans, JAILED IN 'DEMOCRATIC GERMANY'
Schwartz, Ted, WALKING WITH THE DAMNED
Sejna, Jan, WE WILL BURY YOU
Sheftel, Yoram, SHOW TRIAL (the John Demjanjuk case)
Sherep-Spiridovich, Count, THE SECRET WORLD GOVERNMENT
Short, Robin, AFRICAN SUNSET
Simpson, A. W. Brian, IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE ODIOUS (Regulation 18B)
Simpson, William Gayley, WHICH WAY WESTERN MAN?
Skousen, W. Cleon, THE NAKED CAPITALIST
Skousen, W. Qeon, THE NAKED COMMUNIST
Smith, Bradley R., BREAK HIS BONES
Smith, Gerald K., BESIEGED PATRIOT
Soddy, Frederick, WEALTH, VIRTUAL WEALTH AND DEBT
* Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 200 YEARS TOGETHER (2 vols) (not in English)
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, CANCER WARD
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander and others, FROM UNDER THE RUBBLE
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, ONE WORD OF TRUTH (Nobel Prize Lecture)
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, THE FIRST CIRCLE
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, THE MORTAL DANGER
* Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, THE RED WHEEL (4 vols) (2 vols not in English)
Spengler, Oswald, THE DECLINE OF THE WEST (2 vols)
Staeglich, Wilhelm, AUSCHWITZ: A JUDGE LOOKS AT THE EVIDENCE
Stang, Alan, IT'S VERY SIMPLE (Martin Luther King and Civil Rights in USA)
Stanley, Sir Robert, KING GEORGE'S KEYS
Stoddard Lothrop, THE RISING TIDE OF COLOUR
Stuart, James Gibbs, HIDDEN MENACE TO WORLD PEACE
Stuart, James Gibbs, THE MONEY BOMB
Sturdza, Prince Michel, BETRAYAL BY RULERS
Sturdza, Prince Michel, THE SUICIDE OF EUROPE (a Rumanian view)
Sutton, Antony C, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Sutton, Antony C., WALL STREET AND F.D.R.
Sutton, Antony C, WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
Sutton, Antony C., WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER
Teeling, Sir William, CORRIDORS OF FRUSTRATION
Thomas, Hugh, THE UNLIKELY DEATH OF HEINRICH HIMMLER
Tolstoy, Count Nikolai, THE MINISTER AND THE MASSACRES
Tolstoy, Count Nikolai, VICTIMS OF YALTA
Tredgold, Sir Robert, THE RHODESIA THAT WAS MY LIFE
Tuchman, Barbara, THE PROUD TOWER
Tyndall, John, THE ELEVENTH HOUR
Veale, F. J. P., THE VEALE FILE (Vol 1), ADVANCE TO BARBARISM
Veale, F. J. P., THE VEALE FILE (Vol 2), CRIMES DISCREETLY VEILED Voegelin, Eric, THE NEW SCIENCE OF POLITICS
Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik, LEFTISM REVISITED
Wait, George, CHINA 'SPY'
Webster, Nesta, BOCHE AND BOLSHEVIK
Webster, Nesta, LOUIS XVI AND MARIE ANTOINETTE (2 vols)
Webster, Nesta, SECRET SOCIETIES AND SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTS
Webster, Nesta, SPACIOUS DAYS
Webster, Nesta, SURRENDER OF AN EMPIRE
Webster, Nesta, THE CHEVALIER DE BOUFFLERS
Webster, Nesta, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Webster, Nesta, THE SOCIALIST NETWORK
Webster, Nesta, WORLD REVOLUTION
Weinstein, Alien, PERJURY: THE CHAMBERS - HISS CASE
Wilson, Arnold, WALKS AND TALKS ABROAD
Wilson, Colin, RASPUTIN AND THE FALL OF THE ROMANOVS
Wilson, R. McNair, NAPOLEON'S LOVE STORY
Wurmbrand, Richard, SERMONS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Wurmbrand, Richard, TORTURED FOR CHRIST
Yockey, Francis Parker (as Ulrick Valange), IMPERIUM
Yockey, Francis Parker, THE ENEMY OF EUROPE
Young, Kenneth, RHODESIA AND INDEPENDENCE
Note: These books were on my shelves on 18th June 2006. They give some idea of my background reading in alternative modern history during the past forty or more years. The list gives an indication of the enormous amount of research done by many persons during the 20th Century. Future students of the period who are struggling to comprehend the pattern of events may find the list helpful in their research.
[COMMENT: Some of the above authors had tried to deny the enormity of some of the greatest 20th century crimes. Readers would do well to remember the 2006 high price for artworks recently won in a court case by a relation of a person who had been murdered. However, skewed as the list is, most of these books ought to open new vistas for people brought up on "politically correct" misconceptions. Just as the trendy lefties try to pretend that the tortures and slave camps of the Soviet Union, Communist China and other Marxist dictatorships need not be admitted, so some of their opponents try to whitewash crimes from the Nazi-Fascits end of the political spectrum.
COMMENT ENDS.]
[Jun 26, 06]
• Real Australian Books: Hesperian Press.
Real Australian Books: Hesperian Press
Hesperian Press,
www.hesperianpress.com ,
books§hesperianpress.com
Collected 2008-09, Dated March 2006
PERTH (W. Australia) –
Large number of Australiana and some specialist books available, including:-
A book by a member of the Wittenoom family, Bullwinkel, rock climbing stories, mining basic documentation, Australian native plants, Darwin (NT) before and during World War II, the South-West group settlements 1927-37, Ernest Giles and George Grey (explorers), orthopaedic surgeon McKellar Hall, Hancock and Withnell families, etc., etc., etc.
Uncensored, www.uncensored.co.nz , PO Box 44-128, Pt Chevalier, Auckland 1246, New Zealand; Tel + 64 9 828 2823. Editor Jonathan Eisen, Asst. Ed. Katherine Smith. E-mail info@uncensored.co.nz .
Copied from Issue No. 9, Sep-Dec 2007.
Social Justice Monitor, www.acej.org.au , 17 Croker St, Aspley, Brisbane, Qld, 4034. happijon@optusnet.com.au Australian Options, www.australian-options.org.au ,
PO Box 431, Goodwood, SA, 5034, Australia. (By courtesy of StopMAI Coalition WA)
Citizens' Voice. PERTH, W. Australia: Newsletter exposing the moves by Big Business and the Great Powers through the World Trade Organisation and other international groups to transfer power from elected governments to transnational corporations in the most powerful economies.
National Interest Newspaper. AUSTRALIA: Published to provide readers with information vital to saving our country for our children. Issue No. 31 (received approx 11 Oct 2003) is undated. Headings included: "One scared kid: Australia's first political prisoner," "The Bill of Rights [1688] guarantees freedom of elections," "Public liability nonsense must be stopped," "Seizure of Pan Pharmaceutical stock is unconstitutional," "Massive multinational assault on alternative medicines," and "General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); This will affect you."
-- National Interest Newspaper, 79 Ferry St, Maryborough, Qld, 4650, Australia.
Editor: Tony Pitt (died ~ May 2006. A successor supposedly took over his work, but no further issues are known to the Webmaster.)
(No. 31 was received approx 11 Oct 03).
[LATER FOOTNOTE: The Pan Pharmaceutical newsitem, that seemed an unlikely comment story in the 2003 issue, seemed to be largely vindicated around mid-2008 with Pan winning a court case for damages. -jcm Oct 13, 2008. ENDS. ]
The Georgist News
No. 10. UNITED STATES: It praises a Western Australian man, John Massam, for sending a Spanish-speaking person links for some Spanish-language economics Webpages, and then setting one up in Spanish himself [he used the AltaVista ™ translation programme]. After seeing No. 9, this message was sent late in 1998 to The Georgist News :
"Wonderful news service! … Our local Trust has sent # 9 to 43 people today!"
-- John Massam
ANCHOR LIST and PARTIAL CONTENTS LIST (After reading an article, use Browser's "Back" button to return to Anchor List)
• American Torture – from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.
2007
• Barbarians at the gate. Bryan BURROUGH and John HELYAR. Management takeover, leveraged buyout, the £25 billion grab of RJR Nabisco.
1990
• Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak. UNITED STATES. Prof. Kenneth S. DEFFEYES discusses a future as oil production gets less and less.
2006
• The Corruption of Economics.
Mason GAFFNEY and Fred HARRISON.
(orig 1994) 2006
• Dude,where's my country? Michael MOORE exposes BLUSH's lies about Saddam Hussein's WMDs, and Corporate America.
2003
• The Earth belongs to Everyone. Alanna HARTZOK. Wide-ranging exposure of what is wrong with the globalised, profits-before-people economy of present and past centuries. A plea for prevention of pollution, small farmers, and ecological reforms from a long-term U.S. activist.
2008
• Fascist Europe Rising; The repression and resurgence of democratic nations, by Rodney ATKINSON of Britain.
2001
• The Frauding of Votes? Is Australia's "user-friendly" system an "abuser-friendly" system? Inquiries have shown there is fraud.
? 2001
• A Game as Old as Empire; The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption; Steven HIATT (ed.);
2007
• Hijacked Inheritance; The Triumph of Dollar Darwinism? Philip DAY, Brisbane, Australia.
2005
• Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population. AUSTRALIA. Good section on how land prices rise.
2008
• Real Australian Books: Hesperian Press. PERTH, W. Australia. Book publishers.
March 2006
• The Secret Life of Real Estate; How it moves and why. Phillip J. ANDERSON, London and Melbourne.
2008
• A short history of the 20th century.
Geoffrey BLAINEY, Australia.
2007
• The Silver Bullet; Fred HARRISON, London.
2008
• Solar Cycle 24: Why the world will continue cooling and why carbon dioxide won't make a detectable difference. AUSTRALIA: David ARCHIBALD;
2008
• Unlocking the Riches of Oz: A case study of the social and economic costs of real estate bubbles (1972-2006). AUSTRALIA: Bryan KAVANAGH, Melbourne.
2007
• Vendetta; American Express and the smearing of banking rival Edmond Safra; Bryan BURROUGH.
1992.
• Who Gets What? Analysing Economic Inequality in Australia. By Prof. Frank STILWELL and Kirrily JORDAN, Sydney;
2007
• Who Owns Britain; The hidden facts behind landownership in the UK and Ireland. By Kevin CAHILL;
(orig. 2001)
2002
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"Truly fortunate are those who are 'awakened' by Phil's works. It takes a remarkable life to contemplate the enormous endeavour to integrate knowledge of Land Values and Financial Market Cycles.
Phil does this with the elegance of a true genius. It feels almost unfair to possess the advantage which Phil so generously shares.
Face it. The world is no closer to consigning poverty to history.
Alanna Hartzok, a U.S. environmental and economic reformer, has put articles and essays of more than 20 years into this book, which also discussed the idea of the citizens' dividend, and green economics.
. His many British Broadcasting Corporation series were not re-contracted when he questioned the "received wisdom" about Climate Change. "I rapidly found myself confronted by what can only be termed a state of McCarthyism in Science ..." wrote Bellamy (p 5).
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Prof. Ian Plimer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia
,
Prof. Bob Carter, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Queensland
.
"Economic rationalism" has been little more than 30 years of government acquiescence in the private plunder of Australia's natural resources. The environment has suffered greatly as a consequence. (see p 7)
Why have the incomes of corporate executives dramatically outstripped those of other workers? Do people's income and wealth reflect differences in their contributions to the Australian economy? Do big economic inequalities damage productivity and social cohesion? Why isn't Australia a more egalitarian society?
WHO OWNS BRITAIN
GLOBALIZATION, LIKE MANY GREAT GEOPOLITICAL IDEOLOGIES BEFORE IT,
IS NOW OFFICIALLY DEAD.
AUSTRALIA: The electoral fraud at the Australian federal elections in 1987 was boasted about afterwards by a Labor Party stalwart. It even led veteran left-winger Frank Hardy to say there had been fraud, and afterwards to write a fable about it. So author Dr Amy McGrath's full title for her latest book is The Stolen Election, Australia 1987, according to Frank Hardy. The late Mr Hardy had previously won national fame through a court case against him for his book exposing business frauds in political circles, Power without glory.
But Dr McGrath also tells of the 1993 computer hacking of the Electoral Commission's computer, affecting the enrolments of 11.5 million Australians.
The book explains how the mass media, the electoral officials, and even the political parties that have been denied office by the frauds seem unable to get their mind around how fraud prevents democracy from working. Dr McGrath and the H.S.Chapman Society must be doing something right -- she has been attacked by Gerard Henderson of the Sydney Institute.
Union electoral fraud in Queensland led to an inquiry, which the Premier of the day suddenly shut down by withdrawing all funds and even put decorators into the premises! According to a 1996 report a postman named Mr Cook was dismissed after objecting to the denial of 1000 ballots to workers.
UNITED STATES: According to notes on Amazon.com's website: "John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this exposé of his former professional life." --
www.amazon.com/ exec/ obidos/ tg/sim- explorer/explore- items/-/1576753 018/0/101/1/none/ purchase/ref%3D pd%5Fsxp%5Fr0/ 002-5375450- 6159232 . List price $US 24.95, reduced to $US 15.72 (sighted June 25, 2005).
Land of the pure
IN its literal Persian translation Pakistan means 'Land of the Pure'.
When Pakistan was created in 1947 there were high hopes for this new nation as there was a clean slate to start from. It was the first nation in modern times to be formed on the basis of religion, but it was founded with a solidly secular, western style, constitution.
This masterly autobiographical book covers pollution (even a large section of Albany's harbour had to be closed to fishing), salination and other destruction of soil, the water shortage, declining rainfall, smog, and the destruction of the ability of the earth to refresh itself. He writes: "… do we really need another million people in Perth? Or, to put it more bluntly, can we afford another million?
Revealed: the major companies most prominent in building up the Soviet truck industry.
The strange statement of Dr. Henry Kissinger.
Reproduced: Lyndon Johnson's Preface to a trade brochure for the Russians--till now, available only from Russia.
The No. 1 method of transferring strategic goods from the U.S. to Russia.
GE and RCA help electrify Russia.
The common denominator of all administrations from Wilson's to Nixon's.
Russian MIGs get a lift from Rolls-Royce.
One vital area where the U.S. is more secretive than the Soviets.
The American company that provided the Russians with the world's first commercial plane able to fly the Atlantic nonstop.
Why "cooperative" space ventures with the U.S. are vital to the Communists.
The big Red merchant marine sails on -- compliments of Uncle Sam.
Stalin gratefully acknowledges Uncle Sam's assistance in building Communist industry.
The "mystical" approach of our State Department to trading with the Communists.
The West's largest single supplierof computers to the USSR.
State Department's "innocent" student exchange program. What Soviet students study in America. What Americans study in Russia.
Named: the probable originator of bridgebuilding.
Two reasons for classification of material--never mentioned by Washington officials.
Detailed list of 96 Soviet ships used to supply North Vietnam.
Unchallenged: Dean Rusk's big lie in 1961 about U.S.-Soviet trade.
Soviet missiles for Cuba--in State Department-approved ships.
The link between U.S.-Soviet trade and Vietnam casualties.
The unanswered question: why do policymakers continue to build up an enemy still sworn to overthrow us?
