The Big Budget winners are once again the Kiddy Farming and Poverty Industries. While people starve due to artificially inflated food prices and freeze because only the rich can afford heating The 2013 Federal Budget includes a 9billion handout to the kiddy farming industry and further increases in handouts to perennial beneficiaries of government largesse, the Poverty Industry, again in the name of Homeless people.

•  The Budget rationale proves again that the Carbon Tax which has morphed into REDD downunder is really just another tax and in as linked to emissions reduction as Politicians are to people—not at all.
• While Big Corporations and Banks continue to boast record profits and record tonnages of Australias mineral wealth vanish overseas the Federal Government attacks among the most marginalised in Society who must cop the losses-Austerity for the people fuels prosperity for Corporations.
• The Kiddy Farming Industry will be readied with $9billion of Government largesse to receive the more revenue as single parents are forced into wage slavery or onto NGO enriching Newstart.
  Students Parents and Centrelink Claimants have all come under attack. A National Disability Scheme will enrich NGOs as they seek more control over the lives of and work performed by Australia’s disabled. The messsage of the 2013 Federal budget is Concern for the Rights of Corporations and indifference towards the plight of the people. 
• In short…politicians are so inseparably part of the problem that they should NOT be part of the solutions… Trust only Grassroots organised Community based groups to stand up for what you and they believe in.

 When are the people going to realise that Governments obsessed with Keynesian Economics will ensure that laissez faire capitalism flourishes amidst heavily constrained personal incomes- or robbing the poor to benefit the rich.

Reblogged from DarinSullivan.net:

Villawood Contamination: Police Threaten Boycott

By Paul Farrell, Luke Bacon, Lawrence Bull May 2, 2013

Following revelations that easily spread asbestos remained unaddressed at Villawood, the NSW Police Association is threatening to ban officers from the controversial detention centre.

via Villawood Contamination: Police Threaten Boycott | The Global Mail.

Join the Facebook Event here

 Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Protest! 11 May 2013, 12 Noon, Martin Place, Sydney

Ten Reasons Why the TransPacific Partnership Matters…

1. It is only getting bigger by the day: Thailand knocking at the TPP Door . Japan has just been included
2. We have not learned from NAFTA: Mexico ordered to pay Cargill $95 million for attempting to keep out high-fructose corn syrup
3. In Free Trade Agreements, corporate profits always trump the environment: Canada/Quebec sued under NAFTA for its ban on fracking by a US corporation
4. It Doesn’t Matter if you are a sovereign nation with labor and environmental laws: Here is a list of the NAFTA chapter 11 cases
5. Or just trying to survive with a life-threatening illness on a few dollars a day: Public health advocates in Malaysia protest reduced access to generic medicines in trade deals
6. Congress is trying, but those who we elect are not part of negotiating this deal-our democracy is at stake! Take this recent Sign-On letter to President Obama from Senator Al Franken on the labor rights concerns in the TPP and urge Senators Cantwell and Murray to sign it!
7. Sweatshops still exist: Here is a recent report by Right2Work
8. Companies are willing to invest millions of dollars to keep consumers in the dark: Here are the corporations who defeated the GMO labeling initiative in California
9. Only when we connect our issues, and combine our strength can we succeed: Dec. 1st is also world AIDS Day
10. We are not alone, we are the majority, and our voices are needed for trade to ever benefit workers and support healthy communities and a sustainable planet: Sign the Avaaz petition to reach a million who say “Stop the Corporate Death Star”, stop the TPP!

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is a free trade agreement being negotiated between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam.

US global corporations are driving the agenda to expand their rights at the expense of peoples’ rights. Pharmaceutical companies want higher prices for medicines, tobacco companies want to sue governments for health regulation, and there is so far no agreement to implement workers’ rights or environmental standards.

On May 11, International Fair Trade Day, AFTINET will join others around the world to say no to corporate rights and yes to workers’ rights and the environment.

We invite you to come with your organisation’s flag or banner from 12-1 pm.

There are similar rallies or events happening in some other TPP countries: US, Canada, Peru , Malaysia, NZ

Hope to see you there

The United States and ten governments from around the Pacific are meeting yet again to hash out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) on May 15-24 in Lima, Peru. The TPP is one of the worst global threats to the Internet since ACTA. Since the negotiations have been secretive from the beginning, we mainly know what’s in the current version of this trade agreement because of a leaked draft [PDF] from February 2011. Based upon that text, some other leaked notes, and the undemocratic nature of the entire process, we have every reason to be alarmed .

 The Electronic Frontiers Foundation have expressed concerns relating to the arbitrary abrogation of Internet Freedoms and extensions of Copyright protections extended under this secretly negotiated compact which Australia has signed up to.

What Else You Can Do (Outside USA)   USA

  In May 2012 following the dismissal of a District Court prosecution Premier Barry O’Farrell and NSW Police Commissioner Scipione used Ray Hadleys 2UE show to assert that “The Courts should support the police” and call on the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal that decision. This action by the then newly elected Premier of NSW caused ripples of concern among Occupy supporters and the public relating to the independence of the Judiciary from the Political arm of Government.

  Todays ruling (DPP v Lance Priestley ) vindicates the occupier assertion that the regulations are so vague as to be potentially impossible to understand and therefore to comply with.

 The Judge ordered the Appeal dismissed with costs against the Crown.

 The ruling may have positive implications for 13 occupiers who have long awaited an outcome of the charges brought in relation to the Oct 23 2011 eviction of Occupy Sydney which Occupiers contend was illegal

 Barrister Jason Donnelly for the defendant can be contacted at http://www.jdbarrister.com.au/  

Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/01/camp-nama-iraq-human-rights-abuses?CMP=twt_gu

British soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to occur in Iraq after the invasion have, for the first time, spoken about abuses they witnessed there.

Personnel from two RAF squadrons and one Army Air Corps squadron were given guard and transport duties at the secret prison, the Guardian has established.

And many of the detainees were brought to the facility by snatch squads formed from Special Air Service and Special Boat Service squadrons.

Codenamed Task Force 121, the joint US-UK special forces unit was at first deployed to detain individuals thought to have information about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

Reblogged from Occupy Savvy:

Occupy Savvy Exclusive! One of the coolest things about activism is that it doesn't have celebrities - it has role models. Recently, we put 7 poignant questions to five of the world's most inspiring women. These women hail from Iceland, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and for their profound actions, deeds, words, generosity, heart, and perseverance, we deem them "wahine toa".

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Reblogged from Occupy Savvy:

Occupy Savvy Exclusive! One of the coolest things about activism is that it doesn't have celebrities - it has role models. Recently, we put 7 poignant questions to five of the world's most inspiring women. These women hail from Iceland, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and for their profound actions, deeds, words, generosity, heart, and perseverance, we deem them "wahine toa".

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In the past the general population didn’t know about genocide. The word itself is still very new to our vocabulary. There was little media, little communication, and little objective knowledge of other ethnicities.

People were often uneducated, unaware, and often viewed anything that didn’t look like them, such as having different skin color, as less human and with fear or disgust. There has always been an inherent fear of the unknown and there weren’t always the resources to learn about the unknown that we take for granted today.

The world is a much smaller place now and gets smaller every day. People now know something of genocides, have at least heard of Darfur or Rwanda. People everyday say how horrible they think it all is and say how we will can never let such atrocities happen again. But even as we say we’ll never let it happen, most nations that could help end the horrors sit back and watch the slaughters on the nightly news. Political agendas keep leaders from doing the right thing.

We believe that most people just don’t think much about it…have never really thought about what genocide truly is, what it would be like being hunted down and butchered with your family and friends for no other reason then for having a different religion or a different skin color. Maybe it just hasn’t crossed their minds about what it means to sit back and say and do nothing when we could be putting a stop to it.

There are literally billions of people opposed to genocide so how are we allowing it to continue? We always need more people to demand change. You can write your government officials, or write the media, and encourage others to do the same.

Things won’t change with only a few people and that’s why we need everybody to speak out. When politicians and corporations are made to realize that their own political and financial futures are at stake then we’d see change – and fast.

phone and write letters – ASK ADRIAN DIETZ ESQ WHAT IS HIS ROLE AND IS HE THE ATTORNEY IN CHARGE OF OUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE / CESTUI QUE TRUST / DEMATERIALIZED / CERTIFICATED SECURITIES …AND WHY IS HE THE CONTACT FOR THE COMAPNY KNOWN AS “THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA”

“..In finance and financial law, dematerialization refers to the substitution of paper-form securities by book-entry securities. This phenomenon is ancient, since in many small firms that cannot afford printing secured paper-form securities, the securities are often held in a book-entry form, under the control of an attorney who acts as a notary to certify the existence of the securities, as well as their authenticity. Today, dematerialization concerns more and more listed companies in the US (where the process has begun in the sixties) and now in the European Union, where dematerialized securities represent often more than 99% of the securities listed on regulated markets.[1] However, this recent phenomena of dematerialization of securities issued by large firms is mostly undertaken via Central Securities Depository, a national or regional institution holding the notary function, such as the DTC in the US, which itself entrusts banks and investment firms to act as intermediaries between issuers and investors for the custody of these securities. Therefore, dematerialized securities are often referred as intermediated securities, in particular by the Unidroit convention on substantive rules for intermediated securities.” is ADRIAN J.S. DEITZ, ESQ. this Attorney ?

the contact details for the ENTITY/COMPANY know as >>>>>>>>>

“COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA”

COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000805157
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: UNKNOWN SIC – 8880 [8880]
IRS NUMBER: 000000000
FISCAL YEAR END: 0630

FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: CORRESP

BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 1601 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW
STREET 2: C/O AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY
CITY: WASHINGTON
STATE: DC
ZIP: 20036

Name and address of Authorised Agent of the Registrant in the United States to receive notices and communications from the Securities and Exchange Commission:

MR. DAVID PEARL
Minister – Counsellor (Economic)
Australian Embassy
1601 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036

It is requested that copies of notices and communications from the Securities and Exchange Commission be sent to:

ADRIAN J.S. DEITZ, ESQ.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Level 13
131 Macquarie Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia

http://www.skadden.com/the-firm

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Level 13

131 Macquarie Street

Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia

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T: 61.2.9253.6000

F: 61.2.9253.6044

http://www.skadden.com/the-firm/offices/sydney

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/805157/000134100409000414/scheduleb.htm

“Dear Friends,Today I spoke at length with a very ruffled Adrian Deitz, who is listed as the contact person for the entity known as the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA on the US SEC.”

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/805157/000134100409000414/scheduleb.htm

He works for this company in Sydney: http://www.skadden.com/

ADRIAN J.S. DEITZ, ESQ.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Level 13
131 Macquarie Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia

Here is our conversation today:

I asked Adrian if the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA was a place, a country or a company. He commented that (cough) um…it’s not a company as such, but a sovereign entity.

I said, “so you mean it’s a created legal fiction?”

Adrian: “What do you mean by that?”

Thomas: “Well, you’re the Lawyer, you should know about these things…”

Adrian “What’s this in regard to?”

Thomas: “Well, I just discovered that what my parents took an oath for, back in 1975 when they came here from England, was an oath to a company and not a place or country, so I’d like to know why there isn’t full disclosure of that, isn’t that fraud?”

Adrian: “As I said it’s not a company, it’s a sovereign entity, registered under section B of the securities exchange.”

Thomas: “So you’re saying it’s not a place..”

Adrian “Look, maybe you should refer to the Constitution as to what the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA is and where it’s powers come from and what it can do..”

Thomas: “Well it can’t actually DO anything by itself can it? it’s essentially a piece of paper, don’t you mean it’s agents…people who work for it?” It’s obviously not a living being.

Adrian “Again, maybe you should talk to a Constitutional Scholar, maybe they would be best suited to answer your questions…how did you get my name?”

Thomas: “Well, you’re the person listed as the contact on the US Securities Exchange Commission for the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA which is listed on their companies register..”

Adrian: “Yes, well, that’s only for communications from the SEC..”

Thomas: “So where can I find full disclosure out there in legal land that gives the public full disclosure of the fact that the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA is not a place, but a manmade created legal fiction?”

Adrian: “Read the Constitution..’

Thomas: “So will it say in there that it’s not a country or place?”

Adrian: Look, I don’t see the purpose of this phonecall, what company are you calling from?”

Thomas: “No company, just my house, where I live on the landmass known as Australia, which by the seem of things is very different from the entity known as COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA…and I bet 99 percent of people here don’t know that…”

Adrian “What’s your point?”

Thomas “The point is that there’s two of them isn’t there…the landmass known as Australia, and the entity.

Adrian: “Yes, that’s correct”

Thomas “So why aren’t we told these things?”

Adrian “Look, as I said, I suggest you contact someone in the Commonwealth about this..

Thomas: “Damn right I will. Thanks for your time Adrian.

Adrian hangs up..

…However, this recent phenomena of dematerialization of securities issued by large firms is mostly undertaken via Central Securities Depository, a national or regional institution holding the notary function, such as the DTC in the US, which itself entrusts banks and investment firms to act as intermediaries between issuers and investors for the custody of these securities…