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Obama and the New Partyby Erick Erickson Posted 06/10/2008 ETTwo weeks ago at RedState, we documented Obamas 1996 endorsement by the New Party. A review of the New Party establishes that not only was the party an amalgamation of far left groups, but Barack Obama knew that when he sought the partys endorsement.Most of the New Partys history has been lost in the digital age. It was established in 1992 and started to die out in 1998, well before Google and the modern web were established. But through lengthy searches of the Nexis archive and microfilm at the local university library, Ive been able to piece this together.The New Party was established in 1992 by union activist Sandy Pope and University of Wisconsin professor Joel Rogers, USA Today reported on November 16, 1992. The paper wrote that the new party was self-described [as] socialist democratic.The seeds, however, had been sown all the way back in 1988. Quoting John Nichols in the March 22, 1998 issue of In These Times, The roots of the New Party go back to the aftermath of Jesse Jacksons run for president in 1988. At that time, Dan Cantor, who had served as labor coordinator for the Jackson campaign, and University of Wisconsin sociology professor Joel Rogers began talking about how to formulate an alternative between the increasingly indistinguishable Democratic-Republican monolith.Joel Rogers sought to use the idea of fusion as a way to get the New Party into power.Fusion is a pretty simple concept. A candidate could run as both a Democrat and a New Party member to signal the candidate was, in fact, a left-leaning candidate, or at least not a center-left DLC type candidate. If the candidate -- lets call him Barack Obama -- received only 500 votes in the Democratic Party against another candidate who received 1000 votes, Obama would clearly not be the nominee. But, if Obama also received 600 votes from the New Party, Obamas New Party votes and Democratic votes would be fused. He would be the Democratic nominee with 1100 votes.The fusion idea set off a number of third parties, but the New Party was probably the most successful. A March 22, 1998 In These Times article by John Nichols showed just how successful. After six years, the party has built what is arguably the most sophisticated left-leaning political operation the country has seen since the decline of the Farmer-Labor, Progressive and Non-Partisan League groupings of the early part of the century . In 1996, it helped Chicagos Danny Davis, a New Party member, win a Democratic congressional primary, thereby assuring his election in the majority-black district . The threat of losing New Party support, or of the New Party running its own candidates against conservative Democrats, would begin a process of forcing the political process to the left, [Joel] Rogers argued.Fusion, fortunately for the country, died in 1997. William Rehnquist, writing for a 6-3 Supreme Court, found the concept was not a protected constitutional right. It was two years too late to stop Obama.On December 1, 1994, after the Gingrich revolution swept the Democrats from congress and forced Bill Clinton to triangulate, the Chicago Tribune ran an article by Steve Mills entitled Looking for the Left: The Old Progressives and Marxists Still Breathe Idealist Fire, but Theyre Too Splintered to Generate Any Heat.The Left is in crisis, and it has been for some time, said Carl Davidson, the former national secretary for the radical Students for a Democratic Society. I dont know if its even bottomed out yet, he reported to Mr. Mills. Mills continued, The Socialist Workers Party is in this corner; the International Socialist Organization is in this one. The [communist group Committee of Correspondence] is in another. The radicals, or even the liberals with some radical leanings -- so-called soft radicals -- seem to find it hard to abandon individual issues for a broader movement.But, Mills reported, It is amid this political confusion that The New Party would like to step in. If theres anything that defines the American Left, its fragmentation, said Dan Cantor, the partys national organizer. The New Party aims to change that. By uniting the progressives behind a cohesive ideology, one that, in theory at least, will have room for all the factions that now litter the landscape of the Left, The New Party is confident progressives can again be strong.(more...http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=26913
Author: NoBlowBama Keywords: obama terrorism democrat election bill ayers marxism secret past radical anti-american new party Added: October 9, 2008
Why is nobody talking about this? The truth slipped out on MSNBC Friday...Judge for yourself...Democrats are trying to shake down our government for Billions of dollars to go to their groups by taking 20% of any gains from bailout and also putting in labor union bosses in all corporate boardrooms. Is this our Democratic party or the Socialist party?
Author: thepeopleof1776 Keywords: obama mccain bailout shakedown breaking new republican democrat David O'reilly shawn hannity cnn cnbc bbc brit king Added: September 28, 2008
Explores differences for working people between union town San Francisco and its open shop neighbor to the south, Los Angeles, around the turn of the century. Sam Gompers, Clarence Darrow, and Eugene Debs make guest appearances in the Los Angeles story, which weaves the bombing of the anti-union Los Angeles Times by ironworkers together with the labor-backed campaign for mayor of Socialist Job Harriman. Meanwhile P. H. McCarthy and the powerful Building Trades Council, the great City Front Strike of 1901, the Union Labor Party, the San Francisco earthquake, Wage Earners Suffrage League and a brutal streetcar strike star up north. Also featured: the Oxnard Beet Workers strike of 1903, with the first farm labor union and strike in California, led by the Japanese-Mexican Labor Alliance. 24 minutes
Author: CFTunion Keywords: aft cft union education labor Added: September 19, 2008
Must See Interview conducted by OMNI 2 News, Canada (Posted by United Sri Lankans of Canada) Dr. Palitha Kohana (Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary) during his official visit to Canada relayed the positive message to all Canadian Sri Lankans passed on to him by the Government of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. During his very busy schedule he was interviewed by OMNI 2 news, CBC as well as other various media. People far away as Vancouver and Montreal flocked to meet Dr. Kohana during the labor day long weekend at Scarborough Civic Center when he attended Late Hon. Lakshman Kadiragamar's 3rd year remembrance (Former Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister who was assassinated by Tamil Tigers) this important event was hosted by SLUNA (Sri Lankan United National Association of Canada) on their 25th year anniversary. Mrs. Kadiragamar, TULF President Ananada Sangaree, Toronto Sri Lanka Consul General Bandula Jayasekera as well as members of parliament and opposition were present at this highly recognized event. ***Sources notified organizers and authorities that Pro Tamil Tiger media had broadcasted over the air ways urging all its supporters and agents to go and sabotage Late Lakshman Kadirgamar's 3rd year remembrance and the peaceful gathering of all ethnic communities, due to this factor tight security was put in place with RCMP keeping a close eye for any possible intruders***During Dr. Kohana's visit he didn't waste a single minute of his time as he met with members of parliament, opposition as well as members of all Sri Lankan communities. His message was very clear and coherent and was never out of context as he touched on every possible issue raised. Please click on the following interview to see Dr. Kohana's response to many false allegations and propaganda spread by Tamil Tiger agents in Toronto and Canada.Courtesy of OMNI 2 South Asian Edition News - Sept 1st 2008
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South Africa's troubles are the result of government intervention on a scale previously known only in the Eastern Bloc and other avowedly socialist nations. This is especially ironic since the Afrikaners traditionally sought to escape big government, not to embrace it. Unfortunately, their obsession with race overpowered that inclination.In South Africa, whites refused to tolerate black success in the marketplace. They instead intensified legislative suppression. White farmers sought protection from black competition; the authorities responded in 1890 with an act limiting individual black land ownership to ten acres. The law destroyed any prospects for black agricultural success, even though it was justified in the name of bringing about equality among the native population. At the same time, hut and poll taxes were introduced or expanded to force blacks to take jobs working for whites in order to pay those taxes. More dramatically, the Native Lands Act of 1913 prohibited black ownership in all but 7 percent of South Africa's land mass. (These so-called reserves, increased to 13 percent of the country in 1936, would later provide the basis for the present-day homeland system.) White farmers, meanwhile, obtained additional support in the form of massive subsidies for the production and marketing of their crops.This fear of agricultural competition was compounded by demands for cheap, unskilled black labor among both the white farmers and new white mining interests. Following violent protests by white mine workers during the early 1920s, blacks were barred from holding skilled positions in industry. This was achieved both through direct legislation (the various Apprenticeship Acts) and binding agreements between management and white unions (given legal effect through the Industrial Conciliation Act of 1924).Blacks were also precluded from entrepreneurial advancement. The law, first of all, erected formidable thresholds for legal residence in white South Africa, without which one would lack fundamental security of tenure. Secondly, the new Nationalist government prohibited non-white businesses within white urban areas. Finally, a maze of ostensibly non-racial health, registration, and safety regulations in practice precluded the formation of small-scale enterprises.It is not surprising, then, that average black per capita earnings as a proportion of white earnings actually fell between 1925 and 1960, from 24.6 percent to 21.2 percent; there were simply too many restrictions on blacks for them to progress economically. The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 allowed for the creation of independent homelands, and for blacks with ethnic ties to them to cease being South Africans. Thus, when Transkei and Ciskei were granted independence respectively in 1976 and 1981 (which no country other than South Africa recognized), all blacks classified by the government as members of the Xhosa tribe were stripped of their South African nationality, no matter where they resided. The Black Labour Regulation of 1953 and the Industrial Conciliation Act of 1956 strengthened prohibitions against blacks organizing their own or racially mixed unions.The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952, instituted comprehensive controls on the movement of black labor by channeling it through government-established homeland labor bureaus. The Native (Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents) Act of 1952 required that blacks carry a pass book (alternatively known as a reference book), indicating employment and residential histories, and allowed police officers to demand production of it at any time.These various interventions generated a bureaucracy frightening in its absolute size. More than 150,000 whites, almost all from an Afrikaner adult work force of under 800,000, worked directly for the central government (one-quarter of them in the direct enforcement of apartheid laws), while tens of thousands more worked for provincial and local authorities, parastatal corporations, and other quasi-government bodies. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa081.html
Author: Naniwa00 Keywords: south africa apartheid suid afrika afrikaans afrikaner racism segregation ANC mandela National Party Added: July 29, 2008
Anton Lowenberg writes:South Africa 's apartheid system was enormously costly and ultimately collapsed because the inefficiencies created by apartheid policies escalated as the economy's structure changed. Labor market regulation and industrial decentralization policy inhibited efficient resource utilization, especially as the manufacturing sector became dominant. Apartheid educational policies generated skill shortages. A mercantilistic development strategy distorted trade patterns, exacerbated dependence on foreign capital inflows, and created chronic balance of payments difficulties. The administrative and defense costs of implementing apartheid were onerous and rising. These internal weaknesses enhanced South Africa's vulnerability to capital flight, changes in world prices and business cycle conditions, and political changes abroad. Ultimately, apartheid was abandoned because its costs came to exceed its benefits to white South Africans. The internal dynamics of the system dictated the retrenchment of apartheid, which in all probability would have occurred even without foreign sanctions. Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.Apartheid distorted resource allocation because race, rather than economic criteria, determined where people could live, what job they could hold, and where they could open up a business.Inefficient resource allocation reduced South Africa's material wealth (as seen in diminishing returns to investment) over the long-term. Take the mining industry for example:After gold was found in South Africa's Transvaal province in 1873, mining became the country's chief industry. South African capitalists soon recognized that blacks could do many of the jobs previously done by whites and for much less money. In an efficiency drive, they fired whites and hired blacks instead. Between 1911 and 1922, the number of white miners decreased from 24,746 to 14,207.Discontent among white workers grew. South Africa's capitalists were accused of racial treason. General Ian Smuts, the prime minister at the time, was called a capitalist puppet. He was urged to protect civilised labour standards by barring blacks from competing with whites. Smuts held out and white miners, egged on by communist labor unions, instigated the so-called Rand Rebellion of 1922. By the time the government put the rebellion down by violent means, which included artillery shelling and aerial bombardment that flattened parts of South Africa's commercial center of Johannesburg, hundreds of people lay dead.General Barry Hertzog of the opposition Afrikaans National Party played the protectionist card during the 1924 general election. He declared that it was in the nature of things [that] the fittest would survive, but the fittest was not European. The fittest was the native, who could live more cheaply. Parliament would have to take steps to stop the kind of economic force which was against the European. Hertzog won and formed a coalition government with the socialist Labour Party. In 1926, the national-socialist government barred much of black competition by passing the Mines and Works Amendment Act. The system of job protectionism or color bar would later expand to include social segregation. Apartheid was born.In the long run, the colour bar proved as impracticable as it was immoral. It imposed unacceptably high costs on South African mining companies, who had to compete with increasingly productive foreign firms. The companies bribed and cajoled their way to government exemptions, hiring blacks and cutting their costs wherever and whenever they could. As a consequence, the number of black miners steadily increased from 190,137 in 1911 to 609,790 in 1970.The costs of apartheid - which is in a class with other collusions such as price ceilings, regulation, cartels and embargoes - produced incentives for contravention. Protecting white workers from open competition with blacks was costly. Wage differentials gave employers a strong incentive to favour black labour.
Author: Naniwa00 Keywords: south africa suid afrika apartheid racism mandela ANC verwoerd National Party sanctions terrorism Added: July 29, 2008
Estonian Lyrics: Jää kestma, Kalevite kange rahvas, ja seisa kaljuna, me kodumaa! Ei vaibund kannatustes sinu vahvus, end läbi sajanditest murdsid sa ja tõusid õitsvaks sotsialismimaaks, et päikene su päevadesse paista saaks. Nüüd huuga, tehas, vili, nurmel vooga, sirp, lõika, alasile, haamer, löö! Nõukogu elu, tuksu võimsa hooga, too õnne rahvale, me tubli töö! Me Liidu rahvaste ja riike seas sa, Eesti, sammu esimeste kindlas reas! Sa kõrgel leninlikku lippu kannad ja julgelt kommunismi rada käid. Partei me sammudele suuna annab ja võidult võitudele viib ta meid. Ta kindlal juhtimisel kasva sa ja tugevaks ning kauniks saa, me kodumaa! English Lyrics: Endure, the brave people of Kalev And stand as a rock, our homeland! Your courage did not subside in the sufferings, You broke yourself through the centuries, And arose a socialist country in blossom, For sun could shine in your days. Oh cornfields, grow mighty ears! Reap, sickle, and beat out, hammer, hoot, factory! May everybody be happy in the soviet country -- Persistent labor will bring happiness to us. There is a scope for you in the fraternal union -- Estonia, step in order with your sisters. You're bearing the sacred Lenin's banner, You're going forward your glorious way. Our own party is always with you -- It leads you the way of victories. Grow, Motherland, on the great way, Every day become more beautiful and stronger. Russian Lyrics: Живи, сын Калева - народ наш славный, И стой, отчизна наша, как скала. Сквозь все страдания веков бесправных Отвагу ты и доблесть пронесла. И вот зажгла социализма свет, Воспрянула в цвету для счастья и побед. Могучим колосом цветите нивы! Жни, серп, и, молот, бей, гуди, завод! В стране советской каждый будь счастливым - Упорный труд нам счастье принесёт. В союзе братском пред тобой простор - Эстония, шагай в строю своих сестёр! Ты знамя Ленина несёшь святое, Дорогой славною идёшь вперёд. Родная партия всегда с тобою - Путём побед она тебя ведёт. Расти, отчизна, на пути большом, Прекрасней и сильней будь с каждым новым днём!
Author: iTzGuNny Keywords: Anthem of the Estonian SSR Added: July 23, 2008
Before and during World War II, Coca-Cola adopted an apparent policy of ignoring the practice of eugenics and anti-Semitism by Nazi Germany, according to a 2000 book by Mark Pendergrast. Several of Coke's top executives in Germany were prominent members of the National Socialist German Workers Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. When the United States entered World War II, Coke began to represent itself as a patriotic drink by providing free drinks for soldiers of the United States Army.The United States Army permitted Coca-Cola employees to enter the front lines as Technical Officers when in reality they rarely if ever came close to a real battle. Instead, they operated Coke's system of providing refreshments for soldiers, who welcomed the beverage as a reminder of home. As the Allies of World War II advanced, so did Coke, which took advantage of the situation by establishing new franchises in the newly occupied countries.Coca-Cola set up bottling plants in several locations overseas to assure the drink's availability to soldiers, setting the stage for the company's post-war overseas expansion. The popularity of the drink exploded as American soldiers returned home from the war with a taste for the drink.At the same time, according to Jones E and Ritzman F. in Coca Cola Goes to War, the soft drinks giant from Atlanta , Georgia collaborated with the Nazi-regime throughout its reign from 1933 -- 1945 and sold countless millions of bottled beverages to Hitler's Germany.As Nazi lines advanced, Coca-Cola corporate employees Walter Oppenhof and Max Keith, who were also hired by the Nazi's Office of Enemy Property, traveled with Nazi troops, helping to set up Coca-Cola plants in occupied territories using kidnapped labor.
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China from the Inside - Freedom and Justice 2007 The main thing is to speak the truth. Why should a nation be drowned in lies and deceit? In the days of the emperor, whoever lied to him would be killed for disrespect. But now the liars get promoted as officials. Get rich. Now rich people's dogs live better than the peasants. -- Dr. Gao Yaojie, veteran doctor and campaigner How free are the Chinese people? How free to worship as they please? To learn the truth from the media? To hear the truth from the Communist Party and the government? How can people with a grievance negotiate with the state?Tibetan Buddhism has long been feared as a rallying point and cover for Tibetan independence. Worship is permitted on the Party's strict terms -- neither government employees nor students are allowed to practice. A study in contrasts, official Catholicism -- administered not by the Vatican but by the Communist Party -- is far from China's unofficial churches with 40 million adherents who want nothing between them and their God. The film also explores Falun Gong and the threat it posed to the Chinese government as well as examining the limits on the right to assembly and press freedom.The second half looks at popular grievances: forced evictions, government cover-up of the AIDS problem, corruption and land grabbing. There were 87,000 officially-recognized cases of public disorder in 2005. The courts frequently refuse to take on sensitive cases, forcing ordinary people to petition government -- a frustratingly ineffectual process. The cameras go inside a Re-education through Labor camp to which women are committed without trial for up to four years for drugs, sex or property offences -- or for petitioning.Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has acknowledged the problems facing China's rural population. The Party's answer is to build what it calls a New Socialist Countryside with free education, improved healthcare, no agricultural tax and an extra $6 billion. But with corruption rife in local government, will the money and the measures reach the people?The final sequence in the series is the story of what happened to Taishi Village, which sought to use the law to impeach and remove its corrupt leaders. Praised by the leading Party newspaper in China one minute, the village was overrun with police and militia the next. The corrupt old leaders were reinstated by local government amid violence, intimidation and arrests.
Author: 4FreeTibet2008 Keywords: China 中华人民共和国 Communist Human Rights Tibetan Buddhism Falun Gong 法轮功 Prison ccp Ocupation Free Tibet Lhasa Added: May 3, 2008
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Blog Poly Ticks Sunday October 12, 2008 NEWT I like Newt Posted by Cyberian at 12:24 PM - No Comments Add a Comment 155 Lies and still counting http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/05/documented-lie-50-obama-claimed-he-had.html Posted by Cyberian at 10:37 AM - No Comments Add a Comment Saturday October 11, 2008 How much proof do we need???? http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=28973
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BO "New Party" Pick Socialist Shock
BO "New Party" Pick Socialist ShockNoBlowBama1 min - 10 Oct 2008Obama and the New Partyby Erick Erickson Posted 06/10/2008 ETTwo weeks ago at RedState, we documented Obamas 1996 endorsement by the New Party. A review of the New Party establishes that not only was the party an amalgamation of far left groups, but Barack Obama knew that when he sought the partys endorsement.Most of the New Partys history has been lost in the digital age. It was established in 1992 and started to die out in 1998, well before Google and the modern web were established. But through lengthy searches of the Nexis archive and microfilm at the local university library, Ive been able to piece this together.The New Party was established in 1992 by union activist Sandy Pope and University of Wisconsin professor Joel Rogers, USA Today reported on November 16, 1992. The paper wrote that the new party was self-described [as] socialist democratic.The seeds, however, had been sown all the way back in 1988. Quoting John Nichols in the March 22, 1998 issue of In These Times, The roots of the New Party go back to the aftermath of Jesse Jacksons run for president in 1988. At that time, Dan Cantor, who had served as labor coordinator for the Jackson campaign, and University of Wisconsin sociology professor Joel Rogers began talking about how to formulate an alternative between the increasingly indistinguishable Democratic-Republican monolith.Joel Rogers sought to use the idea of fusion as a way to get the New Party into power.Fusion is a pretty simple concept. A candidate could run as both a Democrat and a New Party member to signal the candidate was, in fact, a left-leaning candidate, or at least not a center-left DLC type candidate. If the candidate -- lets call him Barack Obama -- received only 500 votes in the Democratic Party against another candidate who received 1000 votes, Obama would clearly not be the nominee. But, if Obama also received 600 votes from the New Party, Obamas New Party votes and Democratic votes would be fused. He would be the Democratic nominee with 1100 votes.The fusion idea set off a number of third parties, but the New Party was probably the most successful. A March 22, 1998 In These Times article by John Nichols showed just how successful. After six years, the party has built what is arguably the most sophisticated left-leaning political operation the country has seen since the decline of the Farmer-Labor, Progressive and Non-Partisan League groupings of the early part of the century . In 1996, it helped Chicagos Danny Davis, a New Party member, win a Democratic congressional primary, thereby assuring his election in the majority-black district . The threat of losing New Party support, or of the New Party running its own candidates against conservative Democrats, would begin a process of forcing the political process to the left, [Joel] Rogers argued.Fusion, fortunately for the country, died in 1997. William Rehnquist, writing for a 6-3 Supreme Court, found the concept was not a protected constitutional right. It was two years too late to stop Obama.On December 1, 1994, after the Gingrich revolution swept the Democrats from congress and forced Bill Clinton to triangulate, the Chicago Tribune ran an article by Steve Mills entitled Looking for the Left: The Old Progressives and Marxists Still Breathe Idealist Fire, but Theyre Too Splintered to Generate Any Heat.The Left is in crisis, and it has been for some time, said Carl Davidson, the former national secretary for the radical Students for a Democratic Society. I dont know if its even bottomed out yet, he reported to Mr. Mills. Mills continued, The Socialist Workers Party is in this corner; the International Socialist Organization is in this one. The [communist group Committee of Correspondence] is in another. The radicals, or even the liberals with some radical leanings -- so-called soft radicals -- seem to find it hard to abandon individual issues for a broader movement.But, Mills reported, It is amid this political confusion that The New Party would like to step in. If theres anything that defines the American Left, its fragmentation, said Dan Cantor, the partys national organizer. The New Party aims to change that. By uniting the progressives behind a cohesive ideology, one that, in theory at least, will have room for all the factions that now litter the landscape of the Left, The New Party is confident progressives can again be strong.(more...http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=26913
Why the Republicans walked from $700 Billion Plan?
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Part 3: "Bombs and Ballot Boxes"
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Shocking Vid Sri Lankan Foreign Sec on LTTE @ Toronto Canada
Shocking Vid Sri Lankan Foreign Sec on LTTE @ Toronto CanadaSuduSevaneli5 min - 4 Sep 2008Must See Interview conducted by OMNI 2 News, Canada (Posted by United Sri Lankans of Canada) Dr. Palitha Kohana (Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary) during his official visit to Canada relayed the positive message to all Canadian Sri Lankans passed on to him by the Government of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. During his very busy schedule he was interviewed by OMNI 2 news, CBC as well as other various media. People far away as Vancouver and Montreal flocked to meet Dr. Kohana during the labor day long weekend at Scarborough Civic Center when he attended Late Hon. Lakshman Kadiragamar's 3rd year remembrance (Former Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister who was assassinated by Tamil Tigers) this important event was hosted by SLUNA (Sri Lankan United National Association of Canada) on their 25th year anniversary. Mrs. Kadiragamar, TULF President Ananada Sangaree, Toronto Sri Lanka Consul General Bandula Jayasekera as well as members of parliament and opposition were present at this highly recognized event. ***Sources notified organizers and authorities that Pro Tamil Tiger media had broadcasted over the air ways urging all its supporters and agents to go and sabotage Late Lakshman Kadirgamar's 3rd year remembrance and the peaceful gathering of all ethnic communities, due to this factor tight security was put in place with RCMP keeping a close eye for any possible intruders***During Dr. Kohana's visit he didn't waste a single minute of his time as he met with members of parliament, opposition as well as members of all Sri Lankan communities. His message was very clear and coherent and was never out of context as he touched on every possible issue raised. Please click on the following interview to see Dr. Kohana's response to many false allegations and propaganda spread by Tamil Tiger agents in Toronto and Canada.Courtesy of OMNI 2 South Asian Edition News - Sept 1st 2008
Economic Apartheid
Economic ApartheidNaniwa002 min - 29 Jul 2008South Africa's troubles are the result of government intervention on a scale previously known only in the Eastern Bloc and other avowedly socialist nations. This is especially ironic since the Afrikaners traditionally sought to escape big government, not to embrace it. Unfortunately, their obsession with race overpowered that inclination.In South Africa, whites refused to tolerate black success in the marketplace. They instead intensified legislative suppression. White farmers sought protection from black competition; the authorities responded in 1890 with an act limiting individual black land ownership to ten acres. The law destroyed any prospects for black agricultural success, even though it was justified in the name of bringing about equality among the native population. At the same time, hut and poll taxes were introduced or expanded to force blacks to take jobs working for whites in order to pay those taxes. More dramatically, the Native Lands Act of 1913 prohibited black ownership in all but 7 percent of South Africa's land mass. (These so-called "reserves," increased to 13 percent of the country in 1936, would later provide the basis for the present-day "homeland" system.) White farmers, meanwhile, obtained additional support in the form of massive subsidies for the production and marketing of their crops.This fear of agricultural competition was compounded by demands for cheap, unskilled black labor among both the white farmers and new white mining interests. Following violent protests by white mine workers during the early 1920s, blacks were barred from holding skilled positions in industry. This was achieved both through direct legislation (the various Apprenticeship Acts) and binding agreements between management and white unions (given legal effect through the Industrial Conciliation Act of 1924).Blacks were also precluded from entrepreneurial advancement. The law, first of all, erected formidable thresholds for legal residence in white South Africa, without which one would lack fundamental security of tenure. Secondly, the new Nationalist government prohibited non-white businesses within white urban areas. Finally, a maze of ostensibly non-racial health, registration, and safety regulations in practice precluded the formation of small-scale enterprises.It is not surprising, then, that average black per capita earnings as a proportion of white earnings actually fell between 1925 and 1960, from 24.6 percent to 21.2 percent; there were simply too many restrictions on blacks for them to progress economically. The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 allowed for the creation of independent homelands, and for blacks with ethnic ties to them to cease being South Africans. Thus, when Transkei and Ciskei were granted "independence" respectively in 1976 and 1981 (which no country other than South Africa recognized), all blacks classified by the government as members of the Xhosa tribe were stripped of their South African nationality, no matter where they resided. The Black Labour Regulation of 1953 and the Industrial Conciliation Act of 1956 strengthened prohibitions against blacks organizing their own or racially mixed unions.The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952, instituted comprehensive controls on the movement of black labor by channeling it through government-established homeland labor bureaus. The Native (Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents) Act of 1952 required that blacks carry a pass book (alternatively known as a reference book), indicating employment and residential histories, and allowed police officers to demand production of it at any time.These various interventions generated a bureaucracy frightening in its absolute size. More than 150,000 whites, almost all from an Afrikaner adult work force of under 800,000, worked directly for the central government (one-quarter of them in the direct enforcement of apartheid laws), while tens of thousands more worked for provincial and local authorities, parastatal corporations, and other quasi-government bodies. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa081.html
South Africa During Apartheid
South Africa During ApartheidNaniwa006 min - 29 Jul 2008Anton Lowenberg writes:"South Africa 's apartheid system was enormously costly and ultimately collapsed because the inefficiencies created by apartheid policies escalated as the economy's structure changed. Labor market regulation and industrial decentralization policy inhibited efficient resource utilization, especially as the manufacturing sector became dominant. Apartheid educational policies generated skill shortages. A mercantilistic development strategy distorted trade patterns, exacerbated dependence on foreign capital inflows, and created chronic balance of payments difficulties. The administrative and defense costs of implementing apartheid were onerous and rising. These internal weaknesses enhanced South Africa's vulnerability to capital flight, changes in world prices and business cycle conditions, and political changes abroad. Ultimately, apartheid was abandoned because its costs came to exceed its benefits to white South Africans. The internal dynamics of the system dictated the retrenchment of apartheid, which in all probability would have occurred even without foreign sanctions." Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.Apartheid distorted resource allocation because race, rather than economic criteria, determined where people could live, what job they could hold, and where they could open up a business.Inefficient resource allocation reduced South Africa's material wealth (as seen in diminishing returns to investment) over the long-term. Take the mining industry for example:After gold was found in South Africa's Transvaal province in 1873, mining became the country's chief industry. South African capitalists soon recognized that blacks could do many of the jobs previously done by whites and for much less money. In an efficiency drive, they fired whites and hired blacks instead. Between 1911 and 1922, the number of white miners decreased from 24,746 to 14,207.Discontent among white workers grew. South Africa's capitalists were accused of racial treason. General Ian Smuts, the prime minister at the time, was called a capitalist puppet. He was urged to protect "civilised labour standards" by barring blacks from competing with whites. Smuts held out and white miners, egged on by communist labor unions, instigated the so-called Rand Rebellion of 1922. By the time the government put the rebellion down by violent means, which included artillery shelling and aerial bombardment that flattened parts of South Africa's commercial center of Johannesburg, hundreds of people lay dead.General Barry Hertzog of the opposition Afrikaans National Party played the protectionist card during the 1924 general election. He declared that it was "in the nature of things [that] the fittest would survive, but the fittest was not European. The fittest was the native, who could live more cheaply. Parliament would have to take steps to stop the kind of economic force which was against the European." Hertzog won and formed a coalition government with the socialist Labour Party. In 1926, the national-socialist government barred much of black competition by passing the "Mines and Works Amendment Act." The system of job protectionism or "color bar" would later expand to include social segregation. Apartheid was born.In the long