Australian politics with GDL

The Australian Labor Party in or out of crisis ?

Filed under Uncategorized by georgydelamare on 22-03-2013

Analysis of GDL
The Labor Party was in damage control during the whole of Thursday 21t March 2013. Never had the party been in so much turmoil.
The crisis was the consequence of the party trailing badly in the polls since the last elections. The Labor party hanged on to power with the help of the Greens and the Independents, and since then has been struggling as a minority government.
A series of blunders and failed promises caused many voters to turn their back on labor. Then came the leadership issue with Kevin Rudd and his supporters wanting to take their revenge using the same method that Julia Gillard used.
If both Julia and Kevin faced the same circumstances, i.e the bad polls, the difference is that Kevin Rudd never had the numbers to top up Julia. Twice he failed and would not give it a third go. He was wise in not challenging because that would have put him in a ridiculous position.
By not challenging he disappointed many of his supporters, who firmly believe that Labor cannot win the oncoming elections with Julia as leader, but that with Kevin they a least have a chance.
The failed coup mounted by Simon Crean resulted in collateral damages with many of the Rudd supporters resigning from their positions. It is now left for Julia not only to reshuffle his cabinet,  on but to put on the front bench the best talents who will give a new image to the government. It must be  the best front runners for the looming electoral battle of 14 September.                                       Was this crisis a blessing in disguise ? Yes as it allowed Julia's government to rethink the way it was operating, be more engaged with the electorate, stop doing blunders, getting into controversies,( the latest one being the reform media laws) and start doing the right thing by the people of Australia.
It's time for the Labor party to rethink and redesign effective strategies of how they can win the next elections. If for many it is an uphill battle or its is too late, at least they can minimise the damage and not face oblivion at the next elections.
Six more months to go, to confirm whether the Coalition has already won the war or that they only won some battles.
GDL.

Cancer can be prevented

LATEST CANCER INFORMATION
from Johns Hopkins

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY S...TARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY …


1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.


11. An effective way to battle cancer is to STARVE the cancer cells by not feeding it with foods it needs to multiple.

What cancer cells feed on:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Note: Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.


b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells will starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes t o nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water--best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines will become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.

Anger, unforgiving and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

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45 years of independece, what's next ?

45 years since independence, what's next ?

More corruption than progress since 1968.

In 1968 Mauritius became an independent and sovereign country.
The first government was a Coalition of Labour/CAM and IFB led by the one eye man
Sir S. Ramgoolam.
From 1968 to 1972 the country was drifting into chaos and economic instability. The new government was finding it hard to gear the country to the right direction. The government was full of
corrupt-minded ministers who were more concerned about filling their pockets instead of filling
stomachs of the increasing impoverished population.
The economic situation was not good but the government was spending beyond its means to
satisfy only a section of the population. New elections were to be held five years after independence
but as SSR received intelligence information that his government would be booted out of government, he made an alliance with his arch rival Gaetan Duval of the PMSD and postponed the general elections. If this was was not a coup d'etat it looks very much like one as the citizens were deprived of the democratic rights.
During the period of 1971 to 1976 the Labour/PMSD government rule was a dictatorship. The press was censored, opposition politicians put in prison, the right to strike was quashed and a curfew was established, with guards chasing people in the streets after six at night.
In 1976 the opposition party won the elections obtaining a majority of seats. But again Labour and the PMSD managed to govern by buying the rats (transfuges).
With an official opposition, the MMM, in parliament, the fragile government was under much pressure and finally completely lost the plot. Poverty and corruption were rampant. Big social unrest caraterised this era.Mauritius had suffered badly under the government led by SSR. These were the dark years of Mauritian politics and hard times for the population. It was a consequence of a government who had no vision and no competence and did not understand economic management.
In 1982 the population of Mauritius voted overwhelmingly against the corrupt and incompetent government of SSR. None of the candidates of the government was elected.

Forty-five years later the son of SSR, Navin and the Labour party are back in charge. The "new" labour party has been in power since 2005 follwing some unnatural alliances with the MSM and the PMSD. Since 2005, the country has witnessed a repetition of the period of 1968-1982: the same economic mismanagement, the same amateurism, cronyism, corruptions, nepotism, scandals of all sorts. Many analysts are saying that the new leader could not get rid of the old party's culture and he is just a mirror of the old one. The labour culture....as if the natural has come back as the french put it
" Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop."
If time has changed, the Labour party of Mauritius and the Ramgoolams have not changed.
Cry beloved country, cry...
GDL.

Ingerence de L'Inde dans la politique interieure de L'Ile maurice

Inde et L'ile Maurice : Geopolitique

Par:-semi-intellectuel Mar 11, 2013

On se doutait que l’Inde s’ingérait dans la politique locale depuis longtemps pour soutenir le(s) parti(s) qu’elle estime être proche(s) de ses préoccupations géo-politiques. Un journal indien réputé, en l’occurrence The Hindu, est venu maintenant apporter la preuve de cette ingérence en évoquant un plan d’intervention militaire de l’Inde à Maurice en 1983 pour maintenir au pouvoir un Premier ministre d’origine indienne. En 1982, le Premier ministre de l’Inde Indira Gandhi avait accueilli l’avènement d’un gouvernement de gauche MMM-PSM parce qu’elle jugeait la politique étrangère de Maurice sous le régime travailliste trop proche de l’Occident. C’était l’époque de la guerre froide où l’Inde se faisait le champion du mouvement des pays non-alignés tout en soutenant les partis progressistes dans le monde. Après la cassure du gouvernement MMM-PSM en 1983, laquelle provoqua une polarisation ethnique suite aux divergences entre Bérenger et le tandem SAJ-Boodhoo, l’Inde devait prendre parti pour le MSM nouvellement formé . On savait alors que le haut commissaire indien à Maurice était de mèche avec la Bande des Quatre qui jouait aux apprentis-sorciers dans le giron du pouvoir. Récemment, le ministre des Affaires étrangères A. Boolell a révélé que le Premier ministre indien Rajiv Gandhi, lors d’une visite à Maurice en 1987, avait usé de son influence pour amener Sir Satcam Boolell, leader du Parti travailliste d’alors, à réintégrer le gouvernement MSM après sa révocation peu auparavant par SAJ pour cause de divergence. Tout cela confirme l’intérêt que l’Inde porte à la politique locale depuis toujours. Cependant, on aurait tort de croire que cet intérêt se limite au cadre étroit du « pouvoir » à Maurice comme si les Indiens se souciaient beaucoup du sort des mauriciens de souche indienne. Si le sort de la diaspora indienne dans le monde était le souci majeur de l’Inde, elle serait intervenue aux îles Fidji en mai 2000 pour défendre le gouvernement, élu démocratiquement, de Mahen Chaudry qui fut renversé par un coup d’Etat militaire. Elle serait intervenue en Guyane britannique, d’abord en 1953 pour défendre Cheddi Jagan du People’s Progressive Party (PPP) qui fut délogé du pouvoir par les Anglais, ensuite, en 1964 lorsque le PPP fut exclu du pouvoir de nouveau par le People’s National Congress de Forbes Burnham avec l’aide des Etats Unis et de la Grande Bretagne. Autant dire que l’Inde ne s’intéresse aux gouvernements d’outre-mer dirigés par des hindous que dans la mesure où ils peuvent faire avancer ses intérêts géo-politiques. L’intérêt indien à la politique mauricienne est lié aux ambitions de puissance régionale de l’Inde. Par pragmatisme politique, l’Inde s’accommodera de tout gouvernement mauricien aussi longtemps que celui-ci sert ses intérêts. Entourée par la Chine (dont les visées expansionnistes dans le monde sont connues) et le Pakistan (qui est en état de « ni guerre ni paix » avec son voisin indien), l’Inde est en proie au complexe d’encerclement qui le pousse à chercher des alliés en dehors de l’Asie. Pour faire pièce à la stratégie d’expansion de la Chine, dont les bases économiques et commerciales se multiplient en Asie et en Afrique (y compris à Maurice avec les 500 arpents de terre alloués à Riche Terre à Jin Fei pour la création d’une zone économique exclusive), l’Inde veut avoir accès à des territoires outre-mer pour y établir des bases commerciales ou militaires. Sous ce rapport, les informations relatives à une éventuelle cession de l’île Agalega à l’Inde ne sont pas dénuées de tout fondement. Il est même probable que Maurice cède cette île à l’Inde en contrepartie du maintien de l’accord de double imposition fiscale entre les deux pays, lequel permet le développement du centre offshore mauricien malgré les accusations d’évasion fiscale que le gouvernement indien fait peser de temps à autre sur le secteur offshore à Maurice. L’Inde serait disposée à payer le prix de l’évasion fiscale des sociétés indiennes enregistrées à Maurice en échange de l’accès à une partie du territoire mauricien. Une éventuelle exploitation d’Agalega par l’Inde serait présentée comme un partenariat économique. Or, personne n’est dupe. Comme dans le cas des terres cédées à Jin Fei, il s’agirait d’une cession de territoire à des fins inavouables.

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I will make an assessment of the Prime Miniter's tour in western Sydney.

News:
Pensioners will receive an extra $35 a fortnight later this month when payments are
adjusted for inflation .

The increase will apply to people receiving the age pension, disability pension and carer payment as well as veterans' income.

This will affect 1.2 million people in NSw and 900,000 in Victoria.

GDL.

Australian politics

When Julia goes west by GDL

The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will as from today (Sunday 3/3/2013) be living in western Sydney for a week. The PM wants to be closer to the people of western Sydney so that she can understand better why whey are so vexed against the government.
Western Sydney is house to close to two million people. Most of them were born overseas or a recent migrant. They are religious and have children. Most of them have a mortgage or live in rental houses. Most of them have jobs in administration, retail, hospitality, in hospitals or schools or drive a truck. A good percentage are blue collar workers. The migrants there are more educated than the Australian born. The middle band is better educated with a high proportion of bachelor's or higher degree than the national average. There are also many professionals living in western Sydney. Muslim accounts of 16 percent of the 1.66 million voters.
The Labor holds party 12 seats in western Sydney from the last elections. According to some polls, the labor government is likely to lose them all at the forthcoming elections. There is antipathy to Labor because of the carbon tax, the high cost of electricity and cost of living in general, the dense traffic and the lack of infrastructure and worried about the influx of boat people.
Western Sydney is the growing economic zone and many business have settled in those areas. It is also where houses are still affordable and so a fast growing residential area.
According to some analyst, western Sydney could determine which party wins government at the next elections. This is probably why this part of Sydney is attracting so much attention form the government and the opposition.
So the PM will be campaigning for five days in western Sydney, meeting the people , discussing with them and try to understand their frustration and anger. She will stay at the Novotel at the Rooty Hill RSL and so avoid travelling everyday from Kiribilli House in North Sydney to the west. This is an acknowledgement that the traffic to the west is a real problem.
During her stay in western Sydney, there will also be a cabinet meeting after which the ministers will answer questions from the public.
Julia's journey to the west starts today and interesting to see the results after five days of campaigning, sorry governing.
GDL.