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" ..... the NRA remains one of Washington’s
most feared lobbies, with an annual budget of more than $200 million and the
ability to reach millions of people through mail, magazines, broadcasts and a
Web-based alert system. "
Picture of damaged ( one arm is broken ) Kogan video sunglasses as they came in a box inside a plastic shipping bag . There was no protective packaging .
A little Right Wing Health Budget cutting in N.S.W. Australia , " We're as mad as hell , and we're not going to take this anymore . " ( From : Network ) . State Government Health Minister ( Jillian Skinner ) please take note . Oh , have you heard about Climate Change ? Better tell your boss .
Bryant drove to Port Arthur, taking the keys to the Seascape properties after locking the doors. Bryant stopped at a car which had pulled over from overheating...
Jump to Port Arthur massacre: Bryant has provided conflicting and confused accounts of what led him to kill 35 people at the Port Arthur site on 28 April...
This 60+ Y.O. W.A.S.P. Registered Republican from Pennsylvania* believes that the President ( and for that matter his Party generally in these Elections ) should be reelected next Tuesday ultimately because I like the way he talks through his reasoning and decision(s) as though you were long time friends .
A few comments :
1. Americans have an implied moral obligation to vote .
2. When you have the nearest person that you are likely to find to Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet in the White House , you keep him there for as long as possible .
3. Teabaggers and the like may think that Bullshit Baffles Brains , F**** Science and Rules the World . Well , I have news for you; a.) It doesn't and b.) half truths and distortions always come back to bite you .
4.Saying "NO" to everything does not work as a long term strategy , it is referred to as being"Obstructionist" .
5. Where and when do you , Dear Visitor , PLAN TO VOTE ON TUESDAY ? ( Assuming that you have not already voted . Please DO NOT follow the English system of voting early and often ! )
* The other half is Australian . Australia is the country I mostly live in , it has a AAA Credit Rating with a positive outlook from all three Credit Rating Agencies and over half of the World's highest Credit Rated Banks . ( The banking system has been strongly regulated for years ** . ) A 5.something % Unemployment Rate . Australia has had universal health care for decades and the country has not gone broke . It also has a much better Federal system of running elections than the U.S.A. , so good that the United Nations has called on Australia to conduct elections in several countries .
I understand that Australian donations to Sandra related charities are now tax deductible , but I would be inclined to check with the charity to confirm this information .
Almost time to VOTE,WHERE and WHEN are you going to do it ? Almost forgot , his name is spelt : OBAMA , initals B.H . .
Today , Australia gained one of the three two year seats on the Security Council of the United Nations .
Why is this so ? OR A few reasons for winning the UN vote ( not counting the 25 million dollars spent by the Government ) .
" Australia was a founding member of the United Nations (UN) in 1945 and has been actively engaged in the organisation since its formation. The UN is seen by the Australian Government as a means to influence events which directly affect Australia's interests but over which they have little unilateral control "
"Australia is the twelfth largest financial contributor to the UN . " ....... From Wikipedia
( From 1988 , Iraq and Afghanistan etc. to be added . The only country to be an ally of the US since WWI . ) This article has been contributed by the Australian War Memorial - written by Matthew Higgins.
Over 100,000 Australians have lost their lives through war. Many more thousands have been wounded, while the number of Australians who have served abroad in wartime is eight to nine times the number who have died.
( A South Korean destroyer fires an anti-submarine torpedo .From Yahoo! News , more pictures are HERE . )
President Obama has recently lifted U.S. interest in South East Asian Defence . Australia is on the Southern boundary of the region . An Australian Defence White Paper is being prepared .
Is Australia thinking of the right hardware ? An example is the submarine project . Should we continue to try to try to build boats with extended range or , say , lease unlimited range Virginia Class boats ?
Have people like Jones so skewed the Refugee Debate as to make a less costly solution involving Indonesia impossible ?
( As this is getting rather long , new material will be put here and then moved down a day or so later )
Another one bites the dust , well Jones was indirectly mentioned in a debate which led to the resignation of the Speaker of the Federal Parliament today , 9 Oct. . In all of the years of observing Parliament , the Question Time was the worst seen . The Prime Minister deserves full credit for her patience with Mr. Abbott . The Opposition's conduct was disgraceful and it's leader got exactly what he deserved , one is reminded of Jeannie C. Riley's song " Harper Valley PTA " . These " wreck the joint " tactics have failed , they better come up with a Plan " B '' and , preferably , a new leader .
Alan , CLICK HERE to find out what happened to you .
After Alan Jones most recent unbalanced , even delusional comments about the Prime Minister of Australia , M/S Julia Gillard . It is time to let radio station 2GB know our feelings about Jones and the decline of standards in Australian political debate . ( See " " United Breaks Guitars " for how Social Media can be used to bring change . Sorry , some images are truncated on the right margin . )
" In a classic case of Goliath imitating David, it's hard to believe Alan Jones's latest tactic in the saga about his offensive comments about the Prime Minister's father. "
" Mr Jones this morning opened his radio show (now advertisement free) with claims
that the movement of Australians calling on advertisers to boycott his program
was about “cyber bullying” and “cyber terrorism”. "
" In this case the effective response to Mr Jones was not regulation … but rather the use by thousands of people of the enhanced freedom afforded them by the social media .... "
Alan Jones' comments about the late John Gillard were cruel and offensive. He should apologise to the PM and her family. ................ Retweeted 1518 times
Here are some useful contact details :
Address: Radio 2GB Level 1, Building C, 33-35 Saunders St Pyrmont NSW 2009, Australia GPO Box 4290 Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia
Phone: (02) 8570 0000 Fax: (02) 8570 0219 Open Line and Talkback: 131 873 (Local Call)
Outside Australia: +61 2 8514 9500
( info@harrispartners.com.au has been removed and should not have been there in the first place , see Email from the Principal at the bottom of this post ** . CLICK HERE for the worldwide online Contact Page for BHP Billiton . )
Email :info@cando.org.au
" CANdo is Australia's independent, grassroots Community Action Network. We say all Australians should have the tools needed to preserve, protect and defend their individual rights, freedom and traditional values! " - They use PayPal to collect money , does this breach www.paypal.com conditions ? )This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We recommend the following in lieu of some of the above :
"Louis IsaacHere's my letter to the advertisers... copy and paste if you don't have time to write one yourself: ( Note - USE YOUR OWN WORDS ! )To Whom it May Concern,
I am writing to inform you of the firestorm currently brewing online over Alan Jones' recent comments about Julia Gillard's father, who, according to Jones "recently died a few weeks ago of shame. To think that he has a daughter who told lies every time she stood for Parliament." Over the last 12 hours or so (Saturday night... usually the least active time on social media) several A Facebook page called "Sack Alan Jones" has reached 1000 "likes", A petition on Change.org has been growing at the rate of around 1000 signatures an hour, and twitter search for "@2GB873" (2GB's twitter handle) will show you the tirade of real time tweets on the issue being sent in. What is interesting about the Twitter comments is that you will see the anger is not just coming from people who wouldn't normally listen to 2GB, but Jones' comments have also offended 2GB's base listenership ( audience ? ) , as well as politicians from both major parties.As advertisers on 2GB and on The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, I hope you will see that associating yourself with Alan Jones during this period reflects badly on your brand and business image. You want your advertising dollars to go as far as possible to make people feel positive about your brand, to associate your brand with the right things, and to digest your message in the way you intend it. For this reason it would be a wise move to spend your money elsewhere and distance yourself from 2GB and Alan Jones at this time.
These numbers may seem small now, but as you are aware social media campaigns grow exponentially from small numbers, and a trickle can be come a torrent quite suddenly. The campaign against Alan Jones has all the hallmarks of what could be quite a powerful social media explosion brewing. It would be wise to distance yourself from Alan Jones at this time.
Kind Regards, "
Alan Belford Jones - Radio Station List
( Tell your local station what you think about their station being involved with Jones . The Register of Radiocommunications Licences - ACMA may be used to locate registration details or use station frequencies e.g. 1503 on Assignment/Frequency range
search . If all else fails , use Google . According to a major protagonist , ABC TV, two stations have " pulled " the lunchtime " Highlights " program . )
2BS AM 1503 Bathurst
2CC AM 1206 Canberra
2CS FM 106.3 Coffs Harbour
2GB AM 873 Sydney
2GN AM 1368 Goulburn
2GZ FM 105.1Orange
2LT AM 900 Lithgow
2MC FM 100.7Port Macquarie
2RG AM 963 Griffith
2WG AM 1152 Wagga Wagga
2XL AM 918 Cooma
3MA FM 97.9 Mildura
4AM AM 558 Mareeba
4CA AM 846 Cairns
4GC AM 828 Charters Towers
4K1G FM 107.1 Townsville/ Cape York/Gulf of Carpentaria
( " Alan Jones's struggle with his sexuality has defined much of his hidden private life and successful public persona. In an explosive new book, Chris Masters charts a crowded life full of contradictions. " )
(" SPONSORS of the Sydney radio station part-owned by Alan Jones have been inundated with thousands of complaints about the talkback king's comments on the death of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's father. " )
Some sponsors that have said they will no longer advertise with Jones and some are no longer using 2GB . There is an ongoing need to monitor 2GB advertisers . It is difficult to source this information , E&O excepted :
Mercedes-Benz , Freedom Furniture ( From : ABC TV )
Coles, Dilmah, ING Direct, Telstra, Lexus Parramatta, Lite 'n Easy, Commonwealth Bank Women In Focus, Bing Lee ( From : Destroy the Joint . )
Woolworths, Mercedes-Benz,
Challenger and Fantastic
Furniture ( From : Nic Lochner via Change.org Email . )
I understand that Simon Berger, your Government Relations Manager, provided the chaff bag for auction at the Young Liberals dinner attended by Alan Jones. ... ...I won't pretend that I do all my family's grocery shopping at Woolworths. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I shop at Coles or Aldi. Depends where I am and what I want. ...
But I can tell you that until you sack Simon Berger, you will not be getting another cent of my family's money. I'd rather we went hungry than support a company that employs such a man.
No doubt there are some who think that it's amusing to make jokes about killing our Prime Minister. And I suppose that there are some who support the misogyny and violent language of Alan Jones, even as the country is mourning the death of a woman who just suffered the ultimate fate of violence against women. Me? No, I don't think it's funny. I think it is profoundly unfunny that your Government Relations Manager should make a joke out it. I think it is profoundly unfunny that you continue to employ him.
You ought to be ashamed of him. And you ought to sack him.
Thanks for
signing my petition, "2GB and Associated Advertisers on Alan Jones' Radio
Program: Immediately terminate the contract and cease association with Alan
Jones.."
Winning this campaign is now in your hands. We need to reach
out to as many friends as we can to grow this campaign and win.
Don't just be a
signer — be an organizer. Turn your signature into hundreds more by asking your
friends to sign. Then they'll ask their friends. That's how we win. "
( Picture: Nikki Short Source: The Daily Telegraph )
1. " It wasn't me . " 2. " What me worry ? " ( Apologies to Alfred E. Newman . ) 3. " Oh Lord , Oh Lord , I've been caught ! " ( Apologies to Rev. Jerry Falwell . )
( Popup from Yahoo Site - " Should Alan Jones be sacked over comments about Julia Gillard's father?
Thanks for your Email.
In order to set the record straight, we do not advertise with Alan Jones. I am perplexed as to how or why Harris Partners Real Estate were added to the petition that is now doing the rounds.
Both my wife and I felt Alan Jones' "shame" comments in relation to Prime Minister Julia Gilliard's father John Gilliard passing away, were disgraceful and offensive.
Harris Partners does pay to advertise on Ross Greenwood's 2GB Money News programme from time to time. It is non-political and in line with our target audience.
Any Harris Partners ads that may have run during Alan Jones' programme were unpaid advertisements. Other than the complaint emails I received from telling me that we advertise on Alan Jones' programme, I was totally unaware that we were ever featured on Jones' show.
If you get the chance to forward this email to the person that associated us with Alan Jones and added us to the petition mail-out, I would be grateful.
Thank you for your reply . There is what I would call a Rainbow
Coalition of individuals , a Facebook Page and a Twitter Page . At present , I
do not know what has happened today . A typical social media situation
.
I will see what I can do to let " them " know what you have said ,
I think what has happened is that the net was cast fairly wide to include anyone
who may have advertised with 2GB , one Reporter stated that Jones has a
financial interest in the station . Part of the confusion has come about because
2GB has removed it's Advertiser List from their website . There are still
advertisements on the site and I assume on air for organisations etc. not on the
" List " that I have seen . I assume that as you are in the real estate industry
, you would know about " ad-words " ( paid keyword search terms ) . 2GB appears
to be using ad-words and advertisers could be unaware that their ads are on the
site . The ads may be rotated on page load .
I suspect that one or more of the above factors are involved with
Harris Partners being added to the list being circulated . I will see what I can
do to correct the record , but I am only one of thousands ( Mr Jones has upset a
lot of people over the years . ) I take it that you are happy to have your Email
published .
Thank you for your comments. We would like to communicate that
Grace Removals currently has no commercial relationship with the Alan
Jones programme and does not condone his recent comments.
" The Macquarie Radio Network has suspended all advertising on Alan Jones's 2GB
show, as the fallout from comments he made about the Prime Minister's late
father continues. "
NOTE : The Macquarie name here is not that of the respected Colonial Governor of NSW or the University but , I suspect , Macquarie Group Limited .
I also suspect that the word "suspended " is used to allow the reinstatement of advertising after the dust settles . We must not let this happen .
" She says it is too hard to predict what will happens next, but says Macquarie's move shows the increasing power of social media."
" They're banking on the fact that social media scandals have a very short shelf life," she said. "
" They come in a wave and they die down again. When it all dies down they are assuming that most of the advertisers will come back and they will get more listeners perhaps and that everything will go on as before. "
" However, I think that's the most likely outcome in, say, three months' time. "
From :
( 7 Oct ) See below for an update from Nic Lochner on the petition you signed called
"2GB and Advertisers: Immediately cease association with Alan Jones over "died
of shame" comment"
All
advertising on Alan Jones' show has just been suspended. 2GB's owners
released a statement this afternoon saying they're calling a "timeout" -- urging
advertisers to "regroup" and consider returning to Jones.
Commentators
are saying the response is "unprecedented". In just a week, 100,000 of you have
spoken out about Jones' disgusting comments -- and it's forced more than 70 of
Australia's biggest brands to withdraw financial support of Jones.
But
instead of addressing Jones' repeated hateful and bullying episodes, 2GB are
trying to make the controversy blow over quickly.
Can you help
keep the momentum going by sharing the petition on Facebook, or Twitter --
or by spreading this link change.org/alanjones across social media?
Our campaign
has always been about demanding a basic level of decency and humanity from our
public figures. Something Jones has never shown. Yet 2GB's owners say we're
trying to "destroy great Australian businesses" simply by holding companies to
account for funding Jones' hate speech.
2GB hope their
announcement today does enough to brush over Jones' repeated bullying, and
convinces companies to return to Jones.
As a
just-published opinion
piece said: this is the rise of decent Australia saying
enough is enough. Let's keep it up!
Over to Media Watch which finally raised the issue of privacy and , for the record : " When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule , participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. " http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/ . ( 8 Oct. )
I take it this Alan Jones the Aussies are tweeting about is NOT the former racing driver? - NO , definitely NOT Alan Stanley Jones MBE OR Alan Jones Auctioneers ( A new vocation ? ) !
This page is about Alan Belford Jones AO (born 13 April 1941 (some sources also claim 1942 or 1943)) .
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A similar supply with cover .
Rear view of similar cover .
Missing line cord plug for power input socket ( beside rectifier tube / valve . )
