ARTICLE.1
Crisis in the sex trade.
Rogue operators use dirty tricks.
QUEENSLAND is set to return to the bad old days if charges are not made to the Prostitution Act, an industry body has warned. Debbie Nielson, president of the Queensland Adult Business Association, which represents the state’s licensed brothel operators, said it was impossible to compete with Queensland’s massive underground sex industry.
She put the ration of illegal operators to licensed premises at 100 to one. “They get raided, they get closed down, and they’re up and running [on their back] again the next week,” Ms Neilson said. “The police are trying but they’re terribly under-resourced.”
She said flaws in the 1999 Prostitution Act were allowing illegal operators to flourish while licensed brothels were going broke. Among the changes proposed by QABA was a relaxation of advertising regulations that prevented brothels from advertising for staff in the Yellow Pages yet allowed single escorts to use provocative language and images?
“You’ve got illegal single operators allowed to advertise using words like ‘luscious, all the same but mines the best’ and so on...words we can’t use and wouldn’t use anyway.” Mr. Neilson said.
“Another problem is we’re only allowed a maximum of five service providers. It’s not fair on the girls – when we get busy, you can imagine, they’re just exhausted.” No energy moves with their little butts. What is new?
Ms Neilson said QABA members supported tough legislation. “But it’s about laving a level playing field” Yes a level field for hookers.
Ms Neilson said Brisbane’s first legal brothel. Purely Blue in near City Bowen Hills, was also the first in the world to be quality-assured. She called on Police Minister Tony McGrady to consult with QABA.
She said the Minister had not responded to QABA’s yearlong phone and mail campaign.
“The legislation was framed in the first instance to legitimize and get some control in the industry. We just want to be consulted.”
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I use hotmail and finish up with approximately 147 unwelcome pornographic sites every second day, which takes about 1-½ hours to clear out. Was so saturated with stress, went for a cruise, and stopped at a watering hole.
The floating barmaid asked for my order. I sat for about 1 hour stressed out once again as the female who took the order was only wearing a g-string. Went to visit a further watering hole and again ordered, and this female barmaid was not wearing anything. Gave the impression of being a statue, floating with poetry in motion. After further stress, I returned and there was the Avon person in shorts & mid-riff. Only conclusion?
In New Zealand, the barmaids sure to be arrested being a sick-minded country. The government would send troops to war if they can find them in the scrub. May even be presented with a medal for killing people that have done nothing to them. In an Arab country these woman would be taken out into a park and shot through the back of the head etc, which I have a video of one such incident in Afghanistan.
http://www.raga.org http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/15/12033/1702 ARTICLE.2
Huge increase in police phone taps.
The Australian figures include interceptions by the National Crime Authority, the Australian Federal Police and state policing agencies, but exclude ASIO. The US figure includes federal and state law enforcement agencies and some FBI taps.
However despite the greater reliance on phone taps, it seems Australian, authorities have had less success with solving crimes.
Figures also show that in 2000-2001 Australian agencies made 1033 arrests and obtained 623 convictions, while US authorities made 3683 arrests with 732 convictions.
Labor has blamed the proliferation in phone tapping on a decision, which took effect in 1999, giving members of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal the power to issue warrants. Previously, they had to be approved by a judge, which is still the case in the US.
"This has meant [there is] a bigger pool of people ready 24 hours a day, signing off warrants, and [they're] signing off virtually automatically," a spokesman for Mr Melham said.
Only seven applications were refused over the year.
A spokeswoman for the Attorney-General, Daryl Williams, said yesterday that she was unable to confirm the US figures.
She said, "we don't think such figures or figures from any other jurisdiction provide a useful or reliable comparison [of] the use of telecommunications interception warrants.”
The spokeswoman said the Australian figures reflected the "increasing sophistication of criminals and their use of new technology.”
"[Telecommunications interception] warrants have proven to be an effective tool and are only used when investigating offences carrying a penalty of seven years or more," she said.
"We have a federal ombudsman with oversight responsibility in this area and each state is required to have their own ombudsman as a precondition to the use of [interception] warrants."
However, Labor criticised the ability of the federal ombudsman's office to oversee phone-tapping operations.
Mr Melham's spokesman said there had been an "enormous surge in this highly intrusive intelligence collection,” which the ombudsman had not caught up with...
ARTICLE.3
Bomber pilots on kill charge.
The US Air Force has charged two pilots with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault after four Canadian soldiers were killed and eight wounded when bombed in Afghanistan.
The Canadians were on night training on April 17 when Major Harry Schmidt launched a 225kg bomb from his F-16 plane. He told investigators he thought he was firing on hostile forces. Who are the hostile forces?
Well known, when the British bomb, the other side ducks, when the Americans bomb, everyone should duck. There was no problem over the 70 persons that were murdered by bombing at a wedding in Afghanistan.
The Palestine solution: All the Palestinians should be moved to other Arab countries. For years, I have viewed on TV that the peace talks on again, off again until it has become quite sickening. Arafat should have been placed on a slab years ago. The fact is the Israeli tanks could go out for a Sunday style drive and the Palestinians did not have the appropriate rocket launchers to disable the invading tanks clearly shows Arafat and his cohorts for what they really are.
America and Britain has already stated their war against Iraq by disabling Iraq’s air defences radar insulations near the no-fly zone. The question that needs answering is George W Bush mentally stable.
If the one-sided battle officially starts, Suddam should hit Israel with everything.
If Suddam capitulates Arab [cunning] and allows inspectors back in, he will still be around. What will be, the new given reason to remove him? Thought only two aircraft hit the towers, but over the last twelve months, have witnessed about four hundred. The passengers on those flights were technically cowards, and the towers were rubbish built. This TV hate style propaganda has gone on long enough.
George W Bush [an unmitigated liar] was to eliminate poppy growing in Afghanistan. Get rid of the warlords. In fact, poppy growing is on the increase since September 11th.
16/09/02 8:49:54AM
Bush to seek 'go' for strike within two days.
by Viktor. • Wednesday September 18, 2002 at 03:45 PM
We want to control the Middle East. Bush says the US and its arse-lickers will screw you A-rabs into the sand. My corrupt daddy could not, but I shall.
September 19 2002.
President George W Bush said today that he would go to US lawmakers with a resolution against Iraq in the next 48 hours, even as the UN Security Council remained deeply divided over how to confront the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The US president called Saddam "more and more a threat to world peace,” after being caught flatfooted by Iraq's surprise offer earlier this week to unconditionally allow UN arms inspectors to return after a four-year stand-off.
Bush has scorned the Iraqi offer as a ploy, while Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned the US Congress that Iraq posed the most "immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world.”
Rumsfeld's testimony to the US House Armed Services Committee marked the opening salvo in what is expected to be a US campaign for a UN resolution authorising use of force against Iraq.
Iraq and the UN, meanwhile, were to continue talks in Vienna in October on the terms allowing arms inspectors to ensure Iraq is not developing weapons of mass destruction, in violation of the 1991-ceasefire accords, which ended the Gulf War.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair appealed to big powers to "keep up the pressure" on Iraq to ensure Saddam Hussein makes good on his pledge to allow the weapons experts to pursue the disarmament effort.
"It's the pressure that has brought him (Saddam) to this position," Blair said.
Britain has been as scornful of Saddam as Bush, even after Monday's offer, while the other three permanent members of the Security Council - China, France, and Russia, want Baghdad to be given a chance.
"This is an important moment for our country and for the international community to work together," Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who heads the opposition Democrats, told reporters after meeting with Bush.
The legislators face a race against the clock to hurry through a resolution before they adjourn in October to campaign for Congressional elections in November. Democrats had earlier warned it could take a long time before Congress would act.
The White House has repeatedly insisted the president has not decided whether to go to war against Saddam, and today it was still unclear how the resolution would be worded.
Washington has met Baghdad's offer on the inspectors with scorn, steadfastly sticking to its goal to remove Saddam Hussein from power in its next step in the self-declared "war on terrorism.”
"It's his latest ploy, his latest attempt not to be held accountable for defying the United Nations," Bush told reporters. "He's not going to fool anybody. We've seen him before."
"We'll remind the world that, by defying resolutions, he's become more and more of a threat to world peace."
The world "must rise up and deal with this threat, and that's what we expect the Security Council to do," the president said of the need for a strict new UN resolution.
Bush's tough stance was boosted by a new opinion poll. The CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey showed that 93 per cent of respondents believed the United Nations should pass a resolution imposing a deadline on Iraq to submit to weapons inspections or face grave consequences.
Rumsfeld reeled off a list of past Iraqi aggression, and said, "What has not changed is Iraq's drive to acquire those weapons of mass destruction, and the fact that every approach that the United Nations has taken to stop Iraq's drive has failed.
"This is a critical moment for our country and for the world. Our resolve is being put to the test. It is a test unfortunately the world's free nations have failed before in recent history with unfortunate consequences," he said.
As Rumsfeld was beginning his statement, two protesters briefly disrupted the session chanting "inspections, not war" before they were led from the room.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri called on close ally Russia to "intervene" to prevent the adoption by the UN of a US-sponsored resolution on arms inspections in Iraq.
"Iraq wishes to see Russia and all other countries... intervene to deprive the United States of the international cover it is seeking for its aggression" against Iraq, he said.
Former UN weapons inspector, Australian Richard Butler, echoed some of Washington's scepticism today.
"'Come back to the country without conditions' sounds good, but what we really needed to hear (was that) you can inspect without conditions," said Butler, who headed the team that was pulled out in 1998 shortly before intensive US and British bombing of Iraq, whom they accused of failing to cooperate with the UN teams.
Pope John Paul II stepped into the fray, hailed the “goodwill” of Saddam, and urged world leaders to listen to the Iraqi leader.
"I urge you to continue to pray to the Saviour to enlighten the leaders of nations, to support demonstrations of goodwill and lead humanity, already afflicted by so much pain, to relations free of war and violence," he said Wednesday at the Vatican.
In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a vehement opponent of unilateral or UN-authorised strikes on Iraq, said military action was now unnecessary given the Iraqi offer.
"We must seize the opportunity. Falling back on the old positions will not help now," Schroeder told the daily General Anzeiger, in its edition to appear Thursday.
Asked if a military strike on Iraq was now "superfluous," he agreed. "That is correct."
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was meeting for the second time this week with Sabri as the top UN arms inspector prepared to brief the Security Council on practical aspects of restarting work in Iraq.
The chief UN arms inspector, Hans Blix, was to go to the Council on Thursday to speak on the practical arrangements for taking up the Iraqi offer.
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