Sunday, October 26, 2008

Debate and Discussion

Debate and Discussion



Debate/discussion is for enlightenment and stimulation, advancing an idea and friendship, means of conflict resolution and bringing peace. Intelligence and integrity are desired elements in a discussion or debate; articulation or a good sense of humor simply ads the flavor.



Branding or tagging opponents, shouting someone down, hollow threats of unspecified action … defeats the intent and purpose of debate. Historically and logically the wicked party avoids debate and brings in the dirty tricks.

Victory to FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Victory to debate and discussion.

Abridged from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeamericanow/message/603

Monday, September 8, 2008

Jihad to Bolidan


Jihad, crusade, and bolidan carry same weight, meaning and intention in Islam, Christianity and Hindu religions respectively. The application or misuse of jihad, crusade, and bolidan can be traced thorough out history. However jihad is the most feared word in our century! Do we know why?
To protect one’s family and country one can fight and die honorably according to the principle and procedure of jihad, crusade, and bolidan. However no one is allowed to use jihad, crusade, and bolidan to rob or rape anyone and invade/pillage other people's countries. For example, the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq is not a crusade. Similarly, invasion of Afghanistan based on the corporate American pipeline dream is not a crusade too.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Gutless Americans and Kisan of Mukto Mona

Gutless Americans and Kisan of Mukto Mona



The gutless “kisan” of so called “Mukto-Mona” is not only an alleged child molester! This person is also a Zionised hypocrite and deliberately polluting our group for a long time with blatant and false anti-Muslim and anti-Arab filths. This shameless creepy crawly should be volunteering to the nearest gas chamber as it is long overdue.

Gutless kisan is silent about
How the hell the American Terrorists gained the right to terrorise Iran or anyone for that matter? or Israeli slaves Nuclear Terrorism!

The Enemy of Mankind is Israel, Why do we have to suffer for Zionist Israel?, Why the hell we are tolerating this terrorist state? and We Got the Right to Punish Israel; the article below supports the fact that the whole world earned the right to eliminate this terrorist state called Israel. They are a threat to world peace and enemy of mankind.
6:10pm on ABC Local Radio.
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2291334.htm

Amazing: PATRICIA MCNERNEY: You know, I think in terms of the Israel question we certainly have not seen any indication that Israel is ready to introduce nuclear weapons as a weapon into the region.

This is a transcript from PM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 5:10p
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2291334.htm

US State Department representative speaks on nuclear weapons
PM - Tuesday, 1 July , 2008 18:24:00
Reporter: Mark Colvin
MARK COLVIN: The thaw in North Korea's relations with the rest of the world had its most visible expression a few days ago, with TV pictures of the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear power plant being blown up.

But that was just another stage in a process that began towards the end of last year, in which the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program achieved a breakthrough.

The North Koreans agreed then to allow a six person US team to go in and observe the shutdown of the plant. In return, North Korea gets 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.

The US is denying flatly that the arrival of a big consignment of emergency food in North Korea on Sunday is part of the same trade-off.

Patricia McNerney is Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Non-Proliferation with the US State Department.

She told me today the US team was still at Yongbyon, and the shutdown was being verified.

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: Yeah, the team has been there basically overseeing and in some ways directing the disablement actions.

All the work is being done by North Koreans on the ground that are actually carrying out the disablement actions, but we've got some experts from our Department of Energy as well as our State Department giving guidance, giving ideas, basically making sure it's done according to the agreed implementation plan to do these disablement actions.

MARK COLVIN: So how sure are you then that it's all being done? I mean has it been completely transparent?

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: It has been completely transparent, and in fact our experts are there watching the whole program.

And my bureau basically has the source of the funding for all of this activity. And we have a manager who's also in Pyongyang who is also coordinating with the North Korean authorities and making sure that we're doing it all as we agreed and as we've laid out.

MARK COLVIN: But John Bolton who used to be the top East Asia diplomat for the US and who is now sniping from the sidelines says that you've had the wool pulled over your eyes, and that the North Koreans, for instance, the cooling … they could do it without a cooling tower if they're prepared to pollute the environment enough.

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: Yeah, John Bolton who used to be the Under Secretary of State actually and a former boss of mine has been critical of this agreement.

He, I think he's rightly, is sceptical of North Korean intentions, but in fact our own Secretary last week in her speech in Washington, as well as our President said, "Look, this is all about verifying. We're not going to just take the word of the North Koreans."

We've got agreements, we're implementing them. The next step is to put in place a serious verification regime, and that verification regime is our ability to make sure that what they say and what they promise are in fact what is carried out.

MARK COLVIN: The other really big non-proliferation hot spot of course is the Middle East. Seymour Hersh, the investigative journalist has a piece in the latest New Yorker, which suggests that the Bush administration has just diverted quite a large sum of money to intelligence on Iran's nuclear program and to operations inside Iran.

Do you have any comment on that?

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: Yeah, you know, I've never seen a writer get it wrong so many times and still get credence every time he writes something. Our ambassador in Iraq was very clear in his statements and he called them completely incorrect and not accurate. So let our ambassador speak for the United States on that.

MARK COLVIN: So what is the United States' position at the moment on Iran's nuclear program?

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: The United States' is working through the so-called P5+1 process, working together to push the Iranians to reassess their decision to pursue a nuclear program through the UN Security Council. We have outlined a number of sanctions, measures, that are binding in all states.

And we've also said that we're going to stop those sanctions if Iran ceases its enrichment reprocessing activities. And additionally we've created a package of incentives that were Iran to cease its enrichment and reprocessing activities, we are prepared to negotiate a number of benefits that flow from that package, including even development of civil and nuclear energy cooperation in a way that obviously is not proliferation sensitive.

MARK COLVIN: Meantime, though, there's a constant drumbeat particularly from Israel saying you've got very little time to do anything about this and that Iran may be a year, two years, three years away from a nuclear weapon and that the suggestion is that the Israelis may do something about it.

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: Obviously, Israel sees Iran as the existential threat, will obviously look at its own strategic interest. Our national intelligence estimate says the worst case scenario is 2009, but more likely the development of the fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon would occur into the next decade.

So there is some time to make diplomacy work, not a lot of time, and we are committed to work through the diplomatic path. A mix of sanctions, of pressure, a collaboration with our partners.

Not only in the P5+1, but also in the Gulf region as well as working closely here in Asia. Many of the supplies and the (inaudible) items that are getting to Iran for these programs have a source here.

MARK COLVIN: Whenever we look at this subject on this program, I get emails and letters from people saying, "Well, Israel's got the nuclear bomb. Why is there not similar outrage about that? Because they're outside the non-proliferation treaty too."

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: Well Iran is a member of the non-proliferation treaty. They ratified it, they committed to implement it, and we believe they are acting in contravention to that binding legal commitment that they took. And so, this process…

MARK COLVIN: That really doesn't answer the question about Israel though, does it?

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: You know, I think in terms of the Israel question we certainly have not seen any indication that Israel is ready to introduce nuclear weapons as a weapon into the region.

MARK COLVIN: What do you mean?

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: And they have always indicated as a better policy that is not … that they will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the region.

MARK COLVIN: You mean no first strike? I mean that doesn't say they haven't got them?

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: You know I sort of don't want to articulate their policy, that's something that they've done.

MARK COLVIN: So the US doesn't believe Israel has a nuclear weapon?

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: I really wouldn't want to characterise what the US calculations, our assessments are on that point.

My major point would be that Iran is pursuing its nuclear weapons in contravention to its legal commitments. Iran is also a deep, stabilised force in the region.

MARK COLVIN: What I'm asking you, that the people write in and they say, "Why get so worried about Iran's nuclear weapons, when everybody knows that Israel has the nuclear weapon?"

PATRICIA MCNERNEY: I think we all need to be worried about Iran. It's a destabilising influence in the region. It's supplying arms, not only to Iraqi insurgents, but even to its sworn enemy, the Taliban. It is supplying support to Hezbollah, it is supporting actions on the part of Syria.

So it is having a larger destabilising influence in the region. It is also has the potential for the nuclear cascade. If you look at countries in the Gulf states, they look to Iran and were Iran to acquire the nuclear weapons capability, the potential for further acquisition of nuclear weapons capabilities in that region would certainly augment in the view of many who have assessed that region.

MARK COLVIN: Patricia McNerney, Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Non-Proliferation with the US State Department.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

The Enemy of Mankind is Israel

The Enemy of Mankind is Israel


Further to Why do we have to suffer for Zionist Israel?, Why the hell we are tolerating this terrorist state? and We Got the Right to Punish Israel; the article below supports the fact that the whole world earned the right to eliminate this terrorist state called Israel. They are a threat to world peace and enemy of mankind.

AP
Tuesday July 1, 11:46 am ET By Adam Schreck, AP Business Writer


Oil climbs above $142 a barrel on concerns about tight global supplies, Mideast conflict



NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices pushed back above $142 a barrel Tuesday on worries about tight supply and possible armed conflict between Iran and Israel. In the U.S., gasoline edged to a new record high.

Prices resumed their advance as the International Energy Agency issued a report cautioning that worldwide crude supplies are unlikely to ease despite record prices and falling demand in industrialized countries. The world is experiencing "the third oil price shock," the head of the Paris-based body said, comparing the effects of today's pricey petroleum to times of soaring prices in the 1970s and 1980s.

OPEC production is at record highs and non-OPEC producers are working at full throttle, but stocks show no unusual build," IEA chief Nobuo Tanaka said at the report's presentation in Madrid. "These factors demonstrate that it is mainly fundamentals pushing up the price."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson echoed those concerns in Berlin, saying that there were no "obvious short-term solutions" to soaring oil prices.

Light, sweet crude for August delivery rose $2.02 to trade at $142.02 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

On Monday, the contract soared to a record $143.67 a barrel. It later fell back to close at $140 as traders took profits and settled their positions at the end of the quarter.

In the U.S., gas station operators nudged the record for a gallon of regular a tenth of a penny higher, to an average of $4.087 a gallon nationwide, according to AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express.

Concerns about ongoing tension in the Middle East -- a factor that has helped fuel oil's recent rise -- continued to weigh on traders' minds Tuesday.

ABC News quoted an unnamed senior Pentagon official as saying there is an "increasing likelihood" that Israel will strike Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of the year. Such an attack could prompt Iran to retaliate, potentially disrupting oil supplies in the strategically vital Persian Gulf.

Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill., called the report "more of the same" but acknowledged it was having an effect on energy market psychology.

"The market's forced to insert some type of risk premium on geopolitical developments," he said.

Iran is the world's fourth-largest oil exporter and OPEC's second-largest exporter. About 40 percent of world oil exports pass through the Gulf.

In its Medium-Term Oil Market Report on Tuesday, the Paris-based IEA said demand would rise most in developing countries, with Asia, the Middle East and Latin America accounting for nearly 90 percent of demand growth over the next five years.

Victor Shum, an analyst with Purvin & Gertz in Singapore, predicted concerns about supply, including worries about conflict with Iran, will likely keep prices high.

"I don't see much resistance to $150 (a barrel), which could happen in the coming weeks."

In other Nymex trading, heating oil futures were up about 6 cents to $3.9705 a gallon, while gasoline futures rose 3.84 cents to $3.5375 a gallon. Natural gas futures jumped 18.8 cents to $13.541 per 1,000 cubic feet.

In London, Brent crude futures rose $2.27 to $142.10 on the ICE Futures exchange.

Associated Press writers Alex Kennedy in Bangkok, Thailand, George Jahn in Madrid, Spain, and Pablo Gorondi in Budapest, Hungary contributed to this report.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Gutless Council and Media

I bet the Leichardt Council and many Australian authorities would be scared to screen the "Iron Wall".




--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "Jodie" wrote:
Re: Gutless Council and Media

Taxi,The "Iron Wall" was a very good video. Thanks for sharing.Jodie


--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "union_faruque" wrote:



No one contested about the accuracy of the Israeli Holocaust, Holocaust continuum, The Iron Wall and Middle East Formula for Peace. Yet, some mysterious people are removing them from any discussion forums! Similarly, If Americans Knew getting the guillotine!! May I ask why? Is it because, the Israeli holocaust in Palestine and all other war crimes and genocides of Israel are `kosher' and no one is allowed to talk about them? Is it the reason the Leichardt City Council canceled the Friends of Hebron initiated photo and cultural exhibition?

--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "austro_bangla" wrote:
Re: They Got the Rights – You Don't


Iraq Was invaded to secure Israel, An early American withdrawal will hurt Israel, Legs are open for business, Strip search of New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clerk and Israeli Ambassador's racist comment are only a few evidence to prove that modern day politicians are prepared to do many unthinkable things for Israel! The zionised media too will cover up for Israel!! All in all they also prove the followings:

"We Jews are going to bring war on Germany." - David Brown, President of American Hebrew, in 1934, quoted in Edmonson's I Testify, page 188.

"The Second World War is being fought for the defense of the fundamentals of Judaism." - The Chicago Jewish Sentinel, October 8, 1942.


Therefore; my question is why the hell they can tell the world what to do and not to do but we can not tell them the same? Is it because:
"Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world." - Samuel Roth, Jews Must Live, page 18.
and
"The world revolution which we will experience will be exclusively our affair and will rest in our hands. This revolution will tighten the Jewish domination over all other people." - Le Peuple Juif, February 8, 1919.



--- In ershadmanji@yahoogroups.com, "mukto_mona" wrote:
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How the hell, the Jews are allowed to abuse, insult and attack anyone at any time in anywhere! Whereas everyone has to take permission from them before opening ones mouth, writing a story, organizing an exhibition or even screening a movie which is based on reality!


--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "union_faruque" wrote:
Re: They Got the Rights – You Don't

Please try these links if you dare!
--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "union_faruque" wrote:
Re: They Got the Rights – You Don't

Further to Jews Rulz the World and Silencing the Truth to T-Shirt, the Daily Telegraph (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ May 28, 2008) "Catholics temper Youth day performance - No Passion in Christ" written by Michelle Cazzulino: `A World Youth Day performance of the stations of the cross has been changed to "minimise risk" of inciting anti-Semitic feelings at the Catholic festival later this year'.


Would you believe the article is hard to get in the net! They did this to appease Jews!!


As a result the "Un American" Americans attacked her and eventually they forced her into submission. It appears no one has the right to say the truth and Isador below is correct!
"Nations will gather together to bring their homage to the people of God; the whole fortune of nations will pass into the hands of the Jewish people, they will march behind the Jewish people, in chains as captives, and will prostrate before it." - Isador Loeb, Le Probleme Juif.

You see Muslim and Arab bashings are the most popular sports in the town. For an example people like Bat Yeor, Melanie Phillips, Prof. Raphael Israeli, Daniel Pipes and many more Zionists/"Jews/Israelis are borrowing entire chapters and verses from Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf against Arabs and Muslims. They are writing Eurabia, Londonistan and telling everyone not to allow Arabs and Muslims in Europe, America, Australia, etc. etc. By the same time the same gangs are also directly and indirectly assisting Israel to ethnically cleanse them from their own homeland!

The Israel Palestine conflict is not a religious one. Yet, the Israelis/Jews/Zionists have been aiding and abetting Salman Rushdie, Ershad Manji, Ayaan Hirshi Ali, Norma Khouri, Magdi Alam and Geert Wilders! May I ask why? Is it because of a well-oiled Zionist conspiracy to cover up their terrorism, war crimes and genocides continuum?

We know, Zionism is worse than Nazism as well as older then Nazism! In fat the Nazis found out and borrowed a few tricks and techniques from the Zionists! Therefore, the Zionists are in many ways responsible for Hitler's atrocities! The Sacred Cow will substantiate the connection and relevance between Nazism and Zionism.

Nonetheless, these Zionist/Jewish hate merchants are allowed to promote prejudice and bigotry against who ever they want! Yet, the gutless Catholics have chickened out here and scared to confront the reality under the guise of "minimise" "anti-Semitism"!!


The evidence is clear! The people of this world should be taking permission from the Jews/Zionists/Israelis and their supporters before selecting a food, drink, dress, building design, town plan, organizing an exhibition, expressing an idea, writing a book, making a movie etc. etc.


The behavior of Leichardt Council and some Australian authorities are also paramount and shameful. They have compromised free speech and fairness. All in all, they have proven again that Burch Levy below was correct!
"The governments of the peoples included in this world republic, with the aid of the victorious proletariat, all will fall without difficulty into Jewish hands. Private property will then be strangled by the Jewish directors, who will administer the state patrimony everywhere. Thus the promise of the Talmud will be fulfilled, that is, the promise that the Jews, at the arrival of the Messiah, will possess the key to the wealth of all the peoples of the earth." - Baruch Levy, in a letter to Karl Marx, published in the Rothschild controlled La Revue de Paris, June 1, 1928.



Tonight I went to Leichardt Council meeting armed with The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction below. Amongst the crowed there were a few Zio-Nazis too! Some of them even work for peace, they told me with anger!! The first item on the agenda was Friends of Hebron initiated Photo and Cultural Exhibition and that show was annulled abruptly by the council due to a visitation by an ASIO (Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation) officer earlier! Would you believe, the ASIO officer was a Palestinian origin and he was assigned to administer the most hated and difficult legislation of the country in a very scary situation! By understanding the conspiracy behind this operation, I felt sympathetic with this unarmed young ASIO officer and reminded me about the low British casualty during the WW1 due to the blatant sacrifice of the Australian, Bangladeshi, Canadian, Indian, New Zealander, Pakistani and others on that time.

At the meeting, the Mayor took an understandably scary and compromising position. The Green councilors took a brave stand in support of free speech and they also revealed to the meeting, a few dirty tricks went on earlier behind the close doors regarding this affair. The crowed were angry, constructive and decisive. However, some Jewish group was dirty behind their spoken polished words at the meeting. They spoke about violence on "both sides" and failed to support the banning of the exhibition in public beside their role behind the back doors! Penultimately, the council would like to go ahead with future exhibitions with the assistance and consultation of both sides!! At one stage, I made an attempt to say something. However, the poor Mayor was scared of me and she did not allow me to speak despite the public demand. I suppose, she was worried about my T-Shirt rather than me!

As soon as the agenda item regarding the cancelled exhibition was over, the Zionist groups started to leave. In order to understand the real motive behind the spoken words, I went outside the chamber door and started to distribute The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction and unmasked the real story.

One Zionist woman told me, "you should be inside gas chamber".
My response was, "I knew you are a love child of Adolph Hitler".

The other one told me, "I like to spit you .. ".
I said to her, "you are revealing your true Zionist face i.e. brutal, intolerant and extreme".

One person who knows me well and read me extensively, said to others, "pardon Faruque because he is not White" (paraphrasing to avoid insanity and profanity). During that exchange one gentleman expressed his dissatisfaction over the racist remark.

Another one said, "why don't you join with Osama and blow yourself up … "

I replied, "
Zionism is worse than Nazism and Osama is not even charged by anyone, let alone found guilty of anything. So why don't you condemn Zionism?"

One genuine and decent Palestinian activist told me, "could you kindly change your T-Shirt because it is not helping us". I told him, "I sympathise with you. However, you must know the actual messages of Zionism Is Incompatible With Any Civilised Society, Ugly Judaism Is Incompatible With Any Religion, Islam is Incompatible with Democracy and Crazy Faruque. I don't think the Zionists are above the law and they don't have any right to terrorise rest of the world and therefore I am going to speak the language they understand".

Do you know the reason of the commotion? The T-Shirt mentioned in The Truth and Reality at the Sydney APEC Rally!

Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ was condemned by some "good" people because that movie was violent and gruesome, although based on true event! However, the same people never condemned those groups who conspired to murder Jesus at Jerusalem and his brother James at Rome later. Rather they found an unnamed Israeli expert and according to him, "Judas was carrying out the wish of God".
Similarly, the longest running concentration camps with a stamp of infinity are located inside occupied Palestine. This slow motion Israeli holocaust in Palestine is much more painful than Hitler's one! Yet, the `world' is silent about it!
Amazingly, some of the evidence of the Israeli genocide, wholesale murders and tortures are intolerable to some chardonnay socialists and they are incapable to handle the brutality and horror of those cruelties! Therefore, they have conspired to shut down the Palestinian Photo Exhibition at Leichardt, Sydney, Australia earlier. Surprise! Surprise, they also find children playing in mothers' cradle, schoolyards or backyards as "extremists", "militants", "terrorists" etc. etc. Yet, they can not condemn outsiders who are carrying passports from a God and conducting ethnic cleansing continuum in the occupied Palestine!
Faruque Ahmed
Mobile: 041 091 4118
Email: union_faruque@...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Remove the Zionist Bondage

Remove the Zionist Bondage


What a Cruel Joke? and Why not piss Moses? Are removed from Yahoo discussion boards without providing any good reason or ground whatsoever!! Whereas the same Yahoo is full of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab slurs and slanders based on false and fabricated materials!!! Would you believe many of them are made in Israel as only Israel have a secretariat to produce false and fabricated against Arabs and Muslims.

This one sided pro-Zionist blatant murder of free speech supports Munzer, Juif, Levy and Loeb below.


"We Jews have spoiled the blood of all the races of Europe. Taken as a whole, everything is Jewdified. Our ideas animate everything. Our spirit reigns over the world. We are the Lords." - Dr. Kurt Munzer, The Way to Zion.

"The world revolution which we will experience will be exclusively our affair and will rest in our hands. This revolution will tighten the Jewish domination over all other people." - Le Peuple Juif, February 8, 1919.

"The governments of the peoples included in this world republic, with the aid of the victorious proletariat, all will fall without difficulty into Jewish hands. Private property will then be strangled by the Jewish directors, who will administer the state patrimony everywhere. Thus the promise of the Talmud will be fulfilled, that is, the promise that the Jews, at the arrival of the Messiah, will possess the key to the wealth of all the peoples of the earth." - Baruch Levy, in a letter to Karl Marx, published in the Rothschild controlled La Revue de Paris, June 1, 1928.


"Nations will gather together to bring their homage to the people of God; the whole fortune of nations will pass into the hands of the Jewish people, they will march behind the Jewish people, in chains as captives, and will prostrate before it." - Isador Loeb, Le Probleme Juif.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Dave Madden’s Madness

Dave Madden’s Madness


A similar article appeared in the same ‘Telecrap’ with
Dishonest and Greedy Michael Jools. In the name of taxi drivers’ safety they want to increase the taxi fare by 6%. Such an increase is good for the taxi mafia and Cabcharge, as well as “greedy little Mexican” who would like to make some fortune as he did earlier from the Mac Bank at the expense of poor workers. However we won’t allow the overcharging of the traveling public and drivers as they have already paid enough money to ensure taxi drivers’ safety through $1.00 flagfall and $40.00/day “extortion money” through the NSW IRC despite exhausting objections from taxi driver members of the NSW TWU!

Beside the above, with the assistance of the TWU crooks all taxi drivers were forced to pay $40.00 a day earlier for the so called taxi drivers’ safety.

During that period;
1. The taxi radio fee went up,
2. The taxi insurance went up,
3. The taxi lease price went up,
4. The taxi sub lease went up,
5. The taxi sub-sub lease went up,
6. The taxi plate value went up and
7. They made a fortune without providing a safe work place to taxi drivers.

In that time, we begged the NSW Ministry of Transport, NSW Attorney General and NSW WorkCcover Authority to ensure;

1. Taxi is a workplace,
2. The OH&S Act is applicable to every section of the taxi industry regardless of bailor-bailee relationship and
3. The enforcement of the OH&S Act in the taxi industry regardless of bailor-bailee relationship and remove any ambiguity so that all taxi workers will enjoy the most fundamental rights like any other workers of this state and nation.


Faruque Ahmed
Mobile: 041 091 4118 Email:
union_faruque@yahoo.com.au



Taxi drivers fear 'unsafe' night shift
January 12, 2008 08:42am
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UP to half of NSW taxi drivers feel unsafe working at night, fearing they will be the victim of a physical attack and robbery, new research shows.

Findings of a survey conducted by the Taxi Safety and Security Taskforce reveal fare evasion and intoxicated passengers are among the top concerns for drivers and often went unreported.

The report, prepared by former NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Dave Madden, recommends changes to technical and physical taxi security including the fitting of cameras, improved reporting and policing of incidents, heightened public awareness of taxi security, and a greater link between liquor licensing and public transport.

"The Ministry of Transport will work closely with the taxi industry groups, drivers, unions, the police and other government departments to ensure the recommendations are fully considered," Transport Minister John Watkins said in a statement.

"The government also supports the recommendations for technology initiatives like driver door locks, two emergency buttons in each vehicle, and mandatory security cameras in every taxi from March 1 in Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and the central Coast, and other areas from September 1."

Some 1200 taxi drivers were surveyed as part of the report, with 92 per cent of respondents supporting improved safety technology and 91 per cent keen to meet regularly with police to discuss their concerns.

"The report is a practical strategy for improving taxi safety for all NSW passengers and drivers," Acting Secretary of the NSW Transport Workers Union, Wayne Forno said in a statement.

"For those gains to be driven further, this comprehensive strategy needs quick implementation."

Mr Watkins said he has written to the ministers for police, roads and gaming and racing about the taskforce recommendations and said the matters will be considered quickly.