December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NIST Publishes Draft FIPS for FKMI
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The NIST Technical Advisory Committee has published its final draft for a FIPS for the Federal Key Management Infrastructure and a letter from the chairman to the Secretary of Commerce on the completion of the task in preparation for the final meeting of the committee June 17-19: http://csrc.nist.gov/tacdfipsfkmi/ under the "June 1998" section We offer mirrors of the drafts: http://jya.com/nist-fkmi.htm (chairman's letter) http://jya.com/FIPS698.txt (the FIPS, 222K)

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Spamford's new business venture
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Seems Spamford has found yet another way to Make M0ney 0n the Net - as an expert witness for people suing spammers. The paper said he'll be working for the law firm that nailed him with a $2M case earlier this year. Sigh..... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Meetings and PGP 6.0
by Max Inux 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now that Network General and Network Associates (McAfee) have merged (business wise aswell as buildings), I was wondering where the CypherPunks meetings are going to be at the old netgen building or the new (BIG) Network Associates (netass.com) building? And is it still gonna be at 12 on the second saturday of the month? (seeing as this saturday(first) is the NAI company picnic). And, has anyone here played with PGP 6.0 (still in developement). I hope they do more changes in the final, Photo ID's and the misc other changes. Thanks, Billy -- Max Inux (MaxInux(a)bigfoot.com) UIN: 207447, http://khercs.dyn.ml.org Strong Cryptography makes the world a safer place- PGP: 0x5CCFCA59 Or Kinky sex makes the world go round- Christie: Your in my sig too ^^ If Cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws will have cryptography ^^

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Fwd: NEWS - NRA Charles Heston speech
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:50:22 +0930 >From: SSAA <Sporting.Shooters.Association(a)adelaide.on.net> >Subject: NEWS - NRA Charles Heston speech >Organization: Sporting Shooters Association of Australia Speech by National Rifle Association First Vice President Charlton Heston Delivered at the Free Congress Foundation's 20th Anniversary Gala December 7, 1997 I like it when the party of Lincoln honors our free heritage. This nation has been blessed by the minds and mettle of many good people, and indeed Abe was among the best. A man of great moral character... a trait often lacking among our leaders. This is disturbing, but not without remedy. One good election can correct such ills. Above all, I hope those of us gathered here tonight have more in common with Mr. Lincoln than just party affiliation. Better that we grasp a common vision than simply wear the cloak. Even our President pretends to be a conservative when it suits him. We must be more than that. I know, I know... it is not easy. Imagine being point man for the National Rifle Association, preserving the right to keep and bear arms. Well, I ran for office, I was elected, and now I serve... as a moving target for pundits who've called me everything from "ridiculous" and "duped" to a "brain-injured, senile, crazy old man." Well, I guess that goes with the territory. But as I've stood in the cross hairs of those who aim at Second Amendment freedom, I've realized that guns are not the only issue, and I am not the only target. It is much, much bigger than that which is what I want to talk to you about. I have come to realize that a cultural war is raging across our land... storming our values, assaulting our freedoms, killing our self-confidence in who we are and what we believe, where we come from. How many of you here own a gun? A show of hands? How many own two or more guns? Thank you. I wonder how many of you in this room own guns but chose not to raise your hand? How many of you considered revealing your conviction about a constitutional right, but then thought better of it? Then you are a victim of the cultural war. You are a casualty of the cultural warfare being waged against traditional American freedom of beliefs and ideas. Now maybe you don't care one way or the other about owning a gun. But I could've asked for a show of hands on Pentecostal Christians, or pro-lifers, or right-to-workers, or Promise Keepers, or school voucher-ers, and the result would be the same. What if the same question were asked at your PTA meeting? Would you raise your hand if Dan Rather were in the back of the room there with a film crew? See? Good. Still, if you didn't, you have been assaulted and robbed of the courage of your convictions. Your pride in who you are, and what you believe, has been ridiculed, ransacked, plundered. It may be a war without bullet or bloodshed, but with just as much liberty lost: You and your country are less free. And you are not inconsequential people! You in this room, whom many would say are among the most powerful people on earth, you are shamed into silence! Because you embrace a view at odds with the cultural warlords. If that is the outcome of cultural war, and you are the victims, I can only ask the gravely obvious question: What'll become of the right itself? Or other rights not deemed acceptable by the thought police? What other truth in your heart will you disavow with your hand? I remember when European Jews feared to admit their faith. The Nazis forced them to wear six-pointed yellow stars sewn on their chests as identity badges. It worked. So what color star will they pin on our coats? How will the self- styled elite tag us? There may not be a Gestapo officer on every street corner yet, but the influence on our culture is just as pervasive. Now, I am not really here to talk about the Second Amendment or the NRA, but the gun issue clearly brings into focus the war that's going on. Rank-and-file Americans wake up every morning, increasingly bewildered and confused at why their views make them lesser citizens. After enough breakfast- table TV promos hyping tattooed sex-slaves on the next Rikki Lake show, enough gun-glutted movies and tabloid talk shows, enough revisionist history books and prime-time ridicule of religion, enough of the TV anchor who cocks her pretty head, clucks her tongue and sighs about guns causing crime and finally the message gets through: Heaven help the God-fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle class, Protestant, or even worse Evangelical Christian, Midwest, or Southern, or even worse rural, apparently straight, or even worse admittedly heterosexual, gun-owning or even worse NRA-card-carrying, average working stiff, or even worse male working stiff, because not only don't you count, you're a downright obstacle to social progress. Your tax dollars may be just as delightfully green as you hand them over, but your voice requires a lower decibel level, your opinion is less enlightened, your media access is insignificant, and frankly mister, you need to wake up, wise up and learn a little something about your new America...in fact, why don't you just sit down and shut up? That's why you don't raise your hand. That's how cultural war works. And you are losing. That's what happens when a generation of media, educators, entertainers and politicians, led by a willing president, decide the America they were born into isn't good enough any more. So they contrive to change it through the cultural warfare of class distinction. Ask the Romans if powerful nations have ever fallen as a result of cultural division. There are ruins around the world that were once the smug centers of small-minded, arrogant elitism. It appears that rather than evaporate in the flash of a split atom, we may succumb to a divided culture. Although my years are long, I was not on hand to help pen the Bill of Rights. And popular assumptions aside, the same goes for the Ten Commandments. Yet as an American and as a man who believes in God's almighty power, I treasure both. The Constitution was handed down to guide us by a bunch of those wise old dead white guys who invented this country. Now, some flinch when I say that. Why? It's true...they were white guys. So were most of the guys who died in Lincoln's name opposing slavery in the 1860s. So why should I be ashamed of white guys? Why is "Hispanic pride" or "black pride" a good thing, while "white pride" conjures up shaved heads and white hoods? Why was the Million Man March on Washington celebrated in the media as progress, while the Promise Keepers March on Washington was greeted with suspicion and ridicule? I'll tell you why: Cultural warfare. Now, Chuck Heston can get away with saying I'm proud of those wise old dead white guys because Jesse Jackson and Louie Farrakhan know I fought in their cultural war. I was one of the first white soldiers in the civil rights movement in 1961, long before it was fashionable in Hollywood believe me or in Washington for that matter. In 1963 I marched on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King to uphold the Bill of Rights. I'm very proud of that. As vice- president of the NRA I am doing the same thing. But you don't see many other Hollywood luminaries speaking out on this one, do you? It's not because there aren't any. It's because they can't afford the heat. They dare not speak up for fear of CNN or the IRS or SAG or the ATF or NBC or even W-J-C. It saps the strength of our country when the personal price is simply too high to stand up for what you believe in. Today, speaking with the courage of your conviction can be so costly, the price of principle so high, that legislators won't lead so citizens can't follow, and so there is no army to fight back. That's cultural warfare. For instance: It's plain that our Constitution guarantees law-abiding citizens the right to own a firearm. But if I stand up and say so, why does the media assault me with such a slashing, sinister brand of derision filled with hate? Because Bill Clinton's cultural warriors want a penitent cleansing of firearms, as if millions of lawful gun owners should genuflect in shame and seek absolution by surrendering their guns. That's what is now literally happening in England and Australia, of course. Lines long lines of submissive citizens, threatened with imprisonment, are bitterly, reluctantly surrendering family heirlooms, guns that won their freedom, to the blast furnace. If that fact doesn't unsettle you, then you are already anesthetized, a ready victim of the cultural war. You know, I think, that I stand first in line in defense of free speech. But those who speak against the perverted and profane should be given as much due as those who profit by it. You also know I welcome cultural diversity. But those who choose to live on the fringe should not tear apart the seams that secure the fabric of our society. Now I've earned a fine and rewarding living in the motion picture industry, yet increasingly I find myself embarrassed by the dearth of conscience that drives the world's most influential art form. And I'm an example of what a lonely undertaking that can be. Nobody opposed the obscene rapper Ice-T until I stood at Time-Warner's stockholders meeting and was ridiculed by its president for wanting to take the floor to read Ice-T's lyrics. Since I held several hundred shares of stock he had no choice, though the media were barred. I read those lyrics to a stunned audience of average American people the stockholders who were shocked at the lyrics that advocating killing cops, sexually abusing women, and raping the nieces of our Vice-President. True, the good guys won that time though: Time-Warner fired Ice-T. The gay and lesbian movement is another good example. Many homosexuals are hugely talented artists and executives... also dear friends. I don't despise their lifestyle, though I don't share it. As long as gay and lesbian Americans are as productive, law-abiding and private as the rest of us, I think America owes them absolute tolerance. It's the right thing to do. But on the other hand, I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton's cultural shock troops participate in homosexual-rights fund-raisers but boycott gun- rights fund-raisers... and then claim it's time to place homosexual men in tents with Boy Scouts, and suggest that sperm donor babies born into lesbian relationships are somehow better served and more loved. Such demands have nothing to do with equality. They're about the currency of cultural war money and votes and the Clinton camp will let anyone in the tent if there's a donkey on his hat, or a check in the mail or some yen in the fortune cookie. Mainstream America is depending on you counting on you to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand while they seek preference with the other, and all the New-Age apologists for juvenile crime, who see roving gangs as a means of youthful expression, sex as a means of adolescent merchandising, violence as a form of entertainment for impressionable minds, and gun bans as a means to lord-knows-what. We've reached that point in time when our national social policy originates on Oprah. I say it's time to pull the plug. Americans should not have to go to war every morning for their values. They already go to war for their families. They fight to hold down a job, raise responsible kids, make their payments, keep gas in the car, put food on the table and clothes on their backs, and still save a little for their final days in dignity. They prefer the America they built - where you could pray without feeling naive, love without being kinky, sing without profanity, be white without feeling guilty, own a gun without shame, and raise your hand without apology. They are the critical masses who find themselves under siege and are long for you to get some guts, stand on principle and lead them to victory in this cultural war. Now all this sounds a little Mosaic, the punch-line of my sermon is as elementary as the Golden Rule. In a cultural war, triumph belongs to those who arm themselves with pride in who they are and then do the right thing. Not the most expedient thing, not the politically correct thing, not what'll sell, but the right thing. And you know what? Everybody already knows what the right thing is. You, and I, President Clinton, even Ice-T, we all know. It's easy. You say wait a minute, you take a long look in the mirror, then into the eyes of your kids, your grandchildren, and you'll know what's right. Don't run for cover when the cultural cannons roar. Remember who you are and what you believe, and then raise your hand, stand up, and speak out. Don't be shamed or startled into lockstep conformity by seemingly powerful people. The maintenance of a free nation is a long, slow, steady process. And it is in your hands. Yes, we can have rules and still have rebels that's democracy. But as leaders you must we must do as Lincoln would do, confronted with the stench of cultural war: Do what's right. As Mr. Lincoln said, "With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in... and then we shall save our country." Defeat the criminals and their apologists, oust the biased and bigoted, endure the undisciplined and unprincipled, but disavow the self-appointed social engineers whose relentless arrogance fuels this vicious war against so much we hold so dear. Do not yield, do not divide, do not call a truce. Be fair, but fight back. It's the same blueprint our founding fathers left to guide us. Our enemies see it as the senile prattle of an archaic society. I still honor it as the United States Constitution, and that timeless document we call the Bill of Rights. Freedom is our fortune and honor is our saving grace. Thank you. ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming. PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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Re: NEWS - NRA Charles Heston speech
by StanSqncrs＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

McVeigh is alot better than Heston (at lying-type propaganda. I couldn't even call McVeigh's "lying-type." It was filled with MUCH more fact than Heston's speech.) The glaring over-all problem I see with his speech, is his hypocracy when it comes to the 1st amendment (yea, I know he *claimed* to be a 1st amendments rights supporter, BUT his actions (the rest of the speech) counters that claim.) Here's why they want to remove our freedom of speech. It's because - dig this Cypherpunks - 'The pen is mightier than the sword.' If they take away our ability to speak, and they keep their silly guns, guess what. Then they have the more powerful weapon. And dig this - yes it IS that simple. Stan

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Netcenter News - Volume 7
by netcenter-news＠netscape.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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L@@KING FOR A FRIEND or LOVER!! NOT A SEX SITE!!
by waekualo98＠msn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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twa 800, semiconductors & internet, polyforth & Java
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 6/5/98 9:11 AM J Orlin Grabbe Albuquerque Journal w 6/3/98 TWA 800 Explosion Not on High Seas NEW YORK - A judge said Tuesday that the TWA 800 explosion did not occur on the high seas, a ruling that could make victim eligible for additional money in their lawsuit. against the airline and the aircraft manufacturers. ... http://www.aci.net/kalliste/navy800.htm and other electronic articles on TWA 800 at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Albuquerque Journal f 6/5/98 Motorola To Cut 15,000 Jobs No Word of Impact In Albuquerque The Associated Press CHICAGO - Motorola Inc., struggling to weather the Asian economic crisis, said Thursday it is eliminating 15,000 jobs over the coming 12 months. Profits plunged 45 percent to !180 million ... But in the same issue Chip Sales Expected to Rebound Semiconductor Group Predicts Double-Digit Growth in 1999 The Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. Asias weak economies, a slow-down in personal computer sales and an overabundance of memory chips will push own semiconductor sales nearly 2 percent this year, according to an industry group. But those troubles are expected to ease in the second half of 1998, boosting sales and returning the industry to double-digit growth next year and beyond, the Semiconductor Industry Association said. Thanks to the unprecedented growth of Internet usage, we now expect the industrys expansion to occur in 1999 as semiconductor growth rates return to their historical averages of 17 percent or more, said SIA president George Scalise. ... John Young Albuquerque Journal f 6/5/98 India, Pakistan Nuke Claims Exaggerated, Scientists Say By David S. Cloud Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON - American scientists monitoring remote sites where India and Pakistan detonated nucleardevices sharply question public claims by both nations about the size and number of weapons tested. Scientists examining seismic data on the tests, picked up at monitoring stations around the globe, say that both India and Pakistan have exaggerated the explosive power of the detonations and perhaps even the total number of devices tested. The Clinton administration has similar doubts about the claims by the South Asian rivals. Pakistani officials apparently disconnect a seismic monitor that would have given outsiders more precise data about their tests. And two nuclear devices that India claimed to have set off were not detected by a single known seismic monitor station anywhere in the world. ... The gap between the claims and the seismic data suggests that the test may not have gone as well as each side announced, said experts interviewed by the Chicago Tribune. The discrepancies in monitoring data prove ammunition for some critics of an international test-ban treaty. These critics argue that the lack of data for Indias announced second round of nuclear weapons tests calls into question whether clandestine nuclear test can be accurately monitored. ... Jim Durham, Sandias seismic CTBT project leader http://jya.com/da/whpda.htm, told me that the coupling [impendance match?] between the bomb and the surrounding ground had much to do with what a seismic station receives. Lastly, and what I think is the most important, Albuquerque Journal f 6/5/98 USS Yorktown Found Explorer Located Titanic Wreck By Randolph E. Schmidt The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Three miles under water, the USS Yorktowns four-barrel anti-aircraft gun still aims skyward 56 years after the aircraft carrier went to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, a victim of the Battle of Midway. Photos and video of the giant ship, sitting upright on the ocean floor, were unveiled Thursday by Robert Ballard, the undersea explorer who found the wrecks of the Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/98/midway/ REASON is that Ballard uses PolyForth http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=polyforth&z=2&hc=0&hs=0 in the submersible robots, Jeff Allsup of Woods Hole told me. Allsup downloaded ALL of the code and documentation from my Forth http://jya.com/f86/whpf86.htm book from Vesta in Colorado at 1,200 bps. Allsup told me this took several days. This is same software technology which is used for the US satellite program. http://groucho.gsfc.nasa.gov/forth/ Java http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/meyer/jvmref/ appears also to be a byte threaded code technology. Lets hope for settlement of the unfortunate matter so that we can all got on to other constructive projects. I would like to do some more with http://www-hto.usc.edu/software/seqaln/doc/html/gfsr.3.html and revise http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2 for the 80C32 communicating over ieee 1284 ecp to a Windows PC. Later, bill

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Site Secrets
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 6/5/98 3:49 PM John Young NOTHING from the court, DOE or EEOC today. Good. I loaded my boat in the back of my truck. Fishing tomorrow and Sunday at Navajo lake. Navajo lake is on the Colorado border. My primary goal is to finish the digital FX. But I need a mental health break. I got kick out of the moralist lecture to schneier(a)counterpane.com. http://www.jya.com/bud-avbsp.htm I can only imagine "Bud" <bud(a)checkmaster.com>s horror when he reads about Morales and my genocide, deficient crypto, and crooked judge lawsuit. But, of course, we are merely trying to promote settlement of this UNFORTUNATE matter before something POSSIBLY serious happens. Settlement progress is reported to our friends at http://www.wpiran.org/ and others in hope it is passed along to the interested. Peaceful MONETARY settlement of this UNFORTUNATE matter is clearly in everyone's best interest. Thoroughly enjoyed Site Secrets. http://www.jya.com/crypto.htm#site The Real World again. Have a good weekend all. bill

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Sixty Minutes vs Pauline Hanson
by Global Web Builders 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear One Nation Supporter in NSW, PLEASE READ THIS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MESSAGE and CIRCULATE WIDELY TO ALL YOU CAN. In the lead up to the Queensland State and Federal Elections there has been growing hysteria in the media, major political parties and by minority groups that "support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation is somehow bad for Australia". It should be of no surprise that One Nation has one goal in mind and that is to bring equity in treatment back to ALL Australians irrespective of colour, race, or creed. If you read the first sentence again you will see who is going to 'lose' when divisive policies are removed by One Nation from the Australian equation. However, the most divisive force in Australia today is the mainstream media, carefully controlled by men of enormous wealth who now seek the ultimate prize, 'power over the politicians who run Australia'. Many believe that they have already achieved this goal. Many believe that the support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation is a direct result of 'populist' Australians (that's you and me) seeing through the deals being done between the major political parties and the media barons. Today Australians face a real fight to retain their democratic rights in the face of the media moguls. This is the 'real' media-hidden war that is being raged right now with Pauline Hanson being the focus, the enemy. The coming Queensland state and Federal elections are not over 'race' as the media would have you believe, they are over our freedom of speech and democracy which has already being largely destroyed through the concentration of our media. Last Tuesday Pauline Hanson raised the issue of 'The Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples' in Parliament. What followed was the most disgraceful vilification by Howard, Beazley, supported by the media, of Pauline Hanson, the messenger, while the message - the potential impact of this treaty on all Australians - was totally ignored. This vilification was epitomised by the live interview with Ray Martin on Channel 9's 'A Current Affair' during which he changed the 'rules of engagement' previously agreed to. The interview was supposed to be about Pauline's speech in parliament and the ramifications of the UN draft agreement. A range of links to documents related to Pauline Hanson's speech can be seen at: http://www.gwb.com.au/un.html Channel 9 have used these tactics before to secure an interview under blatantly dishonest terms. Sixty Minutes approached Pauline Hanson to do a 'prime time' broadcast on 'a new political party in the making'... in 1997. The original letter to David Ettridge confirming the 'rules of engagement' with Pauline Hanson can be seen at this link: http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/onenation/letter.gif In both Channel 9 interviews Pauline Hanson has appeared stunned, was ridiculed by those interviewing her and thereafter denigrated by many of her opponents. Quite simply she has been ambushed with unrelated questioning by a less than ethical media doing the bidding of powers higher up. This Sunday Channel 9's 'Sixty Minutes' has intimated that it will be doing an 'expose' on Pauline Hanson's One Nation links to 'American influences'. As of late yesterday they had refused to supply the source of their information so that One Nation could respond. It will be an interesting time for 'Sixty Minutes' to carry such a damaging, unsubstantiated programme, less than a week before the Queensland state election. The background to the programme to be run tomorrow can be seen at: http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/news/17029.asp Here is a quote from that page: 'But as 60 Minutes has discovered, Pauline Hanson's one nation has little to do with our nation. Much of her ideology is borrowed from loony extremists in the United States, right down to her claim this week that the UN was undermining Australia's sovereignty. Jeff McMullen reports that this fear of a UN-led global world order is the central theme in the thinking of militia groups at war with the US Government. And the militia leaders admit they know and admire Pauline Hanson and have advised her supporters.' With this in mind I would ask you to take this personal assurance from me. I have been privileged to get to know Pauline and understand the fire that burns within her for Australia and her children, our future. She is not influenced by anybody from overseas, her gun laws actually tighten gun control through "an instant record check to ensure those persons ineligible to own a firearm can be quickly identified; we shall establish a register of persons prohibited from firearm ownership. Prohibited persons: ie those convicted of a violent offence." See: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/press/guns.html Pauline's aims are to work for the return of Australia to Australians - away from the negative, direct influence of overseas-based multinationals; to introduce Citizen Based Referendums; to allow you to have a real say in your future (One Nation's policies can be seen at: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/policy.html) and to dismantle the power blocks controlled by the media barons. It is this last goal which is behind the vilification of Pauline Hanson by the media and what she stands for, not the opinions expressed by those who do their master's bidding. You may like to tell 'Sixty Minutes' what you think of their programme, if so use this link: http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/60m/content/email.asp PLEASE BROADCAST THIS EMAIL WIDELY A personal message from Scott Balson, Pauline Hanson's One Nation web master One Nation home page: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation

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