tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90835923323311846482024-03-11T21:51:33.355-07:00Kerry B. Collison Asia NewsKerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.comBlogger9936125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-88924649598208297842019-05-10T16:09:00.000-07:002019-05-10T16:09:20.175-07:00Advace Book Release "Shadow of the Wheel"
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<b>Advance Review Book Title “Shadow of the Wheel”</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Author: Pat Kelly<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">436 pages<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Historical Fiction<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">RRP $24.95<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ISBN-13:
978-1-925230-64-2</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sid Harta Publishers
Melbourne Australia<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>About the Book<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The mighty
water-wheel at Laxey mines in the Isle of Man has been set in motion. In its
great shadow, Sarah and Patrick have fallen in love. It is a love that must be
kept secret, for Patrick is Irish. Sarah’s mother — Judith — has lost her mind
and blames an Irishman for her husband being imprisoned ‘across the water’ in
Liverpool, where she can never visit him.<br />
The two young lovers desperately desire to wed and be together, but Judith’s
increasing madness, which began when she lost some of her childer to a savage
disease and deepened on her husband’s incarceration, proved too strong a pull.<br />
Sarah’s deep loyalty to her mother also stands between the lovers, indeed life
itself thwarts their every effort to find a way toward their happiness.<br />
Patrick’s friend — Robert — is going to Australia to make his fortune mining for
gold and has asked Patrick to accompany him. With no other option and seemingly
with the cards stacked against them, Patrick and Sarah are both heartbroken.<br />
Knowing that her mother will never recover from her illness and will always
need her support, Sarah tells Patrick he must go with Robert to make a life for
himself without her, and to forget her, and the love they share.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></div>
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<b>About the author</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The author was born
in Scotland a year before World War II started, but swears she didn’t cause it
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In January 1968 she arrived in Australia as a ‘Ten Pound Tourist’ with her,
then, husband and four children. <br />
After the breakup of her marriage after twenty-five years the author was
contacted by a man named Mike Kelly, whom she had known in her teens and had
had no contact with for nearly thirty years. Mike’s marriage having broken up
around the same time as the author’s. On learning she was ‘on the loose’, he
obtained her phone number by courtesy of his mother — International telephone
enquiries — and the author’s mother, so rang to see if she was okay.<br />
One thing led to another, they were married in 1988 and the both returned to
the Isle of Man to start a new life. On Mike’s retirement, five years later,
they followed the summers and spent half their lives in Australia and the other
half in the Isle of Man. <br />
In their months on the island each year, they ran a daffodil and plant nursery
and were well known throughout the island for their roadside stall, where they
sold their daffodils and plants.<br />
As age caught up with them, they realised it was time to settle somewhere
permanently. Being the warmer country, Australia won, and they moved there in
2014, to live in a retirement village in Lakes Entrance — one of the prettiest
spots in Australia.<br />
This, they both feel, will suit them until they climb in their boxes (but not
for a long time yet) and move on to higher places.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-45271379925195092942019-03-25T13:57:00.002-07:002019-03-25T13:57:48.582-07:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: The global warming hoax unveiled<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-global-warming-hoax-unveiled.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: The global warming hoax unveiled</a>: Poor 'wooden' Al can't seem to catch a break. For eight long years they made him cover for charismatic horndog President,...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-49731071844028701752019-03-25T13:57:00.000-07:002019-03-25T13:57:04.437-07:00The global warming hoax unveiled<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Poor 'wooden' Al can't seem to catch a break. For eight long years they
made him cover for charismatic horndog President, Slick Willie, who could make
panties drop and women swoon even at a funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Poor Al couldn't even keep his own wife. Then they made him run for that
office, which he actually won in the popular vote in 2000 but was robbed of it
by the Supreme Court. "What now?" Poor Al wondered, knowing he was
still under Faustian contract to the Dark Lord and a pact with the Devil is
forever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">His next assignment was even worse. They put him out front as lead
spear-catcher in their latest scheme to rule the world-- "THE GLOBAL
WARMING HOAX." Poor Al didn't have a choice. When the Dark Lord spoke, Al
had to jump.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">They thought a couple of World Wars and some fairly serious genocide
would do the trick to completely subdue us back in the 20th century, but it
didn't so they decided to change up their game for the 21st, and get us to
voluntarily put ourselves under their yoke.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The new scheme--we'll give it code-name "Crispy Planet"--was
created to manipulate world temperature data and produce the scariest ending
imaginable--a world slow-roasting itself--and they would blame it all on us
deplorable human cockroaches and our fossil fuels!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">"It may already be too late to save yourselves," we were told
by Apostle Al, "but maybe, just maybe I know a guy, who knows a guy, who
can save you!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">All we had to do, we were told, was give up everything that made life
comfortable or enjoyable, and hand over our God-given rights to the Dark Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">If we did that, these benevolent Globalist barons might save us, but we
only had a few years to capitulate to their command--oh, and pay the $134
Trillion ransom under the Paris Climate deal, which was part of the scam.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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waters rose to engulf us, or they would let us fry to a crisp as the unyielding
sun got ever hotter.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">They weren't sure which, but it would be a terrible ending!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">According to Washington Post journalist, Ben Bagdikian, just 15 of these
Progressive billionaire wanna-be Rulers control 82% of world media and are for
the most part singing in unison, whatever the topic, which I suspect is not by
accident.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">No matter which channel or network you turn on, they are even using the
same text most days like a bunch of Mockingbirds, so it wasn't hard for this
cohesive handful of Progressives to manipulate public opinion and they did a
splendid job of it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Most people in the world today now believe the Global Warming Hoax
rather than what they see with their own eyes and feel on their own skin 20
years later.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A fellow Progressive of today’s Globalist barons from the National
Socialist German Workers Party, Joseph Goebbels, was fond of saying, “If you
tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to
believe it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the
people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers
to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by
extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Today's Progressives live by Goebbels’ Big Lie maxim too, and the few
scientists back in 2001 who stood up against this Big Lie--the Global Warming
Hoax--such as Dr. Keith Briffa and Professor Phillip Jones, were quickly beaten
back into submission.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Ultimately, they were forced to falsify their own data to match the Big
Lie. They were threatened with excommunication from the Church of Pseudoscience
and would be cast into irrelevance in Global Warming Hell if they did not do
so, they were warned.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Most real scientists, however, are finally admitting that the Emperor is
naked (though you don't hear much about that either), but it is true.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In fact, 31,487 real scientists--just in America--have signed a petition
stating "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of
carbon dioxide, methane or greenhouse gases is causing, or will cause in the
forseeable future, catastrophic rising in the earth's temperature."--while
Al Gore and the Hole-in-the-Ozone Gang still claim "99.9% of them"
are in unison that "Crispy Planet" is just a couple of Big Macs away
due to farting cows and humans who like to breathe, eat, stay warm, and go
places.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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and support to the Global Warming Petition, calling out the Globalist hoax to a
completely deaf media--though it is one of the biggest pieces of news so far
this century.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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that there were only 18 so-called 'scientists' who worked on this
unsubstantiated allegation of human attribution in the first working group of
the IPCC (Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change) report (#AR5) back in 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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at least three of them were just students, not scientists. I've yet to see Poor
Al Gore's scientific credentials and we now know that the man behind his
'evidence' lied about his credentials.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So, let's take a look at the chart that Apostle Al and a man falsely
claiming to be a "Nobel Prize winner", Michael E. Mann, used to fool
the world--now famously known as "the hockey stick graph"--ostensibly
showing our planet speeding to its end, 20 years ago. This chart was achieved
by manipulating the data, and completely leaving out numbers that did not match
their thesis, including the entire Medieval Warming Period between 950 and 1250
A.D. —during which wine grapes were being grown in Northern England—and the
hottest years in recorded history such as 1910 and 1944. In short, it was a
calculated fraud. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instead of "Crispy Planet", however, data since 2000 shows
that there has been no warming in 15 of those years and that the average
temperature of the earth's surface has cooled by 1.4 degrees in just the past
three.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The Southern Ice Cap is larger than ever, and 90% of the world’s islands
and atolls are larger than a decade ago, ending the claim that ocean are
rising.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Some scientists are now warning of a Mini Ice Age, while Globalists
still cling to the hoax in hopes of fear-mongering their way into a modern
feudalism with just two classes as there were throughout most of human
history--Ruling Elites and peasants--with no one in the middle (except maybe
their media and political servants).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So where do we go from here?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">That's the $134 Trillion question, isn't it? The hoax may have been a
good thing in the long-run, as badly as I hate to admit it, as it has made all
of us more aware of the consequences of our actions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Also, I'm still very worried about real environmental problems like the
Great Pacific Garbage Patch of floating plastic covering 1.6 million square
kilometres in the Pacific Ocean, and the dangerous decline in bee populations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">These are actual problems in need of real solutions, but we can quit
being audacious enough to think that we can destroy Mother Earth so easily with
normal human behaviours.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Actual numbers show that we cannot, though we should treat our home with
far more respect, and that will be my own takeaway from what has now been
dubbed “Climategate.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We can also stop worrying about overpopulating the planet, as absent
parts of India and Africa, populations are actually declining or in free fall.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Once these regions and societies advance even slightly--especially if
the safety valve of flooding other continents with their unwanted is brought to
a halt--they will quickly realize what every other maturing society has learned
and be no different.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Ancient towns in Europe, such as Sambucca, Sicily built by the Greeks
and voted ‘most beautiful’ in Italy are selling empty homes and villas for as
little as 1 Euro, just to get people to come there.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Entire villages in France and Spain are uninhabited already, and the
same will eventually happen throughout the world, especially if the Dark Lord
loses to the Light and people outside these zones of over-breeding remain free.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The best way to save our planet is also the simplest. Adam Smith gave us
a formula for the success of any nation, "Peace, easy taxes, and a
tolerable administration of justice.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Simple, right? But few nations have ever been true to these principles
of success for long. Economic freedom, limited government, no more laws than
absolutely necessary and any place on earth will thrive and stay beyond the
clutches of the Dark Lord’s desire to rule us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We will escape their latest attempt at world rule as well--and I give
the new President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, much of the credit for
that when he cancelled his nation’s participation in the Paris Climate Accord,
putting the world on notice that he wasn't buying their story--and he's now
been proven right. The biggest hoax in human history has been unveiled for what
it was.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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winner and physicist, Dr. Ivar Gaiever, who started the Global Warming Hoax
back in 2001. Make sure you don't hire them to work in your Donut Shoppe or for
anything that requires math or integrity:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Woltz is an American author living in Warsaw, Poland, whose work focuses on
America's system of justice and the negative effects of Progressivism on free
nations and their people.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-4778365897502068972019-03-14T15:58:00.001-07:002019-03-14T15:58:20.612-07:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: PAPUA TERRORISM RISK<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/03/papua-terrorism-risk.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: PAPUA TERRORISM RISK</a>: Three Indonesian soldiers were killed in an ambush by separatist militants armed with small-arms and spears/bows in the Nduga distric...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-82268379895224709902019-03-14T15:57:00.004-07:002019-03-14T15:57:54.195-07:00PAPUA TERRORISM RISK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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killed in an ambush by separatist militants armed with small-arms and
spears/bows in the Nduga district of Indonesia's Papua province on 7 March. The
attack was claimed by the Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Papua Barat (TPNBP), or
West Papua National Liberation Army, the armed wing of Papuan separatist
organization Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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indicates that some Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Papua Barat (TPNBP) components
have adopted a more aggressive strategy, most notably the faction led by
Ekianus Kogoya, which claimed the December 2018 attack and was blamed by the military
for the 7 March 2019 ambush. Various Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM)-affiliated
factions have waged a persistent low-level insurgency in Papua since the 1960s
against perceived Indonesian occupation and exploitation of the country's
mineral wealth; the threat has never previously escalated beyond sporadic
guerrilla operations. Notably, IHS Markit recorded 14 separatist attacks in
2018 - more than the previous four years combined - and three to date in 2019.
The TPNBP also claimed a 2 December 2018 attack that killed 19 construction
workers involved in building the 4,300 km Trans Papua Highway, a high-profile
government development initiative linking Sorong in West Papua to Merauke in
Papua.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Increased spending on
infrastructure and other development projects by Indonesian President Joko
"Jokowi" Widodo is not turning the population against the insurgents.
In fact, the government's development initiatives and the state's heavy-handed
response to separatist activism are already exacerbating local anti-government
sentiment. The 2 December 2018 attack, for example, was conducted the day after
more than 500 protesters were arrested for participating in pro-independence
rallies, and notably, more than 20,000 people were reportedly displaced in the
military operation that followed the attack. Projects such as the Trans Papua
Highway are also viewed by Papuan activists as an attempt to extend the state's
reach into previously inaccessible interior regions. This said, there have been
no clear indications that continued popular support for independence or at
least self-determination has translated into increased TPNBP recruitment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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traditional weapons to supplement a shortfall of military-grade weaponry
indicates that the group is unable to properly equip its existing fighters, let
alone equip and integrate any substantial intake of new recruits. The TPNBP's
claims of several thousand members are likely to be exaggerated; authorities
have claimed that Kogoya's faction probably comprises fewer than 50 fighters.
This reflects the group's longstanding lack of funding. The majority of funds
from diaspora sources are likely still prioritizing political pro-independence
activism over insurgent groups. Although low-level extortion has targeted some mining
operations in Papua, there are no indications that the group has sought to tax
the local population, on which it is reliant, at least for passive, if not
rudimentary, logistical and intelligence-gathering support.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The Trans Papua Highway and the
Grasberg mine (operated by Freeport Inc.) are the primary commercial targets at
risk in the coming months. These two sites are symbolic of Indonesia's
perceived exploitation in Papua, and attacks targeting them to date do not
indicate an increasing risk to commercial assets more broadly in the country.
Given limited capability, the majority of insurgent attacks will still focus on
security forces and those being directly deployed in construction work for the
highway project given their accessibility. Aviation risk is also elevated for
low-flying aircraft in the region because of deliberate targeting or
misidentification. Following the ambush on 7 March 2019, military helicopters
recovering the bodies of soldiers were engaged by ground fire; no major damage
was reported to the helicopters.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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candidate Prabowo Subianto will indicate the formation of a new government
that is more likely to favor a heavy-handed military response against the
TPNBP than the current Jokowi administration.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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violence, extended to political pro-independence activism and civilian
population, will probably increase popular support for militancy as the
most viable method of achieving objectives.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">TPNBP operations increasingly targeting the
Trans Papua Highway will probably provoke further military deployments and
direct confrontation with insurgents and risk further alienating the local
population.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Prominent pro-autonomy/independence diaspora
figures clearly distancing themselves from TPNBP operations and use of
violence more generally will probably undermine the group's appeal and
local support networks.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Increasing international pressure on the
Indonesian government to limit its military response, particularly from
Australia, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, will encourage more
development-focused initiatives as a means to further assimilation in Papua.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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operations against the TPNBP, thereby de-escalating the security situation
and delegitimizing the TPNBP's use of violence to achieve political
objectives, will further deter any recruitment to the TPNBP.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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March 2019 by <a href="https://ihsmarkit.com/experts/kumar-deepa.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Deepa Kumar</span></a>, Senior Analyst – Asia-Pacific
Country Risk, IHS Markit and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Terrorism and Insurgency Center (JTIC) </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-49679099818459025622019-03-07T13:28:00.004-08:002019-03-07T13:28:34.588-08:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Written a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s...<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/03/written-story-novel-memoir-or-childrens.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Written a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s...</a>: Written a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s book and looking for a book publisher? Sid Harta Publishers in Melbourne Australia ha...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-16726207366973959612019-03-07T13:28:00.002-08:002019-03-07T13:28:09.625-08:00Written a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s book and looking for a book publisher?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s book and looking for a book
publisher? Sid Harta Publishers in Melbourne Australia has published 650
authors worldwide on all platforms, eBook, print on demand Amazon and
distributes hard copies globally. Go to </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://sidharta.com.au/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://sidharta.com.au</span></span></b></a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> and email your manuscript to </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="mailto:author@sidharta.com.au"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">author@sidharta.com.au</span></span></b></a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-57373397538547264962019-03-07T13:25:00.004-08:002019-03-07T13:25:53.697-08:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: The world is overlooking the danger of the current...<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-world-is-overlooking-danger-of.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: The world is overlooking the danger of the current...</a>: The world is overlooking the danger of the current West Papuan resolve for independence from Indonesia. The West Papuan Freedom Mov...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-32907518509816715322019-03-07T13:25:00.002-08:002019-03-07T13:25:23.697-08:00 The world is overlooking the danger of the current West Papuan resolve for independence from Indonesia. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
world is overlooking the danger of the current West Papuan resolve for
independence from Indonesia. The West Papuan Freedom Movement has now
successfully lodged a request with the United Nations to revisit the flawed
1969 plebiscite. This could bring Australia and Indonesia again into conflict!
Read the new book release “Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi” eBook and
print on demand all online platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-11459652974568755672019-03-06T20:08:00.004-08:002019-03-06T20:08:51.726-08:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: As the author of 'For Whom the River Runs' I am ex...<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/03/as-author-of-for-whom-river-runs-i-am.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: As the author of 'For Whom the River Runs' I am ex...</a>: As the author of 'For Whom the River Runs' I am extremely grateful to Sid Harta Publishing and Kerry Collison for seeing fit to...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-58016337178488811852019-03-06T20:08:00.002-08:002019-03-06T20:08:14.187-08:00As the author of 'For Whom the River Runs' I am extremely grateful to Sid Harta Publishing and Kerry Collison for seeing fit to publish the novel. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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to Sid Harta Publishing and Kerry Collison for seeing fit to publish the
novel. Sid Harta Publishing have been very generous in its support and
understand very well the needs of first time writers. Sid Harta Publishing have
massaged and nurtured the original manuscript to produce a quality novel that
will be well worth the read. Readers of the novel will, I believe, enjoy
the texture, writing style and of a story with layers of intrigue and
meaning. Kerry Collison, Barbara Ivusic and Luke Harris have contributed much
to the outcome so far. Their editorial expertise and skill is a credit to them.
I can't thank them enough.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-8011866576820018722019-02-25T20:18:00.002-08:002019-02-25T20:18:39.000-08:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Border Crossing from one of our barristers in Aust...<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/02/border-crossing-from-one-of-our.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Border Crossing from one of our barristers in Aust...</a>: Border Crossing from one of our barristers in Australia. ...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-57179413179860628242019-02-25T20:18:00.000-08:002019-02-25T20:18:09.836-08:00Border Crossing from one of our barristers in Australia.The information below should be read by everyone, whether you agree to its contents, or not<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The<span class="m-6662119691428337528m7207115100318360476yiv8288916737m6204372419529369790m249309064491362325m2662250542350120133apple-converted-space"> </span>information
below should be read by everyone, whether you agree to its
contents, or not !!!</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> <b>*** NOW, LET ME SEE IF I'VE GOT THIS
RIGHT....<br />
<br />
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS
HARD LABOUR.<br />
<br />
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED
INDEFINITELY.<br />
<br />
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.<br />
<br />
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE
JAILED.<br />
<br />
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD
FROM AGAIN.<br />
<br />
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED
A SPY AND<br />
YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.<br />
<br />
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO A
POLITICAL<br />
PRISON TO ROT.<br />
<br />
IF YOU CROSS THE AUSTRALIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET:<br />
* A JOB,<br />
* AN INTERPRETER,<br />
* FREE LEGAL AID,<br />
* A DRIVERS LICENCE,<br />
* A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER,<br />
* WELFARE,<br />
* CREDIT CARDS,<br />
* FREE EDUCATION,<br />
* FREE HEALTH CARE,<br />
* DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR
LANGUAGE<br />
* THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT
YOU DO NOT GET ENOUGH RESPECT.</b><br />
<b><br />
Sensationalism? Then think about just this one [not so] small
aspect...</b> <b><br />
The Australian Federal Government provides the following
financial assistance:-</b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">BENEFIT</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">AUSTRALIAN AGED PENSIONER</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN
AUSTRALIA</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Weekly allowance</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">$253.00</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">$472.50</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Weekly Spouse allowance</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">$56.00</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">$472.50</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Additional weekly hardship allowance</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">$0.00</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">$145.00</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">$16,068.00</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">$56,680.00</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />
<b><br />
<br />
If I were a refugee, why would I look for work? And the current
Government is saying that 'elderly Australia' is going to put the
country $100 Bn into debt in the next few years?!</b> <b><br />
Please forward to all your contacts so that we can lobby not just
for an increase in the aged pension and to put the welfare of
Australian pensioners first, but the welfare of refugees further
down the list - well after our Defence men and women, our farmers
and the average Aussie battler. After all, the average pensioner
alone has paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this
country for the last 40 to 60 years; a Defence member voluntarily
endures hardship, prepared to give up their life to preserve the
way of yours; and the farmer/battler who are the backbones of
this Country and Culture -<span class="m-6662119691428337528m7207115100318360476yiv8288916737m6204372419529369790m249309064491362325m2662250542350120133apple-converted-space"> </span><i>never
reaches for a handout but always willing to lend a hand</i>...</b> <b><br />
When these people rarely, if ever, speak out they are shunned,
ridiculed and dismissed by the Government and barely makes a
headline in the news. When refugees/immigrants speak out about
repression and insensitivity to their culture in Australia, it
gets widespread media coverage and quick resolution by Government
bodies.</b> <b><br />
<br />
*** I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE
SITUATION - HAVE A GOOD DAY (AT WORK)</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-27021984413351450682019-02-20T19:34:00.004-08:002019-02-20T19:34:58.598-08:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Written a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s...<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/02/written-story-novel-memoir-or-childrens.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Written a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s...</a>: Written a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s book and looking for a book publisher? Sid Harta Publishers in Melbourne Australia ha...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-46512337816555863092019-02-20T19:34:00.002-08:002019-02-20T19:34:34.012-08:00Written a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s book and looking for a book publisher? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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a story, a novel, a memoir or a children’s book and looking for a book
publisher? Sid Harta Publishers in Melbourne Australia has published 650
authors worldwide on all platforms, eBook, print on demand Amazon and
distributes hard copies globally. Go to </span></b><a href="http://sidharta.com.au/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">http://sidharta.com.au</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> and email your manuscript to </span></b><a href="mailto:author@sidharta.com.au"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">author@sidharta.com.au</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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world is overlooking the danger of the current West Papuan resolve for
independence from Indonesia. The West Papuan Freedom Movement has now
successfully lodged a request with the United Nations to revisit the flawed
1969 plebiscite. This could bring Australia and Indonesia again into conflict!
Read the new book release “Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi” eBook and
print on demand all online platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-27739175083235220482019-02-10T12:43:00.001-08:002019-02-10T12:43:12.538-08:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Why The Philippines Wants To Review Mutual Defence...<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/02/why-philippines-wants-to-review-mutual.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Why The Philippines Wants To Review Mutual Defence...</a>: Philippines’ Defence Secretary, Delfin Lorenzana at a press briefing at Camp Aguinaldo in late December last year spoke of the need...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-64028325548600324172019-02-10T12:42:00.002-08:002019-02-10T12:42:45.759-08:00Why The Philippines Wants To Review Mutual Defence Treaty With United States <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Philippines’ Defence Secretary, Delfin Lorenzana at a press briefing at
Camp Aguinaldo in late December last year spoke of the need for a review of the
1951 Mutual Defence Treaty (MDT) with the United States given the growing
security concerns in the South China Sea. The Defence Secretary had mentioned,
given the ambivalent stand of the United States with respect to the
Philippines’ claim in the West Philippine Sea (as referred to by the
Philippines), <a href="http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/12/28/Mutual-Defense-Treaty-with-U.S.-review.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #289dcc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“the government had three options after the review: Maintain it,
strengthen it, or scrap it.”</span></a> The main premise of the MDT is “that
the Philippines and the U.S. would assist each other when either of them is
attacked by a foreign force.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The MDT between the Philippines and the US was signed on August 30 1951,
in Washington, D.C. After the Philippines gained independence on July 4 1946, a
strong American presence persisted. Under the 1947 Military Bases Agreement, a
number of US military bases were set up in the Philippines. Most notable ones
being the Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay (US naval station). The bases
were maintained and operated by the US until 1991 and 1992 respectively.
Philippines has been the oldest treaty ally of the US in Southeast Asia.
Besides the MDT, the two countries have signed other agreements as well like
the Visiting Forces Agreement in 1998, The Enhanced Defence Cooperation in
2014. After the 1992 withdrawal of the US from Manila, the relationship between
the two countries improved further in the economic, defence and the security
realms. The major thrust of the security relationship rests on the 1951 MDT.
Scholars have even branded the US as the Philippines’ ‘security umbrella’. In
his September 2018 meeting with US Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo,
Lorenzana had said, <a href="https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/09/24/1854160/us-philippines-affirm-commitment-mutual-defense-treaty" target="_blank"><span style="color: #289dcc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“Most in our defense establishments agree that the Philippines-US
alliance remains robust based on an enduring history of close engagement and
our unwavering commitment to work together on shared values.”</span></a>
Therefore, the current statement of Delfin Lorenzana in December last year <a href="https://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/219996-opinion-on-that-proposal-review-ph-us-mutual-defense-treaty-pandora-box" target="_blank"><span style="color: #289dcc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“that this treaty was signed in the Cold War era, do we still have a Cold
War today? Is it still relevant to our security? Maybe not anymore”</span></a>
comes as a surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The main point of objection is the absence of an ‘instant retaliatory
clause’ but to go through the constitutional processes, that is the need to
consult the US Congress before taking any retaliatory action. Furthermore,
Article 5 of the Treaty is, “an armed attack on either of the Parties is deemed
to include an armed attack on the metropolitan territory of either of the Parties,
or on the Island territories under its jurisdiction in the Pacific Ocean, its
armed forces, public vessels or aircraft in the Pacific.” This clause has again
triggered a lot of debate in Manila as to <a href="https://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/219996-opinion-on-that-proposal-review-ph-us-mutual-defense-treaty-pandora-box" target="_blank"><span style="color: #289dcc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“what “Pacific” refers to. Does it mean the Pacific Ocean or the Pacific
area of operations which encompasses everything west of the US West Coast up to
the Indian Ocean?”</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Philippines is currently facing its biggest external threat in the form
of an expansionist China in the South China Sea according to Filipino analysts
like Richard Heydarian. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague had
awarded the Philippines sovereign rights and defined its maritime entitlements
over three disputed areas in the Spratlys: Panganiban (Mischief) Reef, Ayungin
(Second Thomas) Shoal and Recto (Reed) Bank. Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal off
Zambales was declared as a common fishing ground over which no country has
control. But China had completely ignored the ruling and built fortified
artificial islands in the South China Sea including in the Panganiban Reef. The
Chinese sealed off Panatag and harassed resupply operations to Filipino troops
on Ayungin. The Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin has said in a
statement recently that the Philippines will protest against the <a href="https://www.thetrumpet.com/18577-china-opens-maritime-hub-to-tighten-grip-on-south-china-sea"><span style="color: #289dcc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Chinese opening
a maritime rescue centre in the Fiery Cross Reef.</span></a> The territorial
dispute is listed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as the primary
source of the country’s external threat.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This has prompted Manila to demand that the US takes a stronger stand in
the South China Sea issue in favor of its erstwhile treaty ally. Though the US
is undertaking Freedom of Navigation and overflight exercises in the South
China Sea, it still remains non-committal on whether it will defend the
Philippines in times of an armed attack. The US had in the past taken no stand
during the takeover by the Chinese of the Philippines’ claimed Mischief Reef in
1995 and also during the 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff between the
Philippines and China. This has not gone down well in the Filipino defence,
security circles and most importantly the country’s citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">However in an address on the eve of Chinese New Year, the leader of the
Philippines said the <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1082403/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-china-news-chinese-new-year-message" target="_blank"><span style="color: #289dcc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“friendship and cooperation forged between the Philippines and China” had
led to “greater prosperity and economic growth”.</span></a> Philippines unlike
in the past where it was too pro- US, is now like most other countries in the
region following a hedging strategy, which means the US needs to do much more
to keep the trust of its treaty ally intact. Under the Trump administration,
US’s Asia Policy has become a dicey one. On one hand, we saw President Trump
pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but on December 31 2018, the
release of the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) is focused on the
promotion of American interests in the Indo-Pacific region in terms of defense
and security partnerships. In the ARIA, the US “promotes a joint Indo-Pacific
diplomatic strategy in Asian waters through joint maritime exercises in the
East China Sea and the South China Sea.” It also reaffirms its treaty
commitments to countries like the Thailand and the Philippines. Though the ARIA
mentions about the appropriation of US$150,000,000 to the Indo-Pacific region
for each fiscal year from 2019-2023. But at the same time, financial assistance
will be subjected to a budget cut in countries such as Cambodia, Myanmar and
US’s closest security ally in ASEAN, the Philippines, due to human rights
issues. According to academics, Academics Gregory Poling and Eric Sayers, “if
the Philippines withdraws from the MDT it would be a severe blow to US
interests in the Indo-Pacific.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This in a way is reflective of the yearning of smaller countries in this
region for a more proactive role to be played that caters to their interests by
the Big powers like the US. This yearning presents both challenges and
opportunities for the Big Powers. Even countries like the US in the current
times despite the ongoing trade war with China is delicately balancing its relations
with Beijing. So to claim outright that it will take the side of its
treaty ally during a clash with its very crucial trading partner puts the US in
a tough spot. The Scarborough Shoal 2012 standoff had also put the Asia Pivot
policy of the Obama administration under test and many had questioned the
genuineness of the policy when the US maintained a neutral stand in the
standoff. Philippines’ wish for a stronger MDT has again put the US in a
difficult situation. The US-Philippines 2014 Enhanced Defence Co-operation
Agreement (EDCA) also depends on the MDT. That agreement allows the US to
construct facilities and pre-position and store defence equipment, supplies and
material within Philippine military bases and to deploy troops on a rotational
basis there. Given the Philippines’ change in attitude towards China and its
new hedging strategy, according to Poling and Sayers, “continuance of the
treaty and the EDCA is critical to US interests in the region, not necessarily
to those of the Philippines whose relations with China may suffer.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">India is revamping her Indo-Pacific policy through its Act East and
thereby also needs to take cognizance of the demands of the smaller countries
in the Southeast Asian region beside countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore.
The ASEAN has always believed in ‘consensus’ and the visions and desires of all
the member countries will be taken into account when the ‘ASEAN vision or
concept of the Indo-Pacific’ is formulated at the end of the ongoing
deliberations on the Indo-Pacific at the platform of the ASEAN and the East
Asia Summit. The ASEAN countries have propagated for an “inclusive Indo-Pacific
framework”, therefore at the end, picking sides will not be a viable option for
either the Big powers in case of sore issues like the South China Sea and even
for the smaller countries in the emerging dynamics of the Indo-Pacific and the
changing global order. Therefore, these demands of the smaller countries needs
to be tackled by India with a lot of caution and diplomatic acumen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">ORF was
established on 5 September 1990 as a private, not for profit, ’think tank’ to
influence public policy formulation. The Foundation brought together, for the
first time, leading Indian economists and policymakers to present An Agenda for
Economic Reforms in India. The idea was to help develop a consensus in favour
of economic reforms.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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British naval presence in Southeast Asia should be expected now that
commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan have reduced.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Sparked by recent comments by the British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy
Hunt, there has been a good deal of excited speculation about the prospect of a
large-scale British military re-appearance in Southeast Asia complete with
aircraft carriers and new bases. Its critics argue that this can be simply
attributed to the country’s desire to reinvent itself after Brexit. Is there a
nostalgic desire to try to return to the days of Empire? In fact, it’s all a
bit more complicated than that.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">First of all, the United Kingdom’s intention to increase its engagement
with Southeast Asia has long preceded the Brexit project (although that has
probably accentuated the drive for a ‘global Britain’ that is international by
design); and far from being a harking back to the old days is a response to
some very modern realities and developments. Chief amongst these is the rate of
growth in Southeast Asia and the extent of today’s mutually beneficial linkages
between the economies of the UK and the region.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Less of Shift in Policy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Southeast Asia is the UK’s third largest non-EU export market and the UK
is the second biggest EU investor in the area. Moreover Southeast Asia is the
UK’s third biggest market for defence exports. For all these reasons, the
British, like other Europeans, have concluded that they should try for a more
persistent presence not just in Southeast Asia but in the whole of the
Indo-Pacific region, as part of an ‘All of Asia’ project.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Equally clearly this is not to be part of a plan to compete with, still
less contain, China, which is also an important trading partner. It is,
however, designed to contribute to the defence of the rules-based order.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This is less of a shift in policy than is often realised. Back in the
1970s the ink had hardly dried on the Wilson Government’s controversial
decision to abandon Singapore and its ‘East of Suez’ commitment, than the
British naval staff, with Foreign Office approval, set about organising an
annual series of ‘group deployments’ through the area and shortly after that
established the so-called ‘Beira patrol’.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This was a permanent frigate force off the Gulf which little by little
acted as a fore-runner for the substantial task group and semi-permanent mine
countermeasures force that distinguished itself in the first Gulf War in the
1990s and afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When combined with the Five Power Defence Arrangements, the ‘Five Eyes’
relationship especially with Australia and New Zealand, the continuing
deployment to Brunei and even the small oiling facility at Sembawang in
Singapore, this all makes it seem less a question of the British ‘coming back’
to the region, more a recognition that they never really left.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">More Visible British Naval Presence?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But certainly the expensive land-centric strategic distractions of Iraq
and Afghanistan, together with the effects of great recession of 2008 and the
harsh defence review of 2010 did lead to a significant diminution of the
British naval presence. A more persistent naval presence in the region is now
possible and is being sought.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">For this some local logistic support is necessary but nothing like the
old Singapore ‘base’ which would be ruinously expensive, politically highly
controversial and operationally completely unnecessary. Instead the British,
like other navies, not least the Chinese, seek enhanced facilities such as they
have completed in Bahrain and just agreed at Duqm in Oman where ships can be
refuelled, routine maintenance conducted and crews rested or rotated.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Already with most ambitious deployment for many years of three major
assets, including the assault ship HMS <i>Albion</i> and with the <i>Queen
Elizabeth</i> likely to make its operational debut in the region by the
beginning of 2021, a greater British naval footprint is already emerging.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Moreover such an enhanced presence is likely to be conducted with
traditional friends in the area, and this will help too. Relations with the
navies of Southeast Asia are good. Moreover both the Australians and the
Canadians have chosen the Royal Navy’s highly sophisticated Type 26 frigate for
their fleet renewal programmes (and the New Zealanders might follow suit in
some form) and this will greatly increase prospects for naval cooperation in
the years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The UK’s European partners are likewise interested in working with the
Royal Navy, wherever it is, especially in exploring the disciplines of carrier
escort, and of course have their own very similar reasons for wanting a presence
in the Indo-Pacific region.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Challenges Ahead<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Nonetheless there are still major challenges ahead, quite apart from the
obvious need to handle local reactions sensitively. The Type 26 programme, the
more modest Type 31 frigate programme, the completion of the carrier and F-35b
fighter project when added to the very high costs of the Successor ballistic
missile firing submarine programme, simultaneously combine into a formidable
charge on the UK Defence budget at a time of Brexit-induced uncertainty.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Nor is Southeast Asia the only area in which the UK has an interest it
needs to signal. Russian truculence in European waters and the growing
importance of the Far North and the Arctic demand a countervailing attention
and will remain the top strategic priority. The Mediterranean, the Gulf, the
Caribbean and the South Atlantic matter too.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It will be a challenge to meet such a diverse range of commitments with
a frigate and destroyer fleet that has dropped from 32 at the time of the
1997/8 Strategic Defence review to just 19 now.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">However, it would seem from last year’s relatively benign Modernising
Defence Review that something of a renaissance is underway. In all probability,
the British <i>will</i> in American revolutionary John Paul Jones’ words ‘be
coming’ unless present intentions are derailed by some disastrous Brexit
outcome or dramatic strategic deterioration in Europe, but in a cautious and
considered way which will depend heavily on the degree of welcome accorded the
UK by friends and partners in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This will be measured by the degree of success achieved by the UK’s bid
to engage with ASEAN through establishing linkages with ADMM+ and the Expert
Working groups. The probable increase in the visibility of the Royal Navy in
Southeast Asian waters after all is just one fairly small part of a much bigger
package of political and economic efforts to engage with the region.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">*<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Professor Geoffrey Till</span>
is an Advisor to the Maritime Security Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of
International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
Singapore.</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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world is overlooking the danger of the current West Papuan resolve for
independence from Indonesia. The West Papuan Freedom Movement has now
successfully lodged a request with the United Nations to revisit the flawed
1969 plebiscite. This could bring Australia and Indonesia again into conflict!
Read the new book release “Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi” eBook and
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Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-74519006596092395632019-02-07T14:11:00.004-08:002019-02-07T14:11:47.764-08:00Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Trouble in the Tropics: The Legacy of the Bali Bom...<a href="https://kerrycollison.blogspot.com/2019/02/trouble-in-tropics-legacy-of-bali.html?spref=bl">Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Trouble in the Tropics: The Legacy of the Bali Bom...</a>: With the elections fast approaching in Indonesia, leaders are hard-pressed to maintain the population’s support despite recent challenge...Kerry B. Collisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02939821793284561307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083592332331184648.post-85880284599174771712019-02-07T14:11:00.002-08:002019-02-07T14:11:20.759-08:00Trouble in the Tropics: The Legacy of the Bali Bombings on Indonesian Elections<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #76923c; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">With the elections fast approaching in Indonesia,
leaders are hard-pressed to maintain the population’s support despite recent
challenges. Religion and terrorism in particular have been thorny issues for
President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, who is seeking re-election on
April 17. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">On January
18, the Jokowi administration announced its intentions to <a href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/jokowi-analysis-01302019145348.html"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">release</span><span style="color: #434343; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a>80 year-old Abu Bakar
Bashir from prison over humanitarian concerns given his age and deteriorating
health. Bashir is the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the militant
group responsible for the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19881138"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2002 Bali bombings</span></a>, one of Indonesia’s deadliest terrorist
attacks in which 202 individuals were killed, including 88 Australians. JI is
also believed to be a regional branch of the al-Qaeda network. Bashir himself
has never been found to be directly involved in the bombing, but he was
arrested on </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/jokowi-analysis-01302019145348.html"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">charges</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> of funding a training camp for Islamic militants
and encouraging extremists to carry out terrorist attacks. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Jokowi’s
preoccupation to improve his image and electability among Muslim communities
before the elections seems to support the idea that his decision regarding
Bashir is politically motivated. Some believe that it is a</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/freeing-of-bashir-seen-as-political-move-by-jokowi"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> pre-emptive move</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> to diffuse criticism ahead of the release of
former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. Basuki, a Christian of Chinese
origin, was found <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/09/jakarta-governor-ahok-found-guilty-of-blasphemy-jailed-for-two-years"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">guilty of blasphemy</span></a> against Islam after he quoted a verse of
the Qu’ran and insinuated that his opponents had used the passage to trick
Muslims into voting against him. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In an <a href="https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/indonesia-releasing-abu-bakar-ba-asyir-wrong-all-counts"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">analysis</span><span style="color: #434343; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a>published by the Lowy
Institute, an Australian think tank, regional terrorism expert Sidney Jones
argued that the legal grounds of Jokowi’s decision are unclear. It is neither a
pardon nor an amnesty, because Bashir never requested a pardon and the decision
seems to violate Regulation 99 of 2012 from Indonesia’s Ministry of Law and
Human Rights. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This
stipulates that the release of offenders such as convicted terrorists is
contingent on their willingness to sign a loyalty oath to the Indonesian
government. It was on those grounds that the Jokowi government later
backtracked on their plan. Bashir refused to pledge his allegiance to the
nation and the state ideology of </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1818"><i><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Pancasila</span></i></a>,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> which promotes pluralism. There seems to be no
good reason as to why this requirement should be waived for humanitarian
reasons. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Unfortunately,
the damage has already been done. Domestically, public outrage at Jokowi’s
decision has <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/jokowis-failed-bashir-gamble-reveals-the-danger-of-playing-the-religion-card-in-indonesia/"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">alienated</span><span style="color: #434343; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a>his supporters, which
include moderates, families of the Bali bombing victims, and the police, the
judiciary and the bureaucracy who were involved in the fight against JI. Along
with the appointment of conservative cleric Ma’ruf Amin as his running mate,
these recent decisions made by Jokowi have contributed to a growing sense among
his supporters that the President is more concerned with courting the
Islamic vote rather than promoting an agenda that addresses social and economic
issues. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">At the same
time, the reversal of Jokowi’s initial plan to release Bashir has also angered
conservative Muslims who accused the President of making empty promises. There
was no clear guarantee that this decision would help Jokowi change the minds of
conservative Muslims and effectively gain their support. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Many people
who opposed the release of Bashir have also threatened not to vote for Jokowi.
In Indonesia, voters can choose to cast a blank vote, or an abstention from
voting. This practice, called </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/Indonesian-elections/4763187.html"><i><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">golput</span></i><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">,</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> is usually
interpreted as a sign that the electorate does not believe that the candidates
deserve their votes. <i>Golput </i>was used a symbol of protest in Suharto’s
authoritarian </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2019/01/28/golput-weakens-democracy.html"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">New Order</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> regime, at a time when the winner was already
determined before the election and alternative parties were either banned or
tightly controlled. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Recently, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2184317/indonesia-election-joko-widodos-latest-challenge-may-come-people"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">pro-<i>golput</i> voices</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> were heard following the first presidential debate
and the announcement of Jokowi’s plan to release Bashir. Jokowi supporters have
begun to waver, and may choose the <i>golput</i> option on their ballots given
that most do not see Prabowo Subianto, the incumbent’s opponent, as a possible
alternative. However, opting for <i>golput </i>in 2019 could potentially mean
surrendering the political future of the country to Prabowo and his </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/trump-like-indonesian-hopeful-poised-for-2019-presidential-bid-20180328-p4z6p2.html"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">authoritarian tendencies</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Much more
seems to be at risk now. Bashir’s lawyer Muhammad Mahendradatta has <a href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/jokowi-analysis-01302019145348.html"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">threatened</span><span style="color: #434343; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a>to take legal action to
demand the release of the religious leader based on his health conditions.
Mahendradatta maintains that Bashir has never been found guilty for any
bombing, and that the regulation requiring him to sign a pact of allegiance to <i>Pancasila
</i>should not apply given that it was passed in 2012 and cannot be
retroactive. Yusril Ihza Mahendra, a legal advisor to Jokowi’s re-election
campaign, has <a href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/jokowi-analysis-01302019145348.html"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">warned</span><span style="color: #434343; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a>that “if [Bashir] is
entitled to parole and that right is not given, the government could be sued
and lose.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Even worse,
although Bashir’s influence has waned over the years, anti-terrorism experts
suspect that the timing of this incident will help burnish his </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-early-release-for-cleric-abu-bakar-bashir-bali-bombing-11151064"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">image</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> as a hero of militant Islamism among hardliners. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What does
this incident say about Indonesia’s elections? For one, these elections may be
more unpredictable than they seem. Even if Jokowi has a substantial lead over
his opponent Prabowo, it would not take much more than a political scandal to
potentially turn the tables. Furthermore, Jokowi’s failed political gamble
demonstrates the need for leaders to be careful when pulling the religion card,
which could easily do more harm than good.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Published By : <a href="https://mjps.ssmu.ca/author/patriciasibal/"><span style="color: #434343; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Patricia Sibal</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author
and they do not reflect the position of the McGill Journal of Political Studies
or the Political Science Students’ Association. </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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