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sharpTopic: human rights
In terms of institutional misogyny in Australia the Exclusive Brethren are right up there, turning the young female members into economic slave cannon fodder.
For those who take the time to look at this EB mob seriously as the ABC 4 Corners have done, as noted here on SAM last year (see below), either conservatives or leftwingger, can only wonder how a Prime Minister of Australia ever got mixed up with this pack of ultra hierarchical grubs:
Tuesday, 16 October 2007Rodent cornered by new detail on so called 'lawful' electioneering scandal?
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Topic: election Oz 2007
Now the whole dirty business of the quasi religious business cult using modern forms of economic slavery and control to gouge their profit are in the news again today 18th Jan 2008, with another clipping of interest from 2007 included. Perhaps most notable is the impertinence of this cult involving itself so deeply in Big Politics behind a facade of neutrality and other-worldliness. Or perhaps that John Howard would never let his own professional daughter, lawyer Melanie, be oppressed and suppressed with a blanket ban on access to higher education let alone computers. SAM here finds the EB very creepy:
Postscript #1 21 Jan 2008
Sect schools to get $10m, despite ALP unease THE secretive Exclusive Brethren religious sect is poised to receive more than $10 million in Federal Government funds this year, despite the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, describing it during the election campaign as an extremist cult that breaks up families.
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at 9:43 AM EADT
Updated: Monday, 21 January 2008 4:40 PM EADT
