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January 10, 2016

Australia - Austraian Defence Force - Twitter PsyOps, Cultural Marxism, Ideological Wars & Censorship

Twitter PsyOps

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SOURCE
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/mona-shindy-case-defence-impartiality-caught-in-a-twitter-trap/news-story/54a5bed01d0df3425e3c6d5f761d60e2

Australia - Austraian Defence Force - Twitter PsyOps, Cultural Marxism, Ideological Wars & Censorship
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/mona-shindy-case-defence-impartiality-caught-in-a-twitter-trap/news-story/54a5bed01d0df3425e3c6d5f761d60e2

Mona Shindy case: Defence impartiality caught in a Twitter trap

    The Australian
    January 9, 2016 12:00AM

    Leo Shanahan     Reporter, Sydney

Zimbabwean Muslim cleric Mufti Ismail Menk runs a kind of benign Twitter account that projects a “can’t we just all get along” schtick appealing to Western sensibilities. Menk tweets out statements such as: “Learn to make the most of each day. Once over, it’ll never return. So be wary of what you put in a day. Fill it with good deeds & kindness.”

No doubt it was with such sentiments in mind that Captain Mona Shindy, the navy’s most senior Muslim officer and the naval chief strategic adviser on Islamic affairs, at one stage describing him as “a source of wisdom”, retweeted Menk’s advice not to get “rude abusive or insulting”.

More discreet are his views on homosexuals, whom he calls “filthy”. A recent tour of British universities was abandoned after videos of sermons surfaced in which Menk claimed gays “are worse than animals”.

There is no suggestion Shindy endorses Menk’s views on gays, but it neatly illustrates the trap of social media for a member of the Australian Defence Force.

Shindy’s Twitter account @navyislamic was shut down by Chief of Navy Tim Barrett in December after tweets endorsed the Australian Grand Mufti’s response to the Paris terror attacks, made gibes at Tony Abbott and questioned Australian foreign policy in Iraq. The social media and political activities policy of the ADF demands strict political neutrality from members when commenting in a capacity identifying them as ADF employees.
  [comment:  no such thing as 'strict political neutrality' -- even benign schtick & infomercial messaging IS POLITICAL & IDEOLOGICAL dissemination / influence / opinion shaping]

How does an organisation that has to be absolutely neutral in its political positioning exist in the politically febrile world of social media? How do you engage in identity politics, creating positions such as “Islamic cultural adviser” that almost by their nature attract political comment, without endangering the impartiality of the officer or the ADF? 
[comment:  'impartiality' -- got to be kidding -- position itself is indicative of political state messaging role]
 
The position of Islamic cultural adviser was established in 2013 by Barrett’s predecessor Ray Griggs. According to the navy, “the position … was established to help improve Navy’s understanding of the cultural issues of the many Muslim navies/nations that it operates withCapt Shindy also provides advice on how Navy can become a more attractive employer from an Islamic perspective as part of our broader diversity approach.” At the end of last year, the ADF had 103 permanent members who identified as Muslim, 26 of them in the navy.

Rodger Shanahan (no relation), a research fellow at the Lowy Institute and a former army officer, believes Shindy clearly crossed the line of what is acceptable political comment from an ADF officer. “She showed poor judgment, stepped over the line and should’ve known better,” he tells The Weekend Australian.

He believes the Twitter controversy points to problems the ADF faces in its determination to have a social media presence. “The military is not really allowed to enter into” all the “meaty stuff that makes social media ­interesting and dynamic”, Shanahan says, so “it almost becomes an infomercial”. The second problem is the nebulous nature of Shindy’s role as an Islamic cultural adviser. Shanahan says defence forces can only “be concerned with operational not social outcomes” and it’s unclear what operational benefit is being provided by the role.

He claims the ADF would be better off following a US model of employing foreign area officers, who can be of any religion but trained in particular geographic areas to offer cultural advice
.

Neil James, executive director of the Australia Defence Association, says the ADF needs a diversity policy in the interests of a representative workforce, but the Islamic cultural advisory role has failed. “I think the experiment of an Islamic cultural adviser hasn’t worked. They do have indigenous cultural advisers and they do work, but they are advising on culture largely and not religion. In this case they did not have a definition of what a cultural adviser actually did.”

Another problem, says James, are the inconsistencies in the ADF crackdowns for breaches of its social media and political commentary policies.

“One of the problems they have had is that what you might loosely call the right-wing commentators have been punished and what you might call left-wing commentators haven’t been.”

He also says the navy’s excuse for closing the @navyislamic account — that it was attracting “contentious comments” — was disingenuous given that many would regard Shindy’s comments as contentious.

“You have comments on a navy website which a lot of people would consider an apologia for Islamist terrorism,” James says.

While accepting the Shindy case is very different from that of Bernard Gaynor — who was sacked for making a statement about military marching in Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras — experts and former ADF members accept it puts the ADF in a bind over what is considered acceptable political commentary.

The ADF is appealing Gaynor’s recent victory in the Federal Court, which found his decommissioning was invalid on the grounds his comment was made as a private citizen and was protected under the implied right to political communication.

Gaynor has been a long-time critic of Shindy and transgender Group Captain Cate McGregor. He was crowing this week that the removal of the @navyislamic feed was a victory for him and the Australian Liberty Alliance.

It may be galling for it to be lectured by Gaynor, but when the ADF chooses to navigate the minefield of social media and identity politics, allies can just as easily turn out to be enemies.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/mona-shindy-case-defence-impartiality-caught-in-a-twitter-trap/news-story/54a5bed01d0df3425e3c6d5f761d60e2


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COMMENT
NOTE - follow up U.S.A. STATE STASI PROPAGANDA - 'FOREIGN' MODEL

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Found my first Aussie state Twitter PsyOps.
Aussie State Stasi at work right here.
Need to think about this before concluding what I think overall.  But I tend to be as opposed to state propaganda as I am to state (and corporate media / social media platform) censorship.

Setting it aside for the moment.
Lowy Institute is just another state Stasi ideology & corporate propaganda echo chamber (retail magnate / corporate established), so anything they have to offer in this or any other debate  is automatically suspect.


Lowy Institute
Australia's leading foreign affairs think-tank
objective:  to influence Australian foreign policy
Lowy Institute
established 2003
with a gift from Frank Lowy AC  [think-tank 'trojan' ... lol]
Frank Lowy
Chairman of Westfield Corporation
global shopping centre co.
US$29.3 billion of assets
USA, UK & Europe

Chairman of Scentre Group

Scentre Group
ASX listed
created 2014
when Westfield separated USA & European business
from operations in Australia & New Zealand

  • ownership
  • development
  • design
  • construction
  • funds/asset management
  • property management
  • leasing
  • marketing activities
for Westfield centres
2015 - assets under management:  A$39.4 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scentre_Group

Frank Lowy
b. Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
lived in Budapest, Hungary WWII
caught en route to British Mandate of Palestine
deported by British to camp in Cyprus
Lowy joined the Haganah (then Golani Brigade)
active in:   Arab–Israeli War in the Galilee & Gaza

1952 - left Israel
joins family in Australia
starts small-goods delivery business
1953 - hook-up with fellow immigrant John Sanders
partner with Sanders --> found Westfield Devel. Corp.
develop shopping centre Sydney west, Blacktown

Reserve Bank of Australia
Lowy appointed Director:  1995, 2000, 2003 (term end 2005)
US Senate probe & Aust. Tax Office audit
re:   tax havens in Liechtenstein & Switzerland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lowy


Haganah
Zionist military organisation
representing Jews in Palestine from 1920 to 1948
under the influence of Histadrut
(“General Federation of Labour”)
outlawed by British Mandatory authorities

initially reportedly opposed politics & terrorist activities
of Irgun Zvai Leumi & the Stern Gang

However:  1941, a full-time commando force, the Palmach
Hebrew acronym:  Pluggot Machatz, “Shock Companies”)
was organised

Post WWII
when British refuse to open Palestine to unlimited Jewish immigration
Haganah resorts to terrorist activities:
bombing bridges, rail lines, and ships used to deport illegal Jewish immigrants


1947 - United Nations resolution to partition Palestine
Haganah the terrorist org
becomes the defence force of Jewish state
clashed openly with British forces
defeated Palestinian Arabs & allies

1948 - creation of state of Israel
Haganah controlled:

  • most of the settled areas allocated to Israel
  • plus:   Arab cities eg, ʿAkko (Acre) & Yafo (Jaffa)
May 31, 1948 - Haganah disbanded as private org
by Israel provisional govt
-->  it then became the national army of the state:
name perpetuated in official name of Israeli armed forces:
Tzva Haganah le-Yisraʾel (“Israel Defense Forces”)
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Haganah

1946 - Bombing of King David Hotel, Jerusalm
British admin HQ for Palestine
91 (various nationalities) killed & 46 injured
by militant Zionist underground org Igrun
plan finalised between Amichai Paglin (Irgun alias 'Gidi')
Chief of Ops of the Irgun
+  Itzhak Sadeh, commander of the Palmach
bombing of King David Hotel, Jerusalem
approved by Moshe Sneh, chief of the Haganah General HQ in 1946
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
 

Lowy Institute
Australia's leading foreign affairs think-tank
objective:  to influence Australian foreign policy

established in 2003
with a gift from Frank Lowy AC  [think-tank 'trojan' ... lol]

  •     International Security
  •     East Asia
  •     G20 Studies Centre
  •     Melanesia
  •     Polling
  •     International Economy
  •     West Asia
  • offers publications for free download
  • regular talks began to be recorded available on website
2007 - launched a blog 'The Interpreter'

Board of directors
Ambassador Chan Heng Chee DUBC – former Singaporean ambassador to USA
David Gonski
Robert Ferguson – former managing director, Bankers Trust Australia
Martin Indyk – diplomat; former United States ambassador to Israel
Frank Lowy – Lowy Institute founder and chairman; co-founder, Westfield Group
Peter Lowy – group managing director of the Westfield Group
Steven Lowy – group managing director of the Westfield Group

Ian Macfarlane – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
Mark Ryan – company director
Judith Sloan – economist
Michael Thawley – former Australian Ambassador to the United States
Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC, DFC – former Chief of the Australian Defence Force
The Hon. James Spigelman AC - Aust. Broadcasting Corp. Chair

   

James Spigelman
former Chief Justice NSW Supreme Court 1998-2012
2012 - Chair Aust. Broadcasting Corp. - 5-year term
Thus:  incumbent ABC Chair

Court Final Appeal Hong Kong (2013)
b. Poland 1946
served as Sen. Advisor & Principal Pvt Sec. to PM Gough Whitlam
1975 - appointed Sec. of Dept. of the Media
member Aust. Law Reform Commission
former Queens Counsel
Appointed Chief Justice by NSW Prem. Bob Carr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Spigelman


Notable staff
Michael Fullilove, Executive Director and Director of the Global Issues Program
Rory Medcalf, Director International Security Program
James Brown, Military Fellow
Alan Dupont, Non-Resident Fellow
 

Former staff
Allan Gyngell, Executive Director (2004–2009) - subsequently Director General of the Office of National Assessments [spy agency]

Michael Wesley, Executive Director (2009-2012)
Mark Thirlwell, Director International Economy Program (2004-2013)



REPORTS - Quickie insight into agenda:

  • New Voices 2004     Australia's transforming borders
  • New Voices 2005     Binding the World Together
  • New Voices 2006     Technology and International Relations
  • New Voices 2007     International Leadership
  • New Voices 2008     Responsibility in a Globalised World
  • New Voices 2009     Networked
  • New Voices 2010     Global Encounters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowy_Institute_for_International_Policy

Dr. Michael Fullilove
executive director
Lowy Institute for International Policy

Rhodes Scholar
University of Oxford
MA & PhD International Relations
worked as a visiting fellow
at Brookings Institution in Washington, DC
former adviser:  Australia PM Paul Keating
remains:   nonresident senior fellow at Brookings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fullilove


Reserve Bank of Australia
est.  Reserve Bank of Australia
Australia's central bank & banknote issuing authority
Reserve Bank Act (1959)
removed central banking functions from Commonwealth Bank

Components:

Payments System Board
governs the payments system policy of Reserve Bank

Reserve Bank Board
controls:  all other monetary & banking policies of bank

board composition:
* Treasury & other Aust. govt agencies
* civil leaders of economy

structure consistent since 1951

Governor

{appointed by: Treasurer}
chairs:
1. Payment Systems Board
2. Reserve Bank Board

DISAGREEMENT between 

  • board Payment Systems & 
  • board Reserve Bank
= resolved by Governor
1911 - est. Commonwealth Bank
without authority to print notes
{only Treasury could do so}
movement to re-establishing gold standard post WWI
1925 - gold standard for British pound sterling & Australian pound

Great Depression (1929-late 1930s)
-- Australian pound devalued
-- below value of pound sterling
Commonwealth Bank Act (1932)
-- Aust pound sterling departs from gold standard

1945 - private banks regulated by legislation
-- opposed by HC Coombs
-- Coombs pro flexible interest rate
-- allowing bank to rely on open market ops

-- tap system issue of bank bonds (ie price set)
-- altered 1980 to short term (13 wk & 25 wk) tender
-- volume of stock set but price determined by market
-- tender system extended, soon after, to longer term govt bonds

1983 - float of Australian dollar
--  financial system in Australia deregulated

1998 - admin of banks
-- transferred from the Commonwealth Bank to:


    - Aust. Prudential Regulation Authority
    - Payments System Board (created)
    - bank granted power in board same year

Current Governor of Reserve bank:  Glenn Stevens
appointed:  2006
b. Sydney 1958
Sydney University, BA Economics
University of Western Ontario, MA
professing Christian, Baptist church
long-time:  Sutherland Shire

southern region of Sydney, NSW
council predominantly Liberal
2011 - Anglo-Saxon (72%)
Shire: home to Westfield Miranda 'Miranda Fair' & others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland_Shire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Stevens


*partial summary Reserve Bank