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If the suggestion of unlimited club-assisted sponsorship comes in then it'll advantage teams that can rake in higher value sponsors. They can sign up the best players and best prospects using a higher percentage of sponsor dollars and less of their own money. As the rules currently stand the competition would then quickly become lopsided with the Roosters, Souths, Brisbane, Gold Coast all at the top and Canberra, Newcastle, Cowboys and like at the bottom. In fact as the rules stand, adding in unlimited sponsorship, Thurston could sign with a team for minimum wage and top up with $800k of sponsors, with only the $55k counting to the cap.
Well said Terry. Because I have learnt how the real mechanics of the establishment come together to control society, the powers that be pull the strings of their marionettes who perform at arms length on their behalf. Many men and women, and there are billions globally, know something is wrong but can't seem to put their finger on what it is. They know there is a powerful cabal of men and women who control governments, private corporations, political parties, banks, insurance, companies etc. Our Rugby League, particularly the NRL is completely controlled by this brotherhood/sisterhood of men and women whose allegiance to their order excludes the best interests of the players, fans and most of the labourers who work, free or not, for the game they love so much. Fox is controlled by this cabal which Rupert is part of.
Look at America. the U.S.A. has had over 200 years of elections, parties coming and going, coming and going and coming and going, new policies and promises coming and going, coming and going and coming and going, but the situation for most men and women just gets worse and worse. We could say the same for Australia. Until we all get together and chuck the whole corrupt system in the bin, men and women will continue to be lied to and done over. The grass roots of Rugby League is the working class and this heart and soul of Rugby League needs to rise up and and take back THEIR game from the greedy, selfish, tiny few, who want all the power and control of the world for their own glory. Things are not what they seem.
Extracts From JFK Speech on Secret Societies
And Freedom of the Press
Links to the video and full text are at the bottom of this posting.
The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association
President John F. Kennedy
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New York City, April 27, 1961
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions.
Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
But I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.
Today no war has been declared--and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.
If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.
It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions--by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.
Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security--and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haZIaIF5BZY
Full text located here: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historica...s/JFK/003POF03NewspaperPublishers04271961.htm
