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  Watada: What's a (thoughtful) lieutenant to do? posted by Dean Paton via rialator, 2007-10-19 14:04:31
OCT 5 2007 -- Let's assume Lt. Col. John Head, the Army judge who presided over the first court-martial of Lt. Ehren Watada last February, used impeccable legal reasoning when he denied Watada the right to insist that the war in Iraq is illegal -- which, the young soldier says, makes it his sworn duty to protect the Constitution by refusing to fight in such a war. (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
 NATO attempts to revive old enmities in Balkans posted by Milan, 2007-10-19 12:34:45
NATO has recently completed joint military exercises with the non-member country of CROATIA. The scenario of the exercises was based on a military action against a ‘breakaway Balkan province’ – give us all a break! This pathetic attempt to revive old enmities between Balkan states and perhaps to utilise Croatia to do the dirty work recalls the very ‘chequered’ history of Croatia’s complicity with Hitler’s Nazis and the war crimes committed by fascist Croats against Serbs. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Social consequences posted by dingo, 2007-10-18 12:34:50
While the ‘bewildered herds’ of the West bray and bleat, the aware fight on – life scintillates for those who choose to live it and is Bliss for those who choose to FIGHT, moooo!
This week has seen some remarkable events; a meat-eating Buddhist monk received an award from a nation that is responsible for the worst holocaust of the 21st century; it may be time to review the basic tenets of Buddhism, Tenzin, you reprehensible HYPOCRITE and bald-faced FRAUD! Your actions may arouse the la la’s and space cadets from their somnambulistic trance but I doubt it! You have just farted in a very crowded lift, Tenzin, and all eyes are on YOU! How does it feel to zero your credibility by supporting a criminal nation and its actions against your fellow human beings, Mr Gyatso-Dalai Lama – what a laugh? (full story)
social/political / national
 The World is brimming with Hypocrites posted by budgie, 2007-10-16 22:38:34
Today, revered hypocrite, the Dalai Lama, accepted a ‘gold medal’ from a nation that is responsible for a pre-emptive illegal invasion that has killed one million innocent civilians and displaced four million others. If the Dalai Lama had a cause to free his people and incriminate China it just went up the spout – are Iraqi deaths less important than Tibetan deaths to a Buddhist HYPOCRITE? The actions of the Dalai Lama prove what we’ve always maintained, religious leaders make the best hypocrites! (full story)
theology / international
 The Putin Touch posted by staff report WSJ via reed, 2007-10-16 12:57:35
Mr. Putin's message to Condoleezza Rice and Bob Gates: "Of course, we can some time in the future decide that some anti-missile defense should be established somewhere on the moon," said Mr. Putin, with more sarcasm than wit. (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
 Raising quotas discarding benefits posted by Kingfisher, 2007-10-14 13:00:02
The proud labour movement of Oz has allowed itself to be decimated by management, you know, the people who continually raise work quotas but maintain low wages; the managers who sit in workers' meetings and monitor those who openly question oppression and exploitative work practices. The breed that thrives on DISPARITY, INEQUITY, DIVISION and D-I-S-U-N-I-T-Y! (full story)
social/political / international
 Former Top General in Iraq Faults Bush Administration posted by David S. Cloud via reed, 2007-10-12 23:41:25
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12— In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top American commander called the Bush administration’s handling of the war incompetent and warned that the United States was “living a nightmare with no end in sight.” (full story)
peace/war / international
Oz elections: a dead loss for the people posted by barra, 2007-10-12 00:45:47
The incumbent, John Howard, has a new nickname, ‘dead man walking,’ while his opponent remains an insipid non-entity. It’s all but over for the lying rodent and war criminal, nevertheless, the ‘aluminium tubing’ Prime Minister is making one last-ditch effort for an impossible outcome. In a speech delivered at the Sydney Institute Howard made apologetic noises designed to tug at public sympathy – tell it to the stolen generation and the one million civilian dead of Iraq, Mr Howard! Consider yourself lucky not to have been arrested -- many Australians would prefer to see you in the dock of a war crimes tribunal answering for your crimes against humanity. (full story)
social/political / national
 ‘Robobugs’ and Psychological Warfare posted by U-B3, 2007-10-11 13:32:33
It seems that recent anti-war protests in Washington were also host to some strange little ‘bugs’ seen by protesters and other independent observers to be flying in formation and manoeuvring in unison above the protesters! We can confidently rule out real insect activity as real insects do not fly or manoeuvre in tight formation, if indeed strange flying machines were actually seen! However, for the purposes of this short piece we will take the reports at face value! (full story)
social/political / international
Holocaust denial: Turkey joins U.S. and Iran posted by rubber band, 2007-10-10 12:41:37
Adolf Hitler once stated in reference to his ‘final solution’ for European Jews that the world easily forgets/disregards mass exterminations (genocide). Hitler cited the slaughter of over one million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks as the example. Today Turkey officially joined the State holocaust deniers club by denying the first major holocaust/human mass extermination of the 20th century – the Armenian Genocide. (full story)
social/political / international
 Bringing it home: Oz cowboys murder Iraqi Christian women posted by finn, 2007-10-09 10:34:09
Statistics and figures are sterile indicators; it is blood that most effectively conveys reality for human beings. Who gives a shit if over one million innocent civilians have lost their lives in Iraq if we can’t see it or feel it? Stats and figures are emotively denuded and Iraq is a very distant land? Well, today the slaughter of innocents in Iraq has been served up on Oz breakfast tables. An Australian owned security firm has murdered two Iraqi Christian women for failing to heed warnings to stop their vehicle. It should be noted the IRAQI women frequently utilised this IRAQI road and complied with IRAQI law. Do foreigners have a right to roam wherever they please and determine who should live or die? Is this the ‘liberation’ of Iraq that John Howard sells to the Oz public or is this the stark reality of a nation reduced by coalition forces to a state wherein mercenaries, cowboys, thieves and murderers determine who should live or die? (full story)
social/political / national
 By their actions are they known posted by peptide, 2007-10-08 11:56:25
Wonderful country Oz, isn’t it? Regardless of the best efforts of the most incompetent, cowardly and now hypocritical leaders, the nation continues to endure! WE survive in the true Aussie SECULAR tradition. A tradition that easily exposes religious hypocrites and other lying rodents, need we name the two characters alluded to? (full story)
social/political / national
 Lt. Watada retrial halted! posted by staff report via rialator, 2007-10-07 00:19:22
By Mike Barber, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. October 5, 2007
A federal judge in Tacoma has delayed the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a Fort Lewis Army officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq. In a rare intervention of a civilian court in the military justice system, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin H. Settle granted the emergency stay shortly before close of business Friday. Watada's trial, slated to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, is now postponed until at least Oct. 26, the judge ruled. (full story)
peace/war / international
  Civil Disobedience and the Australian Cringe posted by major mitchell, 2007-10-06 12:55:19
“In any social context a clear view can only be afforded from a position of detached objectivity,” my trainer in analysis once taught me. The perspective to which I refer in relation to the title is of course the brave monks of Burma who in STARK CONTRAST to their Aussie, cringing, EXTREMELY OBEDIENT protesting cousins, conduct THEIR protests in the tradition of civil disobedience -- a proven method tried and tested over the millennia! (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / national
 Climate Change and Entire Landscapes on the Move posted by Stephen Leahy via reed, 2007-10-05 23:37:56
BROOKLIN, Canada - The hot breath of global warming has now touched some of the coldest northern regions of world, turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15 degrees C. above normal. Entire hillsides, sometimes more than a kilometre long, simply let go and slid like a vast green carpet into valleys and rivers on Melville Island in Canada’s northwest Arctic region of Nunavut this summer, says Scott Lamoureux of Queens University in Canada and leader of one the of International Polar Year projects. (full story)
environment / international
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