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"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it" -- George Bernard Shaw
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 Quiet, please!
Ursula Sautter and Mary Pinkowish via quill, Tuesday, Jul 15 2008, 10:44am
A leaf blower, snow blower, lawn mower and two huge dogs—Peter D’Epiro can describe in excruciating detail how his neighbour’s lawn equipment and pets ruined summer afternoons and dinner parties for him and his wife for more than a decade in Ridgewood, New Jersey. But he’d rather not. “I can barely think about that situation without rushing for the Valium or the IV gin drip,” he says.
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 Indonesian Pres. offers no apology to Timor-Leste
luis, Tuesday, Jul 15 2008, 9:46am
The longsuffering people of Timor-Leste received no apology today after an inquiry revealed that the Indonesian military and Indonesian security forces were responsible for committing and inciting murder, rape and torture in Timor-Leste in 1999. Approximately fifteen hundred Timorese were murdered by militias and an indeterminate number were raped and tortured after militias went on a rampage killing and destroying crucial infrastructure in East Timor! (story and 1 image)
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Oz Judiciary upholds democratic Rights
peptide, Monday, Jul 14 2008, 10:32pm
The world, but particularly Australia, remembers the dark day when police-state tactics were introduced to the nation by the most incompetent government the state of NSW has ever known. The APEC summit was utilised to impose the most draconian policing/laws this peaceful nation has ever seen. The blackshirt State Premier, Morris ‘il duce’ Iemma today lost his case to impose additional draconian laws on the good people of NSW. Iemma hurriedly passed laws in parliament for the Pope’s visit and WYD that effectively impinged on the civil liberties of citizens. (story and 1 comment)
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A taste for the socially ‘aware’
barra, Sunday, Jul 13 2008, 12:24am
Today, July 13, my news aggregator revealed a world of INANITIES in the mainstream press! After glancing at the featured content, I realised we, the masses, are completely LOST. It hit home (hard) that ‘pigs, dogs’ and incompetent buffoons rule the world because they actually REPRESENT the mindless, moronic MAJORITY – therein lies the formula/seeds of our destruction! The grim fate beckoning vacuum-heads beckons us ALL – I began to wish it was all a bad dream but it was worse, it was on TV! (story and 3 comments and 3 images)
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Ramos-Horta learning realpolitik
AFP via reed, Saturday, Jul 12 2008, 12:01am
If anyone is qualified to assist the former Portuguese Colony of Timor-Leste, it’s the former Portuguese colony, Brazil! Principally because former colonies face similar problems and the last thing Timor-Leste needs at this time is another patronising white nation interfering in local politics and development. Lula’s record is proven and his credentials impeccable, impossible to beat! (story and 1 image)
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How Britain/America/NATO wage war
John Pilger via rialator, Friday, Jul 11 2008, 10:07pm
The military has created a wall of silence around its frequent resort to barbaric practices, including torture, and goes out of its way to avoid legal scrutiny. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Jul 11 2008, 10:12pm
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Worse than McCain
Mike Whitney via reed, Friday, Jul 11 2008, 9:33pm
Every four years, liberals and progressives are expected to set aside their beliefs and stand foursquare behind the Democratic Party candidate. This ritual is invariably performed in the name of party unity. It doesn't matter if the candidate is a smooth-talking politician who's willing to toss his Pastor of 20 years overboard for a few awkward comments, or whether he refuses to defend basic civil liberties like the 4th amendment's right to privacy. All that matters is that there's a big "D" following his name and that he shows he's willing to engage in some meaningless verbal jousting with his Republican opponent. (story and 1 image)
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Stop the new FISA
Chris Hedges via quill, Friday, Jul 11 2008, 8:41pm
If the sweeping surveillance law signed by President Bush on Thursday -- giving the U.S. government nearly unchecked authority to eavesdrop on the phone calls and e-mails of innocent Americans -- is allowed to stand, we will have eroded one of the most important bulwarks to a free press and an open society.
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Police State tactics adopted by former ‘Liberal Democracies’
nano, Wednesday, Jul 9 2008, 3:35am
It was with alarm that I first witnessed police state tactics in AUSTRALIA at the last APEC summit held in Sydney. Never before had laid back Australian society been exposed to such tactics. Australia’s first exposure to implacable storm troopers and new draconian laws had the anticipated effect; protesters and ordinary demonstrators were shocked into submission and docility. The NSW Premier, Morris ‘il duce’ Iemma, couldn’t have been happier, he was the first Premier to use such heavy handed tactics on citizens; he had done his blackshirt ancestors proud. Segments of the Italian and conservative Anglo communities lauded our own little, il duce. The ‘Labor’ premier even received praise from the arch-conservative PM, John Howard, who was quick to announce his total support for Iemma’s harsh police tactics.
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Not funny, ‘Merika!
quill, Tuesday, Jul 8 2008, 11:28pm
Every nation has its extremists, nutcases and demented morons; they are usually secreted away in appropriate social spaces designed to deal with the mentally unbalanced. However, in America and the Middle East homicidal maniacs and demented buffoons rise to become leaders of nations.
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Monsanto accepts full responsibility for genetic contamination
browse via krill, Tuesday, Jul 8 2008, 9:31am
On 19 March 2008 Monsanto accepted their responsibility for the genetic contamination of Schmeiser’s canola fields in an out of court settlement between Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto. (story and 2 images)
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Insane U.S. gearing up for all-out WAR
finn, Monday, Jul 7 2008, 11:54am
Let’s not kid ourselves any longer; the psychopathic Bush regime leaves no doubt as to its intentions; it continues to encircle and provoke Russia and China into a confrontation. Bush, in typical American delusory fashion, believes he can deliver a knockout blow and take the prize – impossible, but in a sense Bush has no other choice. (story and 4 comments)
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Media Tactics
peptide, Sunday, Jul 6 2008, 10:38pm
The most damning and potentially EXPLOSIVE news to hit Australia in decades is the revelation of planned U.S. Sarin nerve gas tests on Aussie troops in the 60’s. [The reader will note that the use of (nerve) gas ‘weapons’ was banned by international convention decades earlier!] (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Monday, Jul 7 2008, 10:22pm
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Australia has no better ‘friend’ than Sarin Gas America
nano, Sunday, Jul 6 2008, 12:13am
‘Shit floats,’ but for those with bourgeois sensibilities, the truth always surfaces. However, we need a suitable context to emphasise the point and what better context than the behaviour of the current and previous slaves to America, Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and John Howard! We hope the issue of America’s true attitude to Australia – and the world -- will be clarified once and for ALL! Satisfaction guaranteed for patriot Aussies and cringing colonialists alike! (story and 1 comment)
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Civilian death toll – unacceptable/indictable!
yarra, Friday, Jul 4 2008, 11:38pm
AFGHANISTAN -- "US-led air raid kills 22 civilians", Reuters UK reports on July 4. We need not go into detail, as it’s now a very familiar story. Whether it’s from unmanned drones, long distance artillery or missile attacks the result is all too familiar. The U.S. today is able to boast humanitarian offences and war crimes that dwarf the numbers achieved by African and Asian despots in the past. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
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OIL, now $145 but tipped to reach $200
budgie, Friday, Jul 4 2008, 12:03am
At a dinner George W Bush once described the ‘Barons’ of free market capitalism as the “have mores,” as distinct from ‘the haves’ and ‘have nots.’ He sure got that right! With oil set to reach $200 a barrel the ‘have mores’ are acquiring EVER MORE wealth at a pace and in amounts hitherto unimaginable, even at the time dubya made his infamous remark.
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Heartbreaking News!
dragan, Thursday, Jul 3 2008, 8:21am
It’ll break every star-spangled heart to learn the truth, the overwhelming majority of people hate/detest/loathe America WITH A VENGEANCE! That’s not news you say, we already know! No you don’t! It is far worse than any American could imagine. Certain government leaders and nations appear to temporarily befriend the U.S. for very self-interested reasons but their populations detest America as does nearly every other human being on the planet! (story and 1 comment)
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The Letter to Bush Obama Didn’t Write
William A. Cook via rialator, Wednesday, Jul 2 2008, 10:51pm
Dear Mr. President,
A fundamental principle of America’s Middle East policy must be our unshakeable commitment to Palestinian security. I believe that is a bipartisan commitment, and I will work to continue and advance that consensus. But I am deeply concerned that the security of the people of Palestine has been put at greater risk, both because of renewed threats from their implacable enemy, the State of Israel, and because of policy choices by the United States. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Infighting highlights the FRAUD that is Christianity
fish, Monday, Jun 30 2008, 8:23pm
Regardless of social activity/institution we can count of conservatives to really disrupt and destroy. The Anglican Church is the latest example of conservatives creating schisms that promise to further weaken the Church. Well done, Dr Peter ‘arch-conservative’ Jensen and other Paulinist Archbishops of the destabilising FOCA faction! I would remind conservatives that Paul of the Epistles is NOT the Saviour; that position has always rested with Jesus of Nazareth. Paul saves no one; perhaps he even leads people to their ruin!
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The Lobotomised American by Grey Greene
quill, Monday, Jun 30 2008, 12:18am
Complete with exotic oriental women, opium pipes, loaded with treble-refined of course, and a cushy job as a foreign correspondent, which enables access to most political functions and dignitaries – I could be about to blow the lid, gentlemen! ‘Espionage,’ a very outmoded term these days, ‘we’ all prefer the more modern appellation of ‘analyst’ or ‘commentator’, hilarious! (story and 2 comments)
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