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 Oz High Court rules in favour of Bikers (and our) right to Free Association
cubic, Thursday, Nov 11 2010, 5:31am
Following the AMERICAN trend of Government influencing/interfering with the independence of the Courts, South Australia, the first State that attempted to implement American police state tactics in Oz, failed in its corrupt bid. The AUSTRALIAN High Court bench (6 from 7 Judges) ruled in favour of the Bikers to freely associate! The judges also expressed their contempt for the South Australian Government for attempting to institute such an oppressive policy.
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 Australia’s Pathetic, Servile Politicians
dasha, Tuesday, Oct 19 2010, 10:31am
Reminiscent of her meaning-devoid, abortive election slogan, “moving Australia forward,” the Washington controlled Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has just dropped another meaningless American slogan onto a very aware Oz public, “Australia will not abandon Afghanistan.” In view of the FACT the majority of Aussies OPPOSE the war and that Afghanis desire to be FREE of all plundering, civilian killing foreign invaders, it defies reason that this servile, cat-howling fishwife – masquerading as our leader -- would attempt to insult the Oz public with more moronic American slogans! (story and 4 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Oct 20 2010, 7:30am
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Australia's economic growth comes at expense of workers' wages and conditions
John McCarthy via stan, Tuesday, Oct 5 2010, 6:39am
THE blowout in the cost of living could be directly blamed on companies and governments shifting financial responsibilities and risks on to workers, according a report released by unions. A report, by the Sydney University Workplace Research Centre, found that while Australia had massive economic growth over the past 40 years, wages had been constrained, costs had eaten up a greater percentage of income and more than two million jobs were now part-time or casual.
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ATO: never fear, incompetent Oz bureaucrats are here!
baz, Saturday, Oct 2 2010, 10:42pm
[Attention Gillard, Keneally, Bligh and other Oz government ‘leaders.’]
Burgeoning, wasteful and thoroughly inept Oz government regulatory institutions reflect a dysfunctional Federal and State system in obvious need of DRASTIC reform and the purging of bureaucratic fat cats responsible for their INCOMPETENT and wasteful departments!
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Oz ‘Justice’
quin, Monday, Sep 27 2010, 9:22pm
It’s 'nice' to know little has really changed in this former penal colony -- the corrupt elitist ‘club’ is alive and well. Former Prime Minister, Paul ‘fingers’ Keating, infamous for the Casino "we had to have" on Christmas Island – patronised mainly by the mega-corrupt ruling Indonesian hierarchy of the time. Millions in stolen and re-directed American aid and other monies were laundered through the Casino's tables, thanks to Keating. [And] that embarrassing 'little matter' of a burdensome pig farm conveniently absorbed by Indonesian ‘investors’ – give us all a break, you brazen criminal, Keating! But what’s a thoroughly corrupt, PUPPET politician in Oz these days? (story and 1 image)
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Peter Spencer wins his day in High Court
Lucy Knight via reed, Wednesday, Sep 1 2010, 8:45am
PROPERTY rights crusader, Peter Spencer, who went on a hunger strike on his southern NSW farm earlier this year, has broken down outside the High Court in Canberra following an unanimous decision in his favour to finally have his case heard. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Sep 2 2010, 7:06pm
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The Politics of Oz Internet Censorship
Kismo, Thursday, Aug 5 2010, 10:46pm
Even demented Oz analysts and commentators (mostly employed by the mass media) would have advised that imposing a retrogressive 50’s policy in 21st century Australia -- mandatory information censorship -- would be suicidal for any political party stupid enough to attempt to implement it. But that FACT was and REMAINS lost on the incumbent, inept, policy failed, Labor Party.
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Star-Spangled Oz
Lawrence Latif via Kismo, Sunday, Jul 25 2010, 9:42am
Makes you 'proud' to be Australian.
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Great choice, Oz!
stele, Sunday, May 16 2010, 8:46pm
The Murdoch, Stokes and other mass media organisations in Oz are exercising their influence on the masses by offering THEIR alternatives to the now fully exposed (popularity trashed) POLICY FAILED, narcissistic PM, Kevin ‘show pony’ Rudd; who imagined that managing a nation amounted to slavishly following Washington in unwinnable wars, serving Wall St, the RBA and other unrepresentative minority interests. (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Tuesday, May 18 2010, 12:00am
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The Appalling Incompetence of Rudd and Conroy
Kismo, Tuesday, May 4 2010, 8:51am
Rudd’s communications minister Stephen Conroy was forced to admit, in Parliament, that the $24 (wasted) million, ISP filter plan could easily and LEGALLY be circumvented. Conroy admitted that circumvention techniques – VPN and Proxy server methods -- had been demonstrated to him personally at Enex Testlab in Melbourne. Conroy confirmed that no legal measures would be applied to ISPs to prohibit the use of the above circumvention methods – so what’s the point of the expensive (now failed) filter plan I hear you say? Well, ask the most policy failed, financially wasteful PM we’ve ever had, Kevin ‘hair dryer’ Rudd. (story and 1 image)
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Rudd earns the ire of Aussies
bluey, Monday, May 3 2010, 11:32am
In perhaps one of the worst examples of cynical politics this nation has seen, incumbent Australian PM, Kevin ‘show pony’ Rudd, is attempting to distract the attention of the population away from his ruinous policy failures by implementing minor tax and health reforms and attacking the 'soft target,' tobacco industry. However, the list of Rudd’s failures, which range from Japanese whaling, ETS, computers for every student, home insulation debacle, ‘borderless’ security and indebting OUR nation and future generations to nefarious foreign Banksters (stimulus) that print ‘fiat’ (toilet-paper) money in exchange for our REAL assets, are far too prominent to be ignored or brushed away. Rudd’s track record does not exactly fill one with confidence; we now know that Rudd is less concerned with positive results than he is with appearances, distractions and political trickery. (story and 1 image)
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Deconstructing Australia’s Puppet Politicians
ryall, Thursday, Apr 22 2010, 10:28am
Before proceeding, I would openly state that Australia today is nothing more than a client state of the U.S. Former PM (and criminal) Paul Keating surrendered the last vestiges of Oz independence to Wall St criminal elites and the corporate sector decades past. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Friday, Apr 23 2010, 12:27pm
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The Oz Servility Stakes – Labor faces Nationwide Obliteration!
bluey, Friday, Mar 19 2010, 7:59pm
Mike Rann, South Australian Premier, is second only to his Federal counterpart, Kevin ‘custard face’ Rudd, in his obeisance to Corporatists and BIG Business. Rann is facing slaughter at the forthcoming State elections, which some analysts say will be an Oz-wide snowball effect – Rudd and his State Labor counterparts have proven to be the most unrepresentative Labor governments in the nation’s history – it’s ‘all the way’ with BIG Business/Washington and fuck the traditional support base of average working Aussies! (story and 1 image)
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Tony Abbott, ‘all errand, no boy!’
quill, Monday, Mar 15 2010, 5:53am
The Australian opposition leader, Tony Abbott is known as a combative, ultra-right wing, unapologetic, Catholic, arch-conservative – a PRODUCT not a person, a fabrication not an original! There is NOTHING in Abbott’s character that has not been created/superimposed by his ultra-conservative Catholic background – he is about as original as a Chinese fake! (story and 1 image)
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Desperation Politics in Oz!
fray, Monday, Mar 8 2010, 6:05am
I never thought I’d live to see political conservatives propose a scheme that advantages working women with six months (full) paid parental leave, while directly hitting Big Business with the cost! Furthermore, in Alice’s inverted ‘Ozland’, traditional workers’ party and incumbent government, Labor, immediately sprang to the defence of Big Business! That’s a double-barrel blast from the inverted, bullshit gun. (story and 1 image)
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Oz PM a Philistine!
stan, Tuesday, Mar 2 2010, 10:19am
The Australian PM, Kevin ‘CENSORSHIP’ Rudd, has been rightly accused of philistinism by analysts, commentators and Australian artists. While in Adelaide the PM managed to avoid every major cultural event for which the city is known. For those not familiar with the term, wiki defines a Philistine as ‘a person that despises, undervalues or is unable to appreciate Art, Beauty, Intellectual Content, the Abstract, and Spiritual/Inspirational realities. Philistines are also said to be materialistic, conservative and favour convention.’ It is hardly surprising that a parochial bureaucrat from Pauline Hanson’s State of Queensland is a narrow minded materialist! Put in plain language Rudd is a lacklustre bureaucrat that lacks creativity, style, imagination, flair, and VISION -- don't we know it! (story and 1 image)
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Kevin ‘mad cow’ Rudd, lifts ban on Beef Imports
bluey, Saturday, Feb 27 2010, 9:58am
After re-introducing REGRESSIVE INFORMATION CENSORSHIP and bypassing safety assessments to rush through the installation of DANGEROUS full-body X-ray scanners at Australian airports, we couldn’t imagine Rudd opposing the wishes of the public again. However, in a move guaranteed to make him a target for assassination, Rudd, against the wishes of growers, retailers and consumers (everyone), is lifting the ban on Mad Cow Beef imports! This is perhaps the most overtly contemptuous gesture Rudd has ever displayed toward the Australian public. A PM that totally disregards public opinion in favour of foreign interests (U.S. beef industry) is CLEARLY a traitor and should be tried for treason in an Australian court! (story and 1 image)
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 TREASON, Government Ministers and Regulatory Agencies in Oz
quin, Thursday, Feb 25 2010, 6:36pm
Following the SURPEME COURT’S recent RULING AGAINST mega-Hollywood studios, media moguls, Murdoch and Stokes -- iiNet vs the ‘Plutocracy’ -- a functional and largely UNCORRUPTED Aussie LEGAL system has allowed another landmark case to proceed. Former Guantanamo detainee, Mamdouh Habib, won a Federal Court decision to proceed with an action against the Federal Government for complicity in his tortuous three-year ordeal at the hands of the CIA and other AMERICAN CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS – no case was ever brought against Habib by the U.S. after three years of illegal detention, torture and rendition to various CIA torture facilities in Egypt, Pakistan and elsewhere. (story and 1 comment and 1 image and 1 attached file)
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Spin, subterfuge and diversion is NOT governance
Captain, Tuesday, Feb 23 2010, 7:31pm
Notwithstanding America’s current status as the world’s leading terrorist nation -- its criminal civilian killing record VERIFIES the FACT – the Oz PM, Kevin ‘US lackey’ Rudd, played a neo-con DIVISIONIST trick yesterday in a feeble and TRANSPARENT attempt to draw attention away from his and his Minister’s MISERABLE PERFORMANCE IN GOVERNMENT. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
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Incompetent Oz PM, Kevin ‘yes Rupert’ Rudd, attempts to portray Aussies as Terrorists
bluey, Monday, Feb 22 2010, 6:24pm
Kevin ‘photo-op’ Rudd, is arguably the most incompetent, narcissistic and ineffective Prime Minister Australia has ever had to suffer – his very brief and unfortunate tenure is threatening to annihilate Labor across the board, at Federal AND State levels! A lesson in populism you will not soon forget, gentlemen; populism going sour carries a very high penalty indeed – but its not too late, an unfortunate accident perhaps! (story and 1 image)
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