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 Shell Oil pays $19.5m to avoid facing criminal proceedings
Meredith Griffiths via talya, Tuesday, Jun 9 2009, 5:53am
Oil company Shell has agreed to pay $19.5 million to avoid standing trial over accusations that it was complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria in the 1990s. The families of nine people executed in 1995 accused Shell of collaborating with the country's military regime to silence the activists for protesting against the oil company's environmental practices in the Niger Delta. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Jun 12 2009, 10:37pm
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environment /
other press
Yes, They Would!
quill, Monday, Jun 8 2009, 10:42am
Which begs the obvious question -- images of falling bodies firmly in mind – would ‘they’ kill their own citizens to consolidate their hold on power and wealth? The answer is also obvious, we need only refer to the title, YES, THEY WOULD! (story and 1 image)
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commentary
 Russia, China should dump dollar - Medvedev
staff report, Sunday, Jun 7 2009, 10:50pm
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China should consider switching to domestic currencies in bilateral trade without going to the dollar, Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Kommersant daily published on Friday. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, Jun 7 2009, 11:04pm
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‘Talk is Cheap,’ Obama
peptide, Saturday, Jun 6 2009, 3:57am
One of the world’s most enduring clichés is applied whenever lack of character/substance is detected. Only the most insular hillbillies are unaware that Obama is the leading exponent in the world today of DE-VALUING words! In the past America produced outstanding black leaders of INTEGRITY; it should now be abundantly clear that Obama is not one of them! (story and 4 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Tuesday, Jun 9 2009, 5:46am
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commentary
John Faulkner accepts Defence portfolio but is he right man for the job?
Kingfisher, Thursday, Jun 4 2009, 11:13pm
Perhaps a chance for REAL INDEPENDENT LABOR POLICIES in our dealings with allies or will Faulky adopt the new SERVILE, COWARDLY, LACKEY position made infamous by shameless cowards, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and ‘knee walking’ Stephen Smith (pewk!) It’s not too difficult to be a good ally and avoid being a slave; Bob Hawke once remarked that ‘good friends and allies would at times have different views, priorities, opinions AND policies!' It’s only natural when two INDEPENDENT parties work together. Did you hear that, Howard, you unspeakable, GROVELLING piece of rodent excrement?
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Fitzgibbon falls on 'pen-knife' and resigns his portfolio
krill, Wednesday, Jun 3 2009, 11:15pm
Nothing personal Fitzy, but you were sloppy; the idea for a front bencher is not getting caught! We’re gonna miss you, mate. You were so handsome in your blue flak jacket while ‘posing’ as defence minister; a much better presentation than that SERVILE twerp from QLD POSING as a Prime Minister! Every move he makes is dictated to him by US Bankers, Murdoch and Transnational mining companies – that’s democracy in action; representation by MINORITY vested interests. (story and 1 image)
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Remember Tiananmen
Kwang zi, Wednesday, Jun 3 2009, 10:40am
The image below captures more than its component parts; its enduring quality is its ability to speak to ALL human beings regardless of race, culture or nation. It is the story of the IRREPRESSIBLE HUMAN SPIRIT refusing oppression, corruption and FEAR to STAND DEFIANTLY against the odds and eventually OVERCOME all obstacles and achieve emancipation/FREEDOM! (story and 1 image)
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U.S. lackey Oz Defence Minister under pressure AGAIN!
major mitchell, Tuesday, Jun 2 2009, 11:56pm
Not again Fitzy! A little favour here and a few UNDECLARED gifts there, does not a government minister of integrity make! Joel Fitzgibbon may have to call it a day; and you can take Smith, Swan, Rudd, and the entire contingent of SERVILE, Labor no-hopers, with you! (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Jun 3 2009, 2:26am
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The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
Stephen Lendman via reed, Tuesday, Jun 2 2009, 9:57am
For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched the Bilderberg Group's far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world's resources and its money.
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And you thought playing race card would go unnoticed!
sadh, Sunday, May 31 2009, 9:09pm
Shame, cowardly shame on you Australia; your backward, parochial, xenophobia and racism has AGAIN made International headlines – you can truly be proud of the John Howard, Geoff Cousin’s racist revival NOW! The cost of the Cousin’s/Howard ‘race strategy’ for cheap, SHORT-TERM POLITICAL GAIN has come home to roost – and a very well deserved outcome it is! Will it affect our position in the WORLD and our relations with important regional trading partners and other Asian neighbours – YOU bloody bet it WILL! Two dead Chinese nationals killed in race attacks and bashed Indians in parochial Melbourne dictate that outcome, you mindless morons! (story and 4 images)
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Here's hoping Google gets hammered
James Kirby via sadh, Sunday, May 31 2009, 1:21am
It's a sad day when the battle for digital information is between two of the world's most obscene IT Companies, Microsoft and Google. Neither self-serving company has the interests of the public at heart, especially in China, and in the West if hidden information detailing Google's unsavoury relationship with NSA and other security agencies became known! Microsoft is no better having once supplied a 'backdoor' to its Operating System at the request of the NSA. Nevertheless, the stranglehold Google has on information is far worse than the author intimates -- any real democratic government would have legislated long ago forcing Google to relinquish its hold on information searches. Idiotic governments seem to be unaware of today's digital axioms: 'Whoever controls the flow of information rules the world', including governments! Let's hope the open source community gets a viable product out there soon -- then lobbying can begin in earnest! Ed. (story and 3 images)
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Swine Flu and draconian social bio-management policies
finch, Friday, May 29 2009, 11:29pm
Australia, in its role as a test site for the broader western world, is currently undergoing two major assaults on traditional freedoms – freedom of movement and association [now] threatened by swine flu bio-management policies; and freedom to access all available information via the internet. I need not remind readers whose interests are best served by these new laws/policies – not those of the democratic majority by any stretch of the Orwellian imagination! (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, May 30 2009, 12:34am
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Obama attempts to fix gate AFTER ‘bull’ has bolted!
Kismo, Friday, May 29 2009, 9:41am
Ya gotta hand it to those yankee doodle dunces; first, their unrestrained GREED outsources almost all banking and financial computer network maintenance and data processing to developing nations; second, local third party companies that employ citizens from marginal nations win contracts to maintain vital computer networks! After gifting the ‘family jewels’ to strangers yankee doodle dumbfucks wonder why security systems are so easily breached and vital networks so easily compromised. Well, doh! (story and 1 image)
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Washington Disinformation continues to emanate from subservient Australia!
quill, Thursday, May 28 2009, 11:59pm
A well constructed report on the LTTE defeat by the Sri Lankan military was aired on Radio Australia today, a 7 out of 10 effort! It is refreshing to see Australia NOT making news for xenophobia, racism and its shameless, servility to the United States – ‘for a change!’ Nevertheless, America is never far removed from its most servile colony.
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Cyber Warfare: Building Attack Tools for Mass Destruction
Tom Burghardt via Kismo, Thursday, May 28 2009, 10:25am
A quintessential hallmark of an authoritarian regime, particularly one that operates within highly-militarized, though nominally democratic states such as ours, is the maintenance of a system of internal control; a seamless panopticon where dissent is equated with criminality and the rule of law derided as a luxury ill-afforded "during a time of war." (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Sunday, May 31 2009, 11:21am
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The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body
Helen Pilcher via michael, Thursday, May 28 2009, 9:18am
"Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see!" -- I was waiting for an opportunity to use that saying, which is an old Irish proverb, I am ‘led to believe!’ Now there’s a loaded expression that may not be as innocuous as you may think? (story and 1 image)
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An Australian [Racist] Story
peptide, Wednesday, May 27 2009, 9:51pm
Due to the increased number of students and immigrants to Australia from the Indian subcontinent and the (related) increase in racist attacks on Indians and Bangladeshis, senior police/government officials have been forced to fly to the subcontinent and deliver lectures on the best ways to avoid racist attacks in Australia! One wonders why prospective students and others coming to this Johnny Howard-revived, RACIST, xenophobic, parochial BACKWATER do not reconsider their options. It is clear by the approach the authorities are taking that racism is tolerated as a cultural characteristic! Australia is located at the ‘bottom of the world’ in more ways than one it would seem! SHAME on you and your cowardly, xenophobic, racist population, Australia! (story and 2 images)
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commentary
North Korea nuclear test: 'reality pill' required
yarra, Tuesday, May 26 2009, 10:50pm
As usual the U.S. disinfo-misinfo MYTH machine swung into full action after the recent North Korean nuclear test. The US immediately condemned the T-E-S-T stating that it was in flagrant violation of International Law – you know, that’s the ‘LAW’ the U.S. has flouted for the past decade! Over one million civilians killed directly or indirectly as a result of US MILITARY adventures in Iraq alone! Hundreds more INNOCENT civilians killed by DRONE ATTACKS in Central and South Asia and of course the ACTION that started it all, the U.S. led Balkan intervention and THEFT of European SOVEREIGN territory! That’s ‘observing’ International Law for ya! [God forbid the mention of TORTURE!] (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Wednesday, May 27 2009, 12:57am
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Congress leader wants India to seek action against Lanka
staff report via sadh, Tuesday, May 26 2009, 7:25am
New Delhi (PTI) A senior Congress leader from Tamil Nadu on Tuesday demanded that India should support a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to be moved by 19 countries demanding action against Sri Lanka for human rights violation during the last phase of the 30-year civil war. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Tuesday, May 26 2009, 7:37am
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Nigeria: MEND rebels destroy Chevron oil pipelines
Helen Vesperini via gan, Monday, May 25 2009, 11:42am
LAGOS (AFP) — Nigeria's main rebel group on Monday destroyed several major oil pipelines in the south in response to a military offensive, prompting a cut in production announced at 100,000 barrels a day (story and 1 image)
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