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 Australian government’s infantile dependence
nano, Saturday, Feb 23 2008, 9:13pm
It seems America is desperate to get Oz on board with its more theological than technological missile defence shield. However, Americans always give the game away with overkill – the flight manual in Arabic conveniently left at Boston airport (9/11) followed by US military supplied (oops) anthrax letters are notable examples of American (idiot) overkill.
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 Australia re-affirms servility to criminal America
barra, Friday, Feb 22 2008, 1:28pm
'This is not the Australia I was raised in,' muttered an old-timer at the bar after catching the latest news bulletin on the AUSMIN talks. Foreign Minister, Stephen ‘kneepads’ Smith, hailed the talks with the American Secretary of Defence as highly productive. However, analysts and commentators reserve their judgement until all details are made available. (story and 1 image)
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Old men – Old World Order
budgie, Monday, Feb 18 2008, 8:35am
George H Bush has endorsed Republican front-runner, John McCain -- one senile old fart supporting another. The U.S. is going from one easily manipulated retard, Dubya Bush, to a ‘what day is it,’ easily manipulated senile old man? If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one is worth a few more! The image is vividly clear, its message is past tense and antiquated! (story and 2 images)
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Executives defy Rudd’s request for wage restraint
cindy calist, Thursday, Feb 14 2008, 11:12am
Executive salaries have skyrocketed in Australian over the past decade of Howard’s rule culminating in salaries in the tens of millions of dollars for Bank and other executives – you know, the people who are responsible for creating the world credit crisis and undermining the economies of the western world! It is clear their salaries are NOT performance related! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Feb 14 2008, 9:27pm
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Apology of a Nation
peptide, Tuesday, Feb 12 2008, 7:30am
The long overdue admission of wrongs perpetrated against Australia’s indigenous people was finally acknowledged today in the form of a national apology delivered to the Aboriginal people by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. The RACIST, criminal and socially sick conservative ideology that resulted in thousands of Aboriginal children being forcibly removed from their mothers’ arms has been clearly condemned today by a national act of contrition. History notes the glaring absence of the former conservative, RACIST, Prime Minister, John Howard, from today's ceremony! Let it be a very cold day in hell before Australians entertain the poisonous, conservative ideology again! (story and 3 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Feb 14 2008, 9:58pm
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Anachronistic Nation
barra, Monday, Feb 11 2008, 7:03am
Today the 42nd Australian parliament opened for business; it was notable for its antiquated ceremonial -- not a lot of change since the first colonial parliament in the penal colonies of Australia.
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Timor-Leste: a broader view required
dingo, Sunday, Feb 10 2008, 8:39pm
Labor PM, Kevin Rudd has announced his support for Morris Iemma’s huge energy infrastructure sell-off in NSW, a move that threatens huge job losses, quality control standards and price rises for services. But why should Rudd care, it was Rudd who stated that politics in today’s Australia is no longer a matter of ideology? Facility and expedition are the order of the day – but for whom? Big business does not place governments in power to have their interests thwarted, so it's full steam ahead for vested interests and a final goodbye to the last vestiges of the ALP as a people's party – rest in peace the once proud Labor movement of Australia!
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American Imperialism and the Symbiotic Narco Trade
nano, Saturday, Feb 9 2008, 8:10am
A recent report alerting to the appearance of commercial quantities Afghan brown heroin in the far-away (from source) location of Adelaide, Australia, may indirectly assist American militarists and politicians understand why it is that NATO is reluctant to support the U.S. in further calamitous misadventures in the Middle East, Central Asia or anywhere else. It seems the world is no longer enamoured with the violent, brutish, simplistic, naive and INCOMPETENT leadership of the USA – Robert Gates, take note! (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Saturday, Feb 9 2008, 9:23pm
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Extreme Asymmetry
quill, Friday, Feb 8 2008, 10:16am
It never fails to fill me with awe how a group of dedicated specialists armed with nothing more than $20 keyboards are able to tip the balance on the most powerful nations in the world. (story and 2 images)
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Former racist Oz leader refuses to attend Indigenous Reconciliation Ceremony
finch, Friday, Feb 8 2008, 7:54am
Former PM, racist and war criminal John Howard has declined an invitation to attend a reconciliation ceremony designed to address past injustices suffered by the indigenous population of Australia. Howard’s miserable gesture is true to form. Perhaps now investigations into Howard’s involvement in Iraqi war crimes and crimes against humanity should proceed at speed. (story and 1 image)
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Australian Banks practise Financial Coercion via Penalties and Fees
krill, Thursday, Feb 7 2008, 11:06am
In an environment of deregulated, free market capitalism you can’t scream laissez-faire and implement constraining, draconian financial policies on the public, which is exactly what deregulated Australian Banks and other local Financial Institutions are doing! (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Friday, Feb 8 2008, 6:16am
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THEY make mistakes WE feel the “pain!”
barra, Monday, Feb 4 2008, 6:32pm
“This one will really hurt,” announced the new (inept) Australian PM, referring to the latest Reserve Bank interest rate hike of a quarter of one percent. However, he forgot to qualify his comment – hurt YOU he should have added, because it certainly doesn’t hurt him, other politicians or especially the Bank executives who created the problem in the first instance! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Tuesday, Feb 5 2008, 7:29am
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Rudderless Rudd – we knew it from the start!
budgie, Sunday, Feb 3 2008, 10:59am
The clearest indication our new ‘fearless leader,’ Kevin, is a clueless, bereft twerp, came in the form of a plea for ideas on how to run the country! Prior to addressing that disgraceful request our first recommendation to Rudd and his band of bereft eunuchs would be to look up the word GOVERN in any dictionary – for the nation’s sake! (story and 1 image)
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Serb coalition in doubt after Tadic win
Douglas Hamilton via rialator, Sunday, Feb 3 2008, 9:44am
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's pro-Western president Boris Tadic has won re-election in a contest with nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, but his narrow victory may only have set up a fresh struggle over the country's future course. (story and 1 image)
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The Age of Cowardice
finn, Friday, Feb 1 2008, 7:46am
The most outstanding feature of almost two decades of Australian ‘leadership’ is COWARDICE and the social paralysis that it engenders. A decade of John Howard’s disgustingly servile leadership continues with another face and another party. Labor’s PM, Kevin Rudd, is proving to be even more timid and frightened than his predecessor – most Aussies thought that would be impossible, however, reality is difficult to deny!
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Keelty’s continuing tenure opens can of incompetent worms
dingo, Thursday, Jan 31 2008, 10:39am
The thoroughly incompetent, right-wing, conservative, partisan, ex-Howard lackey, AFP Chief, Mick ‘have another drink’ Keelty, has been timidly denounced by the very timid Queensland PM and the Attorney General for publicly expressing the desire to silence all media reporting of terrorist related cases until such time as the stunningly efficient Keystone AFP have completed their bungling, frame-ups and other manipulations designed to assist former politicians in failed re-election bids – isn’t that right, blind Freddy? (story and 1 image)
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Keelty has taken ‘leave’
barra, Tuesday, Jan 29 2008, 6:52am
Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Mick ‘lost the plot’ Keelty, seems to be suffering short-term memory loss as a result of alcohol and prescription drug abuse. In an extraordinary outburst Keelty slammed the media and others, “who could put two sentences together,” for criticising his handling of various cases and bungling the Dr. Haneef investigation. (story and 1 image)
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Davos: reading the sub-text
dingo, Saturday, Jan 26 2008, 11:30am
It is useful to have the world’s economic leaders and private sector financial ‘geniuses’ together for a summit – we could have bombed them for causing so much misery around the globe! The prognosis from these economic vandals is more gloom, they ought to know they created the situation – don’t you just love the inverted insanity of it all? However, reality must be addressed regardless of whether or not the patients have taken over the asylum. (story and 2 images)
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Australia Day: a pathetic joke
major mitchell, Friday, Jan 25 2008, 9:41pm
A nation that flies a union jack on its flag has no independent identity whatsoever. Other former British colonies have achieved total independence decades past but not cringing Australia. Almost daily we read of yet another race-based bashing; a Chinese born permanent resident kicked to death in Footscray by a bunch of remnant Johnny Howard racist cowards is just par for the course in this retrogressive nation. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, Jan 26 2008, 10:51am
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Rice in economic damage control
budgie, Wednesday, Jan 23 2008, 9:54am
Economics is not one of Condoleezza Rice’s strong points; she is more familiar in roles of invasive warfare, infanticide, plunder, U.S. imperial expansionism and propaganda. Perhaps she relies on her rather feeble skills as a propagandist in an effort to sell economic snake oil to wary and grounded Europeans. Neither Europe nor the rest of the world is buying, Condi; stick to what you know and do well, like killing children and plundering oil! Describing the U.S. economy as ‘resilient, healthy and sound,’ flies in the face of REALITY, Condi, but reality has never been familiar territory for the Bush regime! (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
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