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 Australia, for all the wrong reasons
yarra, Tuesday, May 27 2008, 10:38am
Australia is making international headlines for all the wrong reasons again; Aussies seem to have a penchant for eating their boots. Located in the South Pacific under the rest of the world probably accounts for the difficulty Aussies have adjusting to diverse, cosmopolitan populations. (story and 1 image)
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 The Unified Majority of Nations
peptide, Monday, May 26 2008, 11:30pm
Russia and China have broadened their existing military alliance to include greater economic cooperation and support. Together with the developing nations of Africa, the Pacific, Latin America and Asia the new ‘Eastern’ alliance will form the most powerful economic bloc the world has ever known – that is progressive thinking and is worth contrasting to the violent contractionist approach of America and its allies.
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Russia: giant of a new economic world order
Heather Connon via rialator, Sunday, May 25 2008, 5:09am
The 'Bric' [Brazil, Russia, India, China] economies have captured the headlines, but India and China have so far won the lion's share. What about the other half of the acronym? Here, Heather Connon witnesses a revolutionary era in Moscow. (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Sunday, May 25 2008, 5:47am
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The simple and obvious solution
nano, Saturday, May 24 2008, 11:09pm
Zoologists marvel over how ‘dumb’ animals display foreknowledge of impending natural disasters; the tsunami in SE Asia and now the China earthquake -- giant pandas were seen ‘parading’ in unison (highly unusual behaviour) hours before the quake struck. Yet humans, who were once also able to detect similar and more information from their immediate physical and psychological environment, today seem unable to detect a solution when it stares them in the face!
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South America creates regional union, parliament, despite divisions
Marco Sibaja via reed, Saturday, May 24 2008, 12:16am
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - A new South American union was born Friday as leaders of the region's 12 nations set out to create a continental parliament. Some see the new organization, Unasur, as a regional version of the European Union. Summit host Brazil wants it to help coordinate defense affairs across South America and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez calls it a counterweight to the United States.
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Clinton reveals sordid but TRUE American Character
peptide, Friday, May 23 2008, 10:01pm
Did we all notice how quick America, France and other western nations were to send naval “assets” to the coast off Burma to ‘assist’ in the humanitarian crisis left in the wake of a horrendously destructive, global warming induced, giant cyclone that devastated the rice bowl of Burma? Is America and other affluent, energy hungry nations rushing to compensate Burma for destabilising the earth’s climate? Not on your life! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Saturday, May 24 2008, 12:50am
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George W Bush Authorized 9/11 Attacks Says Government Insider
Alex Jones, Friday, May 23 2008, 9:14am
Keep in mind when reading this, that the man being interviewed is no two-bit internet conspiracy buff.
Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades. This courageous man has risked his professional reputation, and possibly his life, to get this information out to people.
The following is from his latest visit to Alex Jones' radio show.
Note: All honor to Stanley Hilton for risking his life so that we may know the truth of 9/11.
The Bush Junta Unmasked
"This (9/11) was all planned. This was a government-ordered operation. Bush personally signed the order. He personally authorized the attacks. He is guilty of treason and mass murder." --Stanley Hilton
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For His Treatment of Children in the ‘War on Terror,’ Bush Is a War Criminal
Dave Lindorff via reed, Friday, May 23 2008, 8:36am
Surely nothing that President Bush has done in his two wretched terms of office — not the invasion and destruction of Iraq, not the overturning of the five-centuries-old tradition of habeas corpus, not his authorization and encouragement of torture, not his campaign of domestic spying — nothing, can compare in its ugliness as his approval, as commander in chief, of the imprisoning of over 2500 children.
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Ill-advised Oz PM weighs into Art debate
finch, Thursday, May 22 2008, 10:14pm
The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is a known media prancer/show pony; he rarely (never) makes decisions without considering the level of political gain derived from media exploitation. However, the media is a two-edged sword and Rudd may have just inflicted a deep wound on himself in an attempt to capitalise on a controversial photographic exhibition by world-renowned Australian photographer, Bill Henson. (story and 4 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Sunday, May 25 2008, 11:23am
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The Fat Lady IS singing ..
gan, Thursday, May 22 2008, 1:25am
and as we all know ‘her’ vocalisations indicate that it is all but over! Have you guessed? She is nature herself singing a refrain of devastation and massive planetary upheaval for humankind – THE ENTIRE ECOSPHERE IS OUT OF KILTER; all the ramifications of which are largely unknown BUT what is KNOWN is horrific!
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Sowing the wind
nano, Tuesday, May 20 2008, 11:04pm
Over twenty years ago (take note Al) an Australian commercial channel aired a program on the impending destructive effects of pollution on the climate and the environment. It was a measured, rational, non-sensationalist but heavily supported with scientific data presentation. It detailed the effects of global warming on major ocean currents and the dire consequences for North-Western Europe; it highlighted the potential wholesale destruction of sensitive coral reefs and the maritime ecology. It referred to biological indicators, stressed amphibians, frogs and the disturbed migration pattern of birds. All evident at the time – 20 years ago! But the most alarming indicator was accelerated glacial melting/receding -- high mountain glaciers feed the world’s largest food producing river systems! (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, May 21 2008, 10:23pm
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The Real Enemy
evo, Tuesday, May 20 2008, 9:17am
The world today is awash with misinformation, disinformation, disinfected news stories, simplistic solutions, outrageous propaganda and the illusion that warring/opposing forces are distinct. Bush, his neo-cons, Bin laden, Al-Qaeda, Christian, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalists ALL have one thing in common -- they are all CONSERVATIVE! (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Tuesday, May 20 2008, 5:49pm
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A Two-State Solution for the United States and Israel
David Bromwich via reed, Sunday, May 18 2008, 10:26pm
We are slowly leaving the Bush presidency. Can we leave it fast enough for the safety of the world? George W. Bush thought it would be a good idea to help Israel celebrate its 60th birthday. So he showed up to celebrate, in spite of the gross contradiction his presence there offered against an appearance of impartiality in the negotiations between Israel and Palestine -- an accord whose success the president has said he intends to show as the diplomatic legacy of eight years in office. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, May 18 2008, 10:53pm
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Israel must be held to same nuclear scrutiny as Iran
Joe Parko via reed, Sunday, May 18 2008, 9:58pm
First we went after nonexistent nuclear weapons in Iraq; now we are consumed with the possibility that Iran might develop nuclear weapons in the future. Hillary Clinton declared she would obliterate Iran if it launched a nuclear strike on Israel -- nothwithstanding it LACKS that capability! But what nobody wants to talk about is the fact that Israel has had a secret nuclear weapons program for more than 30 years and has produced well over 200 nuclear bombs!
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Celebration of a spineless Nation
finch, Sunday, May 18 2008, 10:28am
When our previous colonial overlord, Britain, required a site to test its nuclear weapons, Australia was chosen; the then conservative Australian government was only too happy to accommodate England and poison/irradiate South Australia. Scant regard was given to our service personnel and the local Aborigines, as the many resulting deaths from cancer testify. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, May 18 2008, 8:19pm
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Eternal Companion
cleaves, Sunday, May 18 2008, 12:35am
In remembrance of you (story and 1 image)
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Israel Address: Bush reveals the psychopathology of his America
jan, Friday, May 16 2008, 1:40am
The Gettysburg address it isn’t! George ‘dubya’ Bush, the most criminally incompetent President the U.S. has ever known, delivered an address to the Israeli Knesset Thursday 15/5/08, and what a pathetic piece of drivel, fantasy and diatribe it was! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, May 16 2008, 9:17pm
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Russia, China & India insist Kosovo and Serbia resume talks
RT staff report via talya, Thursday, May 15 2008, 9:12am
The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China have been holding talks in Ekaterinburg in the Urals. The discussions are focusing on economic and military co-operation, but the ministers also touched on international affairs. (story and 1 image)
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Israel/America: the flea wagging the dog
fish, Thursday, May 15 2008, 12:07am
In lands far removed from the intrigues of American politics, the lopsided relationship and disproportionate power that Zionist Israel wields over gentile America appears absolutely grotesque; how is it that the world’s most powerful nation continues to kowtow to the wishes of tiny, extremely troublesome, Israel? It presents a most extraordinary sight from afar! Perhaps the advantage of a distant vantage may assist in obtaining an objective appreciation of the REAL reasons behind this absurd relationship. (story and 1 image)
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A taste of Paradise
quill, Wednesday, May 14 2008, 10:00am
The return (story and 1 image)
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