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 Conservative Jitters
peptide, Tuesday, Oct 23 2007, 1:52pm
The last thing any incumbent government wants to hear at election time is incriminating information relating to past failures, unpopular decisions and damaging indiscretions – ‘let’s stay focused on the NOW,’ is the new slogan of the conservatives. Little wonder, as the current PM is responsible for dragging the nation into an illegal war, abandoning citizens to foreign powers, surrendering drug mules to barbaric regimes to face the death penalty, deporting Australian citizens who didn’t have European round eyes and white skin, instigating race riots, allowing corporations to dictate policy, fast tracking approval for the Pluto and Gorgon gas projects and BHP evading water costs that local farmers face daily! We could add surrendering the nation to the yanks and its wealth to the Transnationals while allowing necessary services – education, health/dental, infrastructures, road/rail, housing and energy to fall into disrepair or neglect. (story and 2 images)
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Can the World afford Religious Hypocrites today?
budgie, Monday, Oct 22 2007, 11:44am
The genus of religious leader carries with it nasty character traits and virulent psychological disease regardless of the particular religion the leader represents. Last week saw the appalling hypocrisy of the Dalai Lama – in total denial -- willingly accept honours from the Holocaust President, G W Bush. It was refreshing to witness this much-venerated FRAUD finally display his true form to the world. However, just prior to the Dalai Lama’s self-exposure, a historically consistent hypocrite [the Pope] was engaged in the usual sordid politics of religion – an excellent expose’ from FPIF follows this introduction. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Tuesday, Oct 23 2007, 11:10am
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Racist Semiotics and Nazi Gold
finch, Sunday, Oct 21 2007, 2:36pm
Switzerland has often been portrayed and the neutral nation of Europe; it was spared the ravages of WWII principally due to the fact that other nations – Nazi Germany in particular – required a convenient location to store their gold in times of war. Big business also requires anonymous accounts in times of tax evasion! Yes, this is Switzerland, we ask no questions of regimes and institutions that deposit ingots and bars of gold, some of which now known to have been derived from Jewish gold fillings, stolen jewellery and other stolen artefacts. Our banks are happy to accept untraceable gold bars and other items of value – if you please! (story and 1 image)
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 The Real Masters of War
zoran, Saturday, Oct 20 2007, 12:22am
Consider the very real possibility of a persecuted European nation waging a covert guerilla war against the most powerful forces on the planet and prevailing. Many would be surprised to learn that the real masters of war are the most unlikely nations. The three nations proven to excel in covet, guerilla wars of attrition are Afghanistan, Serbia and Vietnam – the historical record bears this out. Not surprisingly these nations have been at war for most of their history – not by choice but by circumstance. It seems their strategic locations have doomed them to a history of constant struggle and conflict; and nothing has changed today! (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, Oct 27 2007, 10:07am
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Watada: What's a (thoughtful) lieutenant to do?
Dean Paton via rialator, Friday, Oct 19 2007, 2:04pm
OCT 5 2007 -- Let's assume Lt. Col. John Head, the Army judge who presided over the first court-martial of Lt. Ehren Watada last February, used impeccable legal reasoning when he denied Watada the right to insist that the war in Iraq is illegal -- which, the young soldier says, makes it his sworn duty to protect the Constitution by refusing to fight in such a war. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Oct 19 2007, 2:10pm
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NATO attempts to revive old enmities in Balkans
Milan, Friday, Oct 19 2007, 12:34pm
NATO has recently completed joint military exercises with the non-member country of CROATIA. The scenario of the exercises was based on a military action against a ‘breakaway Balkan province’ – give us all a break! This pathetic attempt to revive old enmities between Balkan states and perhaps to utilise Croatia to do the dirty work recalls the very ‘chequered’ history of Croatia’s complicity with Hitler’s Nazis and the war crimes committed by fascist Croats against Serbs. (story and 1 image)
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The World is brimming with Hypocrites
budgie, Tuesday, Oct 16 2007, 10:38pm
Today, revered hypocrite, the Dalai Lama, accepted a ‘gold medal’ from a nation that is responsible for a pre-emptive illegal invasion that has killed one million innocent civilians and displaced four million others. If the Dalai Lama had a cause to free his people and incriminate China it just went up the spout – are Iraqi deaths less important than Tibetan deaths to a Buddhist HYPOCRITE? The actions of the Dalai Lama prove what we’ve always maintained, religious leaders make the best hypocrites! (story and 2 images)
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The Putin Touch
staff report WSJ via reed, Tuesday, Oct 16 2007, 12:57pm
Mr. Putin's message to Condoleezza Rice and Bob Gates: "Of course, we can some time in the future decide that some anti-missile defense should be established somewhere on the moon," said Mr. Putin, with more sarcasm than wit. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Tuesday, Oct 16 2007, 1:09pm
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Raising quotas discarding benefits
Kingfisher, Sunday, Oct 14 2007, 1:00pm
The proud labour movement of Oz has allowed itself to be decimated by management, you know, the people who continually raise work quotas but maintain low wages; the managers who sit in workers' meetings and monitor those who openly question oppression and exploitative work practices. The breed that thrives on DISPARITY, INEQUITY, DIVISION and D-I-S-U-N-I-T-Y!
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Former Top General in Iraq Faults Bush Administration
David S. Cloud via reed, Friday, Oct 12 2007, 11:41pm
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12— In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top American commander called the Bush administration’s handling of the war incompetent and warned that the United States was “living a nightmare with no end in sight.” (story and 1 image)
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‘Robobugs’ and Psychological Warfare
U-B3, Thursday, Oct 11 2007, 1:32pm
It seems that recent anti-war protests in Washington were also host to some strange little ‘bugs’ seen by protesters and other independent observers to be flying in formation and manoeuvring in unison above the protesters! We can confidently rule out real insect activity as real insects do not fly or manoeuvre in tight formation, if indeed strange flying machines were actually seen! However, for the purposes of this short piece we will take the reports at face value! (story and 1 image)
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Holocaust denial: Turkey joins U.S. and Iran
rubber band, Wednesday, Oct 10 2007, 12:41pm
Adolf Hitler once stated in reference to his ‘final solution’ for European Jews that the world easily forgets/disregards mass exterminations (genocide). Hitler cited the slaughter of over one million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks as the example. Today Turkey officially joined the State holocaust deniers club by denying the first major holocaust/human mass extermination of the 20th century – the Armenian Genocide.
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Lt. Watada retrial halted!
staff report via rialator, Sunday, Oct 7 2007, 12:19am
By Mike Barber, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. October 5, 2007
A federal judge in Tacoma has delayed the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a Fort Lewis Army officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq. In a rare intervention of a civilian court in the military justice system, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin H. Settle granted the emergency stay shortly before close of business Friday. Watada's trial, slated to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, is now postponed until at least Oct. 26, the judge ruled. (story and 1 image)
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Climate Change and Entire Landscapes on the Move
Stephen Leahy via reed, Friday, Oct 5 2007, 11:37pm
BROOKLIN, Canada - The hot breath of global warming has now touched some of the coldest northern regions of world, turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15 degrees C. above normal. Entire hillsides, sometimes more than a kilometre long, simply let go and slid like a vast green carpet into valleys and rivers on Melville Island in Canada’s northwest Arctic region of Nunavut this summer, says Scott Lamoureux of Queens University in Canada and leader of one the of International Polar Year projects. (story and 1 image)
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Loaded Language and Loaded Guns
Charles Sullivan via rialator, Wednesday, Oct 3 2007, 10:33pm
One can no longer understand US governmental policy on the basis of conventional language or traditional wisdom. Language itself and its long-established meanings were long ago twisted and distorted in order to deceive the people. Now war is peace and terror and occupation is liberation. In order to make sense of what is happening, it is important to understand everything within the context of a specific economic philosophy, and the distorted capitalist system that spawned it.
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Oz Regulator Targets Google’s Head Office
Kismo, Wednesday, Oct 3 2007, 11:37am
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has dropped its actions against subsidiary arms of Google with the view to target the parent company in the U.S. The change in tack occurred after Google U.S. accepted responsibility for its subsidiary arm in Australia. (story and 1 image)
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The [U.S.] Administration’s plan for Iran
Seymour M. Hersh via reed, Monday, Oct 1 2007, 2:40pm
The New Yorker -- October 8, 2007 -- In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq, to an increasing degree, as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran. “Shia extremists, backed by Iran, are training Iraqis to carry out attacks on our forces and the Iraqi people,” Bush told the national convention of the American Legion in August. “The attacks on our bases and our troops by Iranian-supplied munitions have increased. . . The Iranian regime must halt these actions. And, until it does, I will take actions necessary to protect our troops.” He then concluded, to applause, “I have authorized our military commanders in Iraq to confront Tehran’s murderous activities.”
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No Glass Darker
teepee, Monday, Oct 1 2007, 11:51am
When the Law and other state institutions fail the people it is always Art that comes to the rescue. The power inherent in Art is beyond estimation. When thousands of words fail to deliver, an image strikes its target with an accuracy that weapons-makers can only envy. The following image of the military crackdown in Burma needs no explanation; it spills over and continues to haunt via its stirring of the collective conscience. All unjust, criminal States are indicted by a few strokes of the brush and scratches of the pen. (story and 3 images)
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The navel-gazing Anglicans of Oz
fish, Thursday, Sep 27 2007, 1:09pm
All the great religious reformers of history are known for taking religion to the streets, as is occurring in Burma today. Taking their cue or lead from their founders some believers display the bravery and fearlessness required to meet life’s challenges today! The Buddha and Christ were men of social REVOLUTION, who, when faced with corruption and injustice, launched peaceful attacks on the ruling elites of their time and effected lasting social change as is evident thousands of years after their initial campaigns. (story and 1 image)
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The Final Challenge – 7th generation warfare
stylus, Wednesday, Sep 26 2007, 11:48pm
Seventh generation warfare is the warrior’s culmination or ruin; it is fought beyond the realm of binary oppositions (good–evil) and faces the most formidable enemy of all, the limitations of self! Know that mastering the 7th is the key to Final Victory. Know ‘that’ which prevents continuity of consciousness and totality of experience. Know the enemy that limits existence to the dictates of men/culture. KNOW and VANQUISH THAT ENEMY! There are no limitations for seventh generation Uber Warriors. KNOW that VICTORY IS YOURS! (story and 2 images)
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