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 Not funny, ‘Merika!
quill, Tuesday, Jul 8 2008, 11:28pm
Every nation has its extremists, nutcases and demented morons; they are usually secreted away in appropriate social spaces designed to deal with the mentally unbalanced. However, in America and the Middle East homicidal maniacs and demented buffoons rise to become leaders of nations.
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 Monsanto accepts full responsibility for genetic contamination
browse via krill, Tuesday, Jul 8 2008, 9:31am
On 19 March 2008 Monsanto accepted their responsibility for the genetic contamination of Schmeiser’s canola fields in an out of court settlement between Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto. (story and 2 images)
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Insane U.S. gearing up for all-out WAR
finn, Monday, Jul 7 2008, 11:54am
Let’s not kid ourselves any longer; the psychopathic Bush regime leaves no doubt as to its intentions; it continues to encircle and provoke Russia and China into a confrontation. Bush, in typical American delusory fashion, believes he can deliver a knockout blow and take the prize – impossible, but in a sense Bush has no other choice. (story and 4 comments)
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Media Tactics
peptide, Sunday, Jul 6 2008, 10:38pm
The most damning and potentially EXPLOSIVE news to hit Australia in decades is the revelation of planned U.S. Sarin nerve gas tests on Aussie troops in the 60’s. [The reader will note that the use of (nerve) gas ‘weapons’ was banned by international convention decades earlier!] (story and 1 comment)
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Australia has no better ‘friend’ than Sarin Gas America
nano, Sunday, Jul 6 2008, 12:13am
‘Shit floats,’ but for those with bourgeois sensibilities, the truth always surfaces. However, we need a suitable context to emphasise the point and what better context than the behaviour of the current and previous slaves to America, Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and John Howard! We hope the issue of America’s true attitude to Australia – and the world -- will be clarified once and for ALL! Satisfaction guaranteed for patriot Aussies and cringing colonialists alike! (story and 1 comment)
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Civilian death toll – unacceptable/indictable!
yarra, Friday, Jul 4 2008, 11:38pm
AFGHANISTAN -- "US-led air raid kills 22 civilians", Reuters UK reports on July 4. We need not go into detail, as it’s now a very familiar story. Whether it’s from unmanned drones, long distance artillery or missile attacks the result is all too familiar. The U.S. today is able to boast humanitarian offences and war crimes that dwarf the numbers achieved by African and Asian despots in the past. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
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OIL, now $145 but tipped to reach $200
budgie, Friday, Jul 4 2008, 12:03am
At a dinner George W Bush once described the ‘Barons’ of free market capitalism as the “have mores,” as distinct from ‘the haves’ and ‘have nots.’ He sure got that right! With oil set to reach $200 a barrel the ‘have mores’ are acquiring EVER MORE wealth at a pace and in amounts hitherto unimaginable, even at the time dubya made his infamous remark.
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Heartbreaking News!
dragan, Thursday, Jul 3 2008, 8:21am
It’ll break every star-spangled heart to learn the truth, the overwhelming majority of people hate/detest/loathe America WITH A VENGEANCE! That’s not news you say, we already know! No you don’t! It is far worse than any American could imagine. Certain government leaders and nations appear to temporarily befriend the U.S. for very self-interested reasons but their populations detest America as does nearly every other human being on the planet! (story and 1 comment)
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The Letter to Bush Obama Didn’t Write
William A. Cook via rialator, Wednesday, Jul 2 2008, 10:51pm
Dear Mr. President,
A fundamental principle of America’s Middle East policy must be our unshakeable commitment to Palestinian security. I believe that is a bipartisan commitment, and I will work to continue and advance that consensus. But I am deeply concerned that the security of the people of Palestine has been put at greater risk, both because of renewed threats from their implacable enemy, the State of Israel, and because of policy choices by the United States. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Political distraction: Pope’s visit an excuse!
barra, Tuesday, Jul 1 2008, 11:37pm
This story is laden with layers of meaning and secondary discourses. Regrettably, space constraints limit us (not you) to only a few aspects of analysis. In view of publishing constraints and in an effort to info cram, we may at times appear to veer tangentially; however, astute readers should have no difficulty making thematic and other meaningful connections! (story and 4 images)
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Infighting highlights the FRAUD that is Christianity
fish, Monday, Jun 30 2008, 8:23pm
Regardless of social activity/institution we can count of conservatives to really disrupt and destroy. The Anglican Church is the latest example of conservatives creating schisms that promise to further weaken the Church. Well done, Dr Peter ‘arch-conservative’ Jensen and other Paulinist Archbishops of the destabilising FOCA faction! I would remind conservatives that Paul of the Epistles is NOT the Saviour; that position has always rested with Jesus of Nazareth. Paul saves no one; perhaps he even leads people to their ruin!
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The Lobotomised American by Grey Greene
quill, Monday, Jun 30 2008, 12:18am
Complete with exotic oriental women, opium pipes, loaded with treble-refined of course, and a cushy job as a foreign correspondent, which enables access to most political functions and dignitaries – I could be about to blow the lid, gentlemen! ‘Espionage,’ a very outmoded term these days, ‘we’ all prefer the more modern appellation of ‘analyst’ or ‘commentator’, hilarious! (story and 2 comments)
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Kosovo: Serbs inaugurate regional parliament
zoran, Saturday, Jun 28 2008, 10:18pm
MITROVICA -- Serbs affirmed their rights over SOVEREIGN territories Saturday by inaugurating the (AUMAPK) Assembly of the Union of Municipalities of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo. The LEGAL declaration by Serbia was immediately denounced as ‘illegal’ by the UN and the secessionist Albanian playschool ‘government’ of ‘Kosova!’ (story and 1 image)
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Narcissistic, non-achiever Oz PM kicked in teeth by Electorate
barra, Saturday, Jun 28 2008, 9:47am
A swing of 7% against the government in the Gippsland by-election sends a clear and strong message to non-event PM, Kevin ‘bereft’ Rudd. The average swing against an incumbent government is around 4%; not only have the people kicked Rudd where it hurts but it is looks like Rudd will be kicked right out of the Lodge before or after his first term -- a very dubious distinction for a Labor leader. Everyone except Rudd and his imbecile media advisers see the writing on the lavatory wall. FAILURE TO DELIVER and LACK of INTERVENTION where it is needed are the principal reasons the people voted overwhelmingly against the government. (story and 2 comments)
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ANTHRAX ATTACKS: the case the Bush admin DREADS!
Kingfisher, Friday, Jun 27 2008, 11:43pm
Remember the anthrax attacks that were launched very soon after the 9/11 attacks? Anthrax spores sent via the US mail killed five innocent citizens – the social panic factor at the time was considerable! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Fraudulent Leaders
peptide, Thursday, Jun 26 2008, 9:14am
America beware! The Australian public screamed for change but got a Murdoch approved status quo dummy for a leader. Kevin Rudd's first seven months in office have been defined by his inability to do anything whatsoever; his greatest achievement to date is NON-ACHIEVEMENT! He has become a master of preserving the status quo set in motion by the powers that placed the previous conservative leader in office and so it will go with the USA unless the people detect the ruse before it’s too late! (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
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The Israeli ‘Solution’
arjna, Wednesday, Jun 25 2008, 11:38pm
There is absolutely no way to avoid a nuclear conflict while Israel and the USA exist! So let’s get it over with NOW! What are the dictates of the mass murdering, sociopathic, racist, Jew God on the subject?
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Serbia: an unlikely alliance
rade, Wednesday, Jun 25 2008, 11:13am
As predicted, Milosevic’s Socialists (partisans) have rejected their traditional (cetnik) nationalist enemy and will form a government with Tadic’s west-leaning liberal democrats. The extreme left and extreme right are forming a very shaky alliance, one destined to be dysfunctional from the outset but such is the nature of Balkan politics – shaky alliances are the norm not the exception in Balkan politics.
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Neo-cons subverting the US Justice Department and Democracy
Eric Lichtblau via rialator, Wednesday, Jun 25 2008, 9:53am
WASHINGTON -- Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.
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State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq
Andrew G. Marshall via fleet, Wednesday, Jun 25 2008, 9:15am
In January of 2002, the Washington Post ran a story detailing a CIA plan put forward to President Bush shortly after 9/11 by CIA Director George Tenet titled, "Worldwide Attack Matrix," which was "outlining a clandestine anti-terror campaign in 80 countries around the world. What he was ready to propose represented a striking and risky departure for U.S. policy and would give the CIA the broadest and most lethal authority in its history." The plan entailed CIA and Special Forces "covert operations across the globe," and at "the heart of the proposal was a recommendation that the president give the CIA what Tenet labeled "exceptional authorities" to attack and destroy al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the rest of the world." Tenet cited the need for such authority "to allow the agency to operate without restraint -- and he wanted encouragement from the president to take risks." Among the many authorities recommended was the use of "deadly force."
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