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"In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics" -- George Orwell
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 Hands on Leadership with Hugo
barra, Sunday, Jan 20 2008, 9:39pm
Latin American politics is not as dreary as the local timid variety. Hugo Chavez certainly knows what it means to lead. While some in the west may find his political methods a tad extreme, they certainly deliver results. Chavez recently threatened to nationalise the banks if they didn’t comply with the latest laws obliging them to make funds available for mortgages, small business and farming at accessible rates. (story and 1 image)
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commentary
The ‘Penny Drops’
finch, Sunday, Jan 20 2008, 10:20am
Applying the ‘KISS’ principle we are easily able to determine that the regulated economy of China is the world’s leading economic success story. Western deregulated economies have been outperformed/beaten/trounced/devastated/etc by the regulated economies of the East. However, big money interests in the West are loath to admit their failure! Also, notice the reticence of the western mass media to cover this major story; a very partisan bias is clearly evident in this regard. (story and 1 image)
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 A Taste of Reality and Success: Regulation!
peptide, Saturday, Jan 19 2008, 10:25am
China has trounced the economies of the world but especially that of the USA with a very simple strategy, REGULATION! Russia’s re-emergence has not gone without notice either! China has effectively won the Globalisation war that America imagined was in its pocket – the arrogance, dissociation and incompetence of America is now legendary. But there’s more, a whole lot more.
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Russia warns of 'preventative' nuclear strike
ABC via rialator, Saturday, Jan 19 2008, 6:47am
The Russian military's Chief of Staff says Moscow is ready to use preventative nuclear strikes to defend itself. Speaking at a conference at the Academy of Military Sciences in Moscow, General Yuri Baluyevsky said Russia must be ready to counter possible threats.
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peace/war /
other press
Demented America
finn, Friday, Jan 18 2008, 7:06pm
They were never meant to influence the direction of the nation – demented American religionists, rapturists, Southern Baptists, evangelicals and other assorted empty-heads have always been organised by religion to satisfy the needs of the State and serve the interests of an enlightened ruling elite that could care less for the fantasies of religion. (story and 2 images)
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Future Reference – be ready to ACT!
major mitchell, Friday, Jan 18 2008, 10:36am
Do it NOW! Collect and file the names, addresses, property holdings, and daily habits of all those responsible for the financial crash, failed illegal wars, assaults on international convention and LAW and the subversion of OUR hard won rights and liberties. SEND THE CRIMINALS A CLEAR MESSAGE, the AXE is about to fall!
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injustice/law /
news report
Semiotic Morass
finch, Thursday, Jan 17 2008, 10:34pm
There’s a lot of well written stuff out there; no one can claim defeat if the British and Australian governments feel it necessary to filter the free flow of information on the internet. Of course all such idiotic measures are doomed to failure as were measures employed to prevent the spread of books after the printing revolution (hundreds of years ago). Nevertheless, the same ignorant forces exist today as [they once did] in the dim, dark, past.
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What would you do?
silk, Thursday, Jan 17 2008, 5:10pm
Reduced alternatives. (story and 1 image)
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opinion/analysis
The Outstanding Feature of the U.S. election Campaign
peptide, Thursday, Jan 17 2008, 10:57am
This one is easy, too obvious to warrant an in depth analysis. What is it that all presidential candidates have in common besides lying through their teeth? [Distinctions between major party policies have virtually disappeared in the U.S. today.] What does the general tone, posture, and approach indicate? Why are those responsible for plunging the nation into numerous crises (failed wars, economy, legal rights etc) ignored by the candidates who should be screaming for blood? Outlining remedial policies in STARK CONTRAST to the ‘policies’ of the prevailing Bush regime would seem in order one would think! Remember the axiom, the best defence is attack? Why have the current field of candidates abandoned the most useful weapon of politics -- ATTACK?
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The Line
barra, Wednesday, Jan 16 2008, 9:41pm
There is a line drawn invisibly in all societies, a line that prudent rulers dare not cross.
When the sheeple, the common herd, the moronic masses wake up to the ‘facts‘ and become aware of the machinations, incompetence and failings of their rulers, the State of play changes dramatically; one can almost taste change in the air. Forget the clichéd slogans, I’m talking about a set of social circumstances that propel certain people into places and into roles they could never have envisioned. (story and 1 image)
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social equality/unity /
commentary
Rudd, Keelty, Haneef and the Banks
Kingfisher, Wednesday, Jan 16 2008, 7:21am
Australians remember the Indian doctor victimised by John ‘racist’ Howard and Mick ‘drunken dropkick’ Keelty, for purely political purposes. Today, the Rudd government did not oppose moves by the courts to re-instate Dr. Haneef’s working visa; however, the drunken, incompetent, AFP Chief, Keelty, in an attempt to save whatever is left of his tattered reputation and probably his last gesture of mindlessness prior to entering a clinic for substance abuse – yes, Mick, the whole country knows – continues to doggedly pursue the Indian doctor in view of the fact the UK authorities have indicated that no evidence exists to incriminate Dr. Haneef. Perhaps scheduling Keelty would be the most appropriate course of action the government could take at this stage!
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Facing the interest rate incline
budgie, Tuesday, Jan 15 2008, 10:23am
In anticipation of yet another interest rate hike a very brief history of Australia is warranted. This nation was built/developed by THE PEOPLE who enjoyed the fruits of their labour for generations. However, the past few decades have seen successive governments surrender the natural wealth of the nation to Transnationals, globalists and free market ‘rationalists.’ I would never have imagined the day I needed to remind the public what essentially constitutes a nation! (story and 2 images)
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commentary
America: a moral swampland
lynx, Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 9:34pm
This short paper is written as a response to RAND Corp, Carnegie-Mellon (Institute) and a host of other American ‘think’ tanks – if the functional qualifier, "think," is at all relevant in America today! We can save you a lot of conjecture and trouble by simply stating it as it is! But then how would you justify your existence?
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Dubya in la la
krill, Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 8:58am
The civilian death toll measures terrorist activity more accurately than other any other measure.
George W Bush, the world’s leading terrorist and leader of the world’s most vile Terrorist State cannot prevent the inevitable retaliatory attack on mainland USA. A small, highly skilled European group of Freedom fighters and others opposed to despots, war criminals and mass murderers have pledged to rid the world of the idiot tyrant and deliver a message that hometown USA will never forget – try denying a silent, blinding flash and vaporisation! The price you pay for supporting Bush and the crimes he perpetrates in YOUR name, THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE (AND DEATH)! (story and 2 images)
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Where has all the money gone, it’s been a short time passing?
peptide, Saturday, Jan 12 2008, 11:18am
Money doesn’t evaporate or disappear – it just changes hands!
The most amusing aspect of the ‘credit crunch,’ ‘sub-prime crisis’ – let’s call a spade a spade, the massive losses incurred as a result of manipulation and appropriation of trillions in funds by very clever, fast-talking financial manipulators/rogues -- are the lame excuses offered by bank execs to a very angry, debt-burdened public.
It’s time to face the music gentlemen and inform the public of the grim, compromising story of a failed economic model and the result of financial deregulation. If you are unable to clearly trace where all the money has gone, then accept responsibility for the losses and your incompetence and beg for mercy – your multi-million-dollar salaries now threaten to destroy you? It’s time to speak up before some bright, angry, family person or shareholders group arranges a SIMULTANEOUS, nation-wide DEFAULT ON ALL LOANS! [In the present climate, not a difficult task!] (story and 1 image)
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imperialism /
commentary
Mushroom (cloud) Blues
yarra, Friday, Jan 11 2008, 9:39pm
What possesses a once moral nation to reverse course and embark on a flagrantly illegal path of military invasion, plunder and murder. The REALITY of American intervention in Iraq is countless civilian deaths, the installation of a puppet government and a declaration that America now has interests it must protect after laying waste to a once viable State -- that is REAL American 'liberty and democracy' in action! Do Americans actually imagine they can murder over one million innocent men, women and children and avoid retribution – it seems so? Americans remain in a state of convenient blindness (denial) to the horrors they have caused -- no price is too high for OTHERS TO PAY for the American way of life!
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A lasting imprint or a national characteristic?
barra, Thursday, Jan 10 2008, 10:49am
Have no doubt that national leaders leave their ‘mark’ on a nation. Former PM John Howard’s greatest achievement has been largely overlooked, as it was a secondary by-product of his conservative politics of fear and servility. Inadvertently or otherwise Howard succeeded in reshaping the opposition Labor party and creating a Labor leader in his own image! That development has been most unfortunate for Australia, as Howard’s most notable characteristic while in office was COWARDICE! [His second most notable characteristic was servility.] (story and 2 images)
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Kevin Rudd: the invisible PM
peptide, Wednesday, Jan 9 2008, 9:06am
Australia is not short of critical issues affecting the nation at present. Perhaps the most politically damaging -- but by no means the most important – are bank interest rate hikes and the lack of regulation in this regard! The parasitic Banks are attempting – successfully at this stage -- to pass the cost of THEIR INCOMPETENCE to the public! The feeble and outrageous excuse given to Rudd’s eunuch government and the Australian people is that interest rates have risen in order to compensate for losses sustained from “exposure” to the U.S. credit crisis; in other words, ‘I want YOU to pay for MY incompetence,’ say the banks! ‘Impressive’ manoeuvre! The arrogance of deregulated Australian banks knows no bounds as is clearly evident today; it seems the word RESPONSIBILITY only applies to the public [servicing bank loans] but not to Bank executives – a very nice arrangement, for some! (story and 1 image)
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The Mother Load: grass roots electioneering
nano, Tuesday, Jan 8 2008, 9:14am
“That damned internet!” We could hear the plutocrats and media moguls from here (Australia). There is no denying that many ruling interests have taken a severe pounding from the ‘new’ grass roots GLOBAL communications medium. Given the means, many small voices on the net have combined to form a tsunami for "CHANGE" – there’s that magic word again!
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Song of the Ascetic
quill, Monday, Jan 7 2008, 12:04pm
Throughout history some texts stand apart from the usual fare - the Avadhuta Gita is one such text -- a favourite among lovers of Truth. (story and 1 image)
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philosophy /
literature
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