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"Global political awakening is historically anti-imperial, politically anti-Western, and emotionally increasingly anti-American." -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
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 War Child
quill, Thursday, Feb 7 2008, 9:21pm
When words fail. (story and 3 images)
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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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TORTURE!
reed, Tuesday, Feb 5 2008, 10:47am
The CIA finally admits utilising torture on "three" separate occasions, give us a break! ‘Waterboarding,’ a euphemism for administered slow drowning, is not new to the USA. We can safely add at least two zeros to that hysterically absurd CIA figure. American Nazi torturers may have finally learnt what any good book on the subject or an interview with torture victims would have revealed -- ‘information extracted under torture conforms to the torturer's wishes!’ Accuracy has little bearing on information torturers wish to hear – though it is common for torturers to confuse wish-fulfilment with accuracy! (story and 1 image)
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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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The Free World and America’s ‘Fort Apache’ mentality
druze, Friday, Feb 1 2008, 12:25pm
Remember how the west was ‘won;’ slaughtering buffalo, the principal food supply of plains Indians, and establishing Forts to secure outposts in the ‘Indian territories?’ All those treaties, lies and slaughtered natives, one and half centuries ago; but expansionist methods haven’t changed an iota. Welcome to Fort Bondsteel in Kosovo and hundreds of other American bases throughout the world!
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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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State of the Union: living in your own private Denial-aho
Jay, Monday, Jan 28 2008, 7:08pm
If you haven’t seen a State in denial we recommend re-playing Bush’s last State of the Union address -- is anybody out there? The clueless, “mission accomplished” president of the U.S.Aaaay was greeted with a standing ovation from Congress, unrestrained cheers and acclamations reaching to the rafters but the delusory, obviously strained overkill betrayed the PANIC of (crashing) reality. What has the Bush administration done right, name one Goddamn thing, to put it in the American idiom! Just one positive contribution – give it a shot and taste reality through all the baloney and disaster! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Jan 31 2008, 7:03pm
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Bill Clinton smirked as he bombed Belgrade
Milan, Sunday, Jan 27 2008, 11:34am
News videos clearly depict then U.S. president, Bill Clinton, smirking after the Chinese embassy was hit by missile attacks on Belgrade, capital of Serbia. Targeting civilians was a crime then and remains a war crime today; however, the world was not yet familiar with the criminal tactics that later would characterise the ‘new’ American terrorist State! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Jan 30 2008, 8:50pm
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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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Confirmed: Kosovo secession designed to destabilise Russia
dragan, Thursday, Jan 24 2008, 11:14am
The western backed illegal Kosovo ‘government’ of Muslim KLA terrorist, Hashim Thaci, is set to secede from Serbia in days according to latest reports. NATO and western forces are pouring troops and support personnel into the breakaway province as I write. However, it has now become exceedingly clear the tiny province does not warrant all this fuss and risk. It has become clear that western backed secessionist moves in Kosovo have been designed to create/trigger turmoil in other ethnically disproportionate regions, particularly in Russia. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Jan 25 2008, 9:54am
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Let the Children Play
peptide, Wednesday, Jan 23 2008, 8:56pm
Shame on us all for tolerating the needless deaths of millions of innocent children worldwide but especially in Africa. Have we all become heartless PIG Americans? Remember the embargo Clinton placed on Iraq, which killed more children than the Bush invasion and subsequent war? The non-intervention of Condi Rice and John Bolton in South Lebanon resulted in more children killed than military casualties – give war a chance! Callousness, heartlessness and self-interest result in the deaths of millions of children every year but who cares as long as our tanks are full? (story and 2 images)
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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)
Last Commented Friday, Jan 25 2008, 10:21am
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Pre-emptive nuclear madness: an Iraq legacy
yarra, Tuesday, Jan 22 2008, 2:00pm
It was certain! Failing to adequately deal with the illegal, pre-emptive strike on Iraq has given license to the same criminals and sociopaths to adopt pre-emptive NUCLEAR strikes today! The conventional pre-emptive strike on Iraq was based on lies; the result is the first holocaust of the 21st century but that HORRENDOUS REALITY seems to have been overlooked by the psychopaths who drafted the latest nuclear strike manifesto in Western Europe. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Tuesday, Jan 22 2008, 8:31pm
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It’s confirmed -- Rudd really is a Dud
nano, Monday, Jan 21 2008, 10:47am
We all waited patiently for the new PM to set about IMPROVING conditions for Australians. We waited in vain for a new vision for the nation, a vision incorporating fairer deals for all – remember Rudd’s lying election slogan, “a fair go for all Australians?” To date all we have seen is reticence, fear, INABILITY to govern, no vision for the FUTURE whatsoever – just the same ol’, same ol’ SERVILITY to big money interests. [The same interests that have plunged the world into economic recession and continue to plunder our finite natural resources at an alarming rate!]
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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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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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