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 Inverted Values
finch, Wednesday, Nov 15 2006, 12:11pm
An Australian corporate director who FAILED to perform was recently relieved of his position; he nevertheless was able to walk with a $30 million severance package. This case is not uncommon, directors who fail to perform ensure they win regardless of other factors. Public companies are milk cows for these unscrupulous types.
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 Rupert Murdoch clarifies Rulership
nano, Tuesday, Nov 14 2006, 8:00am
Not too long ago Rupert Murdock would have trounced anyone in his media group for letting the ‘cat out of the bag’ (stating plain truth). It was therefore with jaw-dropping amazement that a local Australian audience listened to Murdock plainly state that we should not allow a particular administration to affect our attitude to the United States. “Administrations come and go”, he said, inferring REAL POWER, which Murdock represents, continues unaffected by the whims of democratic process! (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Tuesday, Nov 14 2006, 4:35pm
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Wake-up Call
peptide, Sunday, Nov 12 2006, 7:51pm
If after comparing actual events with posturing and rhetoric you conclude that Western governments serve minority corporate interests rather than the interests of the people, you would have discovered the lie that is democracy. You may also be surprised to discover that the majority of people who live in so-called democratic societies are actually compliant slaves! Governments that are SUBJECT to the rule of minority Corporate elites could hardly be expected to serve the interests of the majority if their masters specialise in inequity, disparity and the concentration of wealth in the fewest possibly hands. The appropriate response to any politician who states they are serving the interests of democracy, liberty or the people should therefore be, LIAR – unless of course you belong to the category of mindless slaves referred to above!
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Tony Blair: “Poisonous Propaganda”
peptide, Friday, Nov 10 2006, 8:58am
Tony (45 mins) Blair, member of the coalition of willing criminals and terrified of the prospect of facing a war crimes tribunal, has today labelled the dissenting voice of opposition (justice) as “poisonous propaganda”. The world received this ridiculous statement with ample incredulity. We are all familiar with the politics of inversion and pathologically lying Prime Ministers (Blair and Howard) but this latest desperate statement from Blair even elicited a bray from the Whitehouse donkey, who is far too busy with his own problems to offer any assistance to his partner in crime. The three most notorious murderers of the 21st century, Bush, Blair and Howard are facing an extremely hazardous future! (story and 3 comments)
Last Commented Saturday, Nov 11 2006, 6:21am
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Blinded by the Shite
finch, Tuesday, Nov 7 2006, 7:16pm
One medium size cauliflower, $3.46, bananas remain at $13/kilo at Coles Meyer supermarkets as of 8/11. Australian food prices at the grass roots Mr. (incompetent economic manager) Howard. John Howard is without doubt Australia’s biggest liar, racist, war criminal and scoundrel Prime Minister; he is also proving to be a thoroughly incompetent economic manager – just across the Tasman bananas remain at $2/kilo. The hard times (water shortages) haven’t hit yet but they soon will; can you imagine Howard’s performance in a real crisis if the above prices are an example of his management in relatively easy times? (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Nov 9 2006, 7:09pm
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Sedition and Popular Media
Kingfisher, Friday, Nov 3 2006, 10:28am
Conservative governments (marionettes of Corporate and Financial interests) have unanimously implemented 'new sweeping' [slogan] anti-terrorist and sedition laws to constrain and stifle dissent; conservatives can always be relied upon to implement the most lacklustre ‘solutions’! In characteristic mode they have resorted to Legislation in a futile attempt to silence dissenting and protesting ‘voices’. Legislation has always been the desperate final resort of all scoundrel governments and inept politicians. Nevertheless, the popular media remains unaffected by the new laws and continues to demonise, misrepresent, distort and omit details in order to present a ‘tailored reality’ to the public. Circumventing the ‘new sweeping laws’ is child’s play for any journo, analyst, artist or professional media manufacturer/fabulator/fabricator – WHY? (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Saturday, Nov 4 2006, 11:55pm
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The Management of Information
peptide, Sunday, Oct 22 2006, 11:10pm
The Australian Minister for Communications, Helen Coonan, buoyed by her recent success in eliminating media diversity in Oz is now targeting the most diverse (content) medium on the planet – the internet. Her latest comments (news radio) veil her real intentions (information control!) The only effective means of controlling the flow of information on the internet is filtering at backbone or provider level. Conservatives are entirely predictable and Coonan is no exception, her intentions to target the internet were anticipated, a quote from an article dated July 5, follows: (story and 2 images)
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China Asserts Superiority
Kwang zi, Saturday, Oct 21 2006, 12:43am
China asserts dominance in the region but if you blinked you missed it; the difference between loud and clear and subtle and clear is the difference between, “bombing into the stone-age” and gently applying Asian lateral diplomacy. DPRK (Kim Jong il) rebuffs six-party talks but promises China during independent talks, that nuclear testing will cease. Miss war whore/status quo/dead children, Condoleezza Rice, and the rest of the world are left in no doubt which nation exercises the greater degree of influence in the region; a clear message has been sent – the world has taken note. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Saturday, Oct 21 2006, 11:44am
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Gross Incompetence
nano, Thursday, Oct 19 2006, 2:03pm
A principal failure if not the major failure of the U.S. administration is its failure to comprehend the nature of post-modern reality, especially post-modern warfare. The U.S. war ‘machine’ is an antiquated beast run by the mentally impaired. Dangerous and angry old men (past failures) do not good leaders/advisers make!
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Criminal Paradise is Government
barra, Tuesday, Oct 17 2006, 9:59am
The answer is blowing the Constitution and Bill of Rights out the window – the Triads, Mafia, Latino, Cuban groups and various South American drug cartels all have something to learn from Cheney and Bush; in fact, they look positively tame in comparison. When confronted with accusations (and proof) of murder, torture, theft/plunder, illegal surveillance, etc, on levels traditional organised crime could only dream of, what is the recourse of neo-cons? Legislate and change the Law (it’s an ass anyway). Simply legalise activities that were once considered crimes and criminalise those who oppose or disagree! There’s nothing that compares to stealing government – computerised voting, subterfuge, lies, fabricated terrorist threats and THE POWER TO LEGISLATE – it’s just too damn easy! (story and 2 images)
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E-voting machines to be used in 2009 despite warnings
Paul O’Brien via rialator, Sunday, Oct 15 2006, 9:26pm
THE Government intends to use electronic voting machines in local and European elections in 2009, despite recent warnings that they can be manipulated to rig elections.
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‘Honeypot’ for Keelty and Ruddock
budgie, Wednesday, Oct 11 2006, 8:21pm
We have recently received some unverifiable information regarding a purported obsession shared by Mick Keelty of the AFP and the Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock. The information referred to the existence of a “missing category” of terrorists whose activities have been severely affecting the ability of regulatory authorities to adequately fulfil their social obligations. Keelty and Ruddock, in their quest for tighter social regulation, have encountered certain aberrations in the social matrix, the cause of which remains a mystery! (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Friday, Oct 13 2006, 11:09am
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Poofs, Paedophiles and American Puritanism
nano, Saturday, Oct 7 2006, 8:19pm
Think of the final refuge for religious extremists (fanatical Christian cults) from Europe; and later, the sexual undertone of the Salem witch trials and you stare homosexual congressman, Mark Foley, ‘straight’ in the American sexual obsession. It seems that puritanism is alive and well in the good ol’ U.S of A! Amazing as the over-reactive American response may seem to Europeans and those of other nations, the news of a homosexual’s exploits with a boy has pushed all other news aside – incredible! The Mayflower continues to sail the waters of conservative America.
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Discover Open Secret
budgie, Tuesday, Sep 26 2006, 2:57pm
I shouldn’t be so harsh on the Americans; it took me years to discover I had a nose on my face but I was at a disadvantage, there is only one of me. Imagine the cost (tax payer’s money) involved in maintaining not one bloated ‘intelligence’ agency, but sixteen! After a period of three years, sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies have finally determined the sky is blue, people have noses on their faces and that the illegal Iraq intervention increased the ‘terrorist’ threat – bravo! [Where do I sign, that’s the job for me, or are these agencies selective basket cases – incompetent relatives, banjo players and those owed favours only need apply?]
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Axis of Sketchy Allies
Maureen Dowd via rialator, Friday, Sep 22 2006, 5:20pm
Pakistan is at the heart of the Faustian deal the Bush administration has made.
It helps to plug your book at the White House.
After Pervez Musharraf coyly sidestepped a question at a news conference with President Bush about his claim on “60 Minutes” that Richard Armitage threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age if it did not cooperate in routing the Taliban in Afghanistan, noting that he had to save such juicy tidbits for his book’s publication next week, he shot up over 1,000 spots on Amazon.com. (story and 1 image)
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Nothing Right
peptide, Friday, Sep 22 2006, 5:40am
The one glaring undeniable fact regarding the Bush administration is it has failed in ALL its endeavours – in other words, the Bush regime has done nothing right. The latest incidence of neo-con incompetence involves John Bolton and Condoleezza Rice; their new tactical strategy for 'implementing peace' in the Middle East is inaction! The conflict in South Lebanon revealed the essential ideology/philosophy of the neo-cons – not only [to], ‘GIVE WAR A CHANCE; but also, WAR IS THE ANSWER’! [Thank you John Lennon.]
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Maghaberry POWs undertake 72 hour fast
Seán Ó Murchú, Monday, Sep 18 2006, 2:14pm
Maghaberry POWs undertake 72 hour fast.
Republican POWs in Maghaberry Gaol will commence a 72-hour fast on Tuesday, 19th September. The situation in Maghaberry has now reached crisis point. A representative of the Archbishop of Armagh met with the prisoners last Tuesday, however conditions in the gaol have not improved.
The Republican Prisoners’ Action Group has organised a picket in Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, on Saturday, 23rd September at 1:30p.m. and calls on everyone to support the demands of the Republican prisoners.
The RPAG has also lauched a website at URL: http://www.freewebs.com/powstatusnow (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Friday, Oct 13 2006, 11:04am
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Contagious or Related: Ratzinger Succumbs
peptide, Friday, Sep 15 2006, 4:40pm
Not to be backgrounded in world affairs, the new Hitler youth Pope of Rome, Ratzinger (by any other name) spouted his ultra-right-wing divisionist diatribes to the world today – are there any Muslims out there? Ratzinger’s highly inflammatory references to a previous crusading Pope’s diatribes against Islam were intended to inform the world that he has not forgotten his Nazi past, Ratzinger has left little doubt as to what he really represents – there is no cause for concern, however, as he is in ‘good’ company; neo-cons, Zionists and other ultra-conservative groups welcomed confirmation from the Pope that he is one of them. Ratzinger’s credentials as a representative of his God and saviour, the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, were left wanting – papal integrity plummeted to new depths today. (story and 1 image)
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BYU places '9/11 truth' professor on paid leave
Tad Walch via rialator, Thursday, Sep 14 2006, 7:45am
PROVO — Brigham Young University placed physics professor Steven Jones on paid leave Thursday while it reviews his involvement in the so-called "9/11 truth movement" that accuses unnamed government agencies of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. (story and 2 images)
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The Impending Collapse of Zionism
Kathleen Christison via rialator, Wednesday, Sep 13 2006, 4:47am
Is it only observers outside the conventional mainstream who have noticed that by its murderous assault on Lebanon and simultaneously on Gaza, Israel finally exposed, for even the most deluded to see, the total bankruptcy of its very founding idea?
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