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  The Lackey and the President posted by yarra, 2007-08-10 12:46:53
George Bush demonstrates his sovereignty over his newest colonial acquisition, Australia! Bush has thrown the highly coordinated security plans for the APEC summit in Sydney into disarray by arriving two days earlier than was previously arranged. The chaos and disruption this ill-considered change in plans will cause will be enormous. But what choice does a lackey prime minister and a subservient population have? The King of America and colonies, Iraq and Australia, has spoken and we can but find joy in licking Bush’s arse! (full story and 1 comments)
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 The Alice Report – when a nation takes Leave posted by dingo, 2007-08-08 13:27:29
Oz nous has gone on holiday it would seem; the Prime Minister this week denied, on national television, all reports and accusations that he is dishonest! People arose from comas at the announcement, my demented granny who hasn’t spoken or reacted to the outside world in years, leapt out of her invalid chair and screamed, “shoot the little war criminal!” People all over the nation choked on their dinners but the best is yet to come. (full story)
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Hacking Capitalism posted by Andy Greenberg via Kismo, 2007-08-06 22:28:04
LAS VEGAS -- Lost seconds mean lost dollars on Wall Street. But the race for faster transactions risks security disaster.
Employees of banks could shut down computers that make quick arbitrage trades across markets, using denial-of-service attacks to overwhelm servers and potentially cause millions in losses. Ultra-fast electronic trades may be especially vulnerable to sabotage. And the need for speed has made things worse -- with financial institutions avoiding software security features that might cause crucial millisecond delays. (full story)
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Stock Market Meltdown posted by Mike Whitney via rialator, 2007-08-04 23:31:19
On Friday the Dow Jones took a 280 point nosedive on fears that that losses in the subprime market will spill over into the broader economy and cut into GDP. Ever since the two Bears Sterns hedge funds folded a couple weeks ago the stock market has been writhing like a drug-addict in a detox-cell. Yesterday’s sell-off added to last week’s plunge that wiped out $2.1 trillion in value from global equity markets. New York investment guru, Jim Rogers said that the real market is “one of the biggest bubbles we’ve ever had in credit” and that the subprime rout “has a long way to go.” (full story)
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Looming Oz Federal Election: don’t be fooled again! posted by Kingfisher, 2007-08-04 12:53:59
“Fooled” in what sense? Surely it’s as simple as voting for the Party of your choice? That would be the response from most people and that is the problem. Party voting is offering the choice between gangrene or an amputation, as an American once put it! (full story)
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Kevin Rudd: nobody’s man posted by cleaves, 2007-08-03 13:00:48
Who or what is a Kevin Rudd? Who does he represent, what distinguishes him from his conservative opponent, John Howard? In answer to the first question, NOTHING, Rudd is a proven non-entity; he represents no one I am able to locate, notwithstanding many Australians will vote against Howard but not for Rudd. There is nothing that distinguishes Rudd from Howard; he is only a paler version, a conservative with a lower case “c”. Rudd has supported Howard on more occasions than he has opposed him – and for those who may be wondering, yes, Rudd is the ‘opposition’ leader. (full story)
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 Return of the Robber Barons posted by Paul Craig Roberts via rialator, 2007-08-02 11:41:27
Anyone who imagined that grubby little racist and U.S. lackey John (despicable coward) Howard, had an original thought in his head read the following article relating to the U.S. and remove all doubts regarding Howard's status as slave to Bush, importer of the unfair U.S. labour system, lackey to the Corporations, especially the criminal directors and CEOs. Read, learn and discover for yourself the American lackey that Howard really is. Never in Oz history has the nation witnessed a Prime Minister surrender the entire nation and culture to a foreign power – treason would not be too strong a word! (full story)
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 The Haneef release: an international view posted by major mitchell, 2007-07-27 12:34:35
From an international perspective the Haneef case in Australia reveals ingrained, systemic racism, dysfunction, possible criminal collusion at senior government levels, appalling incompetence of Federal Police and the failure of associated legal institutions. For a developed western nation, the above makes for a very damning report card. (full story and 2 comments)
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Australian alert, Kevin Rudd, a dead loss! posted by barra, 2007-07-26 11:23:47
Few silver platter opportunities occur in politics but failing to take advantage is unforgivable. The whole (thinking) nation is wondering why the opposition leader failed to capitalise on the Haneef fabrication/collusion/‘fit’/DEBACLE! Rudd has been doing his best of late to completely close the ideological gap between Howard and himself. Kevin Rudd seems to be seeking an unholy conservative marriage with his ‘arch-rival’, John Howard – some may be perplexed at the opposition leader's recent behaviour; however, we are reminded that conservatism never opposes itself! (full story and 2 comments)
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Haneef case: international embarrassment and national disgrace posted by peptide, 2007-07-22 09:50:56
There is one extremely clear aspect to the Haneef debacle; it has Howard written all over it! Yet does the PM or his flunky cohorts in crime fear arrest? Not that one can detect! The long history of deceptions, lies, duplicities and manipulations from Tampa, children overboard to Haneef, combine to form one final farewell fiasco for our resident ‘draco,’John Howard. (full story and 2 comments)
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Kissinger’s Secret Meeting With Putin posted by Mike Whitney via reed, 2007-07-18 22:33:18
"RAF fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for British airspace yesterday, as the spirit of the Cold War returned to the North Atlantic once again. The incident, described as rare by the RAF, served as a telling metaphor for the stand-off between London and Moscow over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.” (Times Online, Richard Beeston; “RAF scrambles to intercept Russian bombers, 7-18-07)
"Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.” Niccoló Macchiavelli (full story)
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The Australian Dilemma posted by dingo, 2007-07-18 13:37:49
Australian citizens face a national election later this year and few are happy with the available choices. The two party adversarial system has resulted in two disliked candidates, one a war criminal, racist, pathological liar, despicable coward and servile corporate US lackey, the other a nothing, a zero with no ideological platform or defined identity – a non-specific turd! (full story and 1 comments)
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  Sydney’s “Go (and get fucked) Bag!” posted by barra, 2007-07-16 12:52:45
It is rare that a politician expresses the true sentiments of the population but the Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, Chris Harris, has thrown political discretion to the wind and let the Mayor ‘have it’. The Mayor Clover Moore, during one of her ‘out of body experiences’ has returned to her tribe with a revelation that Sydney citizens should carry a “go bag” in the event of an emergency! The bag should contain articles such as sneakers for walking, a baseball cap for that quick game, a flash light and a toilet roll, I quote the consultant who advised the Mayor, “in the event of a toilet roll crisis!” (full story and 1 comments)
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 Desperate losers deliver ‘low blow’ posted by finch, 2007-07-15 19:57:09
Howard government reveals true character in Haneef case. Immediately after a Queensland Magistrate rightly released terrorist suspect, Haneef, on bail – the prosecutor failed to establish any direct connection to terrorist activity -- the Howard government acting through the Minister for Immigration, Kevin Andrews, revoked his visa on (unproven) character grounds and transferred him to an immigration detention centre. (full story)
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 Beat-up alert: Howard whips it up, whips it good posted by nano, 2007-07-14 17:57:05
John Howard, holocaust denier, mass murderer and Terrorist, by any definition of the term, is again banging his very battered and somewhat muted tin drum in a very transparent attempt to capture media attention. He is milking the UK bombings and the tenuous local connection for all its worth. Howard is a known master of the ‘front page grab’ and as expected, the compliant local media have taken the herring. Minimal analysis just Murdoch style hype and exaggeration and Howard the coward appearing as the ‘strong man.’ If the reader has any doubts regarding the compliance of the local media ask yourself how many times the media has taken Howard to task for his direct complicity in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq! (full story)
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