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Australian Politics
Tags: Asia Times, Asia-Pacific, China, Pepe Escobar, Philippines, RT (TV network), Singapore, United State
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Julia Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism A Pilger article
Julia Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism 8 March 2012 In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. “Such an appointee would not stay young and attractive forever [because] a spinster lady can, and very often [...]
Tags: Australia, Germaine Greer, Gillard, International Women's Day, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Margaret Thatcher, Sydney Morning Herald
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Australian Labor Party treachery and deceit reaches new depths-if that’s possible.
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard are providing a masterclass in how to alienate voters. Photograph: Daniel Munoz/REUTERS Echoes of UK politics in showdown between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard John Major’s ‘put up or shut up’ challenge to Tory right and wars between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown playing out in Australia Tony Blair has been [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor, Gordon Brown, John Major, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Rudd, Tony Blair
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Getting to Australia by boat
There seems to be something missing in all the talk in Australia about refugees. Where is the evidence for what people and politicians say about the “Border Security” issue or problem. Perhaps you may expect that if there is an issue [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Aussie, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Iran, North Shore, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Refugee, Sydney, United States, White Australia Policy
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PM Gillard: hard worker, hard-nosed, hard to read Gittins: A strange breed of Labor PM
Click to play video It is interesting to read this article on Gillard. surely there can be no surprise that there is little difference between the Labor and Liberal parties. We effectively have a one party system paying homage to the business party or the elites if you prefer. That simply means [...]
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Gillard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Prime minister, Ross Gittins, Rudd, Tony Abbott
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Australia and military madness. No stranger to murder in the name of peace. Australia Remilitarizes
Australia has continued a slide to total subservience to warmongers like Obama for some time. But the most recent behaviour under Gillard is the most remarkable for the tin pot toadies she commands in her unelected role as Prime Minister. We are witnessing the final stages of crawling to the US and then [...]
Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Australian Labor Party, China, Landing Helicopter Dock, United States, White Paper
Posted in Australia, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia the true friend downunder, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream | No Comments »
Nuclear India to get Australian uranium NAJ Taylor follows up on his two-part essay on the concerns of Australia selling uranium to India.
The Australian government wants to sell uranium to India, but significant hurdles to the deal remain [GALLO/GETTY] This is a post-script for the two-part essay that discussed the debate currently taking place in Australia concerning the sale of uranium to India, in particular the consideration given to the Labour Party’s longstanding ban on uranium sales to countries which have [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Government of Australia, India, Julia Gillard, Labour, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Prime Minister of Australia
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No labourers in Labor government only politicians with fraudulent intentions
The Labor Party endorsment regarding the sale of uranium to India show just how much this so called ”progressive party” is and has always been nothing more than a capitalist workers party. From its inception what was supposed to be a party for workers was simply a party dedicated to the national interest. That interest was [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Gillard, India, Julia Gillard, Labor, Liberal-National, United States
Posted in Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australia the true friend downunder, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics | No Comments »
Australia for sale. Give the Labor Party a call and place an order
Australia approves uranium exports to India Labour Party conference approves PM’s plan, despite Delhi not being signatory of nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Australia possesses nearly 40 per cent of the world’s known uranium reserves [Reuters] Australia’s ruling Labour Party has approved plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a [...]
Tags: Anthony Albanese, Australia, Gillard, India, Julia Gillard, Labour, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, United States
Posted in Australia, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australia the true friend downunder, Australian Politics, India | 1 Comment »
Masking Racism in Australia
On the 7th of February 2011 a document was made that spoke of the Australian government‘s actions toward the indigenous people of Australia. The original actions were part of a policy put in place by a Liberal based conservative Federal government. That government was later replaced by a Labor Party government that has allowed the [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor, Australians, Government of Australia, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Labor government, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
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US to stockpile cluster bombs in Australia? Despite Australia having signed the convention against cluster munition, a US base may transport and stockpile munition.
Cluster munition or parts of the munition often do not explode on impact, causing great harm to the envrionment [EPA] Brisbane, Australia: A US military “base” in Darwin, Australia (spun as a “rotational deployment” for China, I suspect), will necessitate foreign weapons systems and armaments being stockpiled, retained and transited on and in Australian [...]
Tags: Australia, China, Cluster bomb, Convention on Cluster Munitions, David Hurley, Non-governmental organization, Scott Ludlam, United States
Posted in Australia, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australia the true friend downunder, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, Australian War Crimes | No Comments »
Making Australia a target as a friend and ally of the most aggressive nation the world has seen. A course of action australia will live to regret
Clinging to the US as if it were a life raft in a stormy sea and expecting to be respected by our Asian neighbours makes Australia look both complicit in US war crimes and a partner in future US imperial expansion in the area. The Australian record in Asia is deplorable. From the White [...]
Tags: Asia-Pacific, Australia, Barack Obama, Beijing, China, Hu Jintao, Julia Gillard, South China Sea, United States
Posted in Australia, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Politics, Australia the true friend downunder, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Imperial Project, Imperialism | No Comments »
When Labor is in power it’s all sell, sell, sell in Australia
It was not that long ago that a defence paper in order to justify the expenditure of an enormous amount of the Australian people’s money on defence that India was named as a future enemy, along with China. It seems that now all has been forgiven and the win elections at [...]
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Ben Chifley, China, Government, India, Labor, United States, Vietnam
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Remember there are terrorists everywhere
Following our own Australian security fears about just about anyone who is not white anglo saxon protestant it is worthwhile looking at the position in the US. Remember no matter what ASIO or UNCLE may say it is in the end a matter of trust to believe them. The extreme likelihood that if there is [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Awlaki, Ivan Eland, middle east, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, United States
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Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
This article is not a bad reminder to all the true believers that the Gillard great Australian crawl to the miners in WA was just that. A sickening example of a sell out to big business. Not a human rights abuse perhaps but a gross abuse of humans in this country when dealing with the people’s [...]
Tags: Freeport-McMoRan, Grasberg, Grasberg mine, Indonesia, Indonesian National Armed Forces, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Rio Tinto, Rio Tinto Group, Suharto, West Papua
Posted in Australia, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Politics, Australian economy, Australian Politics | No Comments »
Dismay not anger
Despite what you may read in the Australian media there is really no blood lust at large in the UK. To the contrary there seems to be a reasoned approach in some quarters to address the issues before the shooting starts. It probably has a lot to do with the absolutely miserable Australian media outlets [...]
Tags: Bermuda Triangle, Birmingham, Filling station, Handsworth, Ladywood, Murder, Muslim, Sparkhill, West Midlands, West Midlands Police, Winson Green
Posted in Australia, Australian Politics, UK, UK DPP, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy, UK riots and unrest | No Comments »
Is there an Australian Boomtown Curse?
Australia is blessed with rugged beauty and a wealth of natural resources – including coal, iron, natural gas and gold. Such minerals are powering Australia’s economy to record highs. And as demand from China for more resources grows, new mines continue to open across the country. But critics say there is a dark side to [...]
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Australia The Intervention a video
The Intervention Examining the impact of the Australian government‘s so-called ‘intervention’ policy on aboriginal communities. (The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2011/07/2011729121416628187.html) Filmmaker: Julie Nimmo Recorded over eight months in the community of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia, The Interventionreveals the federal government’s implementation of its so-called ‘intervention’. JOIN THE DEBATE Send us your views [...]
Tags: Australia, Community, Government of Australia, Human rights, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Katherine, Katherine Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Northern Territory National Emergency Response
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For Gaza hope still remains. Notice there is no reference to the pro Zionist Australian Government led by the unelected pro zionist Gillard
Egypt allows medical aid into Gaza via the Rafah crossing Published yesterday (updated) 28/07/2011 19:21 EL-ARISH (Ma’an) — Head of the Egyptian Red Crescent Jaber Al-Arabi said Thursday that Egyptian authorities had allowed medical aid and food to enter Gaza via the Rafah crossing. Three truckloads of medications were received by the Palestinian Red [...]
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Withdrawing from Afghanistan a David Swanson article
Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58598 Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades. War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, and “reconstruction” profiteers seem to know [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Barack Obama, Chris Harman, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Howard Zinn, Joe Biden, Ryan Crocker, September 11 attacks, Soviet Union, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Taliban, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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Gillard, the ALP and the numbers game
Please do not think this means support for Abbott or any of the proven disastrous Liberal policies. Disastrous to the very many but a godsend the the very few both the ALP and the Liberals and whoever attaches themselves limpet like to either are simply factions of the one party system we have. In that system the only party is [...]
Tags: ALP, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Carbon tax, Gillard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, United State
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The imperial project’s ability to get people to die for nothing in Afghanistan
A British patrol returns to camp in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province last year. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian The five-year British military campaign in southern Afghanistan has been woefully under-resourced and hampered by inadequate equipment, according to a damning report by MPs. The Commons defence select committee, which has been analysing UK operations [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Armed Forces, British Army, Helmand Province, Improvised explosive device, Member of parliament, Ministry of Defence, Taliban
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A NY Times report on the US withdrawal from Iraq, that will never happen,
In Shadow of Death, Iraq and U.S. Tiptoe Around a Deadline Spencer Platt/Getty Images American soldiers stopped to talk with an Iraqi during a patrol this week in Babil Province. Lately, American combat deaths have been increasing in Iraq. By TIM ARANGO Published: July 14, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE [...]
Tags: Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqi security forces, New York Times, Nouri al-Maliki, United State, United States Armed Forces, United States Army
Posted in Arab democracy, Arab movements, Arab Spring, Australia and the imperial project, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Elites, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Monbiot, NATO, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Pentagon, people's protests, Political psychopaths, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, torture, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes | No Comments »
What will happen if lapdogs run out of even pretend friends?
If you read Ted Rall‘s article next to this one a few important factors emerge for Australia. If the US is in deeper and darker waters than anyone is prepared to let on then where does a lackey lappdog nation like Australia fir if it all goes pear shaped. The first thing you probably need to do [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, China, Gillard, India, Israel, Julia Gillard, middle east, Ted Rall, United State
Posted in Australia, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics | No Comments »
A conservative view of the US Republicans reveals similarities here in Australia. All austerity and no help to those who work
US infrastructure has been decaying over the past decade. Nevertheless, Republicans are pushing for deep budget cuts [EPA] Once upon a time, in a land that now seems to have been populated by tooth fairies and unicorns, there was a political party that had a set of core beliefs to which they actually adhered. Among them was [...]
Tags: Cliff Schecter, Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, National Rifle Association, Real McCain, Republican, United State, Wayne LaPierre, World Health Organization
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Pepe Escobar on Why The US Will Not Leave Afghanistan
The Pentagon wants the White House to “hold off on ending the Afghanistan troop surge until the fall of 2012″ [GALLO/GETTY] Among multiple layers of deception and newspeak, the official Washington spin on the strategic quagmire in Afghanistan simply does not hold. No more than “50-75 ‘al-Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA, have [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, Pentagon, Taliban, United States, White House
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An interesting letter penned by Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis is director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is also a fellow of the Transnational What follows is in the form of a letter by Phyllis Bennis the author of the article beside this one on this page. It summarises thoughts, actions, initiatives and the continuing [...]
Tags: Danny Glover, Democracy, Iraq War, middle east, Transnational Institute, United Nations, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Washington DC
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Australians win appeal in Israel despite their own government saying it will not help those in Israel
What follows are some updating reports about the Australians, Sylvia Hale and Vivienne Porzolt who have won an appeal and will soon be freed in Israel. In yet another callous exhibition the Israeli government had made decisions to detain and deport them for having the audacity for being there to visit Palestinians. One might wonder [...]
Tags: AEST, David Shoebridge, Gaza flotilla raid, Greens New South Wales, Human rights, Israel, Israelis, Palestinian people, Sylvia Hale, Tel Aviv, Time in Australia, Zionism
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With back stabbing, subservience to polls, the truth sacrificed at every turn Gillard is just another example of the ALP as it always has been
Gillard is simply an extension of the still birth of the ALP in 1891. All that needs to be sorted out is how the party is able to give a continuing appearance of still being alive. What happened back then has continued to this day. The aspirations of working people were sacrificed at the alter [...]
Tags: ALP, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Gillard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, United States
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If you want a truly nonsensical response and a total lack of commitment where do you think is the best place to go?
Just because the environment is an important issue and the future really does need to be a major concern, do not think that is what motivates the politicians. No it certainly does not. Their only concern is re-election and the ultimate safe retirement free from any financial concerns, social liability and judgment. All that just adds to [...]
Tags: Australian Greens, Carbon tax, Christine Milne, Emissions trading, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott
Posted in Australia, Australia and Abu Grahib, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream | No Comments »
More on the cowardly acts toward children by the Jewish State of Israel
Palestinian children, traumatised by the occupation, are regularly arrested, detained, and interrogated by Israeli security forces[GALLO/GETTY] Dozens of Palestinian children clamoured excitedly in the East Jerusalem village of Silwan on June 26, each clutching the strings to as many helium-filled balloons as they could. Moments later, the children watched as the sky above this flashpoint [...]
Tags: Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Convention on the Rights of the Child, East Jerusalem, Fourth Geneva Convention, Israel, Israeli security forces, Israeli settlement, Jerusalem, Old City (Jerusalem), Silwan, Temple Mount
Posted in Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian support for Zionism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, Israel, Israel a Jewish State dealing in arms, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and withholding resources from the Arabs etc, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel Boycott, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel media, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints | No Comments »
When NO TAX becomes not only is it our idea but it is good for you. The politics of hypocrisy and treacHery with a happy ending
For those of you who have time for a little reflection there is an interesting fact that emerges from the Carbon Tax in Australia. Whether it works, is partially successful or leads to other means as a matter of absolute certainty it is at least a start. Despite the one party system we have, that is [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Carbon tax, Emissions trading, Government of Australia, Greenhouse gas, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Noam Chomsky, Tony Abbott
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The power is has and always will be in the people. Not in the rampant and incorrigible corridors of Government that is employed by the elite.
Because Israel’s leaders prefer land to peace and there’s nothing any American president can do about that so long as the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress call the shots on U.S. policy for Israel/Palestine, it’s obvious that the Palestinians have nothing to gain, only more to lose, from politics and diplomacy. So [...]
Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Israeli-occupied territories, Palestinian people, Shlomo Gazit, United Nations Security Council, United States, West Bank, Zionism
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Flotilla update from the Atzmon site
This is yet another good article at the Gilad Atzmon site. That site can by reached at http://www.gilad.co.uk/. This article has an interview between Cattori and Plionis. I have has been mentioned on this page a few times that Israel has become like a new found friend for Greece. That raises a further interesting point. The [...]
Tags: Crete, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Gilad Atzmon, Greece, Greeks, Israel, Palestinian people, Politics of Greece, United States
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A South African article declares Israel an apartheid State
SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA WATCHDOG SAYS ISRAEL CAN BE CALLED AN APARTHEID STATE Editor’s Note: This statement was released today and unequivocally sends a clear message to the Zionist lobby, that complaints of “discrimination”, “false propaganda” and “hate speech” whenever criticism of Israel is launched, is contrary to freedom of expression and political speech and that [...]
Tags: Anti-Apartheid Movement, Apartheid Israel, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Israel and the apartheid analogy, Israel Boycott, Palestinian people, South Africa, South Africa under apartheid
Posted in Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian support for Zionism, Israel, Israel a Jewish State dealing in arms, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and withholding resources from the Arabs etc, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel Boycott, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel media, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints | No Comments »
Newest War Hawk Excuse: Drones Are Police Action, Not War
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan, Police action, Somalia, Thomas E. Ricks, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle, War
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The Flotilla embodies the Arab Spring spirit A Yousef Munayyer article
Israel‘s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip has led to an almost complete collapse of Gaza’s economy, making the people dependent on international aid [GALLO/GETTY] Earlier this year we watched with amazement as hundreds of thousands of Arabs charged into the streets of their cities demanding reform. The uprisings led to the departure of several [...]
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Monbiot is this a shift in opinion???? You may think so????
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
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Re Monbiot and nuclear
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
Tags: Centre for Alternative Technology, Committee on Climate Change, George Monbiot, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, Guardian, International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclearpower
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Report from Jewish paper Haaretz in the Jewish State of Israel
The blockade is the problem The economic pressure of the blockade has not brought about moderation in Hamas‘ positions, and stopping protesters en route to Gaza will not change the military balance. Haaretz Editorial All signs indicate that the government of Israel has taken steps to receive the present Gaza flotilla in a manner much [...]
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The times they are not a’ changin’. That includes Afghans
US Eyes ‘Mini-Surge’ in Afghanistan Despite Talks of Drawdowns, Military Eyes More Special Forces Deployments by Jason Ditz, July 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Obama’s announcement of a “drawdown” in Afghanistan was treated as a major watershed. Despite the ultimately trivial size of the move, it has sparked a [...]
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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The Geneva Conventions. They are a lot more than a few decades old. Like life they change, get added to or altered but not supposed to be ignored, forgotten or let slide for ‘convenient reasons of State or anyone. They are as much your rules as any government’s. Allowing at least two adroitly racist parties to tell you what happened is a complete farce
Geneva Conventions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Geneva Convention: The signature-and-seals page of the First Geneva Convention (1864), establishing humane rules of war. The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of the victims of war. The singular term Geneva Convention denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the [...]
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It’s not over ’til it’s…..
The Use of Torture in the War on Terror Reflections on the Afghanistan (2002) and Abu Ghraib (2004) experiences. Australian Defence Force perspectives. Conducted at CDSS in April 2005. This entry comes from the following front page of this document About Mission and Function Course Development Case Studies Research Article Reviews [...]
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The ABC and the Abu Ghraib matters
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 04/07/2011 Reporter: Geoff Thompson Recently uncovered documents have linked an Australian soldier with the abuse of prisoners in Iraq‘s notorious Abu Ghraib jail. The ABC’s Geoff Thompson investigates. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: These notorious pictures helped change the course of the Iraq War. The graphic photos of Iraqi detainees being mistreated [...]
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Are you surprised? ADF knew of abuses at Abu Ghraib
ADF knew of abuses at Abu Ghraib Anne Davies, Deborah Snow, Debra Jopson July 5, 2011 Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/adf-knew-of-abuses-at-abu-ghraib-20110704-1gz95.html#ixzz1R9uMIOrL Related articles Because we killed the bad guy, I guess that’s what makes it alright. Words, lyrics and dance routines by various US, Allied and Australian psychopaths (ikners.com) From Abu Ghraib to the [...]
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Absolutely no surprise at all in this. If true it represents the nature of the Australian commitment to the US and our racist past present and future
ADF knew of abuses at Abu Ghraib Anne Davies, Deborah Snow, Debra Jopson July 5, 2011 Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/adf-knew-of-abuses-at-abu-ghraib-20110704-1gz95.html#ixzz1R9p7NE8U Related articles (There are many more at ikners.com) Because we killed the bad guy, I guess that’s what makes it alright. Words, lyrics and dance routines by various US, Allied and Australian psychopaths (ikners.com) They must [...]
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For the Jewish State of Israel there is certainty. For the Palestinians there is hope. Everything should be done to assist those who only have hope
Greece says its ban on all Gaza-bound ships leaving port was to protect pro-Palestinian activists [Reuters] Most of the nine vessels that pro-Palestinian activists planned to sail on as part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in defiance of an Israeli blockade remain stranded in Greece ports, after Greek authorities forbade them from embarking on the journey. Two [...]
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Years of murder and war by the invaders of glory has led to this. We shared the stage with Howard and still do
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
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An article on the Gaza position and the Flotilla
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
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