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Gus Leonisky's blogthe blackwater scholars .....
The Iraqi government Monday ordered Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to stop work and leave the country after the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy. The order by the Interior Ministry, if carried out, would deal a severe blow to U.S. government operations in Iraq by stripping diplomats, engineers, reconstruction officials and others of their security protection.
barnaby who .....
Rudd brushes off Qld Cabinet misconduct allegations Labor leader Kevin Rudd says if the Federal Government has concerns about his actions when he was a public servant in Queensland it should approach the police. Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce wants to table a nine-volume report into allegations against the Queensland Cabinet when Mr Rudd was chief of staff to then-premier Wayne Goss.
rattus values .....
"We think it's a bad thing to say to our closest ally in her hour of need in Iraq that we're going to partially walk away from you." john winston rattus
an evil joke .....
How comfy we are all in the United States, as we engage in living-room debates about the US occupation of Iraq, whether "we" are bringing them freedom and whether their freedom is really worth the sacrifice of so many of our men and women. We talk about whether war aims have really been achieved, how to exit gracefully, or whether we need a hyper-surge to finish this whole business once and for all.
the value of words .....
It is true that the US is increasingly bellicose. The balance of power in
political dotage .....John Howard could stay in parliament for a very long time after he hands over the prime ministership, Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey says. "I wouldn't put it past the prime minister to still be in parliament for a long period of time." Howard Could Stay In Parliament For Years Gus: It doesn’t even seem to occur to these arrogant bastards that the voters of Bennelong might have other ideas.
grant theft .....
Ever wonder why the supposedly 'fiscally Conservative' Republican Party ALWAYS increases the nation's debt? Ever wonder why, in 2007, the United States will spend nearly a trillion dollars ($700 billion-plus) to fight a relatively small band of sandal-wearing thugs living in caves? Sadly, Americans seem not to wonder about much of anything ... but they should. They should, because so-called Conservative Republicans are robbing the taxpayer blind and using the money to undermine the welfare of the American people.
out for a duck .....
a retiring john winston rattus
the great reversurgerator.....Embracing Iraqi interests would mean giving up the Washington dream of a wide-open, Wild-West, virtually unregulated Iraqi economy bloated with energy revenues and ripe for the picking by international investors. Two out of three Iraqis want their energy sector -- the source of 90 percent of the country's revenues -- to be developed by the state. But the United States didn't invade Iraq just to have another Arab country with massive oil reserves controlled by a state oil company and huge subsidies propping up its citizens. So the conflict will continue.
all smoke & mirrors .....
Hockey dismisses 'flawed' WorkChoices findings The Federal Government has rejected the findings of a new report into the impact of WorkChoices in services industries. The study by Sydney University's Workplace Research Centre found that on average the earnings of retail workers have fallen 18 per cent and hospitality workers by 12 per cent, since the introduction of WorkChoices.
a loopy lapdog .....Yesterday, bushit’s latest loopy lapdog, General David Betrayus, lied to the world. He used faulty statistics & cherry-picked intelligence to argue that American troops should stay in Iraq for the foreseeable future. Betrayus said we're making major progress & we have to stay the course. Sadly, independent assessments show that things in Iraq have gone from bad to worse (see below for more on how Betrayus stretched the truth).
vail serventy .....Scientists baffled by arrival of rare seals Taronga Zoo marine specialists are fighting to save the life of the second Antarctic leopard seal to be washed up on a Sydney beach in a week.
Found stranded yesterday morning at Clontarf, the gravely ill female had been badly mauled by a cookie-cutter shark. The zoo is already nursing a male leopard seal that was found on Tuesday last week on a beach at Wattamolla in the Royal National Park: it had also been attacked by a cookie-cutter shark.
when fools rush in .....Russia uranium deal makes good sense: Downer Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says the nuclear safeguards agreement signed today with Russia paves the way for the export of at least $1 billion worth of uranium a year. The agreement has yet to be ratified by federal Parliament and by Russia's Duma. It stipulates that Australian uranium cannot be sold on to any other nations or used for weapons.
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