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BlogsToday, Tomorrow, ForgottenThis is the philosophy ascribed to by conservative politicians. They believe that anything ithat is said wil be dust within days. They may be correct, but I don't think so. We have the potential to see beyond the bullshit, but to do that we need to know that it's bullshit we're seing beyond, if you know what I mean.. I might be wrong, but I now think that ike the pro-Yank ads being paid for in Iraqi media, Australian journalism is slanted to suit the cause of the current US regime. LOCAL BOY MADE GOOD is the theme (yep, a really new one) that's been used to sell the militarisation of the state to the locals... it's a pity that BAE isn't "a Salisbury-based comany", and there's not a little cottage industry winning worldwide work called Halliburon/KBR.
Clipsal, Halliburton, Old Uncle John Olsen and allCostello:"If you have any inquiries into the proceedings of the tax office I Searle: " He wouldn't be able to tell you much at all because he would be subject to the secrecy provisions of the taxation act." A retired senior tax officer says that the matter should have been
This Is Style Of Protest Parkin's Deportation Was Intended To Suppress In Australia
Pre-planned, brilliant "photo-op" creation. I reckon that ASIO didn't think the Australian protest movement would be able to think like Diane Wilson unless we went to a Scott Parkin class.
From Houston Indymedia : Katie Heim reports from inside the Westin Oaks
Hotel: This evening, as Republicans gathered in the Galleria to raise
money for the GOP Diane WIlson, cofounder of Code Pink and author of An Unreasonable Woman infiltrated their ranks. Photos of the banner and arrest. Wilson, who has done work around issues such as the Bhopal distaster
and against the Iraq war, got on Delay's RSVP list by donating $50 to
his campaign.
Scott Parkin Deportation Justified- Australian Security Intelligence OrganisationHalibucks are fake money (in the style of Halliburton) used by U..S. protesters to demonstrate the idea of dodgy transactions in street theatre. If the idea wasn't conceived by Scott Parkin,the concept originates from his training program.. At a recent anti-Cheney protest in Houston , a protester was ushered behind police lines by alleged Secret Service personel to be asked questions about her use of the Halibucks. Meanwhile, back at the Southern Ranch, Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Adelaide- US Radar BaseThe Federal Minister of Defence, Robert Hill announced yesterday that trials that would enable Adelaide to play a key role in the U.S. MIssile Shield were successful. Mr Hill said that the trials "might" allow Adelaide to participate. The news follows announcements earlier this year that Adelaide to become the location of the construction of three warships equipped to participate in the "Star Wars" shield.
on the road to perdition .....’Iraq, like Vietnam before it, has served to remind us that, like the war on communism, the war on terror is but a charade, a fear engendering escapade, designed to control populations and empower the elite, unleashing fear onto the citizenry while delivering enormous profit to the military-industrial complex. Using Arab men as bogeymen, hidden in the shadows, without faces, countries and, with the help of Hollywood and the corporate media, with a growing brutal reputation, dark skinned Muslims replaced white Soviet Reds as the new American enemy, the new cash cow granting the government and military industrial complex a new generation of destructive war from which to bleed the American taxpayer dry, providing misallocation of resources to the former and enormous profit to the latter.
human rights defender - a special issue .....‘This special issue, published on-line and available to subscribers and non-subscribers, is a response to quite extraordinary and frightening measures and processes in Australian political life. In this issue we endeavor to bring you articles and comment by a wide range of writers on the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005.
As we write, a Senate Committee hears evidence on the impact of the Bill. Even this small amount of space for debate represents a victory over the Howard Government’s ominous attempts to close down opportunities for political comment and opposition.
Top Enthralling Notions In XenophobiaWhoops, another contract for Tenix... onya Reefeee...wonder how his second job out frm the Defence Ministry is going. Maybe It's Time for Labor and the Democrats to match the current rounds of contracts to those of a couple of years back (why didn't you mention the Kinaird Report Robert,? it was in your notes!).
pilgrims' progress‘Nobody but Americans celebrate Thanksgiving.
It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders
South Australia To Abolish Upper House? Article And Published ResponsePublished in today's Adelaide Advertiser, written in response to the front page story yesterday. [excerpt] Premier Mike Rann wants Parliament's Upper House
abolished and will ask South Australians to bring about the greatest
electoral system change in the state's history in a 2010 referendum.
fashion accessoriesOn Monday of this week, Lateline’s Tony Jones hosted a report by journalist Tom Iggulden called Homegrown Terror Attack Likely: Expert.
The “expert
Qinetiq EnergyAs Sydney Airport announces a trial of equipment by U.K. company Qinetiq, a financial traill is revealed that runs from the most famous plane crash in history to the runways of New South Wales. Qinetiq, the privatised arm of the UK Ministry of Defence, have, in a financial arrangement considered as ethically questionable, the international investment firm Carlyle. Qinetiq's wholly owned-US subsidiary build the Talon War Robot being used by the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. The firm has been engaged in South Australian trials of its Zephyr 3 Unmanned Air Vehicle. It also has a 25 year evaluation contract with the UK's MoD worth approximately $A13 billion. (read at the end of here)
Rumsfeld Security Smarts- Down UnderWhile Rumsfeld, Zoelleck, Hill and Downer were "doing lunch" in Adelaide last week, a friend of mine, just to see if he could, came out from the cafe in the adjoining building to the town hall into a laneway that he estimates would have been about fifteen feet from the hall's main dining room. Eventually one of the three hundred police parked out the back came and asked him what he was doing, laughed when told it all looked like "a policeman's picnic. My friend had simply carried out the exercise to prove a point. He was not searched or even asked for his details.
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