Friday 4th of April 2025

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we was just followin' orders ....

we was just followin' orders ....

An ex-CIA officer convicted by an Italian court of kidnapping a terror suspect in 2003 has been detained in Panama.

emotional contrition with caveat...

contrition

News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch says he was "frustrated" and "overly emotional" when he was secretly recorded describing the police investigation into alleged wrongdoings at his publications as incompetent.

a short cut to the pearly gates...

twitter heaven

Security forces in Brazil have banned masks at Pope Francis's opening Mass at the Roman Catholic World Youth Day festival in Rio de Janeiro next week.

stopping the boats ....

stopping the boats ....

So, just why are we having this debate?

Why not just give Christmas Island to Indonesia?

empirepolis

empirepolis

There are a number of narratives  being floated by the usual suspects to attempt to demonstrate that Edward Snowden is a traitor who has betrayed secrets vital to the security of the United States. All the arguments being made are essentially without merit.

in search of invisibles ....

in search of invisibles ....

from politicoz ….

Tony Abbott has been quiet since his statements about a 'so-called market' on invisible substances, but Coalition spokesmen Greg Hunt and Joe Hockey have been doing the media rounds, painting the government's move as "a complete con, a complete fix, a complete fiddle".

twitterman ....

twitterman ....

from the shovel ….

 

betrayed ....

betrayed ....

kill list .....

kill list ....

The disposition matrix is a complex grid of suspected terrorists to be traced then targeted in drone strikes or captured and interrogated. And the British government appears to be colluding in it

When Bilal Berjawi spoke to his wife for the last time, he had no way of being certain that he was about to die. But he should have had his suspicions.

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