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playing god .....In a traditional cowboy movie, we know what to do: we look for the guy wearing the white hat to be sure who to cheer, and for the one wearing the black hat to know who deserves to die, preferably gruesomely, before the credits roll. If Hollywood learnt early to play on these most tribal of emotions, do we doubt that Washington's political script-writers are any less sophisticated? Western military intervention is exactly what factional nations in the Middle East and North Africa do not need. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
the scourge of mistletoe .....While many people are led to believe that US support for Israel is driven by the American establishment and U.S. national interests, the facts don't support this theory. The reality is that for decades U.S. experts opposed Israel and its founding movement. They were simply outmaneuvered and eventually replaced.
the inspirational figure of tony abbott ...Apart from the rotten government - or more likely because of the rotten government - the root of our troubles is what we are told is the two-speed economy. Australians west of Alice Springs and north of Toowoomba are whooping it up in their McMansions and their Ferraris while the rest of us are battling to pay off the eight-year-old Camry. The latest slug, sky-rocketing gas and electricity prices, will have us huddled for warmth around the light of a guttering candle.
mystery illness....
Five weeks ago Grace Yeats was a normal, happy child.
spreading freedom around the world .....The Mail on Sunday can today reveal devastating new claims of abuse by British soldiers carried out at a secret network of illegal prisons in the Iraqi desert.
the future of journalism ....."If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people he gives it to." Dorothy Parker
more lies from little shit abbott...
A flyer sent out by Tony Abbott has potentially exposed small businesses to fines of up to $1 million each.
rock bottom .....The latest fortnightly Newspoll - the first in some time to be released on Sunday rather than Monday night - has Labor's primary vote down a point on last time to 30%, the Coalition's up two to 46% and the Greens' down two to 12%, with the two-party preferred out from 54-46 to 55-45. Julia Gillard has lost most of her lead as preferred prime minister, which narrows from 42-38 in her favor to 39-38, but the individual personal ratings are essentially unchanged, with Gillard down two points on approval to 30% and up one on disapproval to 59%, while Tony Abbott is down one on each to 31% and 58%.
not in the public interest .....A secret defence facility under construction at HMAS Harman outside Canberra has suffered a massive cost blowout. The $163.5 million project is 80 per cent over its original budget and three years behind schedule, but has been exempted from parliamentary review on the grounds that it ''would not be in the public interest''. The appearance of two large cranes at the HMAS Harman defence base has confirmed that work is under way on a new defence communications and intelligence centre.
endangered species .....Gina Rinehart hopes to be a ''white knight'' for Fairfax Media, but might sell her shareholding unless she is offered positions on the board without ''unsuitable conditions''. The mining entrepreneur told the ABC's Four Corners program, via her company Hancock Prospecting (HPPL), that she would be prepared to sell the 18.6 per cent chunk of the company's stock that she holds and consider investing again if her demands were later met.
a letter for assange...
The following letter has been circulated mostly in the United States by Just Foreign Policy. It was hand-delivered to the Embassy of Ecuador in London by Just Foreign Policy Policy Director Robert Naiman on Monday, June 25. Read the press release.
all at sea .....Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she is "open'' to further discussions with the opposition on offshore processing but is standing by the government's Malaysia solution. In an interview with ABC TV this afternoon, Ms Gillard said that people wanted to see MPs find a solution to people risking their lives at sea. "People want to see us put the politics aside and act to get something done," she said.
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