A protester makes a stand at the new Occupy Melbourne site of Bowen Lane at RMIT’s city campus yesterday. Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui It scarcely resembled an impending showdown. Late yesterday morning, Treasury Gardens – where Occupy Melbourne protesters planned to move at lunchtime after being ejected from City Square last week – was quiet. […]
Archive for October, 2011
Calls for resignation over MP’s ‘ex-gay’ comments
Calls for resignation over MP’s ‘ex-gay’ comments Posted on 28 October 2011 There is growing controversy in Queensland surrounding the 2002 comments made by Liberal National Party MP Fiona Simpson that homosexuals can “grow into heterosexuality over time”. Simpson, who is the state shadow minister responsible for communities and women, also encouraged people struggling with […]
Aussie media lobbies for uranium for India
New Delhi can relax, the Australian media is doing its lobbying for it – especially on the uranium front. Slamming Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s foreign policy as “obsolete and discredited”, a writer in The Australian has contended that it is prejudicing Australia’s ties with India, the emerging third-biggest economy in the world. “That the ALP […]
A policy jackpot for wily leaders
Kevin Rudd has been silent on the government’s proposed pokie reforms. Malcolm Turnbull made a nuanced contribution on pokies reform this week. The day after Tony Abbott ”predicted” the Coalition would oppose and then rescind mandatory pre-commitment reforms if they actually managed to get through this all-singing, all-dancing Federal Parliament, Turnbull was asked to advance […]
LNP MP Shane Knuth joins Katter’s party
LNP MP Shane Knuth is quitting the party to join Bob Katter’s Australia Party, and more MPs may follow him. The dissatisfaction of former Nationals MPs with the merged Liberal National Party is believed to behind the switch. “I believe the LNP merger hasn’t been beneficial for rural and regional MPs,” he told the Sunday […]
CHOGM abandons commissioner plan on human rights
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The Greatest Threat To World Peace
By Gilad Atzmon According to Ynet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are extremely concerned by the “Iranian threat”. Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli leading paper, reported this week that Netanyahu and Barak are pushing for action against Iran. According to Israeli leading columnist Nahum Barnea the heads of the armed forces –and Mossad […]
Fareed Zakaria in Tehran Interviews President Ahmedinejad
FAREED ZAKARIA — Shilling! EDITORS’ NOTE: It’s blatant hypocritical for Zakaria’s handlers to fly him into Tehran to ask President Ahmadinejad about political prisoners and crushing dissent, considering the ongoing police brutality and arrests of peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in American cities. This is all part of the disinformation process trying to discredit […]
Occupy Fukushima
HELP say Fukushima Women to World by Bob Nichols (San Francisco) – On Oct 28 it was 232 days since the world’s worst industrial disaster started March 11, 2011 at the six nuclear power plants at Fukushima Daiichi, Japan. Six reactors are involved, four reactors and/or reactor buildings exploded and the two remaining […]
The Flat Tax Myth
Just say “Nein, Nein, Nein!” By Michael Chester With the actual Presidential election more than a year away, it is now the trial, error and silly season for the candidates. This is the time when candidates try floating new ideas and recycling old ones to see the reaction of the potential voters. With […]
The Western anti-German Narrative
America’s participation in [World War II] is seen as having been undertaking for the defense of Western Christian civilization. [ People accept] without question the thesis that Hitler and the Nazis had to be stopped – lest “we all end up in concentration camps” or worse, under the heel of a ferocious dictator and his […]
Flu Vaccine Propagandist Charged with Child Molestation
Infowars Nightly News October 29, 2011 Alex covers the story of the CDC Deputy Director being arrested for molestation beastiality. Print this page. Comment Rules 3 Responses to “Flu Vaccine Propagandist Charged with Child Molestation” WANTED NEW EMPLOYEEES NO DEGREE REQUIRED MUST BE A MOLESTER AND SICK SEX FREAK. APPLY AT THE WHITE HOUSE ! […]
TSA Test ‘Pre-Screening’ – Nightly News Report
Infowars Nightly News October 29, 2011 Alex breaks down the latest on the TSA home front and what they have planned next for the american people, because you are the terrorist. Print this page. Comment Rules One Response to “TSA Test ‘Pre-Screening’ – Nightly News Report” THE FOUNDERS GAVE US THE RIGHT TO AND THE […]
Eric Holder to testify on Fast and Furious
TIM MAK Politico October 29, 2011 Attorney General Eric Holder will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 8 about the controversial Fast and Furious gun-running program, the Justice Department confirmed Friday. Holder is under fire from Republicans, who have accused him of lying in testimony about when he first learned of the program. […]
Be Honest – The European Debt Deal Was Really A Greek Debt Default
The Economic Collapse October 29, 2011 Once the euphoria of the initial announcement faded and as people have begun to closely examine the details of the European debt deal, they have started to realize that this “debt deal” is really just a “managed” Greek debt default. Let’s be honest – this deal is not going […]
Eric Janszen: We Are Witnessing The Death Of The Dollar
Submitted by Adam Taggart of Chris Martenson.com October 29, 2011 Eric Janszen: We Are Witnessing The Death Of The Dollar What do you get when the producer of the world’s reserve currency takes on too much debt? Nothing less than the end of the US Treasury-based monetary system. So says Eric Jansen, economic and financial market […]
10 Signs That The American People Are Angrier Than Ever
And Record Setting Government Transfer Payments Are Not Pacifying Them The American Dream October 29, 2011 Right now, about the only things that the American people can agree on is that they are angry and that they do not like the direction that this country is headed. Of course a lot of this is being […]
Americans: Awash In Spin
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Prisonplanet.com October 29, 2011 I have come to the conclusion that Big Brother’s subjects in George Orwell’s 1984 are better informed than Americans. Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don’t realize that their liberties have been […]
Syria Using U.S. Made Web Surveillance and Censorship Systems
cryptogon.com October 29, 2011 These boxes are probably rooted by NSA. The Syrians are clueless enough to have allowed them to phone home, so, my guess is that Uncle is on board too. Via: Cnet: Blue Coat Systems has confirmed that its devices were being used by Syria to censor the Web and said it is […]
Washington ready to negotiate with Mullah Omar
Dean Nelson, London Telegraph Ocotober 29, 2011 Washington is ready to negotiate with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and now regards his involvement as crucial to the prospects for peace in Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton has said. Her comments been taken as a significant shift in American policy from moves to divide the Taliban-led insurgency and isolate […]