PLANS to sell uranium to India could hit a legal snag because of an anti-nuclear treaty Australia helped create. Australian National University treaty law expert Don Rothwell says the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone treaty, known as the Rarotonga treaty, stops Australia trading the nuclear material with India. Prof Rothwell, who questioned the legality of […]
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Rarotonga treaty may prevent sale of uranium to India
Liberal National Party embarrassed as MPs go missing in Parliament
Source: The Courier-Mail THE LNP has suffered its greatest embarrassment since Campbell Newman became leader after none of the party’s MPs showed up to do the job they are paid to do – consider proposed laws on behalf of their constituents. The 31 Opposition seats in Parliament sat empty for at least 15 minutes yesterday […]
Bikie shooting fuels fear of underworld war
Detectives investigating the shooting of a bikie gang “enforcer” in a busy shopping centre carpark in inner-suburban Melbourne plan to interview two women linked to the city’s gangland scene. Police believe the botched attempt by two gunmen to kill Toby Mitchell in Brunswick on Monday afternoon is linked to his involvement in organised crime rather […]
Australia to release 100 asylum seekers a month
Amnesty International’s refugee spokesman, Dr. Graham Thom, welcomed the development. “This welcome move to community processing, where bridging visas will be used as claims are assessed, will finally put Australia in step with all other Western countries.The system of indefinite mandatory detention is discriminatory and brings further suffering to people who had fled unimaginable circumstances,” […]
Deal lets bosses trade pay for rights
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Anger over former Tasmanian MP child abuser’s suspended sentence
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Battlefield US: Americans face arrest as war criminals under Army state law
America is opening up a new warfront and it’s in your own backyard. It’s in your neighbor’s house, it’s three states over and it’s on the other side of the Mississippi. That’s what a new legislation could lead to and the consequences are dire and constitutionally damning. The United States Senate is set to vote […]
Drones cleared for domestic use across the US
What do you know about drones? You know drones — those robotic, unmanned planes that fire missiles for the American military across Afghanistan, Pakistan and anywhere else the United States needs to get away with murder. Well if you don’t know too much, don’t worry, that’ll change soon. The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into […]
Rand Paul vs Battlefield USA
As lawmakers this week look over a provision that would turn the United States in a warzone and allow the military to detain Americans indefinitely, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is trying to tackle the text by offering an amendment of his own. A provision to the National Defense Authorization Act going before the Senate today […]
Isms Can Drive Us Nuts! What Is Chiliastic Millenialism?
by Tom Valentine Jargon is a technique for curbing outsiders from understanding what is going on. The jargon of theologians cloaks a whole lot of every day chicanery and turns religion into an enemy. If I were a lot smarter, I would strive to be a philosopher. Since the ‘smarter folks’ have totally botched […]
Tribunal That Should Have Been Reported By Your Press, But Wasn’t
Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes in Malaysia tribunal by Debbie Menon DAY IN COURT Trial to go on despite absence of response from both leaders Read more: KL tribunal to try Bush, Blair for Iraq war crimes Some rightly proclaim there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that an international […]
Karzai Calls Narcotics As Big Calamity For Afghanistan
by Zabi Rashidi President Karzai called poppy cultivation and drugs trafficking as big calamity for Afghanistan, saying that his administration makes efforts for the removal, presidential press office said in a statement. “Meeting Iranian interior and Pakistani counter-narcotics ministers, the president assured them for his government’s fully cooperation in struggle against narcotics production and […]
ISAF To Review Force Use Against Insurgents
by Zabi Rashidi The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will review the methods of force usage against the insurgents in Afghanistan, ISAF commander Gen. John Allen assured President Karzai by sending a letter. “I have commanded all the regiments to take the changed method and report me by December 5th,” Allen has said in […]
How Palestine Became Israel
The Catastrophe (Al Nakba) “November 29th, commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.” If Americans Knew Jerusalem 1839 by David Roberts – With the mosque of Omar at the center, the Dome of the rock at the background this beautiful drawing gives a feeling of warmth, unique, relaxed Arabic ambience of […]
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – November 29, 2011
Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need 1. World War II veterans encouraged to share their stories at Dec. 7 event. The Saratogian Of the […]
Financial red alert: Europe stands on verge of ‘apocalyptic’ debt crisis with only days remaining
Mike AdamsNatural News Tuesday, November 29, 2011 (NaturalNews) After years of working diligently to raise the alarm on the precariousness of the global financial system, it has become clear to me that most people still do not grasp the reality of where our global financial system really stands. We are on the verge of a […]
UN Report on Syria: Based on Witness Accounts….. OUTSIDE of Syria
Tony Cartalucci Prison Planet.com Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Wall Street and London’s media machine eagerly churned out headlines like BBC’s “Syria security forces ‘commit crimes against humanity‘” announcing the conclusions of a recent UN Human Rights Council report regarding the ongoing violence in Syria. However, even upon reading the BBC article it is soon discovered that, […]
Fusion Center documents label OKC Bombing investigators as terrorists
Andrew W. GriffinReddirect Report Tuesday, November 29, 2011 OKLAHOMA CITY – Ten years after 9/11 and 16 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, it appears the federal government continues to view some Americans who embrace their First Amendment rights – press and speech, primarily – as a danger to the State, and as a result […]
Woman alleges affair with presidential hopeful Cain
AFP Tuesday, November 29, 2011 An Atlanta businesswoman claimed Monday a 13-year affair with Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, whose campaign has already been hurt by a rash of sexual harassment allegations. “It was pretty simple,” Ginger White told Atlanta’s Fox 5 television. “It wasn’t complicated. I was aware that he was married. And I […]
Sirhan Sirhan Lawyers: ‘Hypno Programming and Memory Implantation Techniques’
CNN Tuesday, November 29, 2011 In a U.S. District Court brief, Sirhan’s lawyers also say that an expert analysis of recently uncovered evidence shows two guns were fired in the assassination and that Sirhan’s revolver was not the gun that shot Kennedy. Attorneys William F. Pepper and Laurie D. Dusek also allege that fraud was […]