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  • US Military Attempt Arrest of Vice President Cheney, 3 Reported Dead
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Military Attempt Arrest of Vice President Cheney, 3 Reported Dead
    February 25, 2007 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Russian FSB sources are reporting today that an attempt by Special Forces Troops of the United States Military to arrest the American Vice President Cheney shortly after boarding his official plane in Australia has resulted in at least 3 dead and an unknown number of wounded.
    These reports state that the United States Air Force, which is in (…)

  • Bush World’s #1 Terrorist (Qantas T-shirt ban) & Stupid (huge Mebourne Airport advertising sign)
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Melbourne International Airport, gateway to one of the World’s Most Livable Cities, is in the news because of George W. Bush.
    Thus (1) Australia’s international carrier Qantas recently excluded an Australian passenger for wearing a T-shirt depicting Bush with a caption “World’s #1 terrorist” and (2) TODAY at Melbourne Airport there is a huge entrance billboard depicting a bemused George Bush and advertising a real estate search site with the caption: “So easy anyone can find a new home” (…)

  • Photos - Protesters Arrested in Sydney After Cheney Arrives
    23 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Feb. 23 - Twelve people have been arrested and charged in Sydney during protests after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived for talks on Iraq and the war on terrorism.
    Three women and a man were charged today after demonstrating outside the Shangri-La Hotel in downtown Sydney today as Cheney addressed the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, according to a New South Wales state police statement. About 50 protesters gathered outside the hotel.
    Seven men, aged 16 to 53, and a (…)

  • £4bn to stop big drought killing heart of Australia
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bernard Lagan in Sydney
    Huge bill to fix leaking pipes Canberra to take control of rivers
    As Australia’s drought deepens, ruining farms, leaving towns without water and causing thousands of city homes to crack as the soil dries out, John Howard, the Prime Minister, announced a radical A$10.5 billion (£4 billion) programme to restore the nation’s dwindling rivers.
    Mr Howard declared the viability of the vast Murray-Darling Basin at risk and announced that the Government would take over (…)

  • WHY CATS EAT UNCOVERED MEAT
    26 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Cats Eat Uncovered Meat
    By Peter Fredson
    October 26, 2006
    Recently Australia’s senior Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Din Al Hilaly gave a controversial sermon in Arabic to 500 worshippers in Sydney, independently translated by an SBS Arabic expert, part of which follows:
    “When it comes to adultery, it’s 90 percent the woman’s responsibility. Why? Because a woman owns the weapon of seduction. It’s she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes (…)

  • NEOCONS-ZIONISM AND THE RETURN OF "RACE"
    14 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ...The Israeli ambassador to Australia .. told Haaretz that the two countries are white sisters amid "the yellow race" of Asia.
    "Tamir said that due to what he characterized as the racial similarities between Israel and Australia, the two countries should work together to enhance ties with other Asian countries.
    "Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia," Tamir said in an interview with Haaretz during a visit to Israel this week. "We are in Asia without the characteristics of (…)

  • Zionists attack free speech on campuses
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Shua Garfield
    Socialist and anti-war groups campaigning on university campuses against Israel’s war on Lebanon and Palestine have faced violence, intimidation and attempts at censorship from Zionists.
    At Melbourne University on July 24, Zionist students attacked a Socialist Alternative (SA) stall, where activists were petitioning against the war and leafleting for an anti-war rally. Mick Armstrong from SA told Green Left Weekly, “The Zionists kept coming back to kick over the stall (…)

  • THE CROCODILE MAN
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Crocodile Man
    By Peter Fredson
    September 4, 2006
    It is a sad day for Australia. Steve Irwin, “The Crocodile Man” is dead. He was killed accidentally when swimming over a sting-ray and its barb went into Steve. He died shortly thereafter. We were astonished that, after all the daring-do escapades with dangerous wild animals, Steve was not invincible.
    He handled the most poisonous snakes on this planet with amazing aplomb. He was at his press-relations best with crocodiles, (…)

  • Rupert Murdoch’s Victims. The Life and Crimes of a Global Goebbels
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By RICHARD NEVILLE
    The first death known to me, that was precipitated by a Rupert Murdoch headline, occurred in Sydney in March,1964, when a schoolboy committed suicide. More of that later. These days, the casualties resulting from military invasions championed by Murdoch are numbered in the thousands, though he is not the sole agent of destruction. One of his former TV producers in the Middle East, Serene Sabbagh, resigned from Fox recently because of its "bias and racism".
    What tipped (…)

  • The Most Influential Australian Of All Time Is....An American
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DP Mason
    It just makes your heart swell with Australian pride to discover that ’The Most Influential Australian Of All Time’ actually turns out to be an American.
    The Bulletin Magazine has oh-so-pomously decided that some ex-Australian media mogul named Rupert Murdoch deserves to be called ’The Most Influential Australian’, despite the fact that he didn’t think being an Australian citizen was worth as much as owning a few American television stations.
    That Murdoch is ranked above (…)