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the real tony .....from politicoz …. Tony Abbott declared that he offered an apology to Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak for drawing his country into the ugly Australian asylum seeker debate.
reproductive outcomes...Oil and gas giant Chevron is under fire for asking prospective employees if they have ever had a miscarriage or an abortion.
afghanistrategy ....This is a long, but very important and revealing analysis of the international legal manoeuvring behind the military onslaught now being waged against the Afghan people by the Bush {now Obama} Government.
how sweet of the taxpayers...
at the trough .....from john passant …. The born to rort party is back in charge and all is right in the land of the long boozy taxpayer funded lunch, dinner, wedding, party, anything.
krill bitter pill...
fracking america ....The explosion of hydraulic fracturing in the last several years, according to a new report, is creating a previously 'unimaginable' situation in which hundreds of billions of gallons of the nation's fresh water supply are being annually transformed into unusable - sometimes radioactive - cancer-causing wastewater.
the flies in our soup .....Propaganda campaigns from vested interests have unduly influenced the past three election results, and the mark of the Australian plutocracy doesn't end there, writes David Llewellyn-Smith.
the gatekeepers .....What image of Palestinians would viewers, who have a smattering, or if any, knowledge of the Palestinian struggle, gain after seeing Dror Moreh’s documentary, The Gatekeepers?
barry the bullshitter ....After Rio Tinto had its approval to expand a mine in the Hunter Valley overturned by a court, it entered into a flurry of correspondence with the NSW Government. The government joined with Rio to appeal the decision and now wants to change planning laws to favour mining companies. The Global Mail applied under FoI to have the correspondence released - we got a big no.
power...Power is a drug and the way to be in power is to control... Power does not like individuality beyond the realm of its influences. Power does not like individual sustainability, nor does it like people being in charge of their own destiny...
the arse of democracy ....President Barack Obama ridiculed House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday for refusing to allow a vote on a funding bill that would end a three-day government shutdown, saying the top Republican in Washington is in the grip of conservative "extremists".
pissing on himself...
ugly backside of partisan politics....Goldman Sachs' boss Lloyd Blankfein has warned that a failure to raise the nation's borrowing limit would be "extremely adverse".
a new nadir .....from The Monthly …. what Labor hasn’t learned …..
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