‘Wearing hats shaped like smokestacks and carrying signs that said, "Coal Investments Cook the Climate," a group known as Billionaires for Coal raised awareness last week about the plans by TXU, a Dallas-based utility company, to build 11-new pulverized coal-fired power plants in Texas.

‘The Howard Government will be remembered for progressive gun control in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, helping to liberate East Timor from Indonesia, drawing Australia into the Iraq morass, the expansion of Federal control (particularly in the area of WorkChoices), balaclavas on the wharves, attacks on the welfare state (particularly its crackdown on single parents, disability support pensioners and unemployed people), repressive treatment of asylum seekers arriving without visas, paternal intervention in Indigenous affairs, neg

The same old story ….

A bodybuilder loses 200 lbs through use of "age-defying" televangelist-sponsored diet shake.

Mr Dick Cheney,
Vice-President of the United States of America,
The White House, Washington DC

from the Commander of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, Rear Admiral Harry Harris …..

HARRIS:

from the Centre for American Progress …..

‘In the Caspian Basin and beneath the deserts of Iraq, as many as 783 billion barrels of oil are waiting to be pumped. Anyone controlling that much oil stands a good chance of breaking OPEC's stranglehold overnight, and any nation seeking to dominate the world would have to go after it.

from the Sydney Morning Herald …..

‘John Howard has told his party room he could secure the release of David Hicks any time but says that would be wrong because the terrorism suspect should face a trial first.

Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, defended the fact that evidence obtained through coercion can be used in the “show trial” of David Hicks.

‘The first and most lethal fact is that the Earth (with very minor exceptions) is a planet wide Dictatorship of the Rich. This is the number one critical variable of our species! Less than one percent of the population is now and always has been controlling effectively all of the planetary wealth. This is nothing to debate or argue about. Not to see this lose/lose reality is not to see the sun.