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Richard Tonkin's blogDowner- Celebrity Cupid Or Country Singer Stalker ?Australia's Foreign Minister believes he's responsible for the marriage of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban? This is the man that George W. Bush wanted to lead the world into Iran? Ninemsn has reported that Downer was "in the vicinity" when Kidman and Urban met. Apparently he's just told BBC Radio that he has a photograph to prove it. Until this photo is released the mental pictures in my head will keep me giggling for days. Alex, you're always going to be an "extra", even in attempted publicity stunts like this one. What the Brits think of this announcement is a point of conjecture, but the word "tosser" springs to mind.
Australian Aid Agency Lax On Corruption: Audit ReportThe Australian Government's Aid Agency Ausaid, a major Australian employer of Halliburton/KBR, has been warned to tighten its anti-corruption practices in a report released today (Wednesday) The report follows admission by Ausaid representatives earlier this year that the organision had no internal protocols for reporting detected corruption in aid deals. The report, released by the National Audit Office, states that funds earmarked to provided relief to Indonesia following the Decenber 2004 tsunami were used to pay Ausaid officers and to cover administration costs. It includes the statement that "a key risk for activities is that of fraud and corruption" and claims that numerous contracts were not signed until after the provision of services had commenced.
Cheney Rules !Do you think that Dick Cheney's words in the US today are going to be echoed in Canberra in next year? [from SBS)
Round The Loop AgainWriting the piece Agonies Of A Conspiracy TheoristA and reading the responses both here and on Webdiary has altered the way I go about things. The main sentiment I was left with was that I should "keep on keeping on". The trouble is that in my second year of this blog I feel like I'm in a time-loop, almost as if I'm watching last year's script being followed by a sequel. It even comes down to the sense of "lull" in proceedings I felt last June, which quickly came to an end with the arrival of the London bombings.
New Karaoke Lyrics For Alexander DownerCome Mr Alex, man, tell me I'm bananas May-o, me sing May-ay-ay-oh Work all night for a sniff of bum Love my Halliburton shares Love the old U.S. Of A. May, we sing May we sing May we sing May we sing May we sing May we sing May-ay-ay-oh.
Nuclear Alex says that Korea Could Nuke Australia... AgainHere we go with another Korean missile scare. After warnings from [extract from ninemsn]
Cheney Co-ordinating Halliburton Contracts from White House- Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch, the U.S. public interest group that Judge One document uncovered by Judicial Watch
Still Another Alexander Downer Fraud- David Hicks' Health I'd like to show you the levels that My Fine DFAT Friend will go to This entry was originally posted on my private blog in early May -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [From News.com.au]
Drawing The Line- Halliburton's Profit On Australia's FutureThis map from the South Australian Defence site holds a thousand word painting picture- a line through the middle of Australia, owned by Halliburton, along which every freight container leaving Darwin needs to pass. South Australia - the Transport Hub of Australia
" Completion of the line increases accessibility to the Cultana Training Area and positions it as a major asset both for South Australia and the Australian Army." proclaims the website. It doesn't say that every tank and every boxcar of uranium waste will line the pockets of the company once run by the U.S. Vice President.
A (Halliburton) SOS From MelbourneThe author of this missive is a Fear US Down I am sitting
Wag The Doug 2- The Atomic Sequel.Former Iraqi hostage Douglas Wood has revealed his expertise in nuclear reactors and wants to be a prime player in the Australian nuclear inquiry. The former Bechtel nuclear power plant designer, whose release was used in US military propoganda, recently announced his divorce from his American wife to the Australian media without bothering to tell the woman first. I've been a keen follower of Wood's progress since the night that Alexander Downer announced Wood's release and have followed his media trail from the lofty heights of the NBC Today Show to the crevasse of the Shepparton Football club, where a uncooperative CD player refused to provide the backing music for Wood's rendition of "I did it my way" I've laughed at Wood's attempts to win product endorsements for Coonawara red wine, lamb roasts and VB, and cried with him as, one by one, his media deals failed. His aspirations to give motivational talks on the lucrative U.S. public speaking also appear to be fading dreams.
The Face Of The Antichrist?It is unfortunate that the battlelines between the dominant fundamentalists of two religions are being drawn. As far as logic and common-sense go, the Iranian leadership is lightyears ahead of the Bush Administration of America. The Iranian point of view is that the U.S. is interfering with the rights of a sovereign state, while America believes that it has the right to eliminate a situation out of which a "threat" might arise.While the US and Australia are threatening sanctions, Iran is capable of serious damage to American energy supplies, and will do so in retaliation to a military act against it.
No Australian Nuclear Reactors- DownerIn a coastal town at the shores of Mr Downer's Mayo electorate, the nuclear debate is rippling through the community. Downer's The Minister for Foreign
Adelaide Universities Become Military SchoolsThree major defence companies yesterday signed deals with local universities to create "tailor made" defence degrees, and enable more work on defence technology to be carried out on South Australian campuses. BAE, Tenix and ASC signed the joint agreement with Flinders University and the Universities of South Australia and Adelaide. The Universities will provide courses dedicated to the companies' contract requirements The announcement closely follows British university Cranfield's decision to create a defence campus in Adelaide. Cranfield recently won a billion -pound contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to implement defence-based training programs.
Oil On The Fire- Alexander Downer VS The IAEAIs the Bush Administration's preferred IAEA Director going A week after energy giant General Electric announced its acquisition of Australian-developed uranium enrichment technology (see Justin Tutty's
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