US media interests are today concentrated as never before & deserve the title 'big media' or, even more succinctly, a self-interested 'corporate media' family, rather than the common but misleading tag - 'mainstream media'.

 

An analysis of the boards of the 10 biggest media players in the US reveals that their directors serve on the boards of 288 major national & international corporations, whilst 8 of the 10 share 'common directors'.

The Editor

The Australian                                                                                     July 11, 2005

  

As usual, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock wants it both ways (‘May be terrorists here: Ruddock’, Australian, July 11).

Whatever the Bush administration may have in store for Iran, it remains abundantly clear that by the government's own standard, if the weights and measures applied against Cuba may be applied according to the principle of universality (that is to say, without hypocrisy), the United States itself easily qualifies as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The dust had hardly started to settle before John Howard was opportunistically ‘dog-whistling’ the tragedy of the London bombings to justify our continuing involvement in the carnage of Iraq (‘We won’t budge on Iraq: Howard’, Herald, July 8).

"We've planned, we've prepared, but sadly reality has come to London today" said the U.K. Police Commissioner.

Somebody has to ask the question, in the hope that it is misguided- are we participating in a plan?

The War On Terror has just entered a new phase, one that will create domestic paranioa in every Western society. In the aftermath of such an attack, it will become necessary for populations to surrender
certain civil liberities in order to capture the perpetrators.

Given the way that society is about to change, I hope in my heart that the motivation hasn't been neo-con fundamentalist propoganda bullshit.  I refuse to believe that the would-be leaders of the western world would stoop so low.

I don't like to write these ideas... but all possibilities should be considered now, especially what might happen in the aftermath of the Attack of the Streets of London.

Boys and Girls, say hello to the New American Century.

Were the reasons we are where we are now real or written?
As President Bush said today, "We will spread an ideaology of hope and compassion, which willl hopefully overwhelm an ideaology of hate."

I think I'm convinced.

Happiness does not create profit.. that, as usual, is the bottom line. Unity in misery allows a populace to be united in raising corporate profit margins.

The War on Terror has become equally more global and personal tonight, in the same way as the attack on a ship called Lusitania did many years ago.

Watch out for the new share market boom in defence research and development. Given the current international political climate it will be perceived in hindsight as fortuitious.

The moral of the story? As the world turns, the bottom line falls, and misery loves companies

I am surprised it has taken that long for terrorists to strike again at Western targets... They've chosen their moment...

The Kyoto Protocol on climate change is in the hands of the world's biggest contributors to greenhouse gas (GGs) emissions. BBC News has looked at how much they emit, what are they doing about it and where they stand on Kyoto. Here is the emission part of it taken from the chart. ANALYSIS 1990 to 2002 consumption United States 20 per cent Increase (USA Representing about 28 per cent of total world energy usage) Russia 30 per cent REDUCTION European Union 2 per cent Increase Japan 7 per cent Increase China 28 per cent Increase GUS ANALYSIS Now GUS's own calculations on sea temperature affected by climatic change follow as estimated:

In this ICH article, Geoffrey Holland, of the University of Sussex, points us to the original ‘smoking gun’ of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, destroyed after the 1^st Gulf War but used by George Bush & his criminal ‘coalition of the willing’ as the pretext for mounting his illegal war of aggression in 2003.