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a place called conformity .....Following a week in Australia in which the words "heroes" and "heroism" bobbed on a tsunami of raw propaganda, a tribute is due to two unrecognised heroes. The first is Ray Jackson, who died on 23 April.
end the death penalty... the death penalty degrades lustitia...
our madelaine .....from Crikey ….. Blaming an Arab: Julie Bishop's guide to the War on Terror
the art of charity breaking your windowsLast night media watch gave us a lesson in ... Well I don't know what it was about...
war porn ....Ruling classes around the world have their national myths. These attempt to tie working people to the capitalist class through the false idea of nationhood, itself a recent historical development.
the odds shorten ....
another meaning of April 25 – when words are stones ….by George Venturini
a price worth paying ....Anzac Day 25 April 2015: Gallipoli 100 years on 25 April 2015 marks the hundredth anniversary of the start of the British-led military invasion of Gallipoli on Turkey’s Dardanelle Peninsula, which resulted in over 200,000 dead and wounded in an eight-month period.
lomborgery: using pseudo-scientific thuggery to help burn more fossil fuels as a solution to solve a denied global warming...
welcome to country ....Australia has again declared war on its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid South Africa. Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer afford to "support" the homelands.
baird government murders Bulga .....The NSW government has signed the death warrant of a tiny NSW town, but its residents aren't going quietly. Thom Mitchell reports.
obamacare + ....Broad target of ‘al-Qaida compounds’ suggests 2013 policy change by Obama – requiring ‘near certainty’ that suspect is present – has not been implemented.
more organised crime ....Does the FBI manifest fidelity, bravery and integrity, or does it cut constitutional corners in order to incriminate? Can the FBI cut the cable television lines to your house and then show up pretending to be the cable guy and install listening devices? Can FBI agents and technicians testify falsely and cause the innocent to be convicted, incarcerated and, in some cases, executed?
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