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Without objective critical analysis or informed debate, the Washington Consensus principles of fiscal austerity, privatisation and liberalisation are likely to be implemented in Australia. The economic consequences are likely to be a boon for the wealthy – including overseas "investors" – and increased costs and rising inequality for the ordinary Australian citizen, as overseas experience has shown.
driving CO2 emissions...
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has taken aim at the coal-fired power industry and the mining sector in a report naming and shaming Australia's top 10 worst polluters.
turdishitos divineroussos....
Labor has condemned Prime Minister Tony Abbott's claim that Australia was heading for a "Greek-style economic future" as inflammatory, irresponsible and capable of harming economic confidence. The Prime Minister should be far more responsible than this constant scaremongering which is having a clear impact on confidence in the community Mr Abbott made the remark during a radio interview in which he pledged he would not fix the federal budget this year at the expense of households but predicted a "broad budget balance" within five years.
for turdy, it was time to look on the bright side of CONservative life...
calling "rattus" .....Lord John Prescott admitted that he and Tony Blair “were wrong” to invade Iraq.
meanwhile at the monday night questions and no answers circus featuring joe the clown...Then Daley took on Hockey's claim that he was delivering the biggest infrastructure program in Australian history. "It certainly hasn't gone up," he said. "It's probably tailed off, at least in as a percentage of GDP." Hockey said Daley was wrong. "For a start we put $1.5 billion into WestConnex in Sydney," he said. Daley reminded him that the project predated the Abbott government. He said not a single new project approved in Hockey's first budget had received a green light from Infrastructure Australia.
why the poor are poor .....The vast majority of Americans have been the victims of one of the biggest and longest-lasting robberies in history. Danny Katch investigates - and uncovers the culprits.
an American "incident" ....Officially termed an “incident” (as opposed to a “massacre”), the events of March 16, 1968, at My Lai - a hamlet in South Vietnam - are widely portrayed and accepted to this day as an aberration. While the record of U.S. war crimes in Southeast Asia is far too sordid and lengthy to detail here, it’s painfully clear this was not an isolated “incident.”
morally bankrupt, despicable, contemptible, loathsome, hateful, detestable, idiotic, hypocritical...
The Senate is set to reject the Federal Government's second bid to deregulate universities.
we agree .....The International Court of Justice (CIJ) ruled Thursday a prior ruling by an Ecuadorean court that fined the U.S.-based oil company Chevron US $9.5 billion in 2011 should be upheld.
poking voters with smiling jibes, like cattlemen prod cattle with a stick...
tony the troglodyte .....
christ never sanctioned war, though his dad may have... against the "others"...
My Turn NextOne day I'll be Leader, and on that day you'll learn Every day I wake up with a psychic morning glory
cruising to the death penalty...
In December, when a mentally ill Texas man convicted of murder was poised to be executed—and a number of prominent conservatives were calling to postpone the killing—Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) declined to criticize the pending execution.
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