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Blogsbitter fruit ....The relationship between the United States and Latin America may have just plunged to its lowest level since the 1910s and 1920s, the height of US imperialism in the area, when United Fruit and the Marines imposed themselves on the region.
at the stocks .....
Tony Abbott and his party are being pursued by a private detective, an army of pensioners and a very determined man in a wheelchair. Hundreds of online activists – at least a third of whom are pensioners and led by a quadriplegic IT expert – have raised more than $50,000 and hired a private detective to investigate the affair.
gretched ....
A tribunal has held a secret hearing to decide if details of a claim on the federal government by the former Treasury official behind the Utegate scandal should be made public.
eyes wide shut ....from Crikey … Bernard Keane: snapshots from an American dystopia
scooped ...from the shovel ….
reacting to scrutiny ....from politicoz …. four & twenty blackbirds …. With Rudd's return making Labor competitive again – in the polls at least – a new level of scrutiny is being applied to the Opposition.
it's your pumpkin...We know that half a ppm of sarin gas can kill us within half an hour. 2 ppm will kill us in seconds. So what is the problem?... We're considering a large body — a system — that can be toppled up by less than a tiny proportion of a chemical. The amount is derisory... a milligram — about the size of three small ants. A milligram of sarin can kill you faster than you can say oops... And we still argue about 3 ppms of CO2 per annum...
dear leaders...
I was appalled by the (retired) general's aggro while being interviewed last night on Lateline. I have met Nazi people with more compassion. The general was strongly in favour of "turning the boats around" but was not prepared to tell how the Navy could do this "because if you reveal your tactics then the enemy adapts" as the core of his appalling stone-hearted diatribe...
spring has sprung ....The real story behind the military coup in Cairo led by General al-Sissi is much more complex than the western media is reporting. Far from a spontaneous uprising by Egyptians, – aka “a people’s revolution” – what really happened was a putsch orchestrated by Egypt’s “deep government” and outside powers – the latest phase of the counter-revolution against the so-called Arab Spring.
coming soon to a bank near you ....A trend to shift responsibility for bank losses onto blameless depositors lets banks gamble away your money.
goodbye & good riddance .....from Crikey …. Essential: voters like Rudd more than Abbott, Coalition still leads
asylum policy...The Federal Opposition has called for Australian military intervention on the high seas, invoking the case of the MV Tampa in the latest stoush over asylum seekers.
once upon a time ....
of mugs and prime ministers...Ok I lost the milk off... My cow kicked the bucket... Twice http://t.co/zwUUnXxO3G
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