Tuesday 1st of July 2025

a crime against humanity .....

a crime against humanity .....

President Bush and top administration officials repeatedly exaggerated what they knew about Iraq's weapons and its ties to terrorist groups as the White House pressed its case for war against Iraq, the Senate intelligence committee said yesterday in a long-awaited report.  

dummy mugger .....

dummy mugger .....

As the prospective presidential nominees ponder choosing their running-mates, the spectre of Vice President Dick Cheney looms large. 

bravehearts .....

bravehearts .....

from Crikey ….. 

Hetty Johnston's strange bedfellows 

Bernard Keane writes: 

rattus hunt .....

rattus hunt .....

An Australian doctors' group is pushing to have former prime minister John Howard charged with war crimes for sending troops to Iraq. 

The Medical Association for the Prevention of War said the war was illegal because it was not backed by the United Nations. 

herr ersastz .....

herr ersastz .....

The Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, hit back after an outcry against the Government's controversial planning reforms - which passed through the Legislative Assembly at 2am yesterday - by calling the state's peak local government bodies 'dumb'.

In response, the president of the Shires Association of NSW, Bruce Miller, said sections of the Government were 'malicious and dishonest'. 

multi-personality disorder .....

multi-personality disorder .....

France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, reveals today that she fell in love with the President for his good looks and his 'five or six brains'. 

In a book containing Mme Bruni-Sarkozy's first extensive interviews on her high-profile, whirlwind, power romance, the pop singer says her attraction to the President at a 'blind date' was 'immediate'. 

tears of evil .....

tears of evil .....

A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November. 

the acme state .....

the acme state .....

It was to be Robert and Lynne Siebert's dream home, but it has turned into the house of doom. 

In the six years since the couple from Skennars Head, near Ballina, watched the foundations being laid, the closest they have come to the house they designed themselves is a duplex 500 metres away which they have been renting since 2003, and now share with their two children Madelane and Grace. 

the rooted roo .....

the rooted roo .....

from Crikey ….. 

Frequent fury: Qantas and customers on war footing 

Ben Sandilands writes: 

the turd-blossom syndrome .....

the turd-blossom syndrome .....

‘This is the great war of our times, It is going to take 40 years’. 

Bush said in forty years the world would know if the war on terrorism & conflicts in Iraq & Afghanistan, had reduced extremism, helped moderates & promoted democracy. 

animal pharm .....

animal pharm .....

The ugly side of science — the one we fought Adolph Hitler, amongst his other nasties, to stop his radical medical experiments — was defended by scientists but thankfully exposed by a revolted reporter. Even long aware of the crap that's going on behind the sterilised doors, I nearly spewed too...  

when the music stops .....

when the music stops .....

Angling for a vice presidential nod, Hillary Rodham Clinton refused to bow out of the Democratic race Tuesday, hoping to maintain leverage as Barack Obama clinched the delegates needed to secure the party's nomination. 

lady liberty .....

lady liberty .....

The country I live in today uses the same words to describe itself, the same patriotic symbols and iconography, the same national myths, but only the shell remains. 

America, the country of my birth, the country that formed and shaped me, the country of my father, my father's father and his father's father, stretching back to the generations of my family that were here for the country's founding, is so diminished as to be nearly unrecognizable.  

fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me .....

 

fool me once, shame on me ..... 

from Crikey 

A year, almost, in the thinking of Brendan Nelson.  

the old skull & bones club .....

the old skull & bones club .....

The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees. 

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