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an eye for an eye .....
‘What is transpiring in the Holy Land is anathema to human civilization; it is an embarrassment to six billion people who are good, decent human beings. If our governments refuse to act, then so we must, for the sake of innocent and peaceful Palestinian and Israeli people, for the sake of human decency and for the sake of our future generations. Walls and fences that imprison and dehumanize cannot stand, for they help set mankind back in time to days dark and repressive, unenlightened and barbaric. Together, united as one we can become the massive tremor that helps bring walls and tyranny down.
Criminalizing KindnessIn a move unprecedented in American History, one local government is trying to make helping the less fortunate a criminal offence. The move emphasises the importance of the corporate dollar over the lives of people as no other laws to date could do, by denying the right of volunteers to help their follow man. The law denies the right of the charitable to feed persons whom "a reasonable ordinary person" determines may be indigent. In this writers opinion this is one step away from calling for the mandatory euthanasia of the poor.
awstraylens, let us all rejoice .....
from
the pen of Richard Neville ….. ‘Familiar
lies are music to our nation’s ears. Australians
always punch above their weight. We are the most generous people on earth. Our
soldiers are the most professional in the world. In fact, we’re so
professional, that even when our troops shot at the Iraqi Trade Minister’s
bodyguards in June, killing two people and wounding four others, our military
carried out an investigation without bothering to interview any Iraqis. Defence
Force chief, Angus Houston, found that our soldiers had “acted in accordance
with their rules of engagement”. In November, when the US Marines murdered
Iraqi women and children in their homes in Haditha, this action was also said
to comply with the “rules of engagement”. In that case, the toll was 24.
Perhaps it was this death disparity that led Air Marshall Houston to conclude,
“the Australian soldiers might have been over-cautious”. While the government
has agreed “in principle” to pay compensation, it has decided “in principle”
not to apologise.
free Hicks .....
From the ABC ….. Hicks outcry falling on deaf ears, father says The father of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks says he is afraid public outcry against his son's detention is continuing to fall on deaf ears. More than 400 people have signed an open letter that will be sent to the Prime Minister John Howard calling for Hicks's release. Another 35,000 have signed an online petition.
expendable .....
‘The lives of Muslims mean nothing. They’ve become the “expendable” people whose security simply doesn’t matter. Their wholesale slaughter appears regularly on the evening news while heart-wrenching stories are spun about the suffering of Israeli fathers and mothers who lost loved ones in retaliatory attacks. Don’t Muslims have mothers and fathers? Is it so important to demonize them that they must be stripped of every trace of humanity including parents?
liberal succession plan .....
workchoiced in amerika .....
The Centre for American
Progress reports ….. “Americans are worried about debt and believe it is just going to get worse. "The public is more worried about falling into debt, particularly from medical bills, than about being the victim of a terrorist attack or a natural disaster." According to a new poll sponsored by the Center for American Progress, 86 percent "insist the number of Americans having trouble with household debt has gone up in the last five years." Unfortunately, their worries are well-grounded in reality. The average American savings rate in 2005 was negative 0.5 percent, "the lowest since the Great Depression." As everyday expenses continue to rise, the problem of debt will continue to burden working Americans.
the great fake .....
‘In
Iraq, officials said Wednesday that U.S. and coalition forces as well as an
increase in sectarian violence were behind the surge in civilian casualties
cited in a U.N. report. The
report by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq said nearly 6,000 Iraqi civilians
were killed in May and June in a wave of assassinations, bombings, kidnappings,
torture and intimidation.
stuuuuperman .....
‘When we last left off, our gallant crusaders, Bush Wayne and his trusted confidant, Dick Grayson-Cheney - oil executives by day, freedom fighters by night - had earned yet another significant victory in their divinely inspired war on terror. Another “corner was turned” as our heroes sent on a one-way trip to paradise that diabolic villain, the elusive, brilliant mastermind of the evil Iraqi insurgency, the once-invisible man known only to us mortals as al-Zarqawi: the (unelected) leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
mister moral equivalence ......
Asked to comment on the deaths in an Israeli air strike of eight Canadian citizens in southern Lebanon Sunday, he said: "it is a matter of great concern to us ...that these civilian deaths are occurring. It's a tragedy."
pigs in a poke .....
Vanstone faces accusations of animal cruelty over her share in piggery July 13, 2006 A Piggery part-owned by the Immigration Minister, Amanda Vanstone, is breaching industry guidelines by keeping pigs in cramped conditions, animal welfare activists allege. Animal Liberation said it lodged a complaint yesterday with South Australian police, complaining of conditions at the Wasleys piggery, near Adelaide. Senator Vanstone said she owned shares in the piggery but had nothing to do with the running of the operation, thought to be one of the largest in the state.
a lawless universe .....
‘The fight over the Hamdan ruling heats up - as fears about its reach escalate. David Bowker vividly remembers the first time he heard the phrase. A lawyer in the State Department, Bowker was part of a Bush administration "working group" assembled in the panicked aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Its task: figuring out what rights captured foreign fighters and terror suspects were entitled to while in U.S. custody. White House hard-liners, led by Vice President Dick Cheney and his uncompromising lawyer, David Addington, made it clear that there was only one acceptable answer. One day, Bowker recalls, a colleague explained the goal: to "find the legal equivalent of outer space" - a "lawless" universe. As Bowker understood it, the idea was to create a system where detainees would have no legal rights and US courts would have no power to intervene.
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