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A review of the Organisation of Islamic Countries report on Islamophobia
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Islamophobia exists but the OIC report is the wrongway of going about it. A phobia is a strong irrational or powerful fear and dislikes of something, in this case, the religion of Islam.
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Meet The Stress:The Politics of Nostalgia
BY Trace Hacquard
Before people were fainting at Barack Obama rallies, I was sent to Springfield, Illinois to cover the announcement of his candidacy on a bone-chilling February morning. Pains than come with sub-zero temperatures were replaced by chills of hope as Obama made promises in the same space where Lincoln once stood.
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Strip Clubs, Slip-ups and Memory Blanks: Why does the news media focus on triviality rather than politics
BY Chris Hartley
Kevin Rudd’s strip club visit, John Howard’s memory blanks and unsteady feet, and Julia Gillard’s childlessness all seem to take the media’s preference, rather than what’s really important, policy. When it comes to politics the news media often chooses to focus on trivial events that have no bearing on the merits of a candidate’s policies. BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson showed this belief at a speech in Oxford in 2006.
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Is money the only difference between journalists and bloggers?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Bloggers versus journalists? There is this issue which I keep on stumbling over and which seems to be agitating so many people who are in the publishing business. There seem to be two camps, the first camp is the journalist camp and the second seems to be the bloggers camp. And boyo, do these two camps fight or do they?
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Lose Fat and Gain Muscle with Minimal Effort
BY Gregory Schnese
10 exercises to help you lose fat and gain muscle with minimal effort - my get fit guide! Everyone wants to be fit, in shape and look great. The best way to accomplish this is to diet and exercise; diet + exercise = dramatic results. Exercise can be broken into two components, aerobic (cardio) and anaerobic (weight training).
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SCIENTISTS HAVE PROGNOSTICATED MORE DANGERS TO OUR LIFE
BY Israel Jayakaran
There ! The scientific community of our planet are on their warning mission once again.. The latest one is for the Lap top users. Their research has revealed that the heat produced by the laptops kept balanced on your lap, could increase the risk of infertility in you.
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AN INDIAN CELEBRITY IN ENGLAND
BY Israel Jayakaran
She was in the world of films. For how long, one wouldn’t know without some research ! She is reasonably pretty, but prettiness isn’t the only criterion to get a role in a film. Indian cinema is a highly competitive business and one can’t enter into it like you walk into a room.
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Does Caffeine Kill Christmas Cheer?
BY Tara Meacham
An overview of cafe life and culture during the 'merry' holiday season, during which many people appear rushed, thoughtless, and rude.
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Muslim Decapitation: Bad, or Simply Misunderstood?
BY Steve Harvith
Why do we jump to conclusions and assume that Islamo-Fascist decapitation of American civilians is bad? Here are some of the many reasons why Muslim decapitation of non-Muslim civilians is a good and humane practice.
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THE WALK IN INTERVIEWS
BY Israel Jayakaran
As a retired man and since I have plenty of time on hand, I read through the daily newspaper from the first line to the last. And that includes all the advertisements.
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Gang Phobia
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
America has a long history of gangsters, leaders of gangs that form in economically depressed urban areas. In human evolution, no behavior was more adaptive than a tendency to form close-knit work groups.
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Preformed Opinions
BY Michael Fernando
Preformed opinions often form the crux of our decision making. First impression is the last impression, we say, but this often would lead to sinister good judgements...
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Those frogs have a better Middle East foreign policy than the ross-bifs or yanks.
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
French - Middle East Foreign Policy is much better than the British and American one!
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AN EMPIRE LOST and RE-CAPTURED
BY Israel Jayakaran
Once upon a time in India, ‘cooking’ used to be the prerogative of a woman.
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The Way to Live is to Kill
BY Reece Pocock
Young Jesse hated killing, but he had to do it to live.
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Behind the Turkey-Kurdish Conflict
BY Stephen John Morgan
At the end of the 1st World War their territories fell victim to the redrawing of the map of the Middle East leaving them dived and stateless.
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Motivation and Weight Loss
BY Joe Cheray
Motivation often wanes when we are three weeks into a diet and we aren’t getting those fast results we had hoped we would see.
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IT IS CONTAGIOUS
BY Israel Jayakaran
It’s a disease and yet not a disease in the technical sense. If you sit next to a person affected by it you too may contract it.
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Turkish Tanks Attack Iraq
BY Stephen John Morgan
Turkish tanks and artillery have begun shelling suspected PKK guerrilla positions in towns and villages in Kurdish Northern Iraq.
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Voting and Town Hall Meetings
BY John Deeds
In our everyday working lives, one barely has time to catch up on home projects that need our attentions, although, our towns, cities, and villages where we do our living need us as well. Perhaps more so than we every thought.
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YOU ARE INDEED A PRIVILEGED PERSON IN THE WORLD
BY Israel Jayakaran
No one respects you; you go to the Public Distribution office and there the salespersons drive you mad telling you to come on the following day since several items have not arrived from the Head office.
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Great American Dumb Ideas: External Identity
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
The idea is to define who you are to those around you by using unique clothing, tattoos, hair styles, and insignia of all sorts. The car you drive, the wine you drink...
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War of Independence or the Great Mutiny
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
The 1857 War of Independence or Great Mutiny has been directly seared into the national psyches of many countries and impacted a great many more countries indirectly.
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Starting the engine of your creativity
BY Siim Einfeldt
Creativity is basically problem-solving. And in order to solve a problem, you must define a problem that you need to solve.
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Comedy Team makes the World laugh at APEC security
BY Reece Pocock
The publicity from this stunt will give the Chaser Team an International presence. Next stop the US talk show circuit, maybe a gig on Parkinson.
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Atheists are Evil
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
It’s time for me to come out of a dark closet. I am a proud non-believer, a better-than-thou, evangelical atheist, if you will. And that’s not a comfortable position to take in the United States today.
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Okay for Wannabe Australian Prime Minister to visit Strip Club
BY Reece Pocock
The leader of the Labor Party, Kevin Rudd, admitted to visiting Scores Strip Club in New York four years ago. He was drunk and persuaded to go along with a group of men, but only stayed for about twenty minutes.
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If you want independence, then you need to make a better case than a vague and limp “it sounds like
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Scotland's idea of independence is ill thought out and needs to have much more passion and logic in it
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‘ I AM WHO I AM BECAUSE OF MY DAD! ’
BY Lue Deck
(In the hoisted-on his-own-petard Dept:)   Is there better way to expose the truth about our leader than to use his own words to reveal what’s behind the curtain at Boobs R Us?  It’s not The Wizard of Oz; it’s George Bush, Jr.  Here ...
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Mayor of London! Surely eccentricity has its limits?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
When I was knee high to a pea plant, I started getting interested in politics (in a vain hope to sound intelligent when trying to pick up birds). My mother told me a quote which still sticks to my mind, she said: "Son, you will be torn between two fe...
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With a grain of piquant salt: Ancient Assyrians Alive!
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
I nearly fell out of my chair when I stumbled over a tiny piece of news about the fact that August 7th is declared as the Memorial Day for Assyrian Martyrs. Assyrians? Surely somebody is pulling my leg or its April fool’s day. Assyrians as a people d...
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The future of Iraq: fly apart at the seams or will the seams hold?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Iraq is going to fly apart at the seams because it does not have a national ethos nor it has a strong visionary leader to lead it
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Angel
BY Reece Pocock
  Cairo Egypt - 1941 The first thing Private Jeff Douglas remembered was a moan and he wondered where it was coming from. He was in a fog and it was slowly clearing and he realised the noises were coming from him. Between the groans there was ...
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DO YOU KNOW THIS?
BY Israel Jayakaran
Do you know, till some 80-90 years back, people used  a quill pen for writing? The quill was taken from the back of a porcupine.  I wonder how they managed to pluck it away from this animal.;  probably after killing the poor thing. The...
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Mersa El Brega
BY Reece Pocock
Private Rolf Kreiger and the battle for Mersa El Brega.
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America and China: Let's Win Together
BY Crystal Tein
Peg the yuan? Still? This is a question weighing on many Americans' minds.   Besides the obvious case of the ballooning trade deficit, there are many reasons pertaining to this sticking point. China is after all, leader of the Developing Natio...
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Letting Go of Writer’s Guilt
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
In June, I wrote 20 pages of my new novel, finished two articles, and read books on writing technique. And the last few weeks? I have spent time with friends, went on walks, and caught up on old movies. When I mentioned this to a friend of mine, my voice all low and ashamed, she said, “C’mon, you deserve a break.” “Yeah, I guess,” I answered, knowing full well that if the tables were turned I would see the situation just as she did. In fact, when it comes to my friends, I am one of the first people to encourage time off and praise them for the work they have been doing. Yet, when it comes to myself, this is much harder to do. Why is it that we have no trouble cutting others slack but not ourselves? And, what can we do to make this guilt go away?
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Prohibition
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
Americans can’t claim any special ability in thinking up dumb stuff. However, we do have a talent for carrying a dumb idea to the extreme.
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Bush "The Texas Ranger"
BY Stephen John Morgan
Having failed in politics, he decided to have a shot at business. With the help of family friends he set up his own oil business, Arbusto Energy. It was a fiasco from the outset, never making a profit.
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How you judge reform depends upon where you are standing
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Three Muslim reformers, but not as the west knows reforms
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Putting Away Your Writing Worries
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
It seems that the list of concerns when writing articles keeps growing. There are, however, four things you don’t ever have to fret about.
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Howard Australian Government in Trouble.
BY Reece Pocock
You would expect if you were a democratically elected government, the economy is the best in the region, there is almost full employment, your people are prosperous, the poor are well supported by social security, the prime minister is well regarded by other leaders, you’ve just survived the worst drought in history with hardly an economic ripple, you’re exporting more goods than ever before, and by any test taxation is low you would expect to be re-elected.
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Good Tricks from Trashy Novels
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
I recently did something that I said I would never do. That I looked down on others for doing. Whenever the topic arose in public, I would smile encouragingly all the while feeling inwardly superior for not stooping so low. Yet, last week it happened. I read a romance novel. And not only did I like it, but I found how it could aid with writing as well.
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The Misshaping of a President
BY Stephen John Morgan
On the surface, Bush’s decision to stop drinking at the age of forty, would be the first independent, mature decision he had taken in his life.
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Choosing the Right Writing Retreat
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
Writing workshops, festivals, seminars, and conferences are great places to go to hone one’s craft. Zero in on how to choose the one that’s right for you.
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Designer God
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
The Bible tells us in the first verse of Genesis: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
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Inside Politics in Iraq
BY Caleb Schaber
A Qada is a meeting of regional representatives in Iraq. Although it is not the same as a county meeting in the United States, it is similar to that in the area of people it represents. The world media reports the bad days in Iraq, but rarely takes the time to focus the lens on the normal days. Schaber takes you inside a Qada meeting in Abu Graib.
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Acing Interviews
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
Your pitch was picked up, your article is outlined, and now it’s time for the interviews. While it can be exciting to talk with experts, it can also be intimidating. Below are some tips that I hope will make this process flow smoothly (or smoother than it has been).
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A city of heavy contrast
BY Israel Jayakaran
The roads in all the Indian Metropolitan cities are flooded with people for at lest 20 hours in a day. So, Chennai which is my city of residence is no exception to this rule.
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Stay out of the Sudanese bear pit, Prime Minister.
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
If the people who are directly impacted by or are related to the Sudanese don't care, I see no reason why the UK should be involved in Darfur.
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Darfur- Death’s Dead End
BY Stephen John Morgan
For the last four years Darfur has experienced horror of biblical proportions. Considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis by the United Nations, it has been has classified as genocide by the US.
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U.N. Human Rights Processes Collapse
BY Henk Luf
    What were already farcical processes in terms of UN human rights enforcement have virtually collapsed following the United Nations failure to bring human rights and other international law abuses forward into the International Crimina...
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With a grain of piquant salt - High Inflation – the silent killer
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Inflation kills the poor and hyperinflation kills the state. Zimbabwe is the latest state whose kleptocratic and incompetent leadership has converted the breadbasket of Africa into the sewer.
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Israel Still Practicing 'Bunker Busting'
BY Henk Luf
    Israel Still Practicing 'Bunker Busting' The Israeli Air Force is still practicing its 'bunker-buster' techniques over the Mediterranean as well as over Israeli airspace. Six F15i's, a 707 tanker and an EC2 Hawkeye were recently dete...
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Abolish NATO
BY Henk Luf
Moves are afoot in Europe to abolish NATO.   For many years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, better known as NATO, has provided Europe, the US and Canada with the combined strength and security against any perceived threat coming from ...
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Medal for John
BY Reece Pocock
John didn't want the bloody medal. He wanted to forget New Guinea and the War.
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Najaf - now forwards towards an Iraqi revolution!
BY Stephen John Morgan
American and British flags burned and were trampled under foot by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in Najaf last weekend. A crossroads has been reached from which this could be the spring board to a genuine revoutionary struggle against the US occupation and sectarianism. More of these actions are the only chance for Iraq to remain united and to drive out the occupiers as soon as possible.
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Get off My President’s Back!
BY Lue Deck
Hey world, calm down some! Gosh, golly, gee, if we're all so terrible just put America on “hold” for awhile until we get a new leader. Dubya’s warranty runs out next year, and we’re replacing him just as fast as our constitutional processes allow.
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Realizing What's Important
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
Lately I have been in the mood to do very little. I still teach a few hours a day, create pitches, and work on articles, but all through this I have had this feeling that there is something else out there. Something more. Something I rather be doing. We all get these feelings from time to time—when work gets monotonous, when we have a vacation coming, when the days get warm. And I have been in all these camps. This time, however, the sensation stems from something else.
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CUBA - The Road to Democracy
BY Henk Luf
    Much has been said as to what might happen to Cuba beyond the Castro era and, as per usual, vested interests have muddied the waters to the extent that those who are likely to eventually run the country have, with the blessing of the ...
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Could the Kurds Kill Iraq?
BY Stephen John Morgan
Such is the mood in Kirkuk that matters could easily take on civil war proportions. For the Kurds, Kirkuk is non-negotiable and for the Arabs it represents the last straw. A move in the direction of independence would mean the collapse of Iraq.
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Will the Real David Hicks Stand UP
BY Reece Pocock
Most of the news reports have been about how badly the US and Australian Governments have handled the capture and subsequent incarceration of Hicks. But, what about the man?
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British Pride – A Dangerous Commodity
BY Linda Lycett
    Have they STILL not learnt yet?   A recent report on the arrival back in the UK of the HMS Cornwall crew states they were in Iraqi waters.   The 15 soldiers and marines still seem to believe this, or they are lying. Evi...
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Luf at Large 15
BY Henk Luf
Etihad Airlines have just commenced direct flights between Abu Dhabi and Sydney. The first landing in Sydney was not a great success. Coming in to land the A340-500 overshot the taxiway off the main 34-left runway and the aircraft had to potter along to the end of the runway before turning in towards the international terminal. Poor Sydney Airport aircraft controller inadvertently left his microphone open and was heard to say. "Bloody hell. Here it comes, another bloody Sunday driver". Perhaps he was not amused? Another comment was. "Where the hell is he going, the Opera House?"
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Coping with the Revise
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
Up until a few years ago, a revised piece meant that I had read it over twice and double-checked grammar and context. Blame it on my high school English teachers. Then, I began working on a novel and realized - wonder of wonders - that so much more is needed to make a creative work flow. Those of you who have long mastered the art of revision may be smirking, but better to learn late than never, right? And on the chance that there are writers still out there that are stuck on how to revise—or those who have revision down to a science but are looking for new ways to approach this subject—I thought I would share some pearls (or cubic zirconia) of wisdom.
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UK Sailors and Marines Released from Iran
BY Henk Luf
  After some intense negotiations between independent mediators and the Iranian Government, the 15 HMS Cornwall sailors and marines have been released and are allowed to depart Iran onboard an aircraft provided by the mediation team.   T...
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Politics and Corruption
BY Linda Lycett
    What is it with Men? What makes it so difficult to say 'no' to corruption? Greed perhaps? Lack of self-esteem? Fear?   The likes of Bush, Howard, and Cheney, working things to meet their own political ends; the world's dictator...
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McCain’s little big picture – what is the real situation in Iraq?
BY Stephen John Morgan
Senator John McCain’s gibberish concerning the security situation in Baghdad was intended not to show the "big picture" as he claimed, but to throw dust in the eyes of people, just when the real situation has taken a decisive turn for the worse.
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Teleligion
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
Many popular preachers turn out to have hypocritical secret sex lives or are financially corrupt. Back in 1988, Jimmy Swaggart was exposed for his use of prostitutes.
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U.S.-Australian Deal Stitched Up Hicks Sentence
BY Henk Luf
It has emerged the US Vice-President Dick Cheney and Australian Prime Minster John ‘bonsai’ Howard, stitched up the plea-bargain deal that allowed Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks to serve nine months in an Adelaide jail.
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With a grain of piquant salt: Its media, Jim, but not as we know it.
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
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Guantanamo Bay Farce Continues - Hicks Gets 9 Months
BY Henk Luf
Hicks pleaded guilty just to get out of Guantanamo and his admission can be regarded accordingly. In any case, the charge, guilty plea and sentence are not valid under U.S. law, Australian laws as well as International Law provisions.
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IRAN NUCLEAR WITHIN 12 MONTHS
BY Henk Luf
Despite denials, Iran is expected to be capable of producing a nuclear weapon within twelve months.   The information as to Iran's current nuclear program, its progress as well as its capabilities and civilian as well as military, were provid...
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Exchange Deal for U.S. and Australia?
BY Henk Luf
This is a suggestion that Australians might like to consider. Perhaps it might be possible to do an exchange deal with the US. The US will get Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Australia will get Guantanamo detainee David Hicks in return. Australians will no doubt consider this a good deal.
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NATO IN AFGHANISTAN - THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
BY Henk Luf
  It seems that just about every major country has had a go at trying to either conquer or stabilise Afghanistan, all of these attempts failing in one form or another, the most recent attempt being the Russian occupation which fell apart after ...
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How to Beat—or at least pacify - writer’s block
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
Write Through It. If you are rolling your eyes, I don't blame you. The first time I heard this advice, I laughed.
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I dare you to do this!
BY John Deeds
This week's offering asks us all who are we willing to be in a world that changes day to day, and are we capable of changes for the better, or the worse?
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U.S. Risk Loosing Conviction of Khalid Sheik Mohammed
BY Henk Luf
If Khalid Sheik Mohammed was indeed responsible for the 9/11 attacks as well as the 'shoe-bomb' attempt, he should be tried in the U.S. proper, not through some illegal tin-pot military process that means nothing.
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Up and About: In My Defense
BY Serban Brebenel
One of the few fervent supporters of this column (just kidding, I guess there are millions and millions of fans, but they are all timid in expressing their comments and idea) and a person whose opinion I hold quite dearly, has told me last week that my column is turning gloomier and gloomier and that I am exhibiting less of my proverbial sense of humor and more of my less proverbial aggressiveness.
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The Politics of the Pitch
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
By now, I assume you are rested and rejuvenated and sitting at your tidy desk, ready to embark on the next phase of the freelancing life. You know the goal is to get assignments and you have various ideas jotted in your notepad or on your computer screen. The next few steps will tell you just what to do to transform your ideas into pitches that catch editors’ attention.
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Pakistan trapped, surrounded, quarantined or just reading too much into it?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Pakistan is trapped and quarantined by all. Is it reading too much into the situation?
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Are we all actually being thieves and cheats?
BY John Deeds
There's good and bad in all of us. Let's look into the mirror and see whose face we see.
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The Barista Experience: Life Behind the Bar
BY Tara Meacham
Working behind the counter at a cafe is a very social experience. I am frequently asked what it's like to work at a cafe, make drinks, and interact with the other baristas and regular customers.
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AUSTRALIAN MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT KEEP DIRT FILES
BY Henk Luf
  It has been discovered that some Australian Members of Parliament are maintaining 'dirt files' on their constituents.   The discovery was made after a constituent of a Federal Liberal Party MP made allegations upon which an independen...
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Up & About: Meet the Boss
BY Serban Brebenel
In this number, we will be referring to all sorts of meetings with the bosses and the different types of bosses you are likely to encounter. We are, of course, referring to bosses that are in your possession and that belong to the organization you wo...
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Travel Review
BY Henk Luf
It is interesting to watch the total US military paranoia at Guantanamo Bay NAS. On the US side of one particular closed and barricaded gate, numerous heavily armed US Marines with dogs and other paraphernalia were busy at it, their weapons all aimed at the 'enemy'. The 'enemy' on the other side consisted of one Cuban soldier, sitting on a deck chair, smoking a large cigar. Ah indeed, US taxpayer's dollars at work.
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The Politics of War
BY John Deeds
This article brings forth the ideas we have long known about the politics of war, although perhaps we have forgotten some of the details along the way. Read on . . .
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The Battle
BY Reece Pocock
Carrier driver Kev Kendall in the Battle of El Alamein. At precisely 21:40 hours, on October 23rd 1942 the Battle of El Alamein began.
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Iran – The Unwinable War, with Unachievable Aims and Unbelievable Consequences
BY Stephen John Morgan
Despite all the diplomatic jaw-jaw and the attempts by the Bush administration to throw dust in the eyes of the public, it is likely that the U.S. has decided together with Israel to launch a "pre-emptive" attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Whatever conferences and accords come up, there is only a short window of opportunity to attack, before defeat in Iraq paralyses the U.S. scope for operations. It will be the last war for the lost cause.
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U.S. FACILITIES AT GUANTANAMO BAY DECLARED ILLEGAL
BY Henk Luf
  The "International Law Compliance Forum", ILCF, have declared U.S. facilities at Guantanamo Bay to be an illegal occupation of Cuban territory.   The ILCF says that Guantanamo Bay belongs to Cuba and that the U.S. has no right to occup...
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The New Global Epidemic
BY Mark Jabo
Climate change? Bird flu? These problems are nothing compared with the latest global pandemic . . .
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Up & About: The 3Cs in the Office
BY Serban Brebenel
Once in the office, you can already celebrate having gone through the most difficult part of the day: you woke up (always a challenge and you never know when it will suddenly not happen), you managed to catch the bus and not kill the person that step...
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Odds and Ends
BY Henk Luf
This is a very recent conversation that took place somewhere in the Middle East. Unit 87: "Tower we are ready". Tower: "Very good Unit 87. Runway 24, turn right, climb to flight level 220". (22,000ft) Unit 87: "I don't think that will be possible". Tower: "And why not?" Unit 87: "We are the runway sweeper, we are here to clean runways, not to fly them". Tower: "Nothing further" and then a deafening silence.
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The Ballad Of Britney
BY Michael Jae
Let’s see, her music is crap, she doesn’t even sing well, her choice in men sucks, she sure can’t act, and that is just the beginning of this corporate manifested robot. But now, my dislike for her has turned to sorrow as Britney continues to spiral downward through the toilet bowl we call life.
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The Craft of Freelance Writing
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
Do you wake up in the middle of the night with burning questions about writing? Who doesn't? Here is the first of articles to come on the mysteries of the writing world.
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The Great Satan, the wounded snake?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
The Mad Mullahs and The Great Satan, covert war is manageable but overt war is a disaster
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Iraqis should vote U.S. Military In or Out!
BY Lue Deck
OK, so America did well at nation building with South Korea, Japan, and Germany. Nobody can take that away from us. America also did pretty well with Israel, Thailand and The Philippines. But, as far as Iraq goes...not so good!
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ISRAEL RECEIVES BUNKER-BUSTER WEAPONS
BY Henk Luf
The Israeli Air Force is said to have received 'bunker-buster' bombs from the U.S.
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The Right of Iraq to Self-Determination
BY Stephen John Morgan
Bereft of new ideas for a new epoch, the U.S. is falling back on the old methods of British Imperialism in divide and rule and the sectarian tactics to deal with counter-insurgence. In particular, they are surreptitiously turning to a method which was successfully employed in Malaysia. Whatever our personal opinion of what is the best or most suitable form of government, it is for the Iraqi peoples to work out and decide for themselves rather than our aspirations for them. It is their future.
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U.S. PLANS ATTACK ON IRAN
BY Henk Luf
The U.S. is currently in the planning and implementation phases for an attack on Iran early April.
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The CIA now classed as terrorists? Oooops
BY Henk Luf
The Australian Government has approved the construction of another U.S. spy-base, this one to be constructed near Geraldton in Western Australia.
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Tragedy of Errors
BY Israel Jayakaran
Candy, twenty plus, was a simple final semester undergraduate staying in a hostel. She hardly made friends with anyone there or, for that matter, in her college class room. Then one day she was bitten by the love bug. The bug was Joe, her own classmate sitting some three rows ahead of her.
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Poor Lue's Almanack Feb. 2007
BY Lue Deck
A compendium of information, entertainment and some words to the wise. The first part's true, the last part's Lue!
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IRAQ - BLUEPRINT FOR PEACE
BY Henk Luf
As the conflict in Iraq grinds on in a seemingly endless cycle of sectarian violence and counter violence, very little has been done, its seems, to get a permanent and lasting solution in terms of obtaining stability and personal and financial security within Iraq's population. The U.S. and its allies have no further role to play in Iraq, they have done enough damage already and any external defence and security assistance should come from within the Middle-East or from neutral countries.
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