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Is the USA Alliance still good for Australia
BY Reece Pocock
Now is the time to cut back on slavishly following our powerful friend, but still preserve the alliance. It's possible to still be friends without agreeing with every action and maintaining our dignity.
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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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The Emperor is wearing Albanian Clothes
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
The impact of recognising Kosovo will be felt in various places, and not all which will be good for the West.
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BRAD PITT DEFIES MEDIA WITH GOODWILL
BY Linda Wattley
WE HAVE SO MUCH MONEY WE SEND IT AWAY FORGET ABOUT OUR OWN BACKYARD
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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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Not This Time Kenny
BY Michael Jae
So Kenny took over the organization in 2001. He has been to the playoffs ONCE since then. Grant it, the Sox won the WS that year, but do the math. He went once in six years. 1/6=.2. Do know what .2 is? It’s 17%; a failing grade so roughly speaking Kenny Williams has failed as a GM.
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Chapter 2- The Magical Baby and the Kitchen Girl
BY Crystal Tein
The duck, chicken and pig spirits were dancing happily in a circle, anticipating the ransom due them. The duck was particularly happy. He was rich but he loved money and was a scrooge.
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Who should be the next U.S. President?
BY John Deeds
With the costs of the war in Iraq and the multiple people in both Parties running for the office, who SHOULD be the next President and will they be able to handle the job amd the mess left behind by the presnt President?
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Lue's Little Joke Store!
BY Lue Deck
Life for me before 1968 was anything but a lot of laughs. It was Georgia, what can I say? That's why since then, I've bypassed realities and dedicated my existence to funny! The retail outlet mentioned here is wholly illusionary, and an overdue answer to my ernest prayers! Won't you come in?
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Duran Duran’s pop Massacre
BY Kate Sole
Back in an era style forgot, when leg warmers, puffball skirts and crimped hair were the height of fashion, one band were plastered on every teenage girl’s bedroom wall and held warmly in the hearts of housewives everywhere.
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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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US Treasury invites responses on improvements to the US Capital Markets regulation
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Financial and economic laws and regulations provide the rules of the game. It is the game of accepting, giving and managing money.
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RACISTS ARE THE CATALYST DESTROYING THE WORLD DUE TO HIDDEN FEARS
BY Linda Wattley
The racist has lost touch with reality. They did not create this world nor did they give life to the human race. How dare they attempt to destroy it.
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WORLD WAR 111?
BY Stephen John Morgan
Last week Bush stunned reporters when replying to a question he stated that "if you're interested in avoiding World War 111, you ought to be interested in preventing Iran from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.
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Republicans DROPPING Like FLYS!
BY Lue Deck
With all its gadflies (and their cash) The Grand Old Party must feel like they've flown into a colossal "Time for a Change!" bug-zapper!
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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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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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Suitable For Framing
BY Mark Jabo
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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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Is the Surge having an effect?
BY Stephen John Morgan
All independent reports and analysis, including an inside report from the Pentagon paint a quite different picture to the political speech of Petreaus. Even he had to admit that violence remains at unacceptable levels.
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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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Bronx Cheer
BY John Sadowski
Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s recent controversial visit to New York and talk before the UN and Columbia University. Why so much media attention to him and what Ahmadinejad means to Iran and the third world.
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ProTour Cycling Goes Down Under
BY Reece Pocock
For the first time ever ProTour Cycling will leave Europe. It is Adelaide, a small city of about one Million people in South Australia that will stage the event. Let the excitement and the racing begin.
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Moody Mahmoud Vacations in NYC!
BY Lue Deck
The scruffy President of Iran arrived Sunday to visit The Big Apple and speak at Columbia University Monday and The United Nations on Tuesday. Then he better get out of town fast.
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Did you know that you are a shoe?
BY Siim Einfeldt
Client is the King and you are the shoe. Remember that. And the King is always right.
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Long-term plan is an illusion
BY Siim Einfeldt
Work on possibilities, not plans. Long-term planning is an illusion. If you can’t predict the future, how in the world can you make correct plans?
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Appreciating failures – the good, the bad and the ugly
BY Siim Einfeldt
Appreciating failures is as important skill as anything else related to business. Because without failures there can seldom be any success.
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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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The Muslim Brotherhood – a force not to be underestimated
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
The Muslim Brotherhood is a much mis-understood and under-estimated force in today’s political climate across the globe.
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The Scavengers
BY Michael Fernando
I dont know who vilifies us, Tamilians. I can very well handle queries like above(and I pity what they learnt in their Geography Lectures at School. Surely, their Lecturers would suffer severe heart-attacks if they came to know their Curious Questions such as these)...
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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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Jezebel
BY Reece Pocock
Young Reg discovered sex in the shearer's quarters. But he was soon to discover that Jezebel had more to achieve than sex.
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Of Mice and Men and their Wars and Businesses
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
While reading a book Every Man a Tiger by Tom Clancy (ISBN-10: 0399144935) on General Horner, the Air Component Commander of during Operation Desert Storm, I came across this statement: “When a general goes to war, he needs a staff function. And if h...
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The Music Healer
BY Crystal Tein
His music heals. Serious. Carlo Ricafort, a pop/R&B/club singer popularly known as J-RICZ, was crowned 2007 "Most Promising Male Singer of the Year".
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The Wintry wiles and whales of Victor Harbor
BY Reece Pocock
A wonderful winter holiday wiling and watching whales.
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The Last Funny guy!
BY Lue Deck
The Last Funny guy! Sure, we had lots of 'em back in '07, but not so much now!   Or:   The Day The Funny Died! Remember when it was OK to laugh?   Or:   Maybe George Orwell Was Right! He missed by 38 years!   (...
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Christian Sunday school
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
Students coming out of religious training are often unable to sort religious opinions from what are simple political decisions.
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One day at the Operation Theatre
BY Michael Fernando
“You have to take off your T-shirt first and then put on the Green Dress. Don’t put the Green Dress on the T-shirt”, replied the Nurse with a you-are-so-dumb smile.
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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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Airies Like Aries
BY Crystal Tein
  It is a song full of fury with control, written using computer software by Walt Rebeiro. I like the title Airies because it reminds me of the horoscope "Aries", brimming with fire and strength.The music is a whole chant of staccatos...
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HOGWASH Fatigue!
BY Lue Deck
(Just tell our politicians to shut up!)   This commentary is dedicated to Mr. Brian Lamb, U.S. Navy (Ret) and his esteemed colleagues at CSPAN for posing an outstanding question (How has war fatigue affected you?) to begin their signature show...
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BUSH - Unfit for Office
BY Stephen John Morgan
When people make the courageous step to quit drink or drugs, often their whole world and sense of self-identity collapses around them. He began studying Christian theology.
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What Does Al-Qaeda Want?
BY Reece Pocock
It is time the West made more of an effort to understand Militant Islamic motives. And, it is time moderate Islamic people made more of an effort to speak out against the militants.
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Talk to Hamas, Israel
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Political and Militant Islam in the form of Hamas is here to stay and Israel cant wish it away nor kill it nor imprison it. Talk to Hamas
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Time To Haunt Bush Junior!
BY Lue Deck
I’m mostly upset with George Bush Junior because I believe his enormous ego is writing bad checks that his skills cannot pay! Being oblivious is not a good excuse here.
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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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SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
BY Reece Pocock
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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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The Third of August
BY Reece Pocock
The Battle of the Third of August is etched into the history of the 2/43rd Battalion. This is a fictionised version based on the facts.
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From First to Worst!
BY Lue Deck
Gosh, it seems like just a few years ago Uncle Sam, America, and most of its people were hot! Damned hot!
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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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Leaving Iraq won’t be easy
BY John Deeds
I will be the first American to state to the readers that I never did agree with President Bush’s ideas about the war in Iraq as far back as before, “Shock and Awe,” which I watched on TV: a war that began on ‘live’ TV.
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When you run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, all you manage is to stumble!
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Why doesnt Tariq Ramadan get that there is no link between terrorism and foreign policy at all?
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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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Oh! What a world?
BY Reece Pocock
The world we live in is a great place to be. Wouldn't it be nice to occasionly read or hear about how good it is to be in this part of this part of the Universe? No, why do that, it's much better to know about other peoples misfortunes?
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Bush’s Authorization of Warrantless Wiretapping
BY Gina-Marie Cheeseman
Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978 as a way to guard against the type of abuses of presidential power which President Nixon engaged in, namely, using federal agencies to conduct electronic wiretapping on critics of his administration.
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War for Oil
BY Gina-Marie Cheeseman
Iraq is home to the second largest oil reserves in the world. The Bush administration has ties to the oil industry. Ironically, Operation Iraqi Freedom was first called Operation Iraqi Liberation: O.I.L.
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BUSH – THE YOUNG ADULT
BY Stephen John Morgan
Looking at the beginning of Bush's young adult life, there are already important indications of tendencies to "tune out of reality" as a general pattern of behaviour. Bush was notorious for his drinking and partying.
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The Invasion of Iraq: An International Crime
BY Gina-Marie Cheeseman
The Invasion of Iraq was An International Crime. The invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq is what international law experts call a preventive war.
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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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The Downing Street Documents
BY Gina-Marie Cheeseman
Part Three in a continuing series about the reasons to impeach President George W. Bush. This week's installment looks at eight British government documents leaked to the press which provide damning evidence against Bush.
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Masterpiece Mixtape - Let's Stay Together
BY Steven Lochran
This week, Masterpiece Mixtape looks at an overplayed - but also overlooked - Al Green classic.
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Slaughter of the Innocents
BY Reece Pocock
Anzac Day in Australia helps a small nation come to grips with the appalling losses of WW1. More important than any other commemoration, religious or otherwise, Australians remember the lives their men laid down to help Great Britain.
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Misleading the Nation about Iraq
BY Gina-Marie Cheeseman
In his 2003 State of the Union address Bush made many claims concerning Iraq, namely Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and supported terrorist networks (including al-Qaeda).
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A Drink with the Candidates!
BY Lue Deck
Standing at the bar watching them are a balding New Yorker, a Mormon, some Huckabuck, and one angry Vietnam vet. All are quite wary, as this is the first time they've been in the same room. Slowly, all notice: hanging behind the bar is a huge oil painting of Jeb Bush. It has a long moustache and big eyeglasses crudely drawn on it's face. Everybody smiles!
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Luf at Large 18
BY Henk Luf
During the recent air show at Avalon, near Melbourne in Australia, the pilot of a C27, a modernised G222 troop transport aircraft designed in Italy, did a low level barrel roll. Just as well he had no Army parachutists hanging out of the back of the ...
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Impeachment & President George W. Bush & Impeachment: An Introduction
BY Gina-Marie Cheeseman
President George W. Bush has committed offenses which are injuries to the American society, and especially to American democracy, the system of government our Founding Fathers created. Among the President's offenses are the "initiation and continuation of the Iraq war,"[iii] the authorization of warrantless wiretapping, and authorizing the use of torture on detainees.
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Arab-Israel Peace Within Reach
BY Henk Luf
    What appeared not to have been possible for decades may now be within reach if everything goes in accordance to proposals that are currently being formulated by the various Arab States including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and the Gulf...
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Might As Well Face It You're Addicted to . . . Everything!
BY Mark Jabo
No less an authority than George Bush recently declared that the entire nation was "addicted" to oil. From a Republican viewpoint, you might excuse the President from engaging in a bit of political hyperbole. From a Democratic standpoint, the Preside...
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Masterpiece Mixtape - Midnight Radio
BY Steven Lochran
Think all rock musicals suck? You obviously haven't seen 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'!
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Networking Know-How
BY Margaret Gelbwasser
You may have the pitch letter down and sources ready, but there is something else that will get you even more jobs than the perfectly crafted query. As the old saying goes, it’s who you know that counts.
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Hicks Tortured At Guantanamo
BY Henk Luf
David Hicks was repeatedly tortured and mistreated during his illegal five-year detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba according to secret CIA and Pentagon documents.
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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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Luf at Large 16
BY Henk Luf
  Western countries and the UK, the US in particular, seem no have absolutely no notion as to how the Middle East operates. The case of 15 British sailors and Marines is a classic example as to how not to conduct diplomacy. The 15 accidentally ...
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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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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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Hicks Release Conditions Unenforceable
BY Henk Luf
The release conditions put upon Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks are unable to be enforced and can basically be ignored, according to International Law experts.
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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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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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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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Masterpiece Mixtape - Lover, You Should've Come Over
BY Steven Lochran
In 1994, a musician named Jeff Buckley released his debut album. Though unsuccescful at the time, it's now regarded as a modern classic. This week, Masterpiece Mixtape takes a look at 'Grace'.
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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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Presidential Campaigns: Financial Vampires
BY Anthony Caroto
Why do I get the feeling that politics has become more about what's in their bank account than what's in their head?
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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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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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The Magical Family in Education
BY Crystal Tein
And so, the magical family settled down in Singapore. They are all smart people, you must remember. It wasn't very long before they established themselves in various cornerstones of society. One of them is education. Moreover, don't forget all the va...
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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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The Reincarnation Theory
BY Israel Jayakaran
      Do you believe in reincarnation of souls and a new physical life on the Earth after your current life? Well, nearly 80% of our population in India do believe in the cycle of births and rebirths; and after a particular...
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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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Horace the Horse
BY Reece Pocock
A fictional account based on the factual battles around Horace the Horse by the Australians on the Huon Peninsula in 1943. After forcing the enemy from Lae and Finchafen the Australians found the tenacious Japanese still hung on to fight to the death.
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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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BUSH and Freedom, Liberty and Democracy?
BY Henk Luf
When young George talks about these lofty subjects, he is essentially talking nonsense. In other words, when it comes to the notions of freedom, liberty and democracy, George Bush is only capable of talking crap.
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The Legendary Feel-Good Machine
BY Lue Deck
Here's my challenge: If you're not happy and want to be so, or if you're happy and want to take steps to remain so, or if you're not sure if you are as happy as you want to be . . . read on. If you're not happy and don't care, stop reading this! These ideas may threaten that miserable attitude you're possessed by now. Go away!
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The future of British Armed Forces
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
The future of the British Armed Forces. Some musings on where it should go.
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Oooops...
BY Henk Luf
A case of oops. Boeing 777 landed at Canberra Airport, a very unusual event in its own right. Upon touching down the aircraft blew a tyre making a mess all along Canberra's brand new runway extensions. Canberra Tower: E991, you just blew a tyre. Do you need assistance? E991: Negative on the assistance, but someone better get a large broom to clean up the mess that I have just made all along your nice new shiny runway. Canberra Tower: Yeh, thanks for that.
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Masterpiece Mixtape - (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
BY Steven Lochran
Masterpiece Mixtape continues this week with a look at an experimental jazzman forever on the edge of fame; Tom Waits.
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Australia's Defence Chaos
BY Henk Luf
Given the amount of defence lemons the Australian Government has been purchasing, Australians must be getting a bit worried about Australia's capacity to defend itself militarily.
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The Soliloquists
BY Israel Jayakaran
  What will you do when you have nothing to do for a few hours or when you are bored to death, not knowing how to spend the next couple of hours?  Most of the time, you will get out and go for a walk.  Some times walking can be monoto...
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Corruption, Dishonesty Runs Rife in Australian Government
BY Henk Luf
  The Australian Government Incompetent, Dishonest, and Corrupt.     The Australian Government has once again been proven to be incompetent, dishonest and even corrupt in relation to its accountability and other processes followin...
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Insurgent psychology – why they aren’t trying to win, but why they will!
BY Stephen John Morgan
For Arabs and Muslims their honour or the shaming of themselves and their brethren is something which cannot go unavenged. One must be prepared to die for it. It is linked to the culture of retribution, where a hurt or death brought upon another of one's family, tribe or clan must be avenged and this now extends to one's sect, nation, ethnicity and common religion. Psycho-culturally, the U.S. has entered an unwinable and endless war.
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'Declare a REAL War...Or Get OFF the Pot!'
BY Lue Deck