The Prime Minister has labelled Germaine Greer pathetic
after her attack on her home country’s culture, claiming that Australia’s city centres were marooned in oceanic tracts of suburban doldrums
In a move unprecedented in US history, the retarded monkey boy‘s Justice Department has indicted an entire organisation — Greenpeace — for the peaceful protest activities of its members. For years, Greenpeace have been working to halt environmental destruction and human rights abuses by criminal enterprises in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. In April 2002, miles off the coast of Florida, two Greenpeace activists boarded a ship that was carrying wood illegally exported from the Brazilian Amazon. Their goal was to hang a banner that said President Bush: Stop Illegal Logging
. But instead of intercepting the contraband and prosecuting the smugglers, the Government now has charged Greenpeace with crimes for boarding the ship
Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee have spied on confidential Democratic files for a year, studying their strategies and passing on the juicy bits to the media
The US Military wants to be excused from duty. That is, it’s duty to obey the environmental laws of the United States of America. Last year the Defence Department won exemptions from three major environmental laws — the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty. Now, the military wants to ignore the Clean Air Act and toxic waste laws. To its credit, Congress has already refused to allow these additional exemptions, but the Defence Department is preparing to join the battle once more
David Cogswell has an interesting article at Online Journal following the dodgy policies of BushCo’s anything goes attitude to holding absolute power and ponders that they are not above assassinating political rivals when smear tactics and legal battles fail
These latest security measures have merely confirmed the suspicion of the US detractors that the country is making a slide towards authoritarianism, with its government showing decidedly fascistic proclivities
The retarded monkey boy and his cronies have enlisted the aide of the FBI to harass members of opposing political parties
The US Treasury Department plans to publish nearly 10,000 e-mail addresses on the web, violating its privacy promise to Americans who used e-mail to comment on a government proceeding
James Glassman and TCS have given birth to something quite new in Washington: journo-lobbying. It’s an innovation driven primarily by the influence industry. Lobbying firms that once specialized in gaining person-to-person access to key decision-makers have branched out. The new game is to dominate the entire intellectual environment in which officials make policy decisions, which means funding everything from think tanks to issue ads to phony grassroots pressure groups
New Communications Minister Daryl Williams is tipped to close the Government’s National Office of the Information Economy in early 2004 and extend a moratorium on new free-to-air TV licences later in the year
In the midst of a film industry crackdown on digital movie piracy, filmmaker Robert Greenwald is urging rampant, unauthorised copying of his documentary criticising the Bush administration’s reasons for invading Iraq The 56-minute film, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War, concludes that President Bush and his team distorted intelligence data and misled the American public ahead of the March invasion that toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein
The Canadian Copyright Board has ruled that Canadians can legally download peer-to-peer music files, although uploading them is still illegal. So long as music is being recorded purely for personal use, and not being sold, rented, or otherwise disseminated to other people, its use is legal. It does not matter whether the source of the recording is a pre-owned track, a borrowed CD, or a track downloaded from the Internet, the board said. The combination of the latter two rules means that recording a CD for a friend is illegal, but handing the CD to the same friend and letting them make a copy for their own use is legal
Li Zhi, a former government worker in southwest China, was jailed for eight years for posting essays and comments online criticising official corruption
The UK has taken matters into its own hands and is making it a criminal offence to send e-mails or text messages unless the recipient has agreed in advance to accept them, the law is in effect now. Unfortunately much spam originates from the US so the UK had previously asked the US to co-operate
Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced that his office had made its first felony indictment under the state’s antispam law. The charges were filed against North Carolina resident Jeremy Jaynes, also known under the pseudonym Gaven Stubberfield, for allegedly using fraudulent means to transmit unsolicited bulk e-mail
Almost half the Australian public agree with Mark Latham that the retarded monkey boy is incompetent and dangerous — via Southerly Buster
This year, Google started a widely used news service. Last week, it seemed to some users of the Google search engine that the site had started to editorialise. Anyone searching on Google for the phrase miserable failure was sent to the official White House biography of the retarded monkey boy. George Johnston, is the man who started this particular Google bomb
The ALP and Government combined in the last hours of parliamentary sitting for the year to ram through legislation to put ASIO above the public interest by giving it secret police powers. The legislation will make it an offence to discuss ASIO’s questioning of people, whether they are innocent or not, for two years after the interrogation occurs
The record rate of woodchip exports is also a record rate of destruction in Tasmania’s forests. While Gunns got $419 million from sales to Asia, Tasmanians got just $25 million or so for royalties, plus the decimation of a natural resource
The Fairfax run MyCareer site ran an amusing ad yesterday looking for an Opposition Leader: ‘The successful applicant for this excellent short-term executive position must be thick skinned, opinionated and willing to be stabbed in the back. Prior experience in this type of role, including head-kicking and some leadership skills an advantage, though not mandatory. This bright and energetic role model will receive a generous package that includes travel at taxpayer’s expense with the unlikely possibility of promotion in the near future. For immediate start, prefer debater with knack for circular arguments. Previous applicants will be considered.’ Mark Latham won and has immediately followed the tried and true Labor approach of toadying up to Howard
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