ANOTHER CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? April 8, 2013
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard sounded in her address to Asian leaders particularly bellicose, as in “fire your best shot”.
HEALING THE EARTH February 3, 2013
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Is that indeed possible, will even the Australian election, now we know the date and our destiny, even seriously address climate change, or even the extreme weather events this year and last year that now seem regular and expected occurrences?
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WONDERFUL, IT A’INT? December 26, 2012
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The state of mind of the murderer-suicide at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut may never be known. And yet his actions there may in retrospect in realization a profound sense of despair among many about the American project.
ISLAMIC PROTESTS September 19, 2012
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I have not noticed any comment to the effect that the Sydney protests were part of a series of protests in Islamic communities around the world, including Sydney.
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NON ALIGNED TO MEET IN TEHRAN August 24, 2012
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Why does Israel wish to attack Iran? It could be a distraction from the cruel and unjust treatment of the Palestinians.
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REFUGEE POLICY August 15, 2012
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So what is orchestrating the absurd refugee asylum policy? The obvious thing to do would be to conduct the processing of refugees in Indonesia before they got on a boat to head to Christmas Island.
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REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA August 7, 2012
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Today marked the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima., the first use of nuclear weapons. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Civilization did not end, neither did the still continuing export of uranium, and other countries have acquired nuclear weapons so increasing the possibility of nuclear war.
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CRIMINALIZE COAL? August 2, 2012
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If climate change is to be taken seriously, banning coal sounds like the right idea.
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OSLO NOW AURORA July 22, 2012
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It is now one year since the bombing in Oslo and the massacre on the Utoya Island. And in recent days there has been the killings in the picture theatre in Colorado.
CLIMATE CRASH? July 20, 2012
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Climate Science is not an easy. Climate is a complex with a many dynamic, often interrelated, variables. There are straws in the wind suggesting that things are getting serious.
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CELEBRATING HIGGS BOSON July 5, 2012
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Any excuse will do for the rites of celebration. Apparently the Higgs boson is a fundamental part of constructing the universe and reality and it looks as if it might just have crossed the boundary from theoretical construct to observed phenomena. If so this will be a very significant discovery.
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THE TRIUMPHANT WEST? June 28, 2012
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Our European predecessors entered into these lands in which we live they changed the landscape, introduced plants and animals, and changed the laws and attitudes to land.The power of industrial society is subsumed by objective science.
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“FORWARD”: NORMALIZE MURDER OR NOT? June 13, 2012
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The normalization of violence, whether it is the homeless out on the streets of our cities or the summary execution by executive fiat of people by drone in NW Waziristan, or Yemen or Somalia is a way of wearing down principled opposition to unacceptable by constant repetition.
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IMMIGRATION AND ISRAEL June 12, 2012
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Wealthy countries are magnets for immigrants who are simultaneously fleeing oppression and seeking better a life. Israel is just one more country dealing the problem.
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WHAT [CLIMATE] DEBATE? June 11, 2012
Posted by wmmbb in Australian Politics, Duckspeak, Humankind/Planet Earth, Natural Environment, US Politics.add a comment
I am not following Australian politics because it has been reduced to a Punch and Judy show. It is remarkable how policy issues and concerns get buried.
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ISRAEL’S EXISTENTIAL DILEMMA: “What must be said” April 12, 2012
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The Israeli Government did not like Gunter Grass’s poem, “What must be said”. They were not content to brand him as persona non grata, but label him as being anti-Semite and associate him with the Nazi past and the Holocaust.
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IMPERIAL ENTROPY AND CORPORATE RULE March 29, 2012
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How can successive wars to be lost, and wars continued to be made? The holy warriors of the Jihad were a god send to the calculators in Washington, although it now seems the train pushing this load has now run out of steam.
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EMBRACING THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX March 28, 2012
Posted by wmmbb in Australian Politics, Humankind/Planet Earth, Oil, Peace.3 comments
The American killing machine is now seeking to reposition, after its’s spectacular success in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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JAMES HANSEN ON THE CLIMATE March 12, 2012
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For TED,James Hansen gives the speech on climate change and his involvement that the fossil fuel industry just wanted to hear.
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