Moussaoui and the MSM

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Monday March 27, 2006 · 3:50 PM PST

2006/03/27 · 15:50

Did anyone else read the most recent announcement on Drudge that claimed Moussaoui had confessed to being part of a plot to fly a plane into the White House with the "shoe bomber" Richard Reid?

Now forgive me if I am just being too cynical here, but do you think that the media have actually realised Moussaoui is almost certainly having a huge laugh at their expense? Read More

Is this where we are heading?

Mysteron

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Friday March 17, 2006 · 8:59 AM PST

2006/03/17 · 08:59

While the debate rages across the country as to exactly how legal the NSA wiretapping is, we should perhaps take a few minutes to look at what is happening in my home country, Australia, which unlike America doesn't have a Constitution to fall back on.

Legislation is about to be passed by parliament that will make covert wiretapping on innocent Australian citizens legal. Accordingly, the legislation, which has already been introduced to federal parliament, gives enforcement agencies a power of last resort to tap the phone of an innocent party without their knowledge or against their wishes in order to identify a criminal or terrorist target, if other investigative methods have failed. Read More

Uranium Sales to India

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Monday March 06, 2006 · 8:00 AM PST

2006/03/06 · 08:00

Well, after my comments regarding Australian PM John Howard's decision to stand on principle and not sell uranium to the Indians because they are not signatories of the UN's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it appears that good old Johnny may be meekly rolling over and letting the US walk all over him, again despite opposition from within the country.

As Howard left for his own meeting with the Indian PM Manmohan Singh, he has said that he will not rule out establishing a deal with Singh that will send Australian uranium to Indian reactors. This, of course, on the tail-end of the deal that Bush is trying to get through Congress that will put American nuclear technology in the Indian's hands.
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Don't Do As I Do, Do As I Say

Mysteron

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Friday March 03, 2006 · 9:18 AM PST

2006/03/03 · 09:18

Being an Australian living in the US it's disappointing to see our Prime Minister John Howard cow-towing to the US as if they were some vassal to a Warlord. It gives me hope and strength though when Howard and his conservative government grow a spine and stand on 30 year old principles, even under pressure from the US.

Case in point. As Bush leaves India having signed a nuclear deal with its Prime Minister that will give the Indian's classified and sensitive nuclear technology in return for allowing members of the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect some of its civilian nuclear sites at regular intervals, he has criticized Howard's government for refusing to sell uranium to them.

So why wont they? It's quite simple really, India isn't a signatory of the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and until it is Australia will not deal with it. What makes this more interesting is the fact that Bush is also criticizing Howard for selling uranium to the Chinese, who have signed the Treaty.
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