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From the Department of Destroy All Yuppies!
Over 70 years ago, a small group of local Aborigines, led by William Cooper, protested the beginnings of the genocidal Nazi assault upon European Jewry.
Indigenous anti-Nazi protests recognised
Luke Waters
SBS
August 26, 2010
The final chapter in a 72-year old Australian story of oppression, protest and pride is finally set to be [...]

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*Russian authorities/media deny early reports (Russian state-run news channel Rossiya-24) that a girl was killed in the attack. Mind you, they deny a lot of things… Avtonom has an English translation of an account published in local media here.
you have to treat them nice & gentle
do nothing rash, they’re sensitive
you must be somewhat sentimental
respectful of [...]

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Let’s debate Afghanistan, but give us the facts first
Tom Hyland
The Age
August 29, 2010
Where there is no information, there is no hope of a meaningful discussion.
IT HAS taken nine years, the deaths of 21 Australian soldiers and a hung parliament, but now our politicians agree: they will have a debate on Afghanistan. The Greens have long [...]

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…results…

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But somehow, I think we’ll manage.

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They held up a stone.
I said, “Stone,”
Smiling they said, “Stone.”
They showed me a tree.
I said, “Tree.”
Smiling they said, “Tree.”
They shed a man’s blood.
I said, “Blood.”
Smiling, they said, “Paint.”
They shed a man’s blood.
I said, “Blood.”
Smiling, they said, “Paint.”
~ Dannie Abse (adapted from the Hebrew of Amir Gilboa), 1982

הנורמה שדובר צה”ל אבי בניהו מכחיש ["The Norm that [...]

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On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, long-time political prisoner and acclaimed poet and translator Marilyn Buck, 62, passed peacefully at her home in Brooklyn, New York.

See also : Warrior-Poet Marilyn Buck : No Wall Too Tall, The Rag Blog, May 22, 2010.

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LOL.
*shrugs*
Israel’s Own Military Prisoner Photo Scandal, on Facebook, Hamilton Nolan, Gawker | Storm over Israeli ‘abuse’ photos, Al Jazeera | Israeli Bloggers Copy Controversial Images From Facebook, Robert Mackey, The New York Times (blogs) | http://sachim.tumblr.com/post/961910853…
“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and [...]

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Update : Clarification of comments by Wendy Francis: “I do not believe that upholding marriage or preventing children being raised in homosexual families is discrimination. We can’t govern Australia by legislation based on pleasing each group who wants things their way. I believe we must stand firm on principles and values that are the best [...]

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“Fat Man” detonates over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Dear Leader inspires Slack Bastard on eve of Womb Remembrance Day.
It’s a Dead End for all of us Mister Kwon Ho Ung.
O bureaucratic capitalism!
Wet slug to be suffocated
in eggshells and beer.

North Korea executes peace envoy: reports
Mark Willacy
ABC
July 21, 2010
North Korea has reportedly executed a former cabinet [...]

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