Category Archives: War on Terror

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Thomas found guilty of receiving $3,500, a plane ticket, and having a dodgy visa

Posted on February 25, 2006 by @ndy

Thomas found guilty of receiving Al Qaeda funding ABC News Online Sunday, February 26, 2006. 2:57pm (AEDT) A Victorian man has been found guilty of receiving funds from a terrorist group. Joseph Terrence Thomas, 32, of Werribee, near Melbourne, was … Continue reading →

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The Gospel According to Peter

Posted on February 25, 2006 by @ndy

After careful consideration, polling, the opinions of his advisers, a quick check with a physician and a priest (to confirm that he remains without a beating heart or a living soul) and, last but by no means least, a corruption … Continue reading →

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To burn or not to burn, that is the question

Posted on February 23, 2006 by @ndy

OK, so the antiwar movement may not have quite turned out to be the wild-orgasm-of-anarchists-sweeping-across-the-country-like-a-prairie-fire all right-thinking, political moderates such as myself were hoping for, but… Heated debate has erupted on University campuses. Well, kinda. Yesterday a few people shouted … Continue reading →

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“Aunty” Paul & “Uncle” Al

Posted on February 22, 2006 by @ndy

The people at the Danish Consulate & Embassy in Egypt are nice. Last week, I sent them an email requesting confirmation that the Danish Ambassador to Egypt, Bjarne Sørensen, had indeed read an issue of Al Fagr at the time … Continue reading →

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Mate, this ideology wouldn’t go “voom” if you put four million volts through it!

Posted on February 19, 2006 by @ndy

‘Communism bad, capitalism good’ is an old joke. Here’s another: “What’s the difference between capitalism and communism?” “I don’t know, what is the difference between capitalism and communism?” “Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the reverse.” … Continue reading →

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Seven years bad luck

Posted on February 16, 2006 by @ndy

Today’s Age contains an interesting editorial on the subject of the Federal Government’s proposal to alter the Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill to make lawful the monitoring of citizen’s private communications without i) their knowledge or consent and ii) a magistrate … Continue reading →

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Leunig saved from free-fall

Posted on February 15, 2006 by @ndy

This is what happens when the fact slams into me that I have been secretly and maliciously set up and framed and that the story will soon be on the wire and the twisting and distorting of my life is … Continue reading →

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Against Terror, Against the State

Posted on February 12, 2006 by @ndy

While foolish humans in the US Government (as well as “Government officials from… Canada, Australia and England and executives from Microsoft, Cisco, Verisign and others”) have been “working from basement offices at the Secret Services headquarters in downtown Washington” in … Continue reading →

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Suspended Sentence

Posted on February 12, 2006 by @ndy

SUSPENDED SENTENCE… Read the paper – humdrum Henley Regatta – page one Eat die – ho hum Page three – big bum Giving a lunatic a loaded gun He walks – others run Thirty dead – no fun Foreigners feature … Continue reading →

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“To make shame more shameful still by making it public”

Posted on February 8, 2006 by @ndy

Today’s edition of The Age contains a report on Ciaron O’Reilly’s interrogation by ASIO. Says Ciaron: “I guess my best protection is to be as loud about it as possible… That is why I am saying this has happened to … Continue reading →

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