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Forest Witness Tasmania - Groundswell Tasmania - What's happening on the ground in the north east of this wild state

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/10/2012 - 7:11pm

Forest Witness – North East Tasmania – 26/10/12

This week in the North East of Tasmania, activists from the group Groundswell documented the ongoing destruction of forests located in independently verified High Conservation Value (HCV) forests.

NL115H is an 80 Hectare logging coupe, on the Western foothills of Ben Lomond National Park at Fisher’s Tier, only 40mins drive from the Tasmanian city of Launceston. It has been left out of the 430,000Ha of ENGO nominated reserve, but is within the 572,000ha of independently verified HCV forest.

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Another suicide attempt at Nauru Detention Centre

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 25/10/2012 - 10:57am

An Iranian asylum seeker on Nauru attempted to hang himself on Tuesday night. He was rescued by guards and fellow detainees. This is the fourth attempted suicide on Nauru since the start of the Gillard government's Pacific Solution 2.0.

Meanwhile the number of hunger strikers on Nauru is also growing.
Asylum seekers on Nauru told the Refugee Action Coalition that there
are now 6 or 7 people on hunger strike, at least one of them now for
14 days. “More people are joining the hunger strike,” they said, “We
think there will be more day by day.”

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September 28, 2013 - John Pat Day shall be a national remembrance with thousands marching

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 25/10/2012 - 9:59am

Gerry Georgatos
Image courtesy Margaret Bertling
John Pat, who was killed by off-duty police officers in Western Australia's Roebourne in 1983 will be remembered in a National John Pat Day next year. Marches and rallies will take place in every major city and in many towns across the nation. It will be 30 years since September 28, 1983 when his life was extinguished during a brutal beating by an inebriated racist police officer. Last week The National Indigenous Times visited Roebourne and met with John Pat’s mother, Mavis Pat.

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Syria: An energy-based proxy war in the making?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 25/10/2012 - 9:30am

By Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Investment Strategist

The Vietnam war wasn't really about Vietnam. Spaniards may have fought in the Spanish Civil War, but the real opponents were elsewhere. US and Soviet machinations in Afghanistan in the late 1970s had little to do with liberating a repressed population.

They were all proxy wars, struggles between superpowers that chose to fight their battles in faraway lands and inflict their collateral damage on other peoples instead of their own.

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The Judge is wrong - Tell it to Malala, to Soraya, to the many dead and tortured

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 23/10/2012 - 10:07am

Judge Stephen Scott during sentencing of an Iranian-Australian (to 14 years) for his role in assisting Asylum Seekers to our shores (others mistakenly ill-define this as 'people-smuggling') said that there were greater risks for Asylum Seekers fleeing by boat than there are in if they remained in the country they were fleeing from.

The sentenced man was jailed for his part in several voyages in assisting people to Asylum, one which tragically ended in the 2010 Christmas Island disaster where thereabouts 50 people drowned.

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard

Australia's cluster munitions shame

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 22/10/2012 - 3:01pm

October 21, 2012 - By Michael Mullins, Editor of Eureka Street - Reposted here by their kind permission

After Australia was elected a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council on Friday, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said: 'It's the world saying "we see Australia as a good country, a fine global citizen".'

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Monetary Military Madness mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Mon, 22/10/2012 - 11:54am

http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/63800/70930/84170/?url=h...

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samples of mainstream media, "21st Century Schizpois Man" King Crimson, "Startrek", movie samples of "The International", "Green on Blue" Harry Shearer, Afghani Mix, "Waterboarding USA" Harry Shearer, Jason Mc Cue, Black Mirror, Ayn Rand, Erich Fromm, Onion News, Noam Chomsky, movie samples of "War Inc", Finance Mix, Andy Borrowitz, "21st Century Schizoid Man" Greg Lake

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Prime Minister Gillard on the call for Treaty: “THERE WILL BE NO BITS OF PAPER!”

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 21/10/2012 - 4:49pm

Gerry Georgatos - (courtesy of The National Indigenous Times - nit.com.au)
“There will be no bits of paper,” said Prime Minister Julia Gillard, as Acting PM, on December 28 2009 in response to a call for a Treaty by SA’s Kaurna Elder and national CEO of the Aboriginal Political Party, Lynette Crocker.

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Nauru - Governments normalising racism while people suffer and die - "there is the smell of death here"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 21/10/2012 - 11:35am

Gerry Georgatos
The veils and layers of racism are myriad – a trickle of humanity flees from persecution and horrific conditions, from civil strife, to our shores and Australian Governments react with racism, fall into the trap of justifying their racist actions, deeds and words and then normalise the racism and stereotype peoples.