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List of children killed by US drone strikes

Submitted by nader on Fri, 01/02/2013 - 2:44am

How many children will Obama kill in his remote controlled drone war?

How many kids can become “collateral damage” before we demand a halt?

Why should we believe the CIA who runs the drone program?

Is it legal or moral for the CIA to act as judge, jury and executioner, with no legal process what so ever?

List of Children Killed by US (Drone Strikes) in Yemen and Pakistan

The following list was issued by DRONES WATCH on 20 January 2013. The names were compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports.

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Australian political responses to Obama's climate change Inauguration speech

Submitted by takver on Wed, 23/01/2013 - 9:42am

The parliamentary leaders of the Labor Party, Liberal Party and the Greens all responded to Barack Obama's statement on the necessity to act on climate change made during his 2013 inauguration speech.

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard welcomed the statement and also reiterated government policy on carbon pricing, and the trend for more extreme weather events due to climate change as articulated by climate scientists.

Tony Abbott was more combative, attempting to use his press conference question for taking a cheap shot at President Obama not being able to get climate legislation passed through congress, and attacking the Government's carbon pricing policy.

Greens leader, Senator Christine Milne, also welcomed the change in priority on climate change by the US administration and said that "the proof of President Obama's commitment will be in what the US does in the global negotiations" over the next two years.

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Obama Wired for Sound in Debates

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 23/10/2012 - 1:35am

Find the Feed

Video frame images from US 'presidential debate' 2 show in high contrast an apparent audio feed above the president's left ear.

Is prompter-dependent Obama, prompterless in the so-called 'presidential debates', wired for sound, like Bush in 2004, who had some contraption hidden under the back of his jacket ?

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Speaking out against Obama wars

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 20/11/2011 - 2:46am

Report of the Resistance to the visit by US President to Canberra Thursday 17 November 2011 by Graeme Dunstan of Peacebus.com

Good to be standing for peace with friends outside the Parliament, while Obama was inside beating a drum for war in the Pacific. All in all it was an evocative witness, few in number, good in feeling and dramatically artful.

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Veterans group says President Obama not welcome down under

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/06/2010 - 6:29pm

MEDIA RELEASE, 2 June, 2010 - Stand Fast, the Australian-based veterans group which is comprised of veterans and former military personnel who oppose the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is calling on all people of conscience to protest the upcoming visit of Barack Obama in mid-June.

"Why should we welcome a war criminal?" asked Stand Fast spokesperson and East Timor veteran, Hamish Chitts. "Obama is not a force for progress, he is not a man of peace - from his first day in office he has firmly placed himself in the camp of the warmongers and war-profiteers."

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Obama coming to Australia (action alert)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 14/03/2010 - 1:42am

Obama's visit to Australia has been delayed due to his local political problems.

Is he coming to Melbourne?
If so when and where..
Please post any info here.

Thank You.

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Afghanistan occupation quagmire enters ninth year

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 30/09/2009 - 8:26am

By Hamish Chitts

October 7 marks eight years since the US-led coalition of imperialist powers and their client states invaded Afghanistan. Using the shock of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington as a smokescreen, the invasion of Afghanistan was the first major step in the US rulers’ “Global War on Terror” — the official name of a sustained campaign of Pentagon and CIA operations aimed at crushing all opposition in the Third World to US political and economic dominance.

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