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The operator of the world's second largest super trawler says he is 'pleased'1 with conditions set by Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke2 and hopes to be fishing in Australian seas within a fortnight.

Newsletter date: 5 September 2012

Contents:
* Chris Graham: Aboriginal voters vent their fury... and change a government
* Emma Murphy: Aboriginal voters punish NT Labor
* Eva Cox: NT Labor counts the cost of federal and state indigenous policies
* Ken Parish: Arrogant Indigenous policies that toppled NT Labor is a lesson for Feds
* Patrick O’Connor: Labor loses office in the Northern Territory
* Bob Gosford: The CLP brings bush politics back to the town
* Rolf Gerritsen: Was the NT election outcome a shockwave or a regional ripple?
* NT News: Labor apology wanted

Left to right: Michael Ghillar Anderson, George Gaymarani Pascoe, Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra

Darwin, 3 September 2012 -- Two prominent East Arnhem Land leaders and sovereignty campaigner, Michael Anderson, have agreed in Darwin that a sovereign union of Aboriginal nations needs to grow from the grass roots.

Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra (OAM) from Galiwin'ku, George Gaymarani Pascoe, from Milingimbi and Anderson, the last survivor of the four founders of the Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra, agreed that its success can only be achieved “if our people want it”.

Today (Monday 3rd September), 13 Quit Coal activists have brought the truth about dirty coal to the attention of Victorians in spectacular fashion. Ted Baillieu is planning to turn Victoria into a brown coal quarry, which is predicted to triple our greenhouse gas emissions and contribute significantly to more bushfires, floods, extreme weather conditions and catastrophic climate change. Nine activists locked themselves onto the pillars of Parliament, whilst four others dropped a banner of the roof which had to be removed by Search and Rescue.

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Ein "deppendoerflicher" Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang

Merkel's Innenpolitik mit Bayern, Politk als Kindergarten, Angstmache der Oppositions Gruppen, $ 82.00 Wahl-Stimme, persoenliche Strafen, gruselige neue Jobs, Pussy Riot, Russland, Syrien, Iran und der Westen, mehr De Politik, US Wahl Krampf

By Tim Anderson
In a betrayal of all decent principles of solidarity and anti-imperialism, Green Left Weekly has jumped on the bandwagon of war against the independent nation of Syria. Apparent acceptance of the corporate media line that the ‘Assad regime’ is on its last legs seems to have encouraged this attack.

Gerry Georgatos
"None of these men had to die," said Andrew Wilkie. "To the families and friends of those who have lost loved ones to recent wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, I do extend my heartfelt sympthathies, and I grieve for your loss," Gerry Georgatos

The Tasmanian Independent Member of Parliament Andrew Wilkie is right when he said John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Prime Minister Julia Gillard have "blood on their hands" after the deaths of five Australian soldiers recently, however the bloodied mutilated souls of these three leaders of our nation are not limited in their culpability to the deaths of these five young soldiers, however to every death in Afghanistan and Iraq since colliding Australia into a manufactured war zone, now for more than a decade.
Related Swan Island Peace Convergence 2012

In this study I will examine whether NATO and the United States have failed in their War in Afghanistan against Islamic terrorism between 2001-09. To do this I will compare their objectives against measurements of effectiveness (MOE’s) as provided by both political and military sources as prescribed by the intervening forces.

As Petraeus & Amos state,