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The latest Shortwave Report (February 17) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom
(If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {35MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)

In early February I received with my posted copy of the Socialist Alliance-sponsored newspaper 'Green Left Weekly' a leaflet inviting me to attend the launch of a new 'Activist Centre' in Fremantle. I took the time on Saturday, 4th February to commute by train from Perth, where I had been attending the WA Friends of Palestine Annual General Meeting, to the port city and the Activist Centre launch.

The atmosphere at the launch was quite convivial, the speeches were tolerable, and I enjoyed catching up with old political associates and having a few soft drinks.

Ethical human rights, development and globalization is needed to replace Neoliberalism.

Anthony Ravlich
Human Rights Council (New Zealand)
10D/15 City Rd.,
Auckland City.

By Sabine Katcha

A new book report “NT Consultations Report 2011: By Quotations” has been launched by ‘concerned Australians’ in Melbourne. by the Hon. Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC and the Hon. Frank Vincent AO QC accompanied by a discussion on the Stronger Futures legislation. For further info as well as to read the long-awaited transcripts from the ten recorded consultations which have been uploaded, please see
http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/

I've done an extensive google search, but only found the below article so far:

Using taxpayer money to subsidise the burning of native forests - sounds crazy, right? Yet Independent MP Rob Oakeshott has introduced a motion that if passed, would insert this provision into the government's renewable energy package.

Problem is, what it does is create a new market for logging native forests and then burning the waste, which experts believe will go far beyond a few small operators and reignite the nationwide 'forest wars' between old-growth and plantation timber. [1]

By Hone Harawira

Paul Holmes' column in Saturday's Weekend Herald was a nasty article from somebody who must have known it would hurt a lot of people. It was mean and mean-spirited. It was deliberately offensive and uncaring, and though he might claim that it was written to spark debate, at the end of the day it was just mean and nasty.

The way he writes it, Maori have no right to protest on Waitangi Day. We should be full of happy, happy, joy, joy.

http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/57738/64452/78160/?url=h...

various issues in collage and commentary

credits:
404 Freedom not found, Onion News, And now a word from the economy herself, Perplex Mobil, Mama Economy, Mark Kaye, Gorka global economy, Gina Rinehard - Hungry Beast File, 'America' Dan Bull, payed to be flooded, Monckton proposes mining industry news ventures in Australia, Dropout Ninja-Saddhu Hippie-Samba Sage phenomenom in ermerging economies, Westminster System fails Australia

The Assad regime is slaughtering its citizens and tearing cities apart. The UN has failed to stop the killing, and Avaaz has the only network that is both smuggling medical equipment and journalists in and images and information out. Click to watch this video appeal from Danny, a brave Syrian democracy activist calling on Avaaz for help, and chip in now to save lives:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/smuggle_hope_into_syria_rb_en/?cl=1579380904...

Wow, more than 31,000 of us have donated and we're already getting aid and equipment into Syria - let's hit our target of 35,000!

Kain wangka nyuny wangka nitja boodjar noonar nyinniny. The first thing I need to say, this is my family's land that you're sitting in - Len Collard. Kura, yeye, boordawan boolaya Nyoongar moort kaditj nitja. From the past, today and in the future, this is our country, so the people know this - Len Collard.