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By Aunty Bess Price

(A speach given in Alice Spings on 22 October by this senior Warlpiri woman from Yuendumu.)

My mother and father were born in the desert. They lived their childhood out of contact with whitefellas. They were terrified when they first saw a whitefella.

They taught me the Old Law that our people lived by. That Law worked when we were living in tiny family groups taking everything that we needed from the desert.

It is Sacred Law. There was strong Law for sacred business. If the sacred Law was broken both men and women could be killed.

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From our correspondent in Paris -- http://www.internationalist.org/

Something New – High School and College Students Protest the Pension “Reform” – Why?

French Students Mobilize: “Sarkozy, You’re Screwed, The Youth Are In the Streets!”

To chants of “Coal, don’t dig it/ Leave it in the ground/ Time to get with it”, members and supporters of Darebin Climate Action Now marched from Northcote Town Hall to the office of local Labor MP Fiona Richardson to demand an end to the Brumby government’s pro-coal policies. They handed out leaflets calling on people to ‘Vote Climate’ in the upcoming election, and posing the question ‘Can we trust Labor on Climate?’, and also delivered a copy of Beyond Zero Emissions’ Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan to the office.

The callout:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr_de_nachrichten_kommentar_2010-1...

Australischer Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang

Afghanistan Krieg Debatte, Wiki Leaks Iraq War Logs, Joe Hockey's Bank Bashing,
ASX und Singapore Stock Exchange Merger, Corruption Index von Transparancy
International, John Howard's Schuhe werfen Konzept UND MEHR...

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Schuh Werfer on Youtube:

Head-stomper, woman-beater Tim Proffitt of Paris, Kentucky: All about a typical Tea Party Brownshirt. Get inside the life of the head-stomper and inside his own head. It's all about prejudices discredited in the US decades ago, and their revival in the recent Southernization of the USA.

Scenes such as Tim Proffitt stomping the head of a Move On activist while one or two other "men" held her on the pavement at a Rand Paul for US Senate event remind me of scenes from the long ago past.

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Imminent EU proposals will call on member states to define national strategies for the storage of radioactive waste, emphasizing the advantages of deep burial underground.

http://euobserver.com/9/31131

Peter Gray an anti-war activist should be congratulated on first verbally confronting John Howard the war criminal over his decision to send Australian troops to the illegal invasion of Iraq and then throwing his shoes at him - live on television, on the ABC's Q & A show.

See the Footage of the shoe throwing on Youtube

He yelled "This is for the Iraqi dead" as he threw his shoes.

To read more about his action and his subsequent comments read:

A new report into the changing climate of South East Australia and particularly the Murray Darling Basin indicates an increasing risk of below average rainfall and runoff into streams and generally drier conditions. The change in the climate has, at least in part, been attributed to an increase in atmospheric anthropogenic greenhouse gases associated with global warming.

Related: Climate scepticism, anthropogenic global warming and drought in south east Australia | Study predicts extreme drought conditions worsening globally with climate change