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By Silvia Swinden, courtesy Pressenza International Press Agency

At the Hay literary festival Hans Blix, nuclear weapons inspector whose advice was spectacularly disregarded over Iraq’s WMD, has told the UK that renewal of its Trident nuclear capability with a cost of £100 billion would not serve any purpose, or make Britain safer. He suggested it may have more to do with pride than protection.

Journalists aren't allowed in, the Human Rights Commissioner was barred from visiting, and the Government's own Immigration Department found it posed serious health risks. What is the Government trying to hide inside the Manus Island detention centre?

Tune in to Dateline at 9.30pm tonight as SBS reporter Mark Davis sheds more light on what lies behind the fences of Manus: www.sbs.com.au/dateline

Oliver Swingler sent us the song below and hopes we like it. Sing to the tune of "What can we do with the drunken sailor?"
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What can we do about global warming?

Chorus:
What can we do about global warming?
What can we do about global warming?
What can we do about global warming?
Shrink our carbon footprint!

1. Walk, cycle, bus and train
Car share, avoid the plane
Holiday at home, learn to love the rain
Shrink our carbon footprint!

2. Insulate homes and get them lined
Stop oil, gas and coal being mined
Use tidal, solar, wind and find we'll

Is socialisim & capitalism the same old evil ?

How about academic anarchy where students get to share & develop their projects as opposed to working for a corporate bureaucracy.

http://indymedia.org.au/2013/05/10/how-universities-keep-the-populations...

The fall of the fraudulent mental health system & the drugged slavery they demand . . . Real rights for the worker & not drugged slavery.

http://indymedia.org.au/2012/06/20/dexamphetamine-and-adhd-cons-mental-h...

End to class wars . . .

When Australia was invaded and colonised on the 26th January 1788, the British colonisers acted as if this land was uninhabited. Over forty thousand years of civilisation was swept aside in an orgy of destruction that resulted in the violent dispossession of people who had a long and fruitful association with the land.

For 204 years the legal fiction of TERRA NULLIUS - the land of no one, was used to legally reward the murderers who colonised this land although the original inhabitants had never ceded sovereignty.

By Michael Ghillar Anderson

A recent comment made by one of Australia’s leading constitutional lawyers, Prof George Williams, demonstrates the incapacities on non-Aboriginal legal experts to see beyond the legal system that they are sworn to serve and uphold. Prof Williams was responding to statements by Fred Hooper on the recent Declaration of Independence by the Murrawarri Nation.

On April 24 "Rana Plaza" a 9-storey building in an industrial suburb of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh (14 million), collapsed on about 3,500 workers (their number is not known precisely) working there. The building contained five textile factories, as well as a bank and many shops. The official present death toll is 1128, the number of injured is unknown. Most of the victims are women, who constitute 80 to 90% of the workforce in the Bangladeshi textile industry.

“It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it,” said John Pilger.

Article courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/

Seasoned journalist Kate McClymont delivered a speech, now widely referred to as the ‘Where angels fear to tread’ speech, at the Australian Press Freedom Dinner in early May. The event was hosted by the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance and the Walkley Foundation for Journalism.