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The Prime Minister has admitted he had personally paid Net Harbour, a company that his son is a director of, to spread spam e-mail about himself as a member of Parliament. As can been seen by the discussion on a few of the 50 news sites that are carrying the story, no one is [...]
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Well I was quite surprised when I came across this article about TiVo.
I was interested because I am playing with the idea of building my own Personal Digital Video Recorder possibly with MythTV.
But reading on the article I discovered how come NFL games are so well attended in the US. Now in Australia, AFL is [...]
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The Australian Government does not know how to listen. Their “environmental” policy is a clear example of how not to do things.
It started with a glimmer of hope.
Prime Minister John Howard is expected to reveal a $500 million plan to encourage the private sector to develop energy technologies that release low levels of greenhouse gases [...]
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One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of [...]
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Need a Break
If life seems a little too busy for you look at this page to take a new reflection. I’ve linked to the music page just pick a setting and check it out.
Positive pause
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Just Follow International Law
Two Britions release from Guantanamo Bay have written an open letter to US President George W. Bush to say that they were also abused during their detention. They have said that the abuses inflicted on them were similar to the types of abuse that was inflicted in prisoners in Iraq.So you could conclude that this [...]
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Views from a past generation
The local paper had an article about interviews with ex-POW’s. From only a few people that had been interviewed it appeared that those that had been captured by Germans thought that was is happening in Iraq currently was horrible. People that had been caught by Japanese, agreed that the abuses should not be tolerated in [...]
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Trouble in conflict
Either the world is becoming a terrible place or the information age is simply letting us know what exactly happens in conflicts of nations.I’ve never been very happy about Australia’s involvement in the "War against Terrorism" I feel the Australian government lost it’s mind in November last year. Now having seen the progress in the [...]
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Patriot Act
Believe it or not but the Patriot Act was used to gag a legal challenge to the Patriot Act by a civil liberties group. Three weeks ago a legal challenge was mounted but only now could the public be told of the existence of the challenge. How ridiculous with the U.S. go. Patriot Act [...]
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