SearchDemocracy LinksMember's Off-site Blogs |
Richard Tonkin's blogCricket On The Radio- A Holiday Interlude
When I wake up each Summer's morn there's this music in my head And there's cricket on the radio. Listening to paint dry is twice as entertaining and there's cricket on the radio In case I haven't made it clear how much I find it boring
Australia/US Joint Munitions Factory Extract from today's Australian:: A HIGH-security explosives factory and munitions-loading wharf is being considered by the Defence Department as it finalises plans for a joint military training facility for Australian and US troops.
"Armygeddon" Australian Defence Recruitment CampaignI worry for the minds who created this concept, and hope it's not a Freudian slip. To get the kids in, or at least the ones who aren't too fat or stoned, The ADF has prouldy launched ARMYGEDDON, a "street machine" that that does for Land Rover what Herbie the Love Bug did for Volksies. "It's unique capabilities will attract the attention of those who really know about Street Machines," the blurb proclaims. Aha... Senator Hill's found a job for "joyriders". !
"I believe this project will raise the profile of some of the technical trades available as said the Chief of Army, Major General Leahy.
Son Of Star Wars II: Neocons Down UnderSON OF STAR WARS II: NEOCONS DOWN UNDER "It’s "The need in a very unpredictable world is to be "We think that in the science "We will choose the projects within the "We have said the Now let's take the Tardis to December 6 2005 [extract from the Adelaide Advertiser]
Adelaide Missile Centre.. Pentagon AnnouncementIn spite of Defence Minister Hill leaking the fact that a test had occurred. A Boeng lied, Raytheon assisted Australian missile interception test has been announced as a success by the Pentagon. The test involved, from what Mr Hill said previously the JORN over-horizon radar network control centre in Adelaide. This announcement from the Pentagon tells all.. [Extract from today's Advertoser]
Battle-Station Adelaide... New Battallion ComingState Treasurer Kevin Foley is about to announce 1,200 more troops to Adelaide. Paratroopers from the Holsworthy base in Sydney will be shifted here to create Australia's Second Mechanised Battalion. The First Mechanised Battalion is in Darwin, at the other end of the Halliburton railway. The pieces of the puzzle are falling into place.. I"ll write more later in the day when the dust has settled
I'll be writing more later in the day, when the paperwork comes out.
Deported Halliburton Activist Questions Australian Intelligence(Proudly reprinted from Halliburton Watch and Houston Indymedia ) Houston-based activist Scott Parkin, deported from Australia after protesting the activities of global energy and war-industry giant Halliburton, has mounted a legal challenge against his treatment by ASIO, the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation. On September 10 this year security and immigration officials detained Parkin at a Melbourne coffee shop. Parkin was scheduled to co-present a workshop on non-violent protest techniques that afternoon. Parkin had previously assisted co-ordinating a street-theatre protest at Hallibuton/KBR's Sydney offices, coinciding with an international business conference at the Sydney Opera House. Parkin had declined a request to appear at an ASIO interview. According to The Australian, security officers were concerned that Parkin would teach Australian Halliburton protesters how to roll marbles under the hooves of police horses.. presumably the marbles that ASIO lost years ago. Parkin is seeking to overturn the adverse security finding that caused his deportation.
John Howard's Conscience ResignsHow can you compassionately tell the media of your faith in Australian human nature when you've been so busy destroying it? How can you dare to say that you don't believe in underlying racial tensions when mobs are attacking minorites? I can't work for you anymore... you never listen to me. Read this cabbie's blog account of working in Sydney on Sunday night, and if you don't feel at least the slightest bit of shame, you'll never feel a sense of conscience again. [excerpt}
Intercepted Project for a New American Century Memo
A big Christmas Howdy to all of Alex's boy's! Our little buddies have been working their butts getting the Apocalypse Headquarters ready. Little John, with some gentle persuasion, has decided to stay with the team... thanks, Agent Gerard! You've saved us a bundle yet again! Don't forget the date of our next party, on June 6th next year. The Sexy Six will provide the music, George will be serving the pretzels, and Osama as always will be running the chook-raffle Halliburton Mal has always delivered our every need, and he's lived up to his reputation. The catering he\s provided for the bash is more than anyone could ask for. Another fat Christmas bonus of Defence Research stocks are coming to stuff your stocking, Pally, hand delivered by Director Dick! Secretary Don says we won't run out of anything, and that the playground's second to none. He was particularly impressed with the Liquor Cabinet you supplied after tasting your samples.
Today, Tomorrow, ForgottenThis is the philosophy ascribed to by conservative politicians. They believe that anything ithat is said wil be dust within days. They may be correct, but I don't think so. We have the potential to see beyond the bullshit, but to do that we need to know that it's bullshit we're seing beyond, if you know what I mean.. I might be wrong, but I now think that ike the pro-Yank ads being paid for in Iraqi media, Australian journalism is slanted to suit the cause of the current US regime. LOCAL BOY MADE GOOD is the theme (yep, a really new one) that's been used to sell the militarisation of the state to the locals... it's a pity that BAE isn't "a Salisbury-based comany", and there's not a little cottage industry winning worldwide work called Halliburon/KBR.
Clipsal, Halliburton, Old Uncle John Olsen and allCostello:"If you have any inquiries into the proceedings of the tax office I Searle: " He wouldn't be able to tell you much at all because he would be subject to the secrecy provisions of the taxation act." A retired senior tax officer says that the matter should have been
This Is Style Of Protest Parkin's Deportation Was Intended To Suppress In Australia
Pre-planned, brilliant "photo-op" creation. I reckon that ASIO didn't think the Australian protest movement would be able to think like Diane Wilson unless we went to a Scott Parkin class.
From Houston Indymedia : Katie Heim reports from inside the Westin Oaks
Hotel: This evening, as Republicans gathered in the Galleria to raise
money for the GOP Diane WIlson, cofounder of Code Pink and author of An Unreasonable Woman infiltrated their ranks. Photos of the banner and arrest. Wilson, who has done work around issues such as the Bhopal distaster
and against the Iraq war, got on Delay's RSVP list by donating $50 to
his campaign.
Scott Parkin Deportation Justified- Australian Security Intelligence OrganisationHalibucks are fake money (in the style of Halliburton) used by U..S. protesters to demonstrate the idea of dodgy transactions in street theatre. If the idea wasn't conceived by Scott Parkin,the concept originates from his training program.. At a recent anti-Cheney protest in Houston , a protester was ushered behind police lines by alleged Secret Service personel to be asked questions about her use of the Halibucks. Meanwhile, back at the Southern Ranch, Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Adelaide- US Radar BaseThe Federal Minister of Defence, Robert Hill announced yesterday that trials that would enable Adelaide to play a key role in the U.S. MIssile Shield were successful. Mr Hill said that the trials "might" allow Adelaide to participate. The news follows announcements earlier this year that Adelaide to become the location of the construction of three warships equipped to participate in the "Star Wars" shield.
Top Enthralling Notions In XenophobiaWhoops, another contract for Tenix... onya Reefeee...wonder how his second job out frm the Defence Ministry is going. Maybe It's Time for Labor and the Democrats to match the current rounds of contracts to those of a couple of years back (why didn't you mention the Kinaird Report Robert,? it was in your notes!).
|
User login |
Recent comments
1 hour 43 min ago
2 hours 21 min ago
2 hours 35 min ago
4 hours 19 sec ago
4 hours 11 min ago
4 hours 16 min ago
5 hours 19 min ago
13 hours 47 min ago
14 hours 27 min ago
14 hours 59 min ago