The collapse of the Labour vote in Britain during the recent Euro Election has worried many. The idea of Thatcher’s mob getting back in power, and, far more ominous, the neo-Nazis of the BNP winning seats is depressing, whatever one thinks of the steaming pile of shite that the British Labour Party has become.
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Science magazines have become pop savvy in recent times. They dress up fairly mundane stories in provocative titles like "Hunks get more sex" (New Scientist) or  "Secrets of the Phallus: Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?" (Scientific American). So I was only mildly piqued when I
stumbled across "Radio-controlled bullets leave no place to hide" on the New Scientist site today.
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The following is a media release from Damian Ridgwell, the Swinburne University Student Union president.
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The international reaction to the extermination of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and brutal massacres of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan armed forces has been the usual mix of mock outrage and hypocrisy.While condemning the Sri Lankan onslaught and calling for a ceasfire and negotiations both the US and the UK have been more than willing to supply the armed forces of the island state with the training, weapons and intelligence needed to impose their will on the Tamil minority. Between 2006 and 2008 alone the UK sold the Sri Lankan state 12 million pounds sterling worth of military equipment and despite suspending military aid to it in 2007 the US has reportedly supplied it with military intelligence.
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And the government isn’t homophobic?

It seems Lesbian and Gay Solidarity, Melbourne is not the only group showing concerns about the proposed budget 2009 measure which will see the pension age rise from 65 to 67 but only commence in 8 years time – in 2017, according to the government’s figures.
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The Rudd Government’s 2009 budget put forward the proposal to change
retirement age from 65 to 67. What follows is an analysis of
condescension, discrimination, homophobia, double standards and
hypocrisy, to name some of the issues, from this government and its
responses to the introduction of same-sex legislation in December 2008.
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Afghanistan is where it’s now all at – or, to be more precise, Afghanistan plus the adjacent bits of Pakistan that Obama wants to be bombed.
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Roy Hattersley, former UK Labour Party minister, recently reviewed a new biography of Engels, "The Frock-Coated Communist" in The Guardian newspaper. Hattersley freely admits he finds Engels Anti-Duhring/Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, unintelligible, and then quotes from it

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No, this is not a conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory on current flu – that such an exotic mixture of swine, avian and human flu could not have been natural – has already been raised and defeated by basic science. The respiratory tracts of pigs have receptors for all three types of flu.
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A few years ago, when some of the academic unions in the UK started processes to Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, there was, of course, a zionist outcry from around the world.
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May 15, will mark 61 years of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). In 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homeland by Zionist forces, with more than 500 Palestinian villages depopulated and destroyed. Today more than 7 million Palestinian refugees, the largest refugee community in the world, are living in exile.
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The second United Nations conference on racism, generally known as Durban II because the first one in Durban some years ago created an international storm about anti-semitism, and will probably be known as Durban I, has had some fairly predictable outcomes.
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There are certain matters which need to be addressed by the Federal Government’s same-sex legislation in relation to Centrelink’s new guidelines:
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New York Times journalist, Seymour Hersh, the unmasker of My Lai, appears to have stumbled on another horror. He is yet to publish his findings, but he revealed at a forum in Minneapolis that he has uncovered the workings of a secret assassination unit. In Hersh’s own words:
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Labor’s recent stimulus to the economy – about $42 billion on grants and social programs – may be a good start: but in many regards does not go far enough.
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