The Journal
2009
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Federal MPs $90 Per Week Pay Rise
Except that it isn’t. Nick Xenophon has called the increased allowance a back door pay rise, but he knows very well it is not. That is just popularist grandstanding. It is an increase of 17% in their…
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President Obama Is, Like, Really Cool And Stuff
Hipness is what it is. And he’s got it. Watch him walk. Listen to him talk. See the body language, the expressions, the clothes. He’s got attitude, rhythm, a sense of humor, contemporary tastes… Obama used…
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North Korea – No Smiles, And Not Much Else Either
No warmth, nothing to buy, no transport, no hope. The joys and triumphs of socialism … Documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve visited North Korea posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24-hour surveillance by…
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Clinton: Renewed Violence In Iraq A Good Sign
Hmm… Hilary Clinton said that the Iraqi government had “come a long, long way” and that the bombings were “a signal that the rejectionists fear Iraq is going in the right direction.” Perhaps not such a…
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Scientists And Ethicists Growl At Cloning Doctor
The objection is not that Panayiotis Zavos claims to have cloned human beings. Others have done that. Nor is it that he claims to have made hybrid human-animal clones by putting human DNA into cow eggs. Others have done…
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Queenslanders Cleared Of Flu, But..
Tests on two Queenslanders thought to have contracted Swine Flu after visits to Mexico and the US are negative. New strains of flu emerge every year. What is worrying about this apparently new version of swine…
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I Want My Global Warming
Still raining on Kangaroo Island, which is great – we have no mains water, only what we catch and store ourselves. The tanks are starting to fill. They were virtually empty five days ago, and are now at about…
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Philippines Take ‘Ransom’ Approach To Terrorists
Still a very dangerous situation, but I think this is cool – and it seems to be working. The Phillippine government refused to negotiate with the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, and flatly told them to sod off…
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Nancy Pelosi Was Happy With Waterboarding Seven Years Ago
At least, she never complained then. This was the year after 9/11 after all. The three prisoners who were waterboarded were Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Abu Zubaydah, an Al…
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King Bird 50 And Other UFO Mysteries
A B-50 Superfortress, a plane that went out of service in the late fifties, and which matches the description of a plane lost in 1948, lands in a storm near Thule Air Force Base in Greenland…
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Anglican Priest Jailed For Molesting Boys
Canon Barry Greaves pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court last Thursday to seven counts of indecent treatment of boys under 17 and two of indecent treatment of boys under 12. I was sorry to read…
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Obama’s Approval rating = Bush’s Rating Eight Years Ago
From Rasmussen Reports. President Barack Obama’s approval ratings are virtually identical to those of George W Bush at the same point in his presidency. Interesting.
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Islam Is The Religion Of Peace – If You Disagree We Will Kill You
Pakistan is one of at least five Muslim countries in which the number of Muslims deliberately murdered by Islamic fundamentalists in the past year exceeds the number of Palestinian civilians killed in the Hamas conflict with…
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Philippine Forces To Rescue Red Cross Worker
Sulu provincial Governor Abdusakur Tan has ordered troops to rescue kidnapped Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni. Vagni was kidnapped with two other Red Cross workers, Filippina Mary Jean Lacaba and Swiss man Andreas Notter on the…
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Hundreds Of Thousands Attend ANZAC Day Commemorations
On the 25th April 1915 troops from Australia and New Zealand landed north of Gaba Tepe in Turkey at a spot now known as Anzac Cove. 2,000 men from Australia and New Zealand were killed on the…
