Reasonable request : Melbourne Indymedia

This appeal is not targeting minorities but it IS targeting morons and irritations that are obviously unable to put an intelligent piece together. Any child is able to post a bunch of inane slogans to any thread they choose. Relevance and other publishing guidelines need to be enforced in order to lift MIM back to its previous standard. Kiddie infantile material is simple to identify; you would do us all (and the site) a great service with minimal moderation.

I was forced to go hunting for material on the G8 protests in Germany; should have been posted here as it once would have been. Found some stuff on indy nz – seems the demo was awesome, well organised and impressive, but to return to the point, the raising of MIM back to its previous standard, is this not a reasonable request?

This is about news if you don't have any fuck off!

I don't see any hard work in your request at all just another rant and rave from a drunktard troll. By the way Vote Nobody because Nobody cares about climate change, and that's a fact!

oh fuck, i just lost my comment!

anyway, I was just commenting on the fact that you can't mention fuckwits round here without fuckwits appearing en masse and right on cue they come a stampeding.

the standard is falling which is surprising considering this place has reached a new nadir just about every week since i started coming here years ago. how low can you go?

You kids need to get out more. Wander over to some of the News Ltd sites and terrorise the denizens there for a change. There's The Aus, The Hun, The Tele. My god it's a veritable smorgasbord and hotbed of right wing orgies and all you can do is hang around here and stick it up each others poop shoot because you lack imagination. Pathetic.

I could say the same thing about a lamer like you! Haven't you got a home to go to? Or were you born in a pc?

Congrats!

Kevin, Con, Adam ant, Parrot’ are all pretty obvious spamming trolls and worse than worthless for any news wire worthy of the name. I'm making this comment without bothering reading the others among which is one accusing me of making the original post.

Ce sera sera.

Look Indy Melb has a good record of center column articles. With a little sensible moderation and hard work we can still beat the lunar right corpse media and the fascist Marxist left media. Indy for the social revolution!

If gutless witless dickless trolls are allowed to make accusations that they should be required to provide the slightest shred of evidence?

Might save a lot of boring CoinTelpro around here.

Original articles are fine, but all the reposts from the ABC are mind boggling.

It is not ironic.

It does not 'stick it to the man'

It is just another repost from ABC Online.

I doubt if any of the UK indy's would allow so many reposts from the BEEB.

da debil made me do it ya bunch of fuckwit informers and musleeeemm morons

well it might have been someone else but i would have said it if i could put a sentence together

Imam not happy! you make more enemies for Islam and fuck up the no vote scam .. who the fuck do ya think 's gonna listen to u idiots?

i would happily accept exile if it meant all idiots, informers, and religio-politico slaves were chucked with me!

where the fuck are the mods??????????????????????????

How about topping the lunar rights ' fuckwit watcher' and tailing the loopy leftist of the week, whoever they are.
( glparamatta?)
Cut down the noise - increase the signal.

They are not re posts if they speak favourably of our kind. Nor are they re posts that don't because if they are then they have been changed to give the reader more insight and less propaganda. And by performing up against the main screamers. In otherwords what most of the rest of the population is reading 'today' we can also discus or re frame with additional advice.

So then if others get the wrong idea about what happened today then we can set the record straight.

So tell us your view hopi?

Show us the money?

Calling Bali a CIA operation and buying into the 9-11 conspiracy theories while piling up post after post after post is no help at all. In fact its a stone drag parrot.
You are what I would classify as the leftist 'fuckwit watcher' of the week.
I other words yr a time wasting coward , spammer , troll and waste of space.
I would mod you in a heartbeat.

An original rant and rave! an original whinge and bitch! Original infighting!

Well if that's what you'd rather do then how do expect to rate?

People also want to know what happened today if you don't fucking mind.

And take yr dead parrot with you.

Conspiracy theory? Tell me is your Dog named Spot? I mean does it start with S?

Well there is no such thing as a conspiracy theory the material is 'half authentic. Because we don't have all of the information that ought to have been provided to us by the feds however seen as you ask for it then here it is.

And on the truth scale say between 1-8 I'd give it a 7.

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Australia's Terrorism Wake Up Call [164]
The horrific bombings of the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar in Bali, on October 12, 2002, considerably strengthened the hand of the CoW in pursuing the War on Terror. Here was an opportunity to harden the hearts of the Australian and US public against Islamic fundamentalists. It was also a chance for the Indonesian government to justify harsh measures in the war against terrorists and secessionists, such at those in the province of Aceh.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/107756.php

President Susilo Bambang YUDHOYONO
Is that why when they asked the President Susilo Bambang YUDHOYONO who JI was he could not answer the media when he had just became President? So if he did not know then they did not even exist. So on that basis there is a black record for even the right wing media to answer. If they can give people a clear answer to the Presidents lack of knowledge then perhaps you can clear up the 'discrepancy' otherwise JI was invented by the CIA as an alleged terrorist network. Mmm is there any other inventions by the CIA that you know about? What about the demon 'al qaeda' where did that come from?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144474_comment.php#144518

INTERNATIONAL SCAPEGOAT BLOG
Terror Storm”
Watch For Free, Spread The Word Please help us get Terror Storm to as many people as possible!
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=12638

New, Stunning 9/11 documentary
Reopen 9/11Now Available From Voice in the Wilderness Productions: A Beit
Shalom Ministries Presentation

9/11: The Birth of Treason
This stunning new documentary provides the most comprehensive view of the evidence which proves 9/11 was an inside job. Also contained are the most recent and most in depth interviews with Dr. Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Dr. Jones covers his recent exchanges with NIST, freefall speed of the towers, and his research into Thermite/Thermate explosives. Kevin Ryan goes in depth about being fired by Underwriters Laboratories for blowing the whistle on data falsification. Also Interviewed:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710213549148507636&hl=en
http://www.beitshalomministries.org

Watchdog tells British police to apologise over anti-terror raids
At least two of the 11 occupants were hit, one over the head, while the IPCC also received complaints about swearing, weapons being pointed and neglect of the arrested men while in custody.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139599.php

"From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq": Craig Unger on How the Neoconservatives Are Pushing For An Attack on Iran
“Once again, neocon ideologues have been flogging questionable intelligence about W.M.D.," Unger writes. "Once again, dubious Middle East exile groups are making the rounds in Washington—this time urging regime change in Syria and Iran. Once again, heroic new exile leaders are promising freedom."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/154246

Bush knocked down the towers - 9/11 Truth
Bin Laden didnt Blow Up the projects, BUSH Knocked the towers.. Mos Def, Immortal Technique and Eminem.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/138228.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5WlQ54Sg0&eurl

Ask yourself
http://911truth.org/
http://reopen911.online.fr/
http://www.scholarsfor911tr...
http://ny911truth.org/
http://www.911sharethetruth...
http://www.911truth.ie/

These Are The Facts of September 11th 2001
DISTURBING FACTS ABOUT THE 9/11 ATTACKS
Crimes of the State
http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/

3. Faking the 'War on Terror'
The 'War on Terror' is spurious because there is strong evidence that the events to which it is purportedly a response-the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001-were orchestrated not by Osama bin Laden (whose partisans or minions served, however, as useful patsies), but rather by high-placed elements within the United States government. There are several converging lines of evidence: taken separately, they cry out for investigation; taken together, they appear seriously incriminating.7 http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/57915

The Power of Nightmares 1 of 3
Great documentary about the illusion of terror and politics
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-1002626006461047517&q=The+Power+of+Nightmares

Some suggested listening and reading for you...
Have you come across by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed?
I suggest you listen to the talk he gave a few months ago:
Nafeez Ahmed "INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: THE SECRET HISTORY"
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/356939.html

9/11 need to be considered in context, near the end of the talk Nafeez makes some valid critisisms of the 9/11 Truth Movement, but remember that he is actually a part of it. His big book on this is:

The War on Truth
9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism
http://www.interlinkbooks.com/BooksW/war_on_truth.html

Yes of course the likes of Shalyer are bonkers, but to dismiss all the independent research that has been done on this and to accept and believe the neocons "war on terror" and "clash of civilizations" is a VERY big mistake.
This mistake is well documented in this interview:
The “War against Terror” is a War against the People
Silvia Cattori interviewing Youssef Aschkar
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361603.html

This is an extract:
"I should point out here that the ideology of the neocons, such as we see it played out on the ground, is the first and only ideology in history that seeks to produce opponents rather than adherents, leaving to its opponents the job of supplying it with its adherents." "Let me explain. This ideology works to produce opponents by pushing them towards fanaticism in such a way as to stir up and nourish every fanaticism on earth, including Muslim and Arab fanaticism, and this enables Muslims to be given a very negative image, so that in the end – and this is the goal – hostile reactions are produced towards Muslims. Even staunchly secular people, on both sides, will imperceptibly find themselves led to question their own secularity, and to see in “the Other” someone who cannot be lived with. That is what is going on now, and what is in the process of destabilizing Europe, of causing a cleavage between the two shores of the Mediterranean basin, and of sabotaging and wrecking the Barcelona projects for a Mediterranean partnership." "If this cleavage worsens, voices will be heard – even in Europe – calling for people to sign on to the neocons’ doctrines of “war against terrorism” and “Muslim fanaticism”. Only at that point will the neocon ideology have accomplished its mission: having helped to provoke the growth of fanaticism among Muslims, it will also have stirred up in the West, in return, adherents to its thesis of a “clash of civilizations”. And Europe, stubborn up to that point, will finally align itself with the ideology of the neocons. Progressives and politicians in general are unaware of these manoeuvres."

Yes the 9/11 Truth Movment seems obsessive from the outside, yes there are cult likes aspects to parts of it, (as there are for socialist and anarchist groups as well) but to throw it all out and swallow the BBC pro-war spin is a bigger mistake than the mistakes that some in the 9/11 Truth Movement have made / are making.

There's Something About Omar:
The Summer 2002 Marketing Plan: Khalid and Binalshibh In The Spotlight
By June of 2002, the contents of the Moussaoui indictment could indeed be viewed as the clear signpost pointing the way to the manner in which the final loose ends of the Official 9/11 Legend would be tied up for posterity. With Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi already tied together as unindicted co-conspirators in the Moussaoui case, FBI Director Robert Mueller would, by this time, explicitly weave in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, pairing him up with Mustafa Ahmed and thereby inserting this newly-christened 9/11 mastermind into the Money Trail Story. The Associated Press' John Lumpkin would reference all three in his key June 2002 article. It is as if the powers-that-be were putting this trio of nefarious characters on notice - from here on, their fates were to be indelibly entwined.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310A.html

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: “Confession” or Bush administration propaganda?
Rather than put to rest all doubts about 9/11, the KSM “confession” refocuses all inquiries back on the Bush administration’s role behind the 9/11-Al-Qaeda-“terrorism” military-intelligence propaganda operation, and the manufacturing of the KSM legend.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142265.php

Taking Aim: The Fake Confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
One hour radio show from Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone titled: A Study in Disinformation: The Fake Confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This show was recorded on 20th March 2007.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2007/03//365687.mp3
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142444.php

The Madrid bombing trial: what has been revealed so far
The picture that emerges is of a handful of petty criminals, mostly involved in drug deals, with a sideline in acting as police informants, willing to peddle any stories about each other. At least three of them have claimed that police officers warned them that they would be implicated in the bombings, and offered them some kind of deal. In testimony, a police source denied knowing anything about the house in Chinchon until after the explosions. In return for this information, Trashorras claims, officers offered to put him on a witness protection programme. He says officers told him they would arrange for him to be kept out of jail if he helped implicate some Arab suspects.
http://wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/madr-m24.shtml

Hambali denies Al Qaeda link
Alleged Bali bombings mastermind Hambali another political scapegoat, has told a Guantanamo Bay tribunal hearing that he had no link to worldwide terrorist network Al Qaeda. The denial was included in a transcript of Hambali's April 4 questioning by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, released by the Pentagon. Asked, "Mister Hambali, did you have any association with Al Qaeda while you were a member of JI?" he replied via a translator "No".
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50652

The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
If asked the question: “What is Jemaah Islamiyah?” just 18 months ago, most people would have been unable to reply. But since the Bali bombings in October 2002, “JI” has become a virtual household word, synonymous with Islamic extremism and terrorist violence throughout South East Asia. Despite its notoriety, however, almost nothing of any genuine substance has been written on the organisation.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/jis1-n12.shtml

Indonesian cleric faces trial again over Marriot and Bali bombings
The US Congressional Commission report into of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington released earlier this year cited statements made under US interrogation by alleged JI operations chief Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, that he acted under the orders of Bashir.
Immediately after the dismissal of Bashir’s terrorist charges last year, Australian prime minister Howard declared: “Because many of us here in Australia believe that he was at least spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah and therefore at least knew about the attacks in Bali, we are disappointed he wasn’t convicted on that and didn’t get a longer sentence.” Howard visited Jakarta for Yudhoyono’s inauguration on October 20 and would almost certainly have raised the question again.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/indo-n12.shtml

Inside Indonesia's War on Terror
Last Wednesday, Dateline aired David O'Shea's video work titled "Inside Indonesia's War on Terror" ... Normally, the Dateline website has a transcript of the work, along with a realvideo file. However, for reasons unknown - the transcript and video clip are unavailable. So, IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, we have provided the transcript here for you.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/97492.php

Are you ready for the truth?
My impression of events in the US at this time is that with the Patriot Act One, and Two, The Military Commissions (torture law) Act, and the more than 1000 presidential orders. The American Constitution and Bill of right are now void….The US has been taken over. The people just don’t realize it. It is the same thing they did to Germany.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50682
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=55702

Aaron Russo’s "America freedom to fascism”
http://tinyurl.com/239nfo
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143630.php

John F Kennedy: With Your Help, Man would be what he was born to be - FREE AND INDEPENDENT
JFK Speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LlEqtaWpKEU

666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) on the Oil For Bombs Program in Iraq
by 666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH)
666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) : "Sorry to Oil the Azores Summit, the Forged Niger Uranium Document, the Downing Street Memo, the Dodgy Dosiers, the Phoney Saddam Bio Terror Trailer Photos at the UN, the Phoney Saddam 9-11 Links, the Phoney Saddam Al CIAda Links, Gulf Wars Episode II, the Carpet Bombings of Iraqi Civilians, the Iraq Massacures, 'The Salvador Option' in Iraq, the CIA planted Bombs in Iraqi Cars, the Mosque Bombings, the Church Bombings, the Flag Draped Coffins, the Lost Limbs, the Delayed Stress Syndrome, the Troop Surge in Iraq, and the continuing Oil For Bombs Program in Iraq but Oil comes First. HOOK 'EM HORNS ???????????"

A Call for July 7th Truth & Justice
No-one has yet accounted for the many contradictions and outright lies from the Bliar Regime, nor accounted for the many suspicious facts which point to a military covert op, instead of a "terrorist" act. Meanwhile, Bliar remains in possession of the powers, which the courts had denied him for four years, that he was able to seize through this "useful crisis".
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369318.html

Blair Rejects 7/7 Inquiry Calls
Afraid the truth will come out? Remember in the week following these still-unexplained attacks, while the Bliar Regime was caught in several blatant LIES about its version of events, Bliar called such an investigation "a ludicrous distraction". Just like Bush and 911 ...
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369469.html

EU: The myth of Islamic terrorism
If we look at the people arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences, the figures are rather disproportionate; about half of them arrested were Muslim. In plain English: Muslims are a group causing very little terrorism in Europe, while at the same time much more likely to be arrested on suspicion of it. The constant media coverage of Muslims being arrested creates the false image of a serious threat in order to benefit the imperialist world-view Washington wants us to adopt.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144441.php

The American Empire and 9/11 (full-length Version with Notes)
David Ray Griffin
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2007/05//369678.pdf

A White House Smear
"Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames." If she is not a CIA employee and Novak is reporting accurately, then the White House has wrongly branded a woman known to friends as an energy analyst for a private firm as a CIA officer. That would not likely do her much good.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=823

British terror trial raises question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings
In court, Amin’s counsel, Patrick O’Connor QC—who is helping prepare a civil action against the British government—suggested that both sides in the so-called war on terror had come “to share common standards of illegality and immorality.”
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144793.php

Iraqi infant mortality soars by 150 percent—a damning revelation of US war crimes
“A child in the poorest fifth of a population is more than twice as likely to die compared to a child from the richest fifth,” the study finds. “Eliminating health-care inequities—and bringing mortality rates among the poorest 80 percent of the population down to those prevailing among the richest 20 percent—would prevent about 4 million of the 10 million deaths each year.”
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144801.php

666 PHONEY BLAIR THE BUSH OIL POODLE ON THE BUSH SPONSORED 7-7 BOMBINGS IN ENGLAND
666 PHONEY BLAIR THE BUSH OIL POODLE : "Sorry to Oil the 7-7 Bombings in England, the Framing of Islam by BUSH NEWS NAZIS CNN, NBC ABC CBS FOX BBC, the Post 7-7 Gestapo Tactics at London Train and Bus Stations, and Bush Push for Police State USSA in England but Oil comes First. HOOK 'EM HORNS ????????"
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144793.php

The War on Free Expression - by Stephen Lendman
The struggle to save our First Amendment rights.
In a post-9/11 climate, the right of free expression is under attack and endangered in the age of George Bush when dissent may be called a threat to national security, terrorism, or treason. But losing that most precious of all rights means losing our freedom that 18th century French philosopher Voltaire spoke in defense of saying "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Using it to express dissent is what noted historian Howard Zinn calls "the highest form of patriotism" exercising our constitutional right to freedom of speech, the press, to assemble, to protest publicly, and associate as we choose for any reason within the law.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370290.html

The Great Betrayal of the British People, by the art of misdirection
The rise of Blair the Dictator
The Great Betrayal of the British People - By the art of misdirection.
The rise of dictator Blair - Please be assured we are not members of The EU and never have been. We only think we are members because we have been duped.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144887.php

London police escape discipline for innocent's death
Eleven British police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian in the mistaken belief he was a suicide bomber will not face disciplinary action, a police watchdog says.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1921135.htm

Menezes family 'furious' at IPCC decision to clear officers
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes express their disappointment at the IPCC decision to not bring any disciplinary action at 11 officers involved in his shooting at Stockwell station in July 2005.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370390.html

London bombing suspects released
Three people arrested last week in connection with the suicide bombings in 2005 on London's transport system, including the widow of ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan, have been released without charge.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1924403.htm

There is no such thing as an Indonesian anti-corruption body
I'm looking in the space. This time, this void. I'm making my way through the muddy minutes. The pull is in my muscle. The ache is in my bones. It's hard to be alone.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328795.html

Indonesian A-G signals crackdown on corrupt prosecutors
Indonesia's new Attorney-General has admitted four out of five prosecutors in Indonesia are open to corruption but says he will root out the wrongdoers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1922751.htm

Bali bombing prisoner released from jail early
An Islamic militant convicted of a minor role in the 2002 Bali bombings has been released from prison 18 months early after a ministerial decree.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1922818.htm

Pakistani denies al Qaeda role, alleges US torture
A Pakistani man held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay has denied belonging to Al Qaeda and accused US authorities of torturing him, according to a document released by the Pentagon.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1924072.htm

Sole US militant officer charged over Abu Ghraib to face trial?
The only US militant officer charged with mistreating prisoners at Baghdad's infamous Abu Ghraib jail will stand trial in August, amid claims that the government itself is getting off scot-free.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145083_comment.php#145087

The New Jersey jihadists: another strange alleged terrorist plot
The US Justice Department has charged six immigrants in New Jersey with participating in an alleged terrorist plot to attack a heavily fortified US Army base in the state, according to federal court papers filed Tuesday. FBI officials say the accused—four ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, one Jordanian and a young man from Turkey who had all lived in the US for years—were planning to kill scores, if not hundreds, of US soldiers at Fort Dix.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/terr-m10.shtml

US government fans homeland terrorism fear
The US government and Washington elites are aggressively ramping up their "war on terrorism" rhetoric and propaganda, stoking fear and paranoia in order to bolster its war agenda, and reinvigorate the mass public perception of new and growing "homegrown terrorism" threats to the US homeland.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370797.html

Evil Empire: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?
In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by American politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the problem.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370806.html

666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) on the Bush Genocide for Oil Program in Iraq
666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) : "Sorry to Oil the Bush Sponsored Oil For Genocide program in Iraq, the Bush Sponsored planting of Bombs in Iraqi Cars, the Bush sponsored Mosque Bombings in Iraq, the Bush sponsored 'Salvador Option' in Iraq, the Flag Draped Coffins, the Lost Limbs, the Delayed Stress Syndrome, and the Oil For Bombs and Torture program in Iraq but Oil comes First. REVIL WITH THE DEVIL ??????????"
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145195_comment.php

The world as Shakespearean tragedy
No sphere of human life is more theatrical than politics. And seldom
has the world's political stage seemed more Shakespearean than it
does today - in "The Tragedy of King George." To judge by the number of bodies that currently litter it, we appear to be nearing the end of Act V. By the concluding scenes of Shakespeare's greatest
political tragedies - "Hamlet," "Julius Caesar," "King Lear" and
"Macbeth" - nearly all the principal characters lie dead. So it is
with King George, the tale of an unworldly fellow who ascends the
throne of a great empire, responds heroically to an unprovoked
attack, then wreaks havoc by turning from retaliation to preemption.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145339_comment.php#145358

ABC News: Bush Authorizes Covert Ops Against Iran
The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, say President Bush has signed a “nonlethal presidential finding” that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran’s currency and international financial transactions.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145335_comment.php#145372

Bin Laden 'ordered Zarqawi' to attack US
A senior US official says Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden told the group's Iraq head Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to plan attacks inside the United States, before Zarqawi was killed in a US air strike last year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1930729.htm
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And the cow jumped over the moon!
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145335_comment.php#145342
Al Qaeda plotting terrorist attacks from Iraq: US
The Bush administration has released US intelligence reports that show Al Qaeda has been using Iraq as the base to launch possible terrorist attacks around the world.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1931638.htm
The little dog laughed:-)
Bush: Bin Laden free because US 'hasn't got him'
US President George W Bush says Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is still at large "because we haven't got him yet."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1932742.htm
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And the dish ran away with the spoon....

It was not supposed to be an ad hominem attack, PP. I just had to have my say and pr had his, heh heh heh.

We can only use 10 percent of our brain capacity, PP. TEN PERCENT!? And I'm just trying to find out why.

Some say it is something the alien DNA did to us. A trauma we can only hope to recover from which keeps us mining for the gold. However, the days for that particular function of the great pyramid have long since past.

Now we have the ABC. And even though you might sometimes change the words around to stay on topic, it still uses a large portion of that 10%. It still gives them control. I'm here because I needs what little brain capacity I've gots, PP. And your reposts pass their control over to me. See me problemo?

It is just my opinion, but I think Indymedia should be more than mainstream media watch. Oh well if your going to continue and the mods let that happen...what can I say?

Parrot what you will.

Now, back to the podcast:
http://alienationsam.podomatic.com/entry/2007-05-21T12_46_39-07_00

We can all guess who is paying Mmmmm but how much?

s'pose there are advantages to no mod'g ... a taste of portland indy and the precious mod who owns it and u'll all come screaming back to mim, wackos, idiots and all!

mim is light years ahead of that cocksucker at portland ... and it was a great IMC once ....

'dude walks into a pub after haircut .. his mates calmly ask for the address .. whose address yul asks, don't worry we'll get him for ya ... WHO screams yul .. the arsehole who gave u that haircut ... no barber is safe in portland, hehe!'

as for the kiddie fwits on this site, no cred whatsoever .. if they have a cause, they sure ain't doin it any good .. but of course they are the last to know the obvious

We don't give them any control at all by discussing what happened today with additional advice. People do want to know what others think about what the screamers are saying is right 'today'.

Like the drugs issues and politics etc.

It's nice to know that there are other views based on others experience about what the screamers like the ABC and other mainstream media say today.

That is how it does become a Media Watch program.

He said, she said, we say etc.

There aren't many reposts here that haven't been adapted for Indy unless they're honest and kind to the people.

A simple phrase like "David Hicks being called a terrorist supporter" has to be put right.

As for this post there are plenty of shit stirrers who don't like the program hence the whinging and bitching. Usually done by people who want to undermine the program because they have other views.

But the real way to tackle those issues is to 'write your own' and let others comment. If you don't like WSWS write your own story. If you like John Howard and not Kevin Rudd because you say he's a Red fascist then say it, but don't bitch about it when others say they don't like them both.

Indy buff may have had to go searching elsewhere for information about the G8 but at least Melbourne Indymedia has an events page! If you search Sydney Indymedia for example youd think there was nothing going on in a city of 3 million. In fact its easier to find information about Sydney activism/events on melbourne Indymedia

Here is a Melboune story I couldn't find anyother place to put it and I don't feel like publishing my own. Is that alright?

[Civilrights] Freedom of Political Association BANNED? - CivilRights Defence Public Meeting

Freedom of Political Association - BANNED?

Tuesday 12th June, 7pm
Mtg Room 2, Trades Hall, cnr Victoria & Lygon Streets, Carlton
Civil Rights Defence has called a public meeting in response to the arrest of two Melbourne men on charges of support for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. These arrests are an attack on the Australian-Tamil community, many of whom left Sri Lanka to escape persecution and state repression. They also threaten the ability of anyone in Australia to show solidarity with dissident groups and persecuted communities elsewhere in the world.

Come and hear legal experts, community representatives and civil rights activists address the question: How can we resist political fear-mongers and rein in attacks on our right to dissent & freedom of political association?
Speakers:

* ROBERT RICHTER QC
* PRATHEEPAN BALASUBRAMANIAM (Australian-Tamil Rights Advocacy Council)
* VICKI SENTAS (Federation of Community Legal Centres)
* LEIGH HUBBARD (Past Secretary Victorian Trades Hall Council)
* AZLAN McLENNAN (Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Network)
For more information:

http://www.civilrightsdefence.org

BE THERE BE PART OF THE CROWD!!!

the arrests of the two tamils are purely political as was the whole Hicks saga ..

it now can be done -- the Oz public did absolutely nothing when "new sweeping terrorist laws" were instituted .. the strategy was easy implement new totalitarian laws but don't use them immediately; allow an incubtion/tolerance period then sock it to 'em!

these new sedition and terorrist laws are completely over the top .. 100% autocracy and dictatorship

guess where it will end .. no prizes

but never forget that YOU allowed it !!... ya bunch of complacent, shits -- ya deserve everything you're about to receive!

Why is this site blocking comments on the Palestine article?

I know we actually do agree on a lot of the issues. We just have a different MO.

Maybe one day the mainstream media in Australia will become so irrelevant we wont even have to the discuss it anymore. That is the day I look forward to.

Maybe MIM does need a media-watch section?

Drink plenty of water, and eat something delicious.

We do agree on lots but we don't need a media watch like we need a hole in the head.

Unless the media giants have decided to give up that is? I'm sure if you were being slandered on the other side of the fence then you'd have something to say about it.

Good (no) work mods .. now the votenobody mindless islamists are swamping the site with posts and comments -- .. due to your SLOTH u can kiss MIM goodbye .. but maybe that's what you wanted all along

trag, was a good site once!