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WHERE
IN THE WORLD
ARE WE?
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World conscience
"Speaking
for myself, I
would say if freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak
out against China's oppression in Tibet, we have lost our moral
authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world,"
said Ms Pelosi, wearing a golden scarf, given to her by the Dalai
Lama.
(AP-Photo)
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Tibet
Council
Australia
Reporters
Without
Borders - Nine Things To
Do
Phayul.com
- News
Pen
Poem Relay
for Free
Expression in China
Where
Chinese citzens
discuss themselves
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Our
Human Spirit
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Seoul
Torch
Look
at this image... what
is it we need to learn?
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WE
ARE STRONG
OUT
SPOKEN
NON-VIOLENT
AUSTRALIAN'S |
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We
are Champions for Human Rights and for Peace
We
show the world our politeness as we diplomatically rise to challenge
the issues we need to face over China's treatment
of Tibetan dissidents and Chinese citizens whose VOICES are being
made Invisible by their rulers.
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In
a parliament speech Mugabe is quoted as saying he will
appoint Cabinet ministers who will be "managers", and
that his last Cabinet was "the worst in history".
Google
News
Zimbabwe
Africas
Drought and rocketing food and fuel prices, the United
Nations, Red Cross and other NGo's need cash to
buy food.
According
to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the
World Food Programme (WFP) more than two million people
will grapple with hunger between July and September
before rising above five million at the height of the
dry season next year, no matter what outcome occur at
through current leadership power-sharing arrangements.
Violence
on citizens continues in Zimbabwe as leaders attempt
to find common ground through the crisis where it is
hoped they find a transitional process toward a transperant
form of governance.
And,
Poachers
terrorise Zimbabwe's rhinos
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20/20
Vision
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You
have to deeply respect the leadership and forsight of
President, Anote Tong who seeks assistance to relocate
his small Pacific Island
Kiribati communities.
On
behalf of his 90,000 citizens, President, Anote Tong
asks the world to help him provide a new home for his
people, amid predictions that global warming will render
the low-lying islands uninhabitable within 50 years.
President,
Anote Tong says
his people have no options left - they must leave. "Maybe
we have a few decades to address this but we believe
that we should begin to address the issue yesterday."
he said.
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Sudan
and Dafur
Thousands
Displaced, homeless and starving. More than two million
people are believed to have fled their villages in
Darfur.
China,
buys most of Sudan's oil, and openly supplies Sudan's
government with arms in the capital Khartoum.
Evidence
reflects how China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'. A
British television documentary team has uncovered
evidence that China is currently providing the Sudanese
Government with military assistance in Darfur. ...
and it is said China 'is fuelling war in Darfur
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China
sitting on the fence needs to do much more to ensure the
quality of life for the poor is improved and protected in
the places where China does business and gains enormous
resource profits.
China
needs to confront
its relationship with
the Sudan African leader ...
more listen to podcast
on AsiaPacific
Hope
for Justice
International
Criminal Court (ICC) is to issue indictment for Sudan's
president (Omar al-Bashir) for war crimes in Darfur.
A
case covering "crimes committed in the whole of Darfur over
the last five years" is to open - and al-Bashir would be
named as those linked to the violence in the region.
The
claims that Sudan's "entire state apparatus" was involved
in an organised campaign to attack civilians in Darfur and
the case will see judges prenented with evidence implicating
senior Sudanese officials.
Khalil
Ibrahim from JEM group said: "This is a happy day for humanity
in the whole world, not only Darfur and Sudan. "We are fully
supporting the ICC if it happens that Bashir is at the top
of their list." Abdel Wahed Mohamed el-Nur, founder of the
Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), said: "This is a new world
age - it will send a message that anyone who commits crimes
and genocide will be judged."
Khalil Ibrahim is leader of the the Justice and Equality
Movement (Jem). The main rebel group. says the group was
suspending all military operations until the announcement
expected on Monday, to show its support for the ICC.
Jem came close to attacking Khartoum in May, the first time
a rebel group brought one of Sudan's multiple civil wars
near the capital. The clashes killed more than 200 and injured
hundreds more.
Peacekeepers
say they need equipment
in
Darfur
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'You
get out there and you participate in the global solution'
Talk
is all about credit crunch continues worldwide. Forcasts and much
spray about why total losses from the credit crunch surface daily.
Listen to interview Richard Lindell's interview with US economist,
OECD secretary-general - Mr Nouriel Roubini of New York, who is
warning that the total fallout will top $2-trillion. Nouriel Roubini
thinks it will also trigger a long and painful recession the likes
of which hasn't been seen since the Great Depression. ABC PM
Transcript.
No
Surprises
- Local market facing 'worst
financial year in 26 yrs' - given the quackery of sceptics who
until recently declared Australia's (overheating economy) to be
in "good shape" it is not wonder some might see the truth
as a bit of a blow...
Question:
Can the system of free trade marketing offer a fair deal?
Free Market Enterprise Development and what about making it a
place for fairer trade so enterprise success flows from village
farmers living within local and regional community?
Equity
when it comes to buying bulk " Bananas, Sugar, Apples, Lemons,
Oranges, Avocado, Pineapple, Vanilla, Coconut, Honey, Muesli,
Chutneys and Sauces, Alcohol: beer, wine and rum, Flowers and
Sports Balls" or other small business and enterprising products?
ABC
Interview on Background Briefing. Looks
at being a socially conscious consumer and interview discussion
on local ways to help create a better dividend for developing
world producers and suppliers.
WHY
DO WE MAKE MONEY? - Principle of micro credit the bank
lends over half-a-billion each year... ABC
BIG IDEAS FEATURE - Muhammed Yunus Founder of the Grameen Bank.
Water
Bigger Issue than Oil
-says author of new book. She asks 'What happens when and if only
the rich can buy it...' Morning
Breafast
Our
dependence on Fossil Fuel + particularly oil...
Richard Heinberg, says oil is a "consumer problem" - he
says it is us that has to adapt. We need to take control of the
long term problem. Find his interview with Kerry
O'Brien and how he thinks we may END the petroleum
age. Compare this to John
Micklethwait editor in chief of The Economists view as he reflects
a gaze on the global picture on topics of oil price, climate change
and globalisation.
G8
Conference Japan
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At the request of the UN Saudi Arabia has offered to increase
oil production, as the world's biggest oil exporter moves to
address global fears that prices are spiralling out of control,
it emerged yesterday. The problem is asked
however... is it 'a little too late' and what now regarding the
quality of the oil? What is clear however is that the focus is beginning
to shift closer to the source of the wider expanding problem...
the world now and it's dependant interrelationship for OIL - FOOD
and WATER. From an Arab News Editorial
"Rise in oil price: Fact and fiction " and google
- Also Stave
off civil unrest
Group
of Eight finance ministers said surging
commodity prices threaten to end years of robust global economic
growth, stoke inflation and force millions of the world's most vulnerable
people deeper into poverty.
Donors
Conference in Paris - ''Every act of corruption is
a deliberate act by someone in a position of authority,'' said U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the world donors meeting in Paris
source
In
reference to Afghanistan the issue of increasing the number of farmers
and making them less dependent on the drug trade is crucial to Afghanistan's
future. It was said, "Most Afghans still live in mud-brick
homes without proper sanitation and 80 percent have no electricity,
despite receiving $15 billion in international aid since the Taliban's
ouster. Life expectancy remains under 50 years, and food shortages
over the past year have pushed many Afghans to the brink."
Climate
Change, Energy and Food Conference Rome
| Clash
in strategies... with some agreement (google)
World in a Grave condition as Rome Food and Energy Summit closes
with only weak pledges by many nations to sign the "for all,
today and tomorrow" premise behind any agreements to attack
and solve hunger and starvation issues.
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June
3-5 2008. Concerns
begin with statements that highlight Politicians struggling
to solve the current world food crisis need to find long-term solutions
that feed the poorest without reproducing the ills of the recent
"cheap food era".
Voices
speak Loud " Pressure mounting for action on food" We'd
better get our house in order so the world doesn't go into an ad-hoc
crisis mode over one of its most basic problems - how to feed its
people and ... nothing gets done without a
proper framework ... google summit news
Suggestions
- Subsistence
farmers could help global food crisis--group
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| Australia's
Foreign policy cannot be separated from the domestic agenda
and the chill of reality running through the global economic
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CLEANING UP THE FIELD
PUTTING
TRUST BACK INTO
LEADERSHIP
+ REJUVINATING
THE MARKET PLACE
PM
announces 20/20 summary
report is available for national discussion
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What
are we
Doing Australia?
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Reality
Checks
Continue with Nation Wide Debate - LOOKING FOR LONG-TERM
BALANCE
Tax
Reform - Wayne Swan talks
on future economy; interest rates, inflation, tax
reform
Focus
on treadmill of debt + loopholes in the Pay Day loans,
new complex fee products
and why some regulation is required.
War
on market thugs says Rudd Government
Rudd
to rein in business bullies
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"Australia needs to become Asia
Pacific financial hub"
"What
I know is that Australian families want a banking
system that's competitive," said Treasurer Wayne
Swan.
He said, " it is important banks work for
families and not against them".
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Congratulations
Australia on the Free Speech Policies for those going
to China for the Olympics.
I think the ALP is a 'creative" government and
this policy will assist Australian's as we watch or
participate in the GAMES. May the games be a success
for ALL, may the Games help China become a nation
who shows more care over issues we as humans, all
face, in the world.
Justice
at home and the impact it has on peoples lives?
There
is nothing NATURAL about this Haneef case. I demand
openness and public transparency. We have nothing
without it.
Lawyers
concerned over Haneef inquiry powers - Former
immigration minister Kevin Andrews has said that he
had 'no idea of powerful evidence of Mohamed Haneef's
innocence when he controversially revoked the visa
of the then terrorism suspect last year'
Former
David Hicks chief prosecutor of the Pentagon
has said that he wouldn't have charged Hicks. He now
admits that he never wanted to pursue charges against
the Australian terrorism suspect more
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WORLD NOTICE
'
global economic problems, climate change and reform
of international institutions'
AFP
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We
decide our Actions for the Future
Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd gave a speech at the 'think tank' hub
of Brookings Institute. Is
there a difference between 'competing for market share rather
than competing for local or regional strategic superiority'.
Find out more, read Transcript
and report from Tuesdays ABC
News. On
his London leg, Prime Minister Mr Rudd said, the development
of DOHA is critical to Australia's interests and "critical
for the world economy". He explained that Australia interests
also covered the advancement of market access for developing
economies who need a boost from "greater access to
global agricultural markets" As Mr Rudd has shown through
other speeches, he is committed to this.
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call for the Human Rights in Tibet |
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We
eat while others Starve! Western Nations Trade
of controversial phosphate from occupied Western Sahara.
Food
on our dinner tables originates from an agricultural
sector dependent on plundering the future of an occupied
people.
Western
Sahara is a vast low polulated region with lucrative
phosphate reserves, rich fishing grounds and potentially
oil.
Many
thousands of its people live in refugee camps across
the border in Algeria.
No
country recognizes Morocco's rule over Western Sahara.
The United Nations brokered an end to a low-level guerrilla
war in Sahara in 1991, but no political solution regarding
illegal occupation has followed.
In
1968 there were 1600 Sahrawis employed in the phosphate
industry in what is today occupied Western Sahara.
Most
of these people have been replaced by Moroccans that
have settled in the territory.
TINDOUF.ORG
MINURSO
News:
Letter to UN.
Frente Polisaro calls on UN to end Morocco's "colonial
practices"
Building
a Òhumble dreamÓ. Sahrawis peoples are expressing
themselves, preserving their history and culture by
building bridges in Spanish.
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The income of this exploitation of a country's natural
resources is going to the occupying force. Illegal phosphate
sales through the wrong kind of economic market force
is used against the Saharan people. It is used to maintain
a military occupation. The United Nations says there is
something Morocco can do by delivering on its 16 year
old promise to hold a referendum on self determination.
The UNcontinues to try and broker negotiations thast are
difficult, need world support or will continue to stall.
"Australian
Government says it supports a referendum, but in the
absence of formal UN sanctions, it will continue to
trade in the Saharan phosphate, a stance that offers
little comfort to the people of Western Sahara."
TRANSCRIPT
See
Australia's 730 report.
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Local
Cooktown-Cape York Broadsheet
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| Why
Should Waste Electronics be Recycled? |
Sample
of Responsible Cooperative Action. In an effort to encourage
electronics recycling nationwide, partnered with ARC International,
PC Club has launched
ÒAct Green ProgramÓ an initiative designed to develop
ways to help customers manage e-waste.
The
program is designed to help the consumers to recycle their
obsolete electronic items at PC ClubÕs store locations. In
addition to the in-store collection, educational materials
and our website have been created to promote the program.
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Qld
State of Mental Injustice:
IMAGINE police knocking on your door some time today, involuntarily
removing you from your home, speeding you off to the nearest
hospital, and demanding that you undergo a psychiatric examination....Yes
that's right, unbelievable but in Queensland it could happen
to you, your mother, brother, sister or even a child. In Queensland
it could happen to anyone!
In
Memory of Ms
Dana Clare
Professional
and bureaucratic interests the biggest threat to mental health
reform
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Strait pinched bad by fuel prices |
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A
businessman in the Torres Strait says the Federal Government
needs to ease the petrol price pain in remote areas as many
islanders pay more than $2 a litre for diesel.
Thursday
Island ferry boat operator Daniel Tarkai says he may be forced
to increase passenger fares because diesel has reached $1.98
per litre. Diesel costs $2.60 on Darnley Island and $2.21
on Mabuiag Island.
Mr Tarkai says he is hesitant increase ticket prices because
islanders are already struggling to pay for basic living costs.
"I would very much like to see the Government take the initiative
to consider subsidies, especially for travel in the Torres
Strait because of the remoteness and the location," he said.
"That would be more than welcoming to see in the near future
[rather] than 10 or 15 years down the track." ABC
North and updated transcript
on 730
Report with Kerry O'Brien, Wednesday nite
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When
the World Becomes One!
This
problem is not just about Under-developed or Disadvanged
Regions
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Economics
- The impact of globalization is felt first and foremost in
everyday economic life.
Globalization
refers to the increasing integration and interdependence
of how it influences eveyone in every community in their economic
life, including trade, finance, production, and consumption.
Debates about economic globalization include whether integration
has helped or hindered disadvantaged people world wide...
"whether jobs lost to 'outsourcing' really contribute
to the health of an economy by lowering end-users' costs;
whether business and accounting practices and principles (so-called
'corporate governance' issues) developed in one social context
can be transferred and utilized productively across national
boundaries; and whether government policies should promote
foreign direct investment in every sector of the economy or
whether some sectors should be protected for the benefit of
domestic companies." source
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Labor
pledges to overhaul native title law.
Australia's ALP Government is to flag sweeping changes, questioning
issues around the Native Title Act to ensure the national
royalities and profits gained through the mining boom is shared
more equally and benefits flow more directly to Aboriginal
communities. This is to improve the situation where Indigenous
peoples entitlements have been historically locked-out of
this economy or their shares locked up in trusts or frittered
away carelessly. more
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Future
of Indigenous Australia
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Homeless
population larger than ever before
Perspective:Sasha
Ettinger Epstein, a Film Maker talks on YOUTH HOMELESSNESS
"Every Night across Australia .... 22,000 Teenagers are
Homeless".
After
22 years of budget surplus and rising rents.... the
situation has gotten worse and it will take 25 odd years to
address this problem... but the cost not to address the problem
means it will cost even more to address.
Meanwhile administrations are compiling a radical series of
reports to investigate a (how to help)... intervention
number of strategies.... to attack the youth (whole of) housing
problem!
Oasis
| The National
Youth Commission | 730
Report
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HOW
DID IT HAPPEN?
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It has never been easier to get a loan to buy a house in Australia
and this is partly - and paradoxically - why putting a roof
over your head has become so hard. Rear Vision looks at the
history of home ownership in Australia. / Read Transcript
- Rear Vision Download podcast |
Onenet
- Development Issues of critical importance
across the globe
Knowledge
Network Canada -The
Song of the Earth
"Humans have been making music since our ancestors descended
from the trees. So what is it for? David Attenborough's two
great passions combine in this personal and groundbreaking natural
history of music."
Unleashed
- Have
a Go - get involved... it's your ABC
I
think this chaps
got the wrong end of Cape York?
Articles
Today
National On Line Opinion
Maria
Altmann's - miacat View - National
Online Opinion
Naris Os
miacat blog
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NEEDS REGIONAL ACTION
International
Crisis Group
Peru's
'quake
reconstruction
Mural
Art
Hope for Iraq
Rudd
support for
Kosovo
History
Map
Kosovo
miacats
Naris Os
web blog
MiaSpeak
Find
the Ships
Mask
photo from
Cape Town
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