‘Siberia and today’s arctic regions of Canada will be the future breadbaskets of the world.’ I read this forecast in the sixties and immediately scoffed at the prediction. The guy who made these predictions is either nuts, a charlatan, or both, I thought. The regions referred to are renowned for their permafrost, and aside from some mosses, lichens and ‘summer’ grasses, there is no way those areas could yield a viable supply of food for “the world” – that was then!

Philip Ruddock, Australian Attorney General, announced today that a broader range of people in the Australian community (non-Muslims) are to be targeted as “terrorists!” Ruddock also stated that persons who are not ‘terrorists’ need not be alarmed as his new wider classification should not concern ‘them’(?)

Australian citizens are left to conclude that the determination of who exactly is a terrorist has become an arbitrary prerogative of the Attorney General and his gang of enforcers! Whatever happened to due process, innocent until PROVEN guilty? {God help that journalist who stepped on Ruddock’s toe, he will be the first to go!) It is not coincidental that the Bush regime also found due process to be an inconvenience. Ruddock’s logic and methods reek of neo-con methods, Guantanamo (Torture) Bay and Bush regime criminal methodologies have found expression in Oz.

Repressive GOP seeks to limit the people's entertainment options - pay up or else Chimpy W. Bushitler's friends will do you in.

Republicans last week held a “field hearing” in rural Iowa to gather feedback from voters on the proposed online gambling ban that passed the House of Representatives this summer, but is on hold in the U.S. Senate.

Led by Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), with an appearance by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) the meeting featured speakers who opposed the online gambling ban, as well as those who were in favor of the bill, known as House Resolution 4411, and called the Internet Gambling Prohibitition and Enforcement Act (IGPENA). The meeting has no bearing on the pending Senate version of the bill, however, because it is simply a fact finding tool for use by the House.

It is becoming more evident each day; the real target of new draconian laws and policies is not the (fabricated) terrorist ‘threat’, it is the domestic population – the enemy is you! The initial indicator (for this writer) was Section 543 of the Australian Defence Forces manual, which describes attack strategies against civilians and local populations – it should not be forgotten that Australia is a micro version and imitator of the USA and to a lesser extent the UK.

"The administration has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations. Under all of its predecessors there was a committment to peace instead of preemptive war."

"The administration has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations. Under all of its predecessors there was a committment to peace instead of preemptive war."

Chimpy W. Bushitler's rich friends screw the masses of IT workers by paying them little.
America's professional IT class is quite restless. About 60 percent of employees engaged in information technology work are looking for a new job as summer comes to a close. They are seeking new opportunities to stimulate their creativity, according to a new survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a trade association for the computer industry, based in suburban Chicago.

The survey of approximately 1,000 IT professionals discovered that 58 percent are currently looking for new jobs, and that four out of five of those looking for new jobs said their job search is "somewhat" or "very" active.

Surely it is time to restore intelligent, sane, Democratic secular government throughout the world! Over the past eight years we have all had a taste of the simplistic binary ‘us or them’ logic of religionists; the reality is that the majority of people on the planet reject religious divisionism and the associated violent ‘solutions’ of criminals, liars, demented murderers and delusional fools.