Apr
28
YouTube – funny cats
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This is so cute!!!! So yeh, I’m an animal lover and cats are some of my favourite animal friends! Too cute for words!
YouTube – funny cats
Apr
20
NSW Premier Morris Iemma to face possible suspension from the Labor party…
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In this news tidbit I read on The Age website it appears the Alexandria branch of the ALP is looking to suspend the New South Wales Labor Premier Morris Iemma from the ALP.
It appears that Iemma wont tow the party line on the proposed $15b privatisation of the electricity industry in NSW.
This leaves Iemma’s future [...]
Apr
19
Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro
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I saw this on Lateline, this guy rocks, I can’t believe he’s doing this on a Ukulele. The ending is awesome and amazing!
Apr
12
Northern Territory intervention – the sting in the tale…
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It seems that temporary accommodation provided for the workers in the Howard governments Northern Territory intervention policy have been unduly exposed to formaldehyde.
A Chinese company supplied the units, containers and used a glue which contained formaldehyde. In the harsh heat of the NT this has led to fumes emitting from the glue and workers reporting [...]
Apr
9
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed architect of the 9/11 attack on the US which destroyed both of the twin towers of the world trade centre in New York could be set free without punishment. According to media reports Khalid has been assigned a Navy lawyer to defend him in the first US military courts assembled [...]
Apr
8
Officials think of scrapping the torch run…
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Ok, now links here but Chinese officials including the IOC (International Olympic Committee) are thinking of scrapping the torch run. In what appears harmful to Chinese politics at every single location people have protested against the uprising of citizens in Tibet.
It’s only natural that people want to be in power of their location. However China [...]
Apr
8
Australia offers visas to Iraqi’s
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Following on from the UK model Australia is to offer up to 600 Iraqi citizens visa’s for permanent stay in Australia for helping out our armed forces. The UK recently gave the same offer for 2,000 Iraqi’s that had helped their forces.
I’ve only seen this reported on the channel nine news and haven’t found it [...]
Apr
8
At least 1,586,492 people think China sucks…
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In what may be the greatest loss of face ever experienced by a nation more than 1.5 million people have signed the Avaaz petition against human rights abuse in Tibet by the Chinese Communist Party.
It would seem there torch is doing a global protest tour rather than a global peace tour in an event which [...]
Apr
8
Spider survival…
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Being vegan, I respect all life and don’t kill anything. So my place has spiders, we sort-of share the place, they’re like my flat mates. I like to watch them, how they live and I’ve noticed this one spiders survival patterns.
This one spider lives in multiple webs, he’s got three corners he swaps between… leaving [...]
Apr
8
Climate change: enough is enough, now it’s getting serious… Beer!
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Ok I saw this headline on my RSS feed and I just had to post something about it. If things are bad enough a senior climate scientist has come out and said climate change is going to affect beer!
Apparently the warming of the earth is going to change the barley that is produced giving it [...]