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Last week a sixteen year old girl was stabbed in the neck on Little Oxford Street behind a popular bar near Taylor Square. The vague reports we heard, stated that the girl knew her attackers but not much else.

However, the tragic tale of that night is a little more complicated than a simple stabbing- taking place with drug addicts, drug dealers and well known criminal housing commissions as a backdrop.

So for the full story of the events of Monday the 4th of January we need to go back several hours to the late morning of the same day- Exlusively Reported to HomepageDAILY by BarFly

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Physician Alex Wodak discusses reforming the war on drugs, including legalizing marijuana and repealing criminal penalties for personal possession and consumption. He says the focus of drug reform should be on harm reduction, not prosecution. . . read more
From the StrangerSmart VHS. Make sure you avoid getting famous, getting a job, affection and having fun.  . . read more

By acting wacko now, when he is taken to trial for crimes against humanity, Dick Cheney will be able to plead insanity.

It’s all a carefully planned strategy.

Observe him carefully, as his statements become increasingly unglued. More incoherent, more paranoid—traits now cropping up in his daughter’s inarticulate defense of her father.

Solution: incarcerate him now or soon we’ll see him wandering the streets, babbling at dogs and cats.

Pity this man who fifty-percent of the country once regarded as their savior.

Sigh for the lost soul who believes that he alone can save America from evil.

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A Dark Journey Into A Killer's 'Personal Effects'  . . read more

It was reported yesterday that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of carrying out the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which 270 people were killed, is likely to be released on compassionate grounds.

Al-Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years after he was found guilty in 2001. He is being held in Greenock Prison, near Glasgow- by Robert Verkaik
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Clutching Jack Straw’s clemency decision, train robber Ronnie Biggs leaves prison to enjoy his last few days on earth in comparative freedom. But just imagine how pissed he must be that his deeds have been eclipsed by two smartly-dressed men who aroused little suspicion as they arrived at the exclusive Graff Diamonds store in London's Mayfair.

The British Bill are now hunting this dynamic duo who made off with A$80 million in jewellery in the biggest gems heist in British history.

Why is it that we always believe the ‘wild cards’ of the past – whether a great train robbery; the purchase of an unknown painting that turns into gold; or San Francisco earthquake of 1906 – even Hiroshima and Nagasaki – will not be dealt in the future?

Watch out for China; the next recession; the pandemic that means business.

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Guantánamo’s Hidden History: Shocking Statistics of Starvation

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Now we have in Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, a continuity of the spilling of the Bush hog-wash, with his request to Federal magistrates, and his appeal to the public, through the media mouthpieces, that Bush era documents on taped CIA interrogations should be kept sealed because their release would endanger national security.

Hog-wash!

Mr. Panetta, I have to say, your words these days have the same insincere ring to them as they did when they were uttered by Bush, or his Poppy, or his puppeteer, Señor Cheney. Then they actually sounded more like the words of a sinner doing everything he can to hide his sins from the light of truth. A cover-up. Yes. He fed the public, we the people, words to cover up his crimes and keep, we the people, paralyzed by fear so we could not judge the severity of his crimes.

Through the use of fear, Bush wanted to hide the link between himself, his crimes, and we the people.

Yes. We the people.

But you, Mr. Panetta, having seen the proof of those crimes, are setting yourself up as the ultimate arbiter, the one judge who continues to conceal the proof of Bush¹s sins.

Your excuse that bringing the evidence of Bush¹s crimes to light will imperil national security because it will show the enemy what we know about him, simply just reeks of hog-wash.

Do you not think that the enemy already knows what we know about him?

Of course they do, and of course you know that.

Twisted logic there Mr. Panetta; the kind of twisted logic that makes me think of Poppy¹s covert CIA hands manipulating you. Pushing you to make the statement uttered by you, June 9th. A statement which also carries with it a tinge of the kind of arrogance and fear the Bush/Cheney ticket spread around for eight years to every confine of this country. In my mind, it is Poppy who is the ultimate fear mongerer, however; and I can almost hear the low, nasal complaining, almost desperate cry of Poppy Bush urging you, perhaps even by some sort of threat, to conceal the horrors, the tarnish that his son laid upon this country. They, the Bushes who want to be elevated (and have already elevated themselves) to the stature of bronze statue heroes wherever those are placed to honor the great, or the tilted great Š or Š. in some cases thieves, dictators and misguided souls who pulled the wool over an entire people¹s eyes.

And you, like Eric Holder, who, I once thought of as integral but has now become a major disappointment, have no qualms but to go along with the Bushes game of stash and hide, or dungeons and dragons, or when there is no excuse, fear is the only excuse.

Truth always surfaces, even if it takes years.

[via Op Ed News]

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Local Authorities Hold U.S. Citizens In Connection With Death Of U.S. Contractor; FBI “Very Involved” . . read more
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If anyone roams across Sydney as much as I do, then one would inevitably find oneself raising that hand, getting into that taxi and dreading that meter going up and up while he takes you to your destination.

But like many others, I've found that some of the best conversations I've ever had were with cabbies.

The last one I met was a Polish engineer who proceeded to explain to me how to pave the outside of my house from scratch, because the "professionals" don't know how to do it properly. He was unimpressed and blatantly questioned why I was studying law while stating that "engineers are respected a lot more in Europe than in the West". Honestly, he seemed far more educated than me.

Before him there was another driver who engaged me in a stimulating conversation about Indian poetry and literature. With another, I had an argument about raising children in different cultures.

The reason for this is one that we've heard almost too often - qualified immigrants come to Australia, their expertise is refused recognition, and they get stuck driving people around the city when their true skills obviously lie elsewhere.

We can't help these guys get a job. But next time you sit in a cab, don't be afraid to have a chat. You never know who you might be talking to.  

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Re: Bale de Rua

We thought the Bale de Rua was aweful. Choreography was terrible - set design, music and costumes were lacklustre. The dancers however were very athletic and graceful. - Jules

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Re: In Praise of Mediocrity

I just wonder who decides if what ever you chose to do in life, is mediocre or not. Sounds like with standards like yours, this article with its poor structure and soap box appeal may also be considered by many as, in-fact, mediocre. - Khedra

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Re: The Assassins of Langley

Yes, Mr. Neville. Odious, heinous assassins sold body and soul to Luciferian entities who pull the strings (the last of them, I want to believe) from the shadows. Philip Aggeee and John Stockwell portrayed them quite well. They are NOT heroes, nor are the gangbangers of East Los Angeles who spray grafitti in Iraq, where they most certainly train for urban warfare on our streets. Good riddance to them all!

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Re: Hairy Legs: A Study of Female Art, Feminism and Femininity

 Looking forward to more of her articles. Hope she does plenty of Art Theory at SCA. Barbara Kruger and Judy Chicago are certainly powerful artists and it would be interesting to see what they are doing now.

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A hero's welcome for the famous Iraqi shoe thrower

Terrorist! Please do your research first before writing such dangerous things, we was insulting Bush by throwing the shoe as he was disgraced with him, not trying to topple the largest super power in the world by throwing a shoe. I cant believe you have put those words up. Ashamed

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Re: How to Report the News

Having worked as a TV news reporter I found Charlie's piece very amusing - some of us have long believed reporting like this is a rubbish way to do things! But even if a journalist wants to tell stories in a more authentic and engaging way, the constraints of the so-called "house style" in many news organisations make it difficult to achieve. What's needed is a massive culture shift and a complete re-think of what we understand quality broadcast news reporting is. And guess what? That's exactly what's happening, though you'd never believe it from what we're still mostly seeing on TV. Anyway, the new digital technologies, and shake up of "old school/old mainstream" journalism means new platforms and styles of "news" storytelling can now emerge. Let's hope fresh and appropriate ways of funding appear too, so we can kill off this dreadful formulaic reporting and delivery, and clear the way for more natural and interesting ways to treat stories and content.

Much love, Ian Aspin.
www.twitter.com/ianaspin

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Re: Pushing 60 With Pot

You're pushing 60, well I'm pushing 70 and still having to scrounge around for my pot. It's tragic that when I first came to Australia it was $30 an ounce, and now I have to pay nearly $350 - Peter

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Re: Textbook publishers dream of the tablet

Why can't this just be a program for PC and Windows? Why do they have to make us buy more hardware that's just going to disappoint? - Tyler J. Wilson

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Re: Killing Indian Students: Australia's Favourite New Sport!- by Sean Maguire

How about the indian guy who slashed his wife's throat, is still australia to blame for?..may be , for accenpting them to move over!I am an immigrant myself but I love this country, there is no perfect place on Earth but australia is one of the best! - Michael

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This entire fiasco is an incredible over reaction. Australia is an easy target. Why? because we are honest, transperant and we talk about our failings. Is there aggression and iolence in Australia? Sure, like any country. But we face it head on and we work to eliminate it. What about the stories of the 100’s of thousands of Indian workers who are treated as slaves in the middle east and nobody says anything? What about the fact that India still has entrenched pedophilia in terms of child brides? What about the crushing poverty embraced by more than 60% of the Indian people while this nation runs around building nuclear warheads? A storm in a teacup, an over reaction, and a diversion from some the really bad issues facing India. What is really happening here is that students are being unnecessarily frightened. meaning they will miss out on what could be the opportunity of their lifetime. - Daryl
 
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I couldn't agree with Sean Maguire's article more on the recent Indian attacks. For all those who like the pretend the attacks are merely based on coincidence, try to imagine how we would react if the boot were on the other foot and an uncharacteristic number of Australia's had been murdered in India. Would you push for a travel ban? Would you be scared for your children in a seemingly hostile environment so many miles away?  - Kara Jensen-Mackinnon

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