Corrupt Apartheid Australia Ignores Science for Pr
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Corrupt Apartheid Australia Ignores Science for Private Profit
Editorial
By Gideon Polya
Sunday, 09 August 2009
Australia is Downunder to Northern Hemisphere folk but when it comes to its pro-coal, pro-pollution climate change policies, world leading per capita greenhouse gas polluter Australia is truly upside-down and anti-science.
The depth and perversity of my cynicism knows no bounds these days. Only past experience gives me reason to believe that, in the words of Lilly Tomlin, “No matter how cynical you become, you can never keep up.”
ON THE morrow of the Six-day War, Amos Kenan came to my editorial office. He was in a state of shock. As a reserve soldier, he had just witnessed the emptying of three villages in the Latrun area. Men and women, old people and children, had been driven out in the burning June sun on a foot march in the direction of Ramallah, dozens of kilometers away. It reminded him of sights from the Holocaust.
Long after the ending of the Cold War, the chance that some nuclear weapons will kill masses of innocent humans somewhere, before very long, may well be higher than it was before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Police sources have told media that tests on a body recovered after a shootout in Indonesia are likely to confirm that it is not that of the main suspect wanted for hotel bombings in Jakarta.
France has called for the "immediate release" of a French lecturer and a Franco-Iranian employee at its Tehran embassy who are being tried in an Iranian court.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is expected to push for greater opportunities for US investment in the southern African nation of Angola as she continues her seven-nation tour of the continent.
A small plane and a helicopter have collided over New York and crashed into the Hudson River, killing nine people on board, including five Italian tourists.
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has reaffirmed his country's commitment to South Ossetian independence, saying that last year's conflict with Georgia redrew the map of the Caucasus for good.
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