Below is reprinted an article from FAIR, or Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. It can also be found at:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3596
I offer it here as an example of the distorted media coverage in the US. It is rather long and very US-centric, but presents the situation quite clearly. Perhaps readers can […] Continue Reading…
August 16, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Georgia/Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame
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August 13, 2008 | Graham
Georgia versus South Ossetia
Posted for, and written by Ivan Simic
On August 8, 2008, South Ossetia attracted world’s attention when Russian military forces entered Georgian territory, and seriously interfered in the Georgian-South Ossetian unresolved conflict. This conflict is well known to the world, yet, current Russian military intervention helped amplify the dispute.
South Ossetia […] Continue Reading…
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August 11, 2008 | Graham
Quiggin: cleaned-up or cleaned-out?
Yesterday, Jennifer Marohasy posted a blog asking for peer reviewed scientific papers that:
“1. examine the causal link between anthropogenic carbon dioxide and warming, and
2. quantify the extent of the warming from anthropogenic carbon dioxide.
This would seem like a brave call, but Jennifer’s been having some success lately. Her suggestion […] Continue Reading…
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August 10, 2008 | Graham
The Horseman – give the boy a budget
If it wasn’t for Australia’s housing boom The Horseman, Stephen Kastrissios’ first feature film, may never have been made. It was financed out of the sale of a house he bought just a few years ago.
Which gives me a problem: how do you review a movie made for just […] Continue Reading…
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August 10, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Under the Moruya Moon (7)
One last visit to see the restored goat shed before I go. We head off from chilly Canberra, planning to watch the Olympic opening spectacular in the also chilly brick house. It is all the colder now that the end room has been stripped of its lining and is […] Continue Reading…
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August 03, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Hola! From the Parliamentary Triangle to Costa Rica
Only a few more weeks to go, then an adventure. What is more tempting: finding another contract in Canberra, and having money pour in for rather little effort, or vanishing overseas to study Spanish in Costa Rica?
Someday maybe I will tell my story about the wastage in the public […] Continue Reading…
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July 29, 2008 | Graham
Nelson’s right, but can he prosecute the adaptation case?
Brendan Nelson is right that Australia shouldn’t adopt an emissions trading scheme unless China and India do, but it is a brave political move. He has to sell a proposition from opposition that John Howard couldn’t sell from government.
The proposition is quite simple. With less than 2% of world […] Continue Reading…
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July 27, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Feed me facts
Perhaps my tree-hugging and soppy yearning for simpler times with fewer threats isn’t striking the right chord. It may be more useful to present facts, research, documentation and links to the good, the bad, and the scary environmental news. As a true Libran (some of you may be agnostic […] Continue Reading…
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July 25, 2008 | Graham
So who owns the Liberal National Party?
It’s a difficult process to get the right to own a URL with the extension .org.au. You have to be able to demonstrate that you have a sufficient connection with the URL to be entitled to use it. That generally means having a company or trading name that is […] Continue Reading…
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July 25, 2008 | Graham
Not even fit for opposition
Last night the Liberal Party hurtled further down the path first taken when Don Lane and Brian Austin defected to the National Party after the 1983 election with the party splintered, and the epicentre of the quake somewhere around Clayfield. The Party effectively rejected the plan to merge the […] Continue Reading…
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