The Australian police have been ordered to investigate Google for possible breach of privacy while taking pictures for its Street View service.
Diesel Civil Trust
Karl Marx in his Eighteenth Brumaire wrote that those trying to master a new language always begin by translating it back into the tongue they already know. And I was limiting myself (and ill-serving my readers) in using the pre-existing imagery of Stalinism and Eastern deference. I have recently donned the bifocals provided by B.R. Myers in his electrifying new book The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters, and I understand now that I got the picture either upside down or inside out. The whole idea of communism is dead in North Korea, and its most recent “Constitution,” “ratified” last April, has dropped all mention of the word. The analogies to Confucianism are glib, and such parallels with it as can be drawn are intended by the regime only for the consumption of outsiders. Myers makes a persuasive case that we should instead regard the Kim Jong-il system as a phenomenon of the very extreme and pathological right. It is based on totalitarian “military first” mobilization, is maintained by slave labor, and instills an ideology of the most unapologetic racism and xenophobia.
really want to read this.
With a deficit rising yearly, many Japanese believe that the heralded budget apocalypse has arrived.
CENTRAL bankers are an unobtrusive breed by nature and necessity. So it might have escaped the attention of many that Sydney is playing host to a meeting of some of the world’s top money men and women to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
HEALTH authorities want the power to detain people for up to three months if they refuse testing or treatment for infectious diseases.
She and her boyfriend have been forced into hiding after her home was firebombed.
That’s right, firebombed.
Prosecution and violent retaliation…among the reasons I don’t support making abortion illegal.
Interesting Foreign Policy piece arguing that Western public diplomacy aimed towards Muslims is failing due to a lack of regional considerations. Instead of paying attention to theological/geographical/ethnic divisions, they argue that the US + EU only see a monolithic, Arab-dominated umma. Short piece - worth a 2 minute read.Too true. Africa and SE/Central Asia often get left out of the so-called “Muslim world.”
CANBERRA, May 26 (Reuters) - Australia’s government ordered 10 million doses of swine flu vaccine being developed by pharmaceutical company CSL Ltd (CSL.AX) on Thursday as the number of confirmed H1N1 cases in Australia topped 100.
Bird flu billboard from Australia.
Staff at US company Merck &Co emailed each other about the list of doctors - mainly researchers and academics - who had been negative about the drug Vioxx or Merck and a recommended course of action.
The email, which came out in the Federal Court in Melbourne yesterday as part of a class action against the drug company, included the words “neutralise”, “neutralised” or “discredit” against some of the doctors’ names.
It is also alleged the company used intimidation tactics against critical researchers, including dropping hints it would stop funding to institutions and claims it interfered with academic appointments.
“We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live,” a Merck employee wrote, according to an email excerpt read to the court by Julian Burnside QC, acting for the plaintiff.
CANBERRA, March 10 – Australia’s government faced new objections to its pioneering carbon trading scheme from both ends of the political opposition on Tuesday, just as it unveiled the legislation it hopes to pass by the middle of this year.
AUSTRALIA will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government.
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