When you call a spade a spade the people are compelled to listen and even if some people don't like what you have said, because it hurts them to look into the mirror, then most people acknowledge the truth. Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad famous for tormenting Australian leaders by telling the truth and shaming the Devil will step down today after a record 22 years in office.
We took off last night from Edwards Air Force Base, I reckon. Somewhereabouts that had a lot of planes. I got to sit in the cockpit during takeoff and until we got over the Atlantic which didn't take too long, even though we had to fly over Virginia, Texas, and Florida but then it got pretty boring. I got my wings, though, from the pilot, which was pretty darn cool.
Australians listened to Dr Mahathir Mohamad whose refreshing comments made some of us laugh and no doubt mad some of us cry. But the people he made laugh did so because they had a good conscience and could also see the Devil in Australian policy that worked against the community all over the pacific region.
I thank you Dr Mahathir Mohamad for making sense of the world and sharing your spirit, body and soul with all of us in Australia, the underdogs love you and I hope that you will continue to share your ideas with us even in retirement
It will be a low-key exit for 78-year-old. The ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for his chosen successor will take place at the Royal Palace before the King of Malaysia..
Food on the plane bit the ol' longhorn the wrong way, if you know what I mean. Secret Service always gets in the way too, which is a pain in the ol' you-know-what. And the flight was sooooo looong and booooring. That's why I've done up and gone to that Europeland before. I made it through my speeches that I wanted to give in Spain, then paged through some security briefings, finished up a few coloring books, and tried to read a newspaper or two. Then I pulled my daughters out of my carry-on luggage for a few minutes to give them a little air.
At 63, Abdullah Badawi will become the country's fifth Prime Minister since independence. Afterwards the two men will return to the Prime Minister's chambers for the symbolic handing over of the leader's office.
Dr Mahathir will then be driven to his private home in a gated community on the outskirts of the capital to begin his retirement. Malaysia's longest serving leader says he will play no further role in public life and plans to spend time catching up on sleep and indulging his hobby for horse riding.
Once we landed in Spain, I exited the plane, and breathed in that wonderful Spanish air - not as good as Texas air mind you, but not bad either. Then I noticed that everything was written in Spanish, and that everyone was SPEAKING Spanish. "What the hell is goin' on here," I thought. I later realized that it must have been the jet lag - my mind and body just aren't what they used to be.
THE SHERIFF: RECALCITRANT?THE SADDLE: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has had the courage to stand up and be outspoken about matters that the silent majority are thinking.
By George W Bushwanker 31 October 03
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A STRUGGLE ON TWO FRONTS: PRISONS & IMPERIALIST WAR
After a war waged by the U.S. military against Vietnam which took the lives of more than 3 million Vietnamese people and more than 58,000 GIs, the U.S. finally withdrew in 1975. It had suffered its first official major military defeat by a united people struggle led by the Vietnamese, along with a mass U.S. anti-war movement.
US to keep military ties with Indonesia
But America, East Timor, Bali, and Australian complicity have something in common with the 'Indonesian armed forces' and the fallout was the TNI's East Timor's massacre in 1999 and the CIA's false flag, call to arms Bali bombing in 2002, believe it or not.
The Daily Propaganda: Bali bombings could have been worse?
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner, Mick Keelty, says the bombs that killed 88 Australians in Bali could have done a lot more damage if they had been built differently.
JI propaganda expert earns $200,000 a year: GI Joe
Chain of command goes something like this: George Bush, CIA, FBI, Megawati Sukarnoputri, TNI, John Howard, Alexanda Downer, ASIO, Australian army, war, spending, vote Liberal? No Support Groups, No Organisations, No Hospitals, No Education, Excommunication, Lies, Propaganda, and Postcards from Prison, if you don't agree. Oh! Without a lawyer of course.
Signs of the Times: Aggressive Scepticism
If anyone has known a schizophrenic then you may also know that it is because of some sound or picture that invaded their thoughts which sent them mad. So possibly, any invasion of my time with self, a time to integrate past experiences could send someone mad. However if there is no interference with our own thoughts and ideas we sometimes choose to write down our conclusions and share our ideas with others socially.
Pilger said White House knew Saddam was no threat
Australian investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie which could cost George W Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.
Civil Liabilities: Howard's diversity? I had a dream?
The war criminal, Prime Minister, John Howard, who only yesterday was claiming he was showing diversity has stepped up pressure on the states to support plans to increase the war criminal, Federal Attorney-General's powers to ban terrorist organisations, [scapegoats and patsies for the Coalition of the Killing's illegal and degrading resource wars in the Middle East.]
Megawati has made no effort to explain state terror
While Indonesia has actively allegedly cooperated in the war on terror [the Coalition of the Killing's resource wars in the Middle East], since last October's [CIA, call to arms, false flag], Bali bombings, sceptic propaganda experts have said it needed to go further and tackle the problem of military teachings in Government departments.
Three jailed for robbing jewellery shop! To fund Bali bombings?
Three men who robbed an Indonesian gold shop to help fund last year's Bali bombings have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms. Separate Indonesian courts have found Abdul Rauf, Andi Hidayat and Junaedi guilty of conducting last year's heist, along with two other accomplices.
Infidels! God is great!:Abu Bakar Bashir
[Patsy for the CIA, false flag, call to arms, Bali Bombings, to bolster support and to quell dissent for the Coalition of the Killing's resource wars in the Middle East.]
GI, CIA, TNI, MI6, MOSSAD, AFP, ASIO, Howard, divided: Australian experts GI, CIA, TNI, MI6, MOSSAD, AFP, ASIO, has descended into a disparate collection of cells working at cross-purposes, with deep divisions on strategy and no clear leader except to say the Indonesian Military could be involved, senior Australian counter-propaganda police believe.
False flag Bali bombings: An eye for an eye or blind toothless people?
Terrorists ALLEGED by the Daily Terror, 7 August 03, have claimed responsibility for the Jakarta bombing and are alleged to have sent a chilling warning that they will kill more Westerners if Bali bomber Amrozi is sentenced to death today.
Evidence emerges of proposed Four Corners base in Bali
Parody: More evidence has emerged that the ABC terrorist network believed to have been behind the propaganda in Australia has tried to set up a long-term base in Bali.
Australian Terror cell here long before Bali
The Australian terrorist Captain Cook infiltrated Australia years before the Bali bombings in which 202 people perished. Aboriginal people attempted to remember Captain Cook not as a founding father but as a harbinger of dispossession and death, a sign of white amnesia. Another anniversary year-used to mark two hundred years since Cook had journeyed along the east coast of Australia and, for some people, discovered a continent.
NSW police confirm don't use the phone to talk about terrorism!
The New South Wales Police Service has confirmed it is using phone taps and other forms of electronic surveillance to monitor suspected terrorist activity [ ? To monitor potential scapegoats for the Coalition of the Killing's illegal and degrading resource wars in the Middle East.]
Australia: Terrorising you in secret
Suspected terrorists [scapegoats and patsies for the Coalition of the Killing's resource wars in the Middle East] will be tried in secret under new laws to be introduced by the Federal Government.
NSW Police Force may get 'special powers'
Civil libertarians are questioning the need for further anti-terrorism laws, which will be announced in the New South Wales Parliament on Tuesday.
Evidence that Howard was complicit in CIA, false flag, call to arms, Bali bombings War criminal John Howard was complicit in the call to arms - false flag operation - Bali bombings - instigated by the CIA - and the Coalition of the Killing - to bolster support - and quell dissent for their illegal and degrading resource wars in the Middle East.
War criminal Howard high-jacks HRCA to 'legitimise killing'
The Human Rights Council of Australia (HRCA) says it fears Prime Minister John Howard's comments in support of the execution of [CIA operative] Osama bin Laden show his eagerness to overturn three decades of national opposition to the death penalty.
State terror units caused the terror!
The level of suspicion and surveillance created by the [US false flag operation and call to arms] Bali bombings, created by [ the Coalition of the Killing and Australian's complicity to go to war on Iraq] means that all Australian's suffer the loss of their human rights, civil rights and their democratic rights, as well as those Australian's who lost their life in Bali.
Al-Qa'ida or poor people without hope?
Anyone contemplating war without a UN sanction is nothing more than a common criminal and not acting in accordance with the law. Isn't Richardson the head of ASIO? A law enforcement agency? Al-Qa'ida is a Coalition of the Killing demon made up by the CIA. These people are just scapegoats, patsies, and peasants."
Red paper classes Australia as terrorist suspects
Australia's old foreign policy red paper says Australians have become targets because their own government is being run by war criminals that are complicit in state terror, torture, murder, occupation and genocide.
Australia backs CIA Reichstag, Downer's propaganda
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UK Reid, Blair and the reichstag London threat!
The nature of the [alleged] terrorist threat to London is on the scale of the [USA false flag] September 11 attacks in the United States, the chairman of Britain's governing Labour Party said.
Bin Laden calls? CIA blind man's bluff!
A [US propaganda, fear-mongering] taped message purportedly from Osama bin Laden has warned Arab nations against supporting a war against Iraq but has branded Saddam Hussein an infidel.
Middle Eastern: Specific Legislation
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Howard defends terror alert
Prime Minister John Howard says the Federal Government would not have issued a terror alert if it had not come from a credible source. (America?) Speaking for the first time since the Government revealed the warning, Mr Howard says he wants people to be more careful, but not to stop living. [As long as they don't go dancing in Bali? And sure we'll all be depressed for as long as John Howard and Bob Carr say so.]
Carr backs Fed Govt's terror alert
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has defended the Federal Government's decision to issue a warning to Australians about a possible terrorist attack in Australia.
NSW Police Force may get 'special powers'
Civil libertarians are questioning the need for further anti-terrorism laws, which will be announced in the New South Wales Parliament on Tuesday.
When Johnny comes marching home again: 'hoorah hoorah'
Posted on the Resistance web page Bronwyn Powell, an organiser of the youth-led mobilisation told Green Left weekly that "in the face of attacks on civil liberties, it is unfortunate that some union officials have felt they need to submit. It could set a negative precedent for upholding the hard-won right to demonstrate in the street."
Give peace a chance
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The scavengers of terror
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