Saturday, May 03, 2008

Headlines Saturday 3rd May

Election watchdog reveals Iemma's undisclosed donations
Some of Australia's biggest companies could be facing prosecution in a state wide crack down on political donations.
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Zimbabwe opposition achieves bitter-sweet victory
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe in the presidential election but faces a runoff vote after failing to win an outright majority, the electoral body said today.
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Iemma told to tow the line or leave
New South Wales ALP president Bernie Riordan is warning Premier Morris Iemma and Treasurer Michael Costa to abide by the state conference decision on electricity privatisation or leave the party.
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Has Guantanamo done its time?
The Bush administration could announce plans by the end of its term in January to close Guantanamo prison after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling.
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Hail Mayor Boris
Andrew Bolt
Boris wins!
A great victory for a modern conservative - and for an Australian political operative.
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Tanner tanned red
Andrew Bolt
I despise child bashers, but some things about these revelations seem confused
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Our Beijing bias
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What’s mine is no longer yours
Andrew Bolt
An argument that needs to be had, especially when so many marriages now are between people who choose to stay childless - and when more such property disputes will be between gays
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Prisoners refuse to leave jail
Andrew Bolt
Workers everywhere praise the Lord for their liberation from the slavery John Howard imposed. Or not
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First dibs
Andrew Bolt
Thoughts on Freedom is likewise offended by Welcome to Country ceremonies, and suggests an anology that highlights their divisive racism:
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Debate to be shouted down
Andrew Bolt
More of that shouting down of debate, but this time by the representatives of the real villains
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For my next attempt…
Andrew Bolt
Dennis Shanahan says Kevin Rudd is onto his fifth fresh justification for the tax cuts he first promised simply to match John Howard’s.
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Burgess says Rudd’s summit is sad proof
Andrew Bolt
Sadly, he’s right. Professor Phil Burgess, Telstra’s American head of communications, says he was surprised to find our public debates so dominated by the state - and its flatterers
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Thugs against free speech
Andrew Bolt
If John Howard had behaved the way Labor Premier Alan Carpenter now does…
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Just pull up your pants
Andrew Bolt
Matt Labash pays homage to the vagina at New Orleans’ Superdome
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O’Donoghue won’t share
Andrew Bolt
Gee, I’m glad Aboriginal “leaders” are focussing on the big issues that will save young Aboriginal lives
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Hybrid car looks set for local production
CAR giant Toyota is poised to manufacture its hybrid Camry in Melbourne with a deal set to be clinched by mid-year.

Talks are still underway but senior Toyota executives in Tokyo are strongly backing plans to make the company's Altona plant the regional production base for the green Camry, Fairfax newspapers report today.
This is where paying extortionate amounts of money on the global warming myth might mean we get sucked dry in other ways - ed

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Dungeon dad had earlier rape conviction
By Deborah Cole in Amstetten
AS public outrage mounted over the Austrian incest abuse case, authorities investigated reports today that 'house of horrors' father Josef Fritzl had previous sex crime convictions.

A woman who was raped by Fritzl in 1967 came forward yesterday, saying she had received a shock on seeing his picture. "I recognised him immediately," she told The Guardian. "I will never forget those eyes."
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Last of the Hitler 'Valkyrie' plotters dies
PHILIPP Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of an unsuccessful 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, has died at the age of 90.
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Severed finger regrown with 'pixie dust'
SCIENTISTS are claiming an amazing breakthrough – regrowing a man's severed finger with the aid of an experimental powder.

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