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Thousands of workers flocked to May Day rallies across Australia on Sunday to protest against the Howard government’s planned industrial relations reforms.
The demonstrations marked International Workers Day and followed in the tradition of the first May Day rally in London in 1890.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow warned Australians that many of their basic workplace rights would be threatened if the federal government went ahead with its plan for reform.
The federal government intends to (…)

Chapter 1: Getting Biodiesel BIODIESEL INFORMATION / Introduction
First solution
This one has often been seen on TV and on the web: you can buy some kitchen oil and feed your car with it. It works perfectly, there’s less pollution, and it costs you around 0,80 euro a liter in some low cost shops. But there are 2 problems:
- Let’s imagine you choose to drive using 50% of vegetal oil and the rest of diesel. Each time you want to fill up your car, you have to buy 20 bottles of oil, and (…)

This year the Bilderberg group will meet at the Dorit Sofitel Nr.Munich.Most possibly G.W.Bush will attend.The first day of meetings is May 5,the same day as U.K. elections.Is this by chance?

Do we really expect to read the paper tomorrow, a month from now, a year from now and expect no bad news out of Iraq? Apparently, several thousand Iraqis have made it a career choice to kill anything and anybody in the way of what they perceive to be justice. If we are going to pull out with our tail between our legs, shouldn’t we do it sooner rather than later?
Do we really think we are helping things over there? What are we waiting for?
Hell no. We are buying time to uninstall as much (…)

While nearly 100,000 Iraqis and 1600 US troops have died as a result of the Iraq war and tens of thousands have been severely wounded, the war has proven to be extremely lucrative for the Houston-based oil services company Halliburton and the San Francisco-based construction company Bechtel. These are the two largest private contractors to the US occupation forces in Iraq.
Iraq war and “reconstruction” contracts helped Halliburton to turn a profit in the first quarter of this year, after (…)

His career in Baghdad was brief. And it ended badly.
On a blistering July afternoon, three MP5 submachine guns were pointed at Robert Isakson. The men carrying the weapons wanted his money and his security pass.
As Isakson tells it, they also wanted his guns, leaving him unarmed in a mess of a country and banned from its safest haven.
"We were defenseless," says the former cop and FBI agent. He had come to Iraq to help rebuild the devastated country, accompanied by his 14-year-old son, (…)

"The economy is strong...and it is getting stronger" George W Bush
Upstate New York man gets the poop on outsourcing Sat April 30, 2005 1:19 AM GMT+05:30
By Holly McKenna
DELMAR, N.Y. (Reuters) - Computer programmer Steve Relles has the poop on what to do when your job is outsourced to India.
Relles, one of a rising number of Americans seeking new opportunities as their work shifts to countries with cheaper labor, has spent the past year making his living scooping up dog droppings (…)

I haven’t looked at this site for a while, and..... I’m in shock. Plenty of continuing griping analysis (????) of the election of Bush 2.2, but no mention AT ALL of the British General Election, in which there is a chance to send a clear message to Tony Blair that we weren’t happy with what he did in Iraq (and plenty of things within the country). This seems to indicate two things:
1. The sad apathy of British electors, the youth in particular (nothing new there)
2. A complete (and (…)

THE REPUBLICANS and Democrats can agree on one thing—the U.S. can’t withdraw its troops from Iraq right now.
According to the Bush administration, U.S. forces have to help Iraq complete its transition to democracy, and prevent a slow spiral toward civil war.
Despite occasional criticisms of Bush’s rush to invade, the argument from mainstream Democrats isn’t much different. “Now that we’re there, we’re there, and we can’t get out,” said Howard Dean, the new chair of the Democratic (…)

Tony Blair had resolved to send British troops into action alongside US forces eight months before the Iraq War began, despite a clear warning from the Foreign Office that the conflict could be illegal.
A damning minute leaked to a Sunday newspaper reveals that in July 2002, a few weeks after meeting George Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mr Blair summoned his closest aides for what amounted to a council of war. The minute reveals the head of British intelligence reported that (…)