Five thousand people attended the vibrant Climate Emergency Rally in Melbourne on June 5. Grassroots environment activists and groups came from all over Victoria to protest numerous environmentally destructive projects currently underway or proposed, demanding action instead be focused on renewable energy and public transport.
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Professor Ross Garnaut鈥檚 draft review of climate change policy options for the Australian government was released on July 4, with climate change minister Penny Wong due to release a green paper canvassing policy options on July 16. Garnaut鈥檚 report looks at the 鈥渃osts鈥 and 鈥渂enefits鈥 of mitigating drastic climate change through a carbon polluting trading scheme. It suggests tax cuts and 鈥渨elfare reform鈥 to compensate low-income households, which will be hit hard by energy price rises.
In Scandinavian folklore, a troll is a bogeyman. In the jargon of the Internet, it is someone who posts false and provocative information.
1942: Japanese invade Burma. The Burma Independence Army is under the command of Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) father.
1943: Aung San is Minister of War in formally independent but Japanese-occupied Burma.
1945: Burmese army, lead by Aung
On June 30, the collective agreements covering actors in the US television industry expired.
Three of the five Sydney residents who joined a May Day solidarity brigade to Venezuela reported back on their observations and experiences of the Bolivarian revolution to a meeting of 35 people on June 24.
In full campaign mode, as Bolivia prepares to go to the polls again on August 10 to decide the fate of the president and nine departmental prefects [state governors] in recall referendums, Bolivia聮s left-wing indigenous President Evo Morales took time out to speak exclusively to Argentinian journalist Pablo Stefanoni in the presidential palace.
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen & the Truth of Global Warming
By Mark Bowen
Dutton, 2008
324 pages, $49.95 (hb)
By Mark Bowen
Dutton, 2008
324 pages, $49.95 (hb)
These are some of the corporations currently doing business with the Burmese military junta. For a full list, see the Burma Campaign UK鈥檚 鈥淒irty List鈥 of corporations in Burma.
According to a July 2 Brisbane Times article, the Iraqi government is suing the formerly Australian government-owned AWB Limited, which has a monopoly over Australian wheat exports, over its alleged rorting of the United Nations聮 oil-for-food program as part of UN-enforced sanctions against Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991.
One of the lawyers for Mohamed Haneef, the doctor charged with terrorism-related offences in 2007, told a 100-strong June 21 public meeting that the Howard government had 聯wanted Dr Haneef to be a terrorist 聴 but he wasn聮t聰. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) case against Haneef spectacularly imploded.
Venezuela聮s environment ministry has proclaimed sweeping restrictions on mining in the Imataca Forest, in Venezuela聮s south-east, according to a June 27 Venezuelanalysis.com article. Despite this, negotiations over mining permits continue with affected companies.
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