Basically,
the govt’s proposed legislation enables lawful torture!
#Auspol
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Is Abbott justifying M/E military action by exploiting blanket media
coverage 'terrorist threat' raids? http://goo.gl/3J1ic8
“..danger of terrorism will be shamelessly invoked to divert
from ..social inequality & halt opposition 2 US-AU militarism "
>>>> Preventative detention powers -- to be
expanded?
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The amount of higher education debt in the US shocked me.
As it indicates, it's more than credit card debt!
The Strike Debt article is well worth a read for those in the US.
Ukraine's a complete mess. Amazed IMF advanced any money. Amazed the US has sunk $5 billion.
But I guess they're hoping to get a return in due course.
Kosovo & Albania appear to be lawless. The region's beyond me. No understanding of what goes on. However, there is a report due out on Thursday on the human rights abuse allegations, so that should be interesting.
The goings on in Australia are shocking. Crazy budget and crazy proposed laws.
The Liberal government sounds incompetent.
Massive raid on 'domestic terrorists' or something like that. Huge operation.
Sounds like a media stunt and case of fanning domestic fear to justify sending troops to the Middle East (and maybe distract from the crap budget and whatever else may be going on).
Also worthwhile noting is the issue of mass surveillance, data retention, NSA Five Eye spying on the Australian public, secret court order suppression, laws seeking to extend the of powers to those that appear to have already abused those powers, likely incursions on civil liberties given various new laws (the usual national security angle governments use), the hacking program used by NSW (ie state) police ... on and on it goes.
I'm not big on anything that infringes liberties, so moves to grant intelligence organisations even more powers sounds super creepy and undesirable.
Not impressed that some guy that got raided and arrested was also subjected to police brutality.
The arresting authorities aren't there to judge anyone or mete out punishment; they're there to perform a function. In this case, it was to arrest suspects. So what are they doing belting people?
Oh, and there's more: Australia's drafting laws where it's legal to TORTURE people!
EU-NATO IMPERIALISM ❌ 