Australia/Pacific
Australian Government Helps Cover Up Guantanamo Crimes
The Australian government folded a civil case against former Guantanamo Bay prison inmate David Hicks after former Guantanamo guard Brandon Neely pledged to...
Australian Mining Titan Says “Green” Groups Paid by CIA
Billionaire Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer accused the CIA of funding environmental extremists seeking to cripple the nation’s industry, saying during a press...
Read moreWikiLeaks Chief Assange to Run for Australian Senate
Founder Julian Assange (left) of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate while under house arrest...
Read moreAustralian Parliament Adopts Carbon Tax
In a display of disregard for public opinion, leaders of the ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) pushed through legislation in the lower house...
Read moreAustralian Liquor Industry Puts Warning Labels on Bottles
The Australian liquor industry, under an ostensibly voluntary arrangement, has announced that it will carry health warnings on its bottles such as, “Drinking can...
Read moreBurqa Laws in Australia, France Face Challenges
Only months after the French government banned the wearing of burqas in public (as in London, left), police in Australia have announced that...
Read moreAustralian Gov’t To Punish Companies Not Hiring “Enough” Women
The government in Australia is going to punish companies of more than 100 or more employees if those companies do not employ what...
Read moreAustralia Ponders Ban on Some Garden Plants as Drugs
Does prohibition work? People make bad choices all the time. Overindulgence of alcohol has destroyed many lives, marriages, and families. The Bible speaks...
Read moreCamp of the Saints Comes to Italy?
With the arrival of more than 5,000 Tunisians on the Italian isle of Lampedusa, the question for Italians is whether French novelist Jean...
Read moreBurka Is Now Swimwear in Australia
If you think the Muslim burka is about as far from looking like “swim wear” as you can imagine, think again. Some Muslim...
Read moreAtheist Smokes Pages from Bible and Koran
In the aftermath of the furor over one Florida church’s plans to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the...
Read more“The Kangaroo Touch” Revives Australian Preemie
Called “the kangaroo touch” in Australia and also “kangaroo care,” the method used by Kate Ogg in Sydney last spring worked almost like...
Read moreAustralian Prime Minister Goes Hysterical Over Global Warming
Speaking to a liberal think tank in Sydney on November 6, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared that "dangerous" global warming skeptics are...
Read moreLaw of the Sea Treaty: Through Rose-colored Goggles?
On January 22, the Worldwatch Institute, a group having the goal of bringing the global community together to address climate change,...
Read more“Merchant of Death” Trial Still Looms
The Russian parliament and media refer to him merely as a “Russian businessman.” But to much of the rest of the world, Viktor...
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