Read all about Hawkeye
(30Jan05) "Hawkeye, a sophisticated piece of computer technology, could end the on-court drama of tennis line calls." Silicon gadgetry gives its best shot by Garry Barker in the Sydney Morning Herald. Be sure to click on the link in the story on "How Hawkeye works".
The Death of British Sovereignty
(28Jan05) “….Ten years ago Margaret Thatcher called it a “nightmare.” But Britain has now blundered closer and closer to the precipice. If it accepts the EU Constitution, the country will slip right over the edge, and its sovereignty will be irretrievably lost…” writes James Lewis in The Death of British Sovereignty “….. The EU Constitution is exactly the opposite of the US Constitution; it does not limit the power of central government but expands it to nearly Soviet proportions. It is the dream of control freaks…”
More proof that the people need to pay attention to how they are being duped and dudded in this piece Brussells: We'll halt Howard's curb on immigration “……Europe's intervention in what has become a major issue in the election campaign took Westminster aback. MPs and officials were unaware of how much national sovereignty on immigration and asylum had been transferred to Brussels….”
And here is more on the subject, The EU's four-stage strategy to reduce Britons to servitude
Australia 's $403 billion foreign debt: hail the banana republic
(20Jan05)”……The crunch for Spain came when the gold and silver ran out. The crunch for Australia will come when the markets demand usurious interest rates to satisfy lenders, or when the foreign capital dries up and we have to face repayments of over $20,000 per Australian.......writes Pat Byrne in Australia 's $403 billion foreign debt: hail the banana republic, December News Weekly. “…Like Spain , Australia has not used its borrowings to build industries, but for consumption. Worse, much of this money has been used to buy imports, destroying manufacturing and de-industrializing Australia . Thirty years ago we were up with the rest of the world in manufacturing; now we are down to 11 per cent of GDP, around the level of Greece….”
Fear of modern life makes shoppers splash out on bottled water
(17Jan05)Is this proof that the world really has gone mad and as Phineas T. Barnum once noted, that “…there's one born every minute..” ?
“… two psychiatrists have analysed the British love affair with the stuff (bottled water) and say it is driven by a fear of modern life….One brand, Blue Water, claims to have had "negative memories" removed and replaced with "beneficial energy patterns". It costs £11 a litre…..The marketing of bottled water exploits our worries about health in the modern world, they say. "Bottled water is the natural antidote to chemicals and technologies full of risk and hazard - genetically engineered food, radiation, harmful medication and sinister viruses," they write in the British Medical Journal .Fear of modern life makes shoppers splash out on bottled water By Health Editor Jeremy Laurance.
Tsunami Ripples: A New Strategic Map
(11Jan05) “…No region of the world is so complex, or so thick with both threats and opportunities. The Indian Ocean region is not only critical in detail, but has an overall importance even greater than its parts…. This is where Islam must — and can — change; where nuclear weapons are likeliest to be used; where the future economic potential is vast; where the bulk of the world's heroin is produced; and where the heroin of the world economy — oil — could be cut off with a handful of nuclear weapons (think Iran, the Suez Canal and a few Arab ports)….” Tsunami Ripples: A New Strategic Map by Ralph Peters
How the Left Betrayed My Country – Iraq
(9Jan05) “…it came as a shock to us when millions of people began demonstrating across the world against America's build-up to the invasion of our country. We supposed the protests were by people who had no idea about the terrible atrocities that the regime had inflicted upon us for decades. We assumed that once they learned what had happened in Iraq, they would change their minds, or modify their opposition to the war.” So says Iraqi, Naseer Flayih Hasan in How the Left Betrayed My Country – Iraq from frontpage magazine
The nation is quite drunken enough
(7Jan05)“…The Government, whose solution to any social problem is to make it worse, now proposes that the British, having conclusively proved that they cannot (or rather, will not) control themselves, should be granted even more license to make a public nuisance of themselves whenever they feel like it, which is often….” writes Theodore Dalrymple in The nation is quite drunken enough
Religion, Cultural Diversity and Safeguarding Australia
(04Jan05) Since when was this rubbish necessary? Did YOU KNOW about this?You should do, after all it's your tax dollars at work. This is the kind of social engineering that goes on when you're not looking , when we're not paying attention : Religion, Cultural Diversity and Safeguarding Australia
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