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A GANG called Rule The Streets has allegedly committed gang rapes and used nine-year-olds as drug couriers in Adelaide's northern suburbs, Parliament has been told (by Ann Bressington, MLC). News article here
Interesting that although "everyone" knows ot the existence and power of this dangerour RTS street gang movement, including the local police, our Police Minister and Senior Police are keen to play down the situation and even claim they cannot investigate without more confirmed information. Whose side are they on?
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5374528.html
Published: September 20, 2004, 10:23 AM PDT
By Brendon Chase
What seems to be a blunder by the Motion Picture Association of America in its hunt for online pirates has prompted Linux Australia to contact its legal representatives and warn of a possible breach of Australian law.
Linux Australia President Pia Smith told Builder AU that the MPAA had issued the organization a notice of claimed infringement, demanding that the group cease providing access to two copyrighted movies--one called "Grind" and the other "Twisted"--and ordering it to "take appropriate action against the account holder."
However, the files in question had nothing to do with those movies. The file labeled Twisted is a download of the popular framework written in Python, and Grind refers to a download of Valgrind, a tool for developers to locate memory management.
The MPAA has no legal rights over this software. The agency did not return Builder AU's calls regarding the matter.
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"Linux Australia is concerned that this kind of shoot-in-the-dark approach to copyright protection is potentially damaging for Australian organizations and companies".
Comment: This is the type of abuse that could become rife if the Free Trade Agreement with the US is enacted.
August 17, 2004 - 7:29AM http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/17/1092508420476.html
The astonishing thing to me is not the headlina and first paragraph but the subsequent:
"The Morgan poll found 45 per cent of electors believed Mr Howard did not mislead the public over the reasons for going to war, while seven per cent were undecided.
The poll, conducted last Thursday, found 46 per cent of electors did not think there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the war, while 38 per cent believed there were and 16 per cent were undecided."
It seems that it is true that " you can fool some of the people ALL of the time".
The Sunday Mail August 15th page 30
Trish Worth has three times accepted an invitation to attend a meeting of her electors concerned about the "City-West Bypass" and on every occasion has failed to appear. Perhaps she has given up the possibilty of being reelected and therefore can't be bothered? Whatever the reason for her rudeness it isn't acceptable.
By Ross Peake Political Correspondent
Tuesday, 17 August 2004
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=national&category=general%20news&story_id=328953&y=2004&m=8
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"Mr Scrafton confirmed he had been effectively gagged during the Government 's internal inquiry into the affair, and pointed to political pressures not to tell the truth."
Oh, Dear! It doesn't get better, does it?
09:49 AEST Wed Aug 18 2004
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=14630
"[...]
The former head of the defence department's public affairs and corporate
communication division, Jenny McKenry, backed Mr Scrafton's version of events.
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She said people such as Mr Scrafton, who worked under tight laws for ministerial advisers and parliamentary staff, "were quite clearly told they were not free to give any evidence or comments about this whole issue".
Mr Scrafton has since passed a lie detector test."
And many people still think Howard is a sound and trusted Leader. Hmmm.
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