The Tiananmen disturbance had far more to do with the population protesting at the ridiculously high price of cooking oil in China than it did with any notion of democracy. Another case where the "anti-China, anti-Other" West trots out feeble and flawed information for political point scoring. Much like during the "Arab Spring" which was not a cry for democracy within various Arab states but rather due to regime financial losses in the 2008 financial meltdown where the price for basic living food items became too expensive due to the needs of the very rich to keep increasing the prices to keep increasing their income no matter what the social or economic reality. The true story of China is best told by China. More Fuel! Jaiyo!

As a fellow Australian very proud of your work in providing some real truth to the real world, thank you for your great work in journalism, Julian Assange, our very bright young Townsville Queensland boy. You did well and beyond all expectation in showing that the truth does actually matter on Earth, and should be told with alacrity. Well done. A Nobel Prize wouldn't go astray, once the Americans have stopped torturing you. Once Australia acknowledges that you are one of the best of us, and actually does something about it. I doubt Townsville or Australia has changed much in your absence at all, even though you changed everything on such a global scale, and not for the money, but for the human truth. Well done, world citizen.

Prince - Somebody's Somebody

I expect the Australian Labor Party will win next Saturday's Federal election by 8-10 seats.

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I kind of like this phone. it is not the latest superest Huawei, but its a good one. Its about $300AU. I like Huawei and want to support them. Just because the USA hates them because they can't decrypt them and they are much more technologically better er than Apple, last far longer and are much cheaper and less problematic, etc...well, that's a good thing. That's privacy. I have no concerns about being spied on by the Chinese...I get spied on by the Chinese everyday here at home...but being spied on by the USA and Australia is a much more real threat. Especially for someone with my odd political views regarding the militant establishment of the Irish Fitzpatrick Caliphate (and the Levant) here in Melbourne. The Real Problem for Huawei is that they make such fucking good phones.

I kind of like this phone. it is not the latest superest Huawei, but its a good one. Its about $300AU. I like Huawei and want to support them. Just because the USA hates them because they can't decrypt them and they are much more technologically better er than Apple, last far longer and are much cheaper and less problematic, etc...well, that's a good thing. That's privacy. I have no concerns about being spied on by the Chinese...I get spied on by the Chinese everyday here at home...but being spied on by the USA and Australia is a much more real threat. Especially for someone with my odd political views regarding the militant establishment of the Irish Fitzpatrick Caliphate (and the Levant) here in Melbourne. The Real Problem for Huawei is that they make such fucking good phones.

Sad business about Julian Assange, boy from Townsville, unsupported to the Nth degree by his own country's government...taken away simply for showing what the US did in Iraq to innocent people. I'm very disappointed in the Australian Governments. Reminiscent of the Al Jazeera journalist who went with the US troops into an Iraqi mosque as they 'cleared' it with automatic weapons...killed everyone seeking shelter in there. Very clear video photography...American soldier says...hey, this one's not dead...shivering heap of a man on the ground....then 'bang'...yes he is... next day, following the world news report, the Al Jazeera newsroom in Iraq was bombed by the US. Journalism, reporting what actually happens, is a dangerous business indeed.

Sad business about Julian Assange, the incredibly bright boy from Townsville, unsupported to the Nth degree by his own country's government...taken away simply for showing what the US did in Iraq to innocent people. I'm very disappointed in the Australian Governments.
Reminiscent of the Al Jazeera journalist who went with the US troops into an Iraqi mosque as they 'cleared' it with automatic weapons...killed everyone seeking shelter in there. Very clear video photography...American soldier says...hey, this one's not dead...shivering heap of a man on the ground....then 'bang'...yes he is...
next day, following the world news report, the Al Jazeera newsroom in Iraq was bombed by the US.
Journalism, reporting what actually happens, is a dangerous business indeed.