With a nod and a wink at his Iranian backers (the main "winners" in the U.S. invasion of Iraq), Iraqi "Prime Minister" Nuri al-Maliki prepares to announce which foreign cartel has won lucrative contracts to develop key oil and gas fields, nearly four decades after the Baath party nationalised the country's energy sector. And while 4.7 million Iraqis - almost 20 per cent of Iraq’s pre-war population - remain displaced, al-Maliki also locks down Baghdad so that mercenaries, PR agents and U.S. military honchos can celebrate the "withdrawal" of U.S. forces from Baghdad and other Iraqi towns and villages. Oh, really?

The Great Australian Dream has slithered down
the well greased pole of opportunity.
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Bodily fluids exuded by the western media.
Unilateral and illegitimate military actions, the
uncontained hyper-use of force, the disdain for
the Howardman.
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Collect your pensions up in Heaven.
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Darkness falls upon a broken mind, wrecked by
the toxic offspring of The Church of Chaos.
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Please help us. Here it is like hell.

And fire shall consume the tabernacles of empty
adoration as we enter the dark sewers of bestial
rejoicing. Ain't no need to go clothed with shame
and with songs of national vainglory from dry,
parched lips of sin.
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Hitler wanted “lebensraum.”

Netanyahu wants “natural growth.”

What’s the difference?

Max Gross taps into his animal instincts and reports on the last gasp of the o­nly remaining descendent of the Dodo: the fabulous Costellobird.

Prime Minster Rudd has suffered a double-whammy over his lack of support for rapidly deteriorating Schapelle Corby.Prime Minster Rudd has suffered a double-whammy over his lack of support for rapidly deteriorating Schapelle Corby.