While everyone’s attention yesterday was on the Industrial Commission where the Australian Education Union and the SA government were at loggerheads over a planned 24 hour strike, State Premier Mike Rann was at Aberfoyle Park High School launching a “partnership” between the school and US arms giant Raytheon.
(Nuclear “bunker busters” used by Israelis against Palestinian freedom fighters are made by Raytheon.)
Rann is 100% behind the militarization of the state’s economy, meaning, inevitably, its integration into the US military and industrial complex.
read more »Source: Serve the People
There is a huge public outcry against the Federal Government’s announced $22 million bail-out of failed private child care chain ABC Learning.
No doubt this reflects some of the anger of people around the world at the use of tax payer money to bail out the finance capitalists in the wake of the global financial meltdown.
Some of it is also directed personally at entrepreneurial owner Eddie Groves and his estranged wife Le Neve.
read more »Source: Serve the People
Just what was said between SA Premier Mike Rann and former Labor Federal Senator and SA Labor heavyweight Chris Schacht (left) when they were in China together last month?
The two were part of a South Australian business delegation promoting amongst other things, sales of uranium to the Chinese.
How terribly convenient for Marathon Resources Director Chris Schacht to have the State Premier in tow before a uranium-hungry Chinese audience.
Marathon yesterday announced a 2 for 5 share issue to raise $7.
read more »This was during the decade-long rule of the conservative coalition of John Howard, whose coterie of white supremacist academics and journalists assaulted the truth of recorded genocide in Australia, especially the horrific separations of Aboriginal children from their families.
They deployed arguments not dissimilar to those used by David Irving to promote Holocaust denial.
Smear by media as a precursor to the latest round of repression is long familiar to black Australians.
read more »The following article has been copied from the website of the Progressive Educators (http://www.progressiveeducators.com.
read more »US, global and Australian economies are threatened with meltdown.
Share prices tumble, real estate values fall, economic activity starts drying up, businesses wind back, cost of living goes up and workers are thrown on the scrap heap. Industrial production is winding down.
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