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Hu Jia was arrested in his dining room, two days after Christmas
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Fears for rights as Beijing 2008 nears
By Michael Bristow
© BBC News MMVIII,
Beijing 2008/01/02
A few days ago, about 30 police officers broke into the home of Chinese activist Hu Jia and took him away.
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Lakota Land
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LAKOTA: A Free People, A Free Nation!
29.12.2007 Pravda
What began as sparsely attended press conference announcing Lakota sovereignty has grown into an international roar of freedom inspiring people on every continent and sparking excitement and discussion in homes, tribal councils, schools, and on internet blogs and message boards.
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Sun sets on two-year expiry, but Cronulla riot laws to stay
Andrew Clennell State Political Editor
SMH, November 14, 2007
LAWS introduced after the Cronulla riots, which enable police to close streets with roadblocks; stop and search people and cars, and close pubs will be made permanent and expanded.
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A quality most strained, by power
Christos Tsiolkas
SMH, November 3, 2007
"I think this is a very hard choice, but the price … we think the price is worth it." The former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, on being asked by the journalist Lesley Stahl whether sanctions against Iraq were worth the deaths of half a million Iraqi children, 60 Minutes, 1996.
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Police to get power to spy without warrant
Andrew Clennell State Political Editor
SMH, October 25, 2007
POLICE and other investigative bodies will be able to bug or track people for up to five days without needing a warrant, under legislation the State Government describes as "the biggest ever shake-up of surveillance laws in NSW law enforcement history".
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Democracy: some don't want it, many don't care
John Keane
October 11, 2007
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Some unwelcome news: an election is on its way, but everywhere the dog days of democracy are over. Colder, mean-spirited times are coming. Disaffection with conventional parliamentary politics is growing, but something much more sinister can be detected around the world: bellyaching against democracy itself.
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Oh! What a Lovely War on Terror - it's the number the arms dealers love
The biggest threat to our freedoms comes not from al-Qaida but from the security bureaucrats and their cronies
Simon Jenkins
Friday September 14, 2007
The Guardian
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How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves
A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the economic debate, and now we are dealing with the catastrophic effects
George Monbiot
Tuesday August 28, 2007
The Guardian
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A woman of courage
Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who has been detained by Burma's military regime for nearly 20 years, is a true hero for our times, writes the chancellor, Gordon Brown, in this extract from his new book
Monday April 16, 2007
The Guardian
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Councillor Chris Harris
At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party âindependentsâ and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]
I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the Cityâs tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]
Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction. The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]
The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the cityâs western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd.
One key component of the [...]
At a council meeting of the City of Sydney on 22nd February Clover Moore Party
members and the Liberal councilor voted in tandem to donate public ratepayer funds to two private enterprises setting up in the Cityâs laneways.
The first donation to set up a new bar was approved outright.  The second grant, to the Moran Arts Foundation Ltd, was recommended [...]
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