7 Brilliant Gough Whitlam Quotes That Are Still Relevant Today. At 92, I was arrested for protesting against mining. I'm glad I took a stand | Bill Ryan. Yesterday, I joined about 150 others in a demonstration to occupy parts of the area being developed by Whitehaven Coal, who have set up amazing machinery to destroy the Leard State Forest. We left early in the morning in a convoy with the intention of getting into the site so we could stop work for the day. It was a rough ride to the worksite, but we survived it, and eventually were able to get in. They had a very strong contingent of security people, but we managed to occupy the site for hours. Eventually the police arrived, and starting arresting people, including me. I was taken into police custody and charged with trespassing.
I was treated fairly well by the police, no doubt in consideration of my age and health. I expected to be arrested. Out here, the farmers have been protesting for years about the threat of the destruction of the Leard Forest to give way to a mega-mine, which will produce about 13.5m tonnes of coal each year. Otherwise, what is the future for my children? Role of Israel andSoros Exposed by MH370 Twin Jet in Tel Aviv. BANGKOK - It is by no mere coincidence, when telltale evidence of a Mossad role in the MH370 hijack was starting to snowball, that Israel's embassies and consulates were suddenly shut down due to a "strike by diplomatic staff". This fork-tongued alibi was obviously meant to prevent law enforcement agencies across Asia and the Western world from questioning Israeli intelligence agents and military attaches about the whereabouts and fate of the hundreds of passengers.
The Jewish state's diplomatic corps has retreated further into a tortoise shell, perhaps because of the hammer blow from investigative journalist Christopher Bollyn, who previously exposed Israel's hand behind the 911 attacks. Based on eyewitness reports from a network of plane watchers in Europe and in Israel, Bollyn reports that an identical production model of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 is being kept out of regular service inside a hangar at Tel Aviv Airport. Bait and Swtich Going Boeing: We Know Why We're Here. AFRICOM Goes to War on the Sly. Senegalese forces train with U.S. Marines. The U.S. military is now conducting exercises and operations with virtually every African military. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Flickr) What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things — especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.
For years, U.S. I recently experienced this phenomenon myself during a media roundtable with Lieutenant General Thomas Bostick, commander of the U.S. The only thing Bostick seemed eager to tell me about were vague plans to someday test a prototype “structural insulated panel-hut,” a new energy-efficient type of barracks being developed by cadets at the U.S. Fast forward a few weeks and Captain Rick Cook, the chief of U.S.
Cook was one of three U.S. military construction officials who, earlier this month, spoke candidly about the Pentagon’s efforts in Africa to men and women from URS Corporation, AECOM, CH2M Hill, and other top firms. Pay to Play.
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