Archive for May 29th, 2007

exclusive brethren under investigation for election advertising

29May07

The Electoral Commission has finally referred the matter of the Exclusive Brethren cult’s involvement in the funding of pro-Government election ads at the last election to the Australian Federal Police.   A company linked to the cult spent more on pro-Government, anti-Greens advertising than the Australian Conservation Foundation or the Wilderness Society spent on their ads.  […]

gall

29May07

This is an extraordinary story which gives some real insight into the Bush White House - while the Attorney General lies in hospital gravely ill and hallucinating, Bush’s political heavies show up to try to force him to sign off on a piece of legislation that would grant extraordinary powers to intelligence agencies to spy […]