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Democrats: the al-Qaeda party of choice... Howard: the politician of no choice

Canberra: Prime Minister John Howard has turned over a new leaf this previous week, criticising an American politician for the first time in his decade long stint in power.

Caught between the influx of mixed emotions commonly referred to as the US presidential race, Howard has proven determined that, "if I hear a policy being advocated that is contrarty to Australia's interests I will criticise it."

Thus, with numerous complex arguements being scattered across the US political scene, Howard has found a gross generalisation to grab and hold on to, namely, "If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray as many times as possible for a victory, not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats."


One senior Bush official retorted unofficially in jest, "If I were fighting a war in Iraq, I would pray that Howard were running the organisation, because then we'd finally have a victory. At least we'd know where to find him!"

Many believe this outbust is derived in the deterioration of Bush's relationship with Howard, Whitehouse spokesperson Tony Snow claiming, George W Bush "hasn't talked to Prime Minister Howard since January 9th."

Reinforcing this line of speculation, a recently leaked piece of Channel 9 footage shows the uncut version of Howard's attack on Obama, "If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray as many times as possible for a victory, not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats. Why don't you call me George?"

n Australia, Political pundits are working overtime trying to read the other possible motivations behind such an outburst. Many believe this is a political ploy to distract election year voters from environmental issues and re-align their focus on the traditional Liberal safehouse of public security.


Many view this motivation with skepticism, despite being reminded of children overboard, tampa, the war in Iraq and the War on Terror proving blockbuster election winners for Howard in the past.

Those on the Labor backbench who are still enthralled in this "conspiracry theory" are working overtime to apply a sense of terror and fear to core Labor issues. Policies such as, 'The axis IR reforms of evil', 'cyclone Osama Bin Laden', 'the drought that's killed the Australian way of life' and the 'terrorists get cheap exports too Free Trade Agreement' have all been met with luke warm receptions.

Kevin Rudd has labelled far more serious allegations against the Prime Minister's "reckless act", "To accuse the Democratic Party of the US of being al-Qaeda's party of choice... is a most serious charge."

Howard has denied casting a broad smear net over "those Democractic hippies", however, his well publicised quote where he requests victory not only for Obama, "but also for the Democrats" proves that Howard has issues with not only his memory, but also lying through his teeth.

Of course mediated.com.au would never make such a claim about lying, it was only focusing on the comment about memory loss.
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Some of my work: Zombie

In a slight change of pace, I thought I'd show the orble community a bit of my own work.

The following is a short film I was involved in during uni. It was the first major short I worked on and is still one of my favourites.

Let me know if you like it, I might just be persuaded to add a couple more online.

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Want to stop 'un-Australianism', then look no further than Saudi Arabia!

The answer is finally here. After days wafting hot air from Canberra, a solution to un-Australian activities has finally be found.

No, I'm not suggesting we should all eat lamb. Nor should we ban flags, embrace flags, create flags or burn flags. Infact, for once, this has nothing to do with a flag at all.

Instead, to ensue that 'misdemeanours' of society appreciate the society they choose to live in, we should look no further than Saudi Arabia.

Todays hot news story was entitled, "Drug user must memorise Koran." A Saudi court has ordered a drug user to spend 6 months memorising the Koran, if he fails, he'll serve an additional 1 year in prison.

What an idea!

If someone refuses to obey a fundamental priciple, we can force feed it until they are indoctrinated!

This got me thinking, in the light of the blatant 'un-Australianess' that we are innevitably having, then surely a solitary speach by Howard is insufficient. Rather, much like the Catholic pentance of hail mary's, we should be running non-stop repeats of the values Australians need to embrace.

For example, as punishment for racism, vilification of others or inciting riots, people have 6 months to memorise the complete works of Banjo Patterson...

as punishment for pub brawling, taxi driver assualting or precociousness, people have 6 months to memories Mark Lathams auto-biography, otherwise they'll spend 1 year in jail...

It's reasonable to avoid forcing the bible as a punishment because Australia prides itself on its secularism (as opposed to the overtly sharian Muslim state of Saudi Arabia), so what other icons of Australian culture do you think should be enforced on nogooders. Re-runs of Dad's country for matricide?

We're definitely on to something here....
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Exclusive: Leaked notes from Cabinet outline keynote points of Howard's Australia day address

Canberra: In a major outrage, it has been revealed that a disgruntled insider of the Howard cabinet (Peter Costello) has leaked the notes from John Howard's address to be given on Australia day.

The leaked document precusors warnings from Victorian police of fears of a Cronulla-style confrontation after being informed about a beach riot being planned on Australia day


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Ban the banning of all bannable items - What a big day out that'd be

Homebush: Politicians have ceased the moment, sharpened the sacrifical sword and prepared to perform a Mel Gibsonesque sacrifice of needlessly bloody proportions.

Their victim


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The random news story for December

[Editorial] When a newspaper article 'No sex please we're Korean' includes the quotation : "Do they really think men buy sex every time they have a dinner party?" The temptation to include it is just far to great.

I'm a touch cautious about milking this for all its worth, especially in light of the recent fiasco. However South Korea deserves it's place in the limelight for it's current iniative


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'ASIO officers are just like you.'

Canberra: The government has spent a reported 1 million dollars in advertising for the recent secret services recruit campaign. The drive, motivated by the growth of Chinese spies, features the image of a shoe, followed by the caption: "To you, this is just a shoe. To an ASIO surveillance officer, it's still just a shoe. ASIO officers are just like you."

Mediated.com.au would like to argue nothing can be further from the truth. ASIO officers are not allowed to carry weapons, unlike anyone over 18 in Australia


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Today's short odds: Harry Potter suicide 6-1 down from 10-1

London: In a strange spate of affairs, J K Rowling's publishes has proven punters will bet on anything by taking bets on which wizard shall claim Harry Potter's illustrious scalp in the final novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrows.

In a stranger set of affairs, the quickest odds to fall are on Harry Potter killing himself, dropping from 10-1 to 6-1 in a matter of days. Lord Voldemort is the red hot favourite at 4-5


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Full strength beer is banned... for the plebs

Melbourne: Full strength beer will not be witnessing Shane Warne's historic 700th test wicket during the fourth ashes match at the MCG this year. Unless it can afford to be drunk by members.

Victoria'a police Superintendant Mick Williams supports the ban stating "Experience shows that if we cut back on full strength alcohol in public areas it makes a huge difference


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Holocaust denier in denial!

Austria:

No more than 24 hours after being released from prison, British holocause denier David Irving has called for further denial of historical enquiry


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