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Ever the arty Autie

An interview with autistic FC pioneer

Richard Attfield is a fellow autistic artist and one of the authors featured in Autism and The Myth of The Person Alone edited by Doug Biklen. He was one of the first people with autism in the UK to

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Ethical investment opportunities

We often feel that as one person there is little we can do to help equalise the world, reduce the suffering and hardship of the poorest and most disempowered people in the 3rd world or do anything to stop wars or combat global warming.

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Who will stop this war of lies?

The world held its breath. Americans held hope. George Bush, the Texas cowboy, still somehow thinks he’s got it right when 70% of Americans are certain he’s wrong.

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What do John Howard and Robert Mugabe have in common?

Click here to find out.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=27926

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Interview with humanitarian and author, Nick Fourikis.

DONNA WILLIAMS:
Hi Nick. We met recently over email and you kindly sent me a copy of Hollywood, Amarroo. It’s a very provocative book.
Could you tell the readers a bit about what compelled you to write it?

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Congratulations Four Corners - the possible exposure of a war crime by the Australian Government.

Congratulations Four Corners.The US government may have gagged Australian, David Hicks, illegally imprisoned for five years, tortured and kept in solitary confinement for something that was no crime when arrested nor any crime under Australian law, but you, Four Corners, you have been a voice of the voiceless.

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Phillip Ruddock’s foot-in-mouth episode re David Hicks.

Our friend and wonderfully sharp, witty, blogger, Chris Borthwick, wrote an interesting entry about Phillip Ruddock’s foot-in-mouth episode regarding the illegal detention of David Hicks.

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Buying the Presidency

Some people in the non-USA world view America as a whole as having money as its God.
If the president is the largest power in people’s lives next to God
and if they give him the power of life and death as they believe God has
then what do we make of the fact that George […]

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David Hicks the political pawn - Toying with the bug collection.

When a man who even the prosecutor’s agree never fired a shot in anger is charged with attempted murder, then I guess we can only imagine the lovely staff of Guantamo must have been playing tiddly winks over hot chocolate with David Hicks these last 5 years.

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Indigenous place names - Reading between the lines.

In Wales, the English ignorantly renamed Welsh villages, towns and cities with all manner of Anglicizations and titles which swept over the rich native Welsh history of these places. The subtle but pervasive inherent racism of these policies was finally addressed and amends were made, replacing all new signs with bilingual ones which […]

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