Comments on: It’s speech night at the UN summit: Gaddafi goes off

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:19:08 +0000

Today’s item 17, and I quote in case the Libyan is onto something?!, what a hoot:

Professor Peter Collignon, of the Clinical School at the Australian National University, writes:

In 1976, a small group of soldiers at Fort Dix in the US were infected with a swine flu virus. It had an apparent high mortality rate and was deemed similar to the virus responsible for the great 1918-19 worldwide flu pandemic. The US government initiated an unprecedented effort to immunise every American against swine flu. More than 40 million Americans received the vaccine — but the disease never spread to the population.

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:36:30 +0000

The abc reported some things about his speech omitted here - that the security council should not have a veto. That more people have died in wars since WW2 than during it and the UN failed to prevent them.

The notion that Africa has been plundered by cynical colonialist commercial interests feeding off localised wars is also not that novel actually. Also the article doesn’t mention his current tenure chosen to lead the African Union for one year.

There is no analysis about how his quixotic or even perverse speech might have been shaped to appease disparate interests there. Who for instance in the UN gives a flying proverbial about “Western Sydney” in PM Rudd’s speech?

Even so we can be sure Rudd was voted for unlike the Libyan.

By: michael crook

michael crook — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:46:36 +0000

I agree with Gaddafi, the Iraq war was, is, a war crime and the perpetrators including our own beloved John Winston, should certainly be facing an international war crimes tribunal. I recently heard Rupert Murdoch being compared to Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister for Propaganda, Murdoch certainly did his job of selling the war very well. Should he also face trial? How come when we commit war crimes its ok and when “they” do it it becomes terrorism.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:24:18 +0000

Just who is minding the country?

I thought that totally hot ranga chick was in charge.

Can you say “totally hot”? I seem to remember reading somewhere…