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Australia rejects obama's abstain / non-veto of the UN vote on israeli settlements

Australia rejects

Sounds about right, a whole island full of 'em.

In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel did not need to be "lectured" to by foreign leaders and that he looked forward to working with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to pursue more pro-Israeli policies.

Israel also recalled its ambassador to New Zealand for "consultations" after it co-sponsored the resolution, which argued the settlements had "no legal validity and [constituted] a flagrant violation under international law".

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You have been Warned!

"The time has come when we've got to think big if we're going to face the big issues of our time,", "We're going to have to be prepared to think about changes that are quite radical." That comment was greeted with a round of applause. Then he began to elaborate, advocating nuclear power and the abolishment of governments, Mr Hawke told those assembled.

So you have 13 parliaments [including senates] dealing with much the same issues and I believe that the simple fact is nation states should be abolished.

Nuclear power would be an essential part of the attacking on the environment and that must be made on this grievous and dangerous global warming environmental behavior" he said.

He said it would be "a win for our Aboriginal brothers and sisters" and provide the federal government with the funds to address "the greatest stain" on its character: "the great gaps that exist between our spending and revenue", and the rest of the nation?

Seriously, keep the one government that costs as much as all the others combined, plus whore out a large section of pristene environment to countries everywhere to hold the worlds largest toxic stain-pit for a bit of extra pocket-money..