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Below is an abridged August 19 statement by Israeli human rights organisation B聮Tselem.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the US ambassador in Caracas, Patrick Duddy, to leave the country within 72 hours on September 11.

Thirty people gathered at the Governor of Hindmarsh Hotel for the second Politics in the Pub hosted by the Socialist Alliance on September 11. The topic 鈥 鈥淐an we solve the water crisis?鈥 鈥 was addressed by Peter Laffan, chair of the Save our Gulf Coalition, and Bernie Laidlaw of the Socialist Alliance.

The dumping or resignation of half a dozen ministers from the NSW Labor government over the last fortnight 鈥 brought on by internal warfare over the cabinet鈥檚 refusal to scrap its electricity privatisation plan 鈥 has still not convinced the new premier and ALP power-brokers to drop the plan altogether.
The below statement is from the Mineral Policy Institute, .
The Fairfax Media workers鈥 strike on August 28-31 signalled growing troubles in the Australian media industry.
Building The Revolutionary Party: Jim Percy Selected Writings 1980-1987
Resistance Books, 2008
212 pages, $20
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Hollywood聮s Censor: Joseph I. Breen & The Production Code Administration
By Thomas Doherty
Columbia University Press, 2007
427 pages, $49.95 (hb)
The Wall Street 聯socialists聰 are at it again 聴 with another big-government takeover of privately owned firms, aimed at protecting the rich by extorting money from working people.
On September 5, the government鈥檚 climate change adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, released his recommendations for medium-term cuts to Australian greenhouse gas emissions.
Eight hundred unionists and supporters protested outside the Geelong Magistrates鈥 Court on September 12, as Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) official Noel Washington appeared, charged with refusing to cooperate with the Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC).
Women seeking a termination of their pregnancy during the second trimester, and beyond, may be denied access to Medicare funding if Tasmanian Senator Guy Barnett is successful in his bid to axe funding for abortions after the 14th week of pregnancy. Currently, women seeking an abortion are covered under the Medicare scheme up until 26 weeks of pregnancy.