BIG Brother Australia got political last night when evicted housemate Merlin Luck staged a protest against the imprisonment of refugees.

The 24-year-old from Sydney came out of the house with black duct tape over his mouth and holding up a sign saying "Free th Refugees". The sign, made from black tape on a piece of white sheet, had the "e" missing because the letter had fallen off.

he refused to talk to host Gretel Killeen.

"This segment is five minutes long -- are you going to speak at all?" an agitated Killeen asked.

Killeen calmed the audience before being forced to cut to live house footage and a commercial.

During the break Luck's father, Big Brother psychologist Carmel Hill and executive producer Kris Noble tried to get Luck to dump the protest. But he refused.

Luck and his family illegally entered Australia when he was young and were refugees for seven years before his father became an Australian citizen. Luck chose to keep his German citizenship.

Australia has a disgusting attitude towards refugees, hence the protest.

In an exhibit called "Breaking the Silence" more than 80 Israeli soldiers who served in Hebron display photos, videos and testimonies of their experience in the city.

"It is only now that we realize we did some twisted things," said Micha Kurz. "We can't be quiet anymore. We want every soldier to see this and to also talk about it. It must not be allowed to happen."

"I was taught that an eight-year-old child and a 90-year-old woman are first and foremost potential terrorists, then Palestinians, Arabs and only at the end — people."

The soldiers tell of random violence and humiliation for the Palestinians.

One recounts how a comrade of his threw a stun grenade at Palestinian children "just to relieve the boredom." Another tells of how his commander held up a wedding procession during a curfew, stopping the bride and groom, dressed in their best clothes, by taking away their car keys. He smiled as the bride cried.

A board displays more than 60 sets of car keys. A small sign underneath says "In the West Bank, confiscating car keys is a common form of punishment."

"The day you arrive, a little Jewish boy comes to bring coffee and thanks you for defending him, and the next day you are patrolling and you see the same boy with a group of other children throwing stones and beating with sticks an old Palestinian."

The actual interrogators accused of encouraging U.S. troops to abuse Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail were working for at least one company with extensive military and commercial contacts with Israel. The head of an American company whose personnel are implicated in the Iraqi tortures, it now turns out, attended an "anti-terror" training camp in Israel and, earlier this year, was presented with an award by Shaul Mofaz, the right-wing Israeli defense minister.

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In a little-noticed development amid Iraq's prison abuse scandal, the U.S. military is holding dozens of Iraqis as bargaining chips to put pressure on their wanted relatives to surrender. These detainees are not accused of any crimes, and their detention violates the Geneva Conventions and other international laws.

For example U.S. troops wanted Jeanan Moayad's father. When they couldn't find him, they took her husband in his place.

Dhafir Ibrahim has been in U.S. custody for nearly four months.

Military officials have told her that he will be released when her father surrenders. Her father is a scientist and former Baath party member who fled to Jordan soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.

I predict that there will be a serious crime committed today in the city YOU live in. I can't say where, when, why, who or how, but it's a credible threat.

Keep the population in fear.

"Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," The Business newspaper said, adding that a "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works, quoting orders from Donald Rumsfeld.

It's okay to torture prisoners so long as evidence isn't leaked to the press.

U.S. soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee moments before setting their two attack dogs on him.





Two American soldiers pose next to a pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners - just a bit of harmless fun.

ABC's "Nightline" program on Friday broadcast the names and photographs of 721 American soldiers killed in Iraq, sparking outrage from conservatives who called it anti-war propaganda.

A media company whose executives have been strong supporters of President Bush, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., barred its ABC-affiliated stations from airing the "Nightline" broadcast, calling it a political statement that failed to give all sides of the story.

Sinclair company president David Smith responded that ABC "has adopted a strategy employed by numerous anti-war demonstrators who wish to focus attention solely on the cost of war." He said Sinclair stations would replace "Nightline" with "a balanced report addressing both sides of this controversy."

American soldiers stand behind a pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad

President Bush has said "not the way we do things in America" [...but it's okay in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq]

Last week, when Al Jazeera reported that hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed by U.S. forces in Fallujah, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called it "vicious, inaccurate, outrageous and inexcusable." - Fox News

In this recent article Fox News accused Al Jazeera of being in league with the terrorists in Iraq because of its "ubiquitous presence at news events in Iraq" and since it "often has the first video of hostages."

The same article states "the U.S.-led coalition says it has documented 34 instances last week alone of Al Jazeera hyping, misreporting or distorting events in Iraq."

For a start Al Jazeera never claimed "hundreds of thousands" - it claimed up to 500.

Secondly, when you actually have reporters on the ground you will generally tend to be the first to report news, rather than those sitting behind the highly fortified walls of the American compounds.

The last statement speaks for itself. Here's a small sample of the US Administration's hyping, misreporting or distorting facts about Iraq.

Click more for a list of Rupert Murdoch's other media companies.

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Police made three arrests at the Massey Park in Tampa, Florida. All were charged with trespassing after ignoring repeated warnings not to feed the homeless without a permit.

James Ronald Dunson, 19, Christopher Robert Ernesto, 40, and Amberly Nicole Banks, 22, were arrested. Dunson faces an additional charge of resisting an officer without violence when he went limp, forcing the officers to pick him up to make the arrest.

Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin said the three left officers little choice.

``We've given them plausible alternatives; however, they refuse to comply with the law,'' he said. ``The police have gone to great lengths to provide them with information on where the feeding can be done legally.''

So much for Christian Charity in the most Christian Fundamentalist state. Jesus didn't need a permit!

Rapper of Public Enemy, rapstar beats lover
With the headline of a fucked up cover
Out the pot to the plate New York Post
get your story straight motherfucker
It always seems that they make our neighborhood look bad
Here's a letter to the New York Post
Ain't worth the paper it's printed on
Founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton
That is 190 years continuous of fucked up news
-Public Enemy

I try to avoid the New York Post as far as possible, since it is written by morons for morons. An example I was unfortunate to see from today:

We've forgotten the arithmetic of patriotic battle: That it's better for a hundred of them to die than for one of us to die.
We owe that to these young men in uniform, and we owe it to their families and sweethearts back home.
It is better for a B-52 to flatten an Iraqi neighborhood than it is for one United States Marine to die. It is better to roll tanks down a foreign street than it is to put an American soldier in his grave.

Get your story straight motherfucker.

A new Hollywood movie called "The Few" is a true story about American Billy Fiske - played by Cruise - who single-handedly won the Battle of Britain.

It'll be a true to life story, omitting only the insignificant details such as the fact that Bully Fiske never actually shot anything down, and was himself shot down by a German Stuka in 1940.

Hollywood has a habit of ignoring facts to glorify the deeds of Americans. In the 2000 film U-571, US seamen recovered an Enigma code machine from a sinking German submarine and changed the course of World War II. Enigma was in fact retrieved by the British crew of HMS Bulldog before the USA even entered the war.

The Americans truly are the world's greatest revisionists.