Casualties of war on truth
The News Review:
- Casualties of war on truth
- A whiff of the wild ways
- Yorkshire heroes enjoy life on centre stage
- O’Donoghue has fresh Spur to succeed
- The Military Family Network
Casualties of war on truth
NEWS.com.au - May 26, 2007
yet ASIO’s record for catching home-grown traitors was abysmal. Reed says foreign intelligence agents "circle like sharks" in the hope of exploiting the disenchantment many agency people feel when they see senior, talented, experienced intelligence officers passed over for promotion in favour of bureaucrats who have no intelligence experience but are sensitive to what the Government wants. Neither ASIO (the domestic service meant to stop foreign spies, terrorists and home-grown traitors operating on our soil) nor ASIS (our overseas intelligence-gathering agency) is headed by anyone who’s worked in intelligence. Reed says the clear inference is that nobody from the inside is worthy of the top job. The opposite was true: talent was available — but ignored. In the diplomatic service there’s a similar pattern of appointments — but of "redundant politicians" rather than politically compliant bureaucrats, as was demonstrated recently by former senator Amanda Vanstone’s appointment as ambassador to Rome. Like ex-senator Robert Hill’s appointment to New York as UN ambassador, Reed says it came as a "punch in the guts" to career diplomats.
A whiff of the wild ways
Hindu - May 26, 2007
Here you take morning walks with Savannah the cheetah and Churbi the lioness, visit the cheetah and lion breeding centres. Have a lovely porcupine as dinner companion. You do the night safari on an open vehicle and spot bush babies, stroke Jessica, the home-grown hippo. Learn to play African drums from Jacks, the friendly ranger, and devour pip-free African oranges. And then return to Johannesburg through the spectacular Drackensburg mountains. “Is it safe?” people ask. Sure you’ll be more secure at home behind locked doors, punching the remote for Animal Planet or Nat-Geo, but boy, you will miss out on a lot of fun.
Yorkshire heroes enjoy life on centre stage
Yorkshire Post Today - May 26, 2007
uk%2ftemplate%2fviewarticle. THE phrase “a strong Yorkshire means a strong England” hardly applies nowadays seeing that the county team is made up of almost as many foreign imports as home-grown players. But it certainly rang true during the Headingley Test of 2000, when England defeated the West Indies inside two days inspired by Yorkshire’s Darren Gough, Craig White and Michael Vaughan. It was the fourth Test of a five-match series and the teams travelled to Leeds with the score at 1-1. What happened next will live in the memories of all who witnessed it as England recorded the first two-day Test win for 54 years, and their first since defeating South Africa at Old Trafford in 1912. White, who three months earlier had fallen unconscious in a Scarborough street, got the ball rolling with 5-57 on the opening day – his first five-wicket haul in his 11th Test… After England had been reduced to 124-6 early on the second day, Vaughan and Graeme Hick, the latter batting at No 8 after Andrew Caddick had been employed as a nightwatchman, added 98 – vital runs in the context of the match. Wisden commented: “On the second morning, the match swung England’s way. Vaughan, on his home midden and batting in the scholarly, slightly formal manner of a country parson, made a Test-best 76. Hick contributed 59 and England ended with a first innings lead of exactly 100. “Not wishing to be outshone by his county colleagues, Gough then produced a decisive spell of bowling that left the West Indies’ second innings in shreds. Operating from the Football Stand end, where the bounce had proved awkward, he sent back three left-handers with in-duckers in his first three overs. Adrian Griffith and Wavell Hinds both fell first ball and Brian Lara was removed leg-before without playing a shot for the second time in the game.
O’Donoghue has fresh Spur to succeed
Belfast Telegraph - May 26, 2007
"London have four players lining out who were born in the UK and their reliance on players coming over from Ireland is waning by the year. "It’s indicative of the changing trends in society. Emigration is obviously no longer rife - hasn’t been for years - so we now find we have to depend rather more on home-grown talent," says Dunning. When Leitrim travelled to London earlier this year, the Connacht side returned with a narrow win and skipper John McKeon stresses that experience will ensure there is no complacency on their behalf this time around. "We had our eyes opened then. It was a very tough match, but we have learnt a lot from it and that will stand to us on Sunday," said the Leitrim skipper. In tomorrow’s Leinster SFC replay, former Monaghan ace Eamonn McEnaney is hoping that the Louth side he manages can dish out a dose of the blues to the legendary Mick O’Dwyer.
The Military Family Network
eMilitary.org - May 26, 2007
Officials said its newest missile — the solid-fueled, transportable Df-31 — could be used if needed. About 900 Chinese missiles are in place opposite Taiwan, compared with 710 to 790 missiles in late 2005. China is developing home-grown advanced aviation and shipbuilding capabilities, and buying foreign