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SydWalker.Info is a personal website. I live in tropical Australia near Cairns. I oppose war, plutocracy, injustice, sectarian supremacism and apartheid. I support urgent action to achieve genuine sustainability and a fair and prosperous society for all. I rely upon - and support - free speech as defined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (see below).

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"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers"

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Imagine news
Aug 30th, 2010 by Syd Walker

Imagine over Sydney

Imagine over Sydney: photo by Kate Asmussen via ABC website

Imagine there’s no News Corp
It’s easy if you try
No Times to screw us
No lousy Sun or Sky
Imagine all the media
Caring for the truth

Imagine there’s no Fox News
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no Australian too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

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Perhaps they’ll listen now?
Aug 29th, 2010 by Syd Walker

This morning I woke up thinking of my old friend Huw Davies, who took his own life in early 1994.

Huw Davies

Huw Davies: via PhotoAccess, Canberra

Huw was a talented art photographer and ‘life artist’.

His friends adored him for his kindness, his compassion, his amazing energy and above all for a wonderful sense of humour.

About a year before his death, I had an intense debate with Huw about prospects for humanity. I took the optimist side, arguing we’re not only part of creation, but a special and significant part – for all our faults and weaknesses.

Huw – in blacker mood than I’d  seen him before – countered that humans are more like a lethal virus. I clearly remember him saying that if humans ever truly escape from the bounds of this planet, we’ll screw up the rest of the universe too.

I still can’t agree with Huw about that. Yet 15 years on, it’s hard to adduce much evidence he was wrong. I don’t think Huw believed all humans as intrinsically evil. His point was about the powerful (those most likely to head for the stars).

Perhaps our outward progress is stalled until we develop the wisdom to coexist and co-evolve?

I wish Huw was still around to continue the discussion.

In the last years of his life, Huw Davies developed a style for retouching photos by fingerpainting. The similarity with the painting style of Vincent Van Gogh was obvious. Somewhat later, he became intensely depressed and took his own life, like Vincent before him.

Applying Scientific Method to the Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense
Aug 13th, 2010 by Syd Walker

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All Aboard the Mavi Marmara
Aug 8th, 2010 by Syd Walker

The world will not go back to sleep again, Gaza.

More ships are on the way

Even Israeli brutality at its worst has not scared off the brave activists who flock from around the world to support freedom and justice for Gazans – and for Palestinians as a whole.

“All Aboard the Mavi Marmara”, an inspiring protest song by David Rovics in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, is the sound track for a moving and informative video.

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Senational new leak: Rudd blamed for internet filter!
Aug 4th, 2010 by Syd Walker

Exclusive new ‘Leak of the Week’ special

Julia Gillard blames Kevin Rudd for a policy designed by “fools, crims and spooks”, according to a source located somewhere in far north Queensland.

Julia Gillard and Cairns blogger Michael Moore

Julia Gillard with Cairns blogger Michael Moore: new talent?

Referring to Senator Conroy’s ‘mandatory internet censorship scheme’, Ms Gillard is clearly furious she’s has been set up by “very silly boys” in the Rudd Government.

Julia Gilard and Jim Turnour

Julia Gillard & MP Jim Turnour: who's leaking?

My source informs me Gillard knows full well she has to fix this mess before the election – and that the crucial Communications Portfolio must be run by a competent woman if she wins.

“It’s no job for a boy!” the exasperated Gillard is rumoured to have murmured.

In a rare moment of candour, while appearing to relax in tropical foliage surrounded by birdsong and noisy frog mating calls, the new Prime Minister hinted she knows what deep trouble Labor has got itself into over the widely reviled and creepy ‘mandatory internet filter’ policy.

But in a senational new revelation, my source suggests Gillard is still trying to find the testicular fortitude to stand up to the Zionist Lobby, ASIO and powerful mass media interests, all of whom have long regarded the ALP leadership as compliant poodles.

SMH internet censorship opinion poll

A recent SMH internet censorship opinion poll: Rudd's psephologists told him not to worry

Exotic, cosmic and pink
Aug 2nd, 2010 by Syd Walker

One great thing about the 21st century: humanity can appreciate the cosmos like never before.

Along with increasingly affordable high-powered telescopes, a new artistic field has come into being: astrophotography.

Connecticut-based Robert Gendler is one of the best atsrophotographers in the world; his work has been featured 63 times on NASA’s Astronomy Photo of the Day website.

Gendler’s latest APOD contribution is this succulent image of the Triffid Nebula. Cosmic eye-candy. Enjoy!

The Triffid Nebula; photo by Robert Gendler

The Triffid Nebula; photo by Robert Gendler

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Suzanne Vega: collaborator with inhumanity
Jul 31st, 2010 by Syd Walker

Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega: a sad disappointment

Suzanne Vega, whom I’d fondly imagined over decades to be an intelligent and humane individual, apparently hasn’t got the message: playing in segregationalist Israel is no game!

Ms Vega cheapened herself this year in the eyes of many fans by performing in the Zionist State and giving comfort to its Jewish supremacists, desperate to avoid cultural isolation from a world community that’s lost patience with Israeli malevolence.

How many shekels was it worth, Suzanne?

Not for the first time within the last year, an aging rock star has performed in worse-than-Apartheid Israel and breached the growing global cultural boycott. How sad!

The days of cost-free collaboration with worse-than-Apartheid Israel are over. I hope you get heckled at your concerts, Suzanne. If I ever get to one again, I’ll heckle you myself.

These posters by the brilliant young artist Carlos Latuff illustrate the case for boycotting Israel.

They may not impress jaded cynics, but will help inspire a new, less corrupt generation of musicians and poets…

Dont play in worse-than-Apartheid Israel! (illustration by Carlos Latuff)

Dont play in worse-than-Apartheid Israel! (illustration by Carlos Latuff)

More like this at the DesertPeace website.

Boycott Israeli goods!

Boycott Israeli goods! (illustration by Carlos Latuff)

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Oz election new leak EXCLUSIVE!!!
Jul 28th, 2010 by Syd Walker

Laurie Oakes

Laurie Oakes: likes a leak

The minor curfuffle over Laurie Oakes’ latest leak revelation – coming fast on the heels of Chris Uhlmann’s leak expose following Oakes’ previously announced leak – has obscured the really big leak which this blog is proud to bring to a breathless Australian public.

It’s a world exclusive.

Chris Uhlmann

Chris Uhlmann: ABC leak expert

According to an anonymous Canberra insider, Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott recently told a top-secret meeting of his election team to avoid discussing the Gillard Government’s Internet censorship plans.

The Coalition would love to gain extra votes by opposing this irrational, authoritarian and highly unpopular Labor policy – but Abbott’s high-level contacts in the mass media and security agencies told him to shut up and conform” the source explained, on condition of  anonymity.

Abbott apparently urged his colleagues to “get elected!”

[Laurie Joakes and Chris Buhllman are senior member of the highly respected Canberra Press Gallery with virtually unlimited credibility]

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The Luddites are running!
Jul 18th, 2010 by Syd Walker

Who said Australian politics are boring?

Australian Luddite Party

Australian Luddite Party

This year, a Luddite party is running for office.

According to bookmakers, it’s likely to win.

For further details visit the Australian Luddite Party‘s website – appropriately decked out in patriotic red, white and blue.

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2010: e. e. cummings updated
Jul 10th, 2010 by Syd Walker

A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a woman

(With honourable exceptions)

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