About 20 protestors in Brisbane took their anti-war protest to bank profiteers, Australia-NewZealand Bank, in Brisbane.

tracks:

1. Karl-Erik Paasonen from Friends of the Earth talks about the history of corporate profiteeriing in Iraq. 6:42

2. Karl-Erik Paasonen cont' 3:30

3. Robin Taubenfeld from the Anti-Bases Coalition talks about the prosepect for defacto US bases in Queensland, and 'Talisman Sabre 2005' joint US-Australian miltiary training in happening in June thie year in Shoalwater Bay, near Townsville. 4:32

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz (101.1 fm / www.freakradio.org) interviews Chris Toensing of The Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org) about the Iraq elections on January 30th. Chris Toensing is the Executive Director of MERIP and the editor of The Middle East Report.

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Amy Goodman Speaks in Dublin

Special coverage of the Iraq elections brought to you by streamtime.org and free Amsterdam radio http://www.VrijeKeyser.TK

First file, iraq-election-special.mp3 is the mostly complete 4 hour archive.

The second file is a sequence of english excerpts compiled by lotus of http://radioActiveradio.org

More info here:
http://radio.indymedia.org/node/3465

In the 1980s and 90s the nation's assets were sold off at bargain basement prices, generally into foreign ownership. The nation's oil and gas resources, vast tracts of forest, the railways, and Telecom all went. For the small elite of right wing businessmen, public servants and politicians behind this transformation, privatisation were just a part of a wider agenda to turn New Zealand into a model free market state.