JANUARY2007

Poland's most celebrated journalist and non-fiction writer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, has died in Warsaw, aged 74, after a serious illness.

He made his name in Africa in the 1960s, where he was the Polish Press Agency's only foreign correspondent. He wrote widely on wars and dictators, chronicling the last days' of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and the Shah of Iran. He also wrote books on the fall of the Soviet Union and Central America.

Born in Pinsk, now in Belarus, in 1932, he studied history and joined the Polish Press Agency in the late 1950s.

Sent abroad in 1959, he was given the job of covering Africa single-handed for the Polish press, travelling widely across the continent and reporting on a number of wars. He also reported from countries in Asia and South America, witnessing 27 coups or revolutions in all.

From 1974, he wrote for the weekly Kultura, a period during which he began to gain an international reputation for his books The Emperor, on the fall of Haile Selassie, and Shah of Shahs. He also wrote The Football War, an account of the border war between Honduras and El Salvador.His final book, Travels with Herodotus, came out two years ago. He also published several volumes of poetry.

Kapuscinski became a foreign correspondent in 1962

Jan21.2007
Spain versus European Commission

The Spanish government is refusing to back down in a confrontation with the European Commission over conditions for the takeover of power group Endesa.

Madrid told Brussels it would not remove national caveats that are seen as favouring a Spanish bid for Endesa over its German suitor E.ON.

Nationalists lead Serbia poll

The nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) has a clear lead in the country's elections, early projections suggest. The Centre for Free Elections and Democracy, a monitoring body, said the radicals had taken 28.5% of the vote. The SRS candidate for prime minister, Tomislav Nikolic, urged the government to resign - but it is
unclear whether he can form a governing coalition. BBC WorldNews

Jan.20. 2007 One Government has already claimed that all ground water and rainwater that falls on the country belongs to the State - Australia. This will be imitated by others and is a colonial policy used by Israel in Palestine:

Who Owns The Water ?????

Well it’s finally out in the open .

A company in Victoria calling themselves Urban Rainwater Systems, have written to the Australian Local Government asking them who owns the water that falls on your property ; the Property owner or the Government.

South Aust. , Western Aust. and Tasmania have already said that the water that falls on your roof belongs to the State.

This means that the laughable rain tax that we joked about is now a reality in those three states.

This time Local Government has to waken from its sleep and tell the newly formed Water Exchange that it cannot tax water owned by property owners and while they are at it , tell them that legally they can’t separate water from the land if that land is privately owned .

If I wasn’t reading this from messages I receive as a councillor , I would think its all a bad dream .

Unfortunately it’s not a dream and we have documents signed by the Prime Minister and all State leaders agreeing to this theft of water from your freehold land .

Theft is a criminal offence and I would like to see the Shires Ass. instigate court action immediately .

Regards,
Bevan O'Regan
"Moema"
Narrabri
NSW 2390

Ph. 02 67938641
Fax 02 67938646

The Turkish-Armenian writer and journalist Hrant Dink has been shot dead, Turkish media report. Dink, the high-profile editor of newspaper Agos, was shot three times outside its offices in Istanbul, the paper said. Dink was one of the writers who had been prosecuted under Turkey's strict laws against "insulting Turkishness". He was given a six-month suspended sentence in October 2005 after writing about the Armenian "genocide" of 1915.