A conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, who once said climate change is "crap" and yet who is on record some years ago offering the most eloquent defence that could be made for a carbon tax, has waged a highly brutal – and effective – campaign against just such a tax by creating the impression that the Australian way of life will end if it comes to pass.
There have also been more conflicts over the last decade than at any time since the last world war, most of it highly localized and highly brutal, making women and children its primary victims.
In language candid and bald, the cables reveal an assessment of Mr. Putin's Russia as highly centralized, occasionally brutal and all but irretrievably cynical and corrupt.
In language candid and bald, the cables reveal an assessment of Mr Putin's Russia as highly centralized, occasionally brutal and all but irretrievably cynical and corrupt.
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While many, particularly older Albanians, are unconcerned about the gradual obliteration of the concrete reminders of a brutal, highly militarised regime, others believe the igloo-shaped pillboxes and spacious underground shelters should remain.
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By doing so, he lifted the lid on years of international indifference to the plight of thousands of people fleeing a variety of human rights crises in the Horn of Africa, who fall victim to highly organised and brutal gangs of Bedouin people-traffickers in Sudan, Libya and Egypt, but have been dismissed as economic migrants who, in the eyes of some, almost deserved their fate.
Each track is a brutal, highly effective assault, but they do not function as separate parts that form a whole.
"In language candid and bald, the cables reveal an assessment of Mr. Putin's Russia as highly centralized, occasionally brutal and all but irretrievably cynical and corrupt," the Times' Chris Chivers wrote last week of the cables from the American embassy in Moscow, released by WikiLeaks.
