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A Country Is Missing

Jesse Walker | 2.21.2003 6:25 AM

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When I was a boy, I was briefly obsessed with the island nation of Nauru. It was a sleepy little statelet at the time, but it seems that things have been getting kind of … weird there lately.

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  1. Ken   23 years ago

    Hans Blix should inspect the island immediately if not sooner.

    Only 12,000 people is a nation? I work in a company office campus with more poeple than that. Do they get a vote in the UN?

  2. Tuning Spork   23 years ago

    maybe someone should make a decision and, oh, perhaps, go over there and turn their electricity back on. Them terrorists are probably running the island by now.

  3. joe   23 years ago

    "A self-managed (detention) center" I guess the Australians would know...

  4. Lefty   23 years ago

    A little off subject, but not too much, is a story about Southgate, California. Corrupt officials and their lawyers have put the town at the brink of bankruptcy. Right here in the good old US of A. Check it out.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sogate21feb21,1,2636295.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines

  5. Don   23 years ago

    Few boats and a few guns, A nation for the taking!

  6. ausyankee   23 years ago

    Holy Howard's Hole. These refugees, mostly Afgan minorities and Iraqis fleeing Saddam, were plucked out of sea by the crew of the Norwegian cargo ship Tampa in 2001. Howard sent the military to repell the ship from Australia's landmass, in the process securing his reelection. He cut an illegal deal with Nauru to house the men, women and children, costing Australia hundreds of millions and severely denting our international reputation. Truly a moral pgymy, Howard's lying to Parliament about how some of these asylum seekers threw their own children overboard, will be regarded as one of the most shameful, immoral acts in Australian political history.

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