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Ex-NFL player Rudd admits not paying child support

Former NFL linebacker Dwayne Rudd has pleaded guilty to failing to pay more than $540,000 in child support.

‘I Love You, Man’ explores dude awakening

Lest there were any doubt about it beforehand, Paul Rudd unequivocally assumes the mantle of New Millennial Masculine Panic poster boy with “I Love You, Man,” a comedy about a guy who learns to be a guy’s guy. On the heels of his appearances in “Role Models,” “Knocked Up” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” Rudd manages to perfectly capture the American male’s attempt to be Goldilocks’ porridge — not too obnoxiously alpha-dog, yet not too castrated and sensitive.

How to become a movie dude

In “I Love You, Man,” Paul Rudd plays a newly engaged guy who has no male friends for his half of the wedding party. The solution involves a series of “man-dates” that end in mixed messages, gay misunderstandings, awkwardness and public brawls.

Paul Rudd's awkward side back in `I Love You, Man'

When Paul Rudd tells an embarrassing story, he leaves in details other celebrities might be too proud to reveal.

Obama offers US aid to Australia fire victims

President Barack Obama is sending his prayers and condolences to victims of Australia's worst wildfire disaster.

Review: ‘Role Models’ worth looking up to

Let us now praise Paul Rudd. While this leading man seems to eschew the usual off-screen antics that put performers on the public’s radar, Rudd dependably brings a dry, intelligent wit to movie after movie. Whether in comedy classics (“Clueless,” “Knocked Up”) or clunkers (“Over Her Dead Body”), he has quietly accumulated an impressive résumé of engaging, entertaining performances.

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Rudd Australian Government bows to pressure & excludes agriculture emissions from ETS
Source: The Age

According to this report from top newspaper The Age (Melbourne): "The Government will permanently exclude agricultural emissions and give farmers access to credits for good farming practices such as tree planting."

Australian Obama lackey, toady KRudd spruiks merits of Australia-inclusive G20 to the UN
Source: Australian News Network

Oz PM Kevin Rudd has delivered a strongly worded warning to the UN that reform is necessary in global institutions and declared the G20 --which includes Australia - should be at the heart of a new international system.

MIT expert: chances of G8 target via Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) is ZERO.
Source: ABC TV Four Corners

Obama says "yes we can" over Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) technology for coal burning-based power but MIT CCS expert Howard Hertzog says that the chances for G8 target via CCS are ZERO.

Company building 154 MW solar PV plant on skids in climate criminal, pro-coal Australia
Source: The Age

SOLAR Systems, the company that planned to build one of the world's biggest solar power stations in north-west Victoria, Australia (154-megawatt solar farm, PV-based, to grid by 2013 ), is going bust.

Australian Labor Government 450 ppm CO2 pollution policy dooms Great Barrier Reef
Source: The Age

Ex-chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science Charlie Veron, who helped prepare the Report, saId the Rudd Government-backed 450 ppm CO2 target would result in the complete death of the reef by 2050.

Apartheid Australia far worse than Apartheid South Africa in Indigenous imprisonment
Source: national indigenous times

Report: "One in four prisoners in Australia is Indigenous and their over-representation in the jail system is only getting worse " [Indigenous Australians or Aboriginals are only 5% of the Australian population]

Australia's new draft anti-terrorism laws: warrantless searches, 8 day suspect detention
Source: The Age

Nicola McGarrity is director of the Terrorism and Law Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of NSW: "Freedoms are losing out to fear ... warrantless searches ... [8 days] detention without charge".

Australian PM Rudd dubbed "serial killer" by CNBC's Erin Burnett - over outback camel cull
Source: The Age

US CNBC's Erin Burnett went totally overboard by describing Australia's PM Kevin Rudd as a "serial killer" for approving a $19 million cull of feral camels that are devastating farms and the environment in outback Australia.

Church and State in USA/ASU, Nowhere/Erewhon and Oz/Zo

The USA has joined democratic theocracy Iran in blurring the Church/State line. While Iran's is from clerical leadership in restoring US-destroyed democracy in Iran, the US version is delusional or indeed blasphemous.

Swine flu deaths, Indigenous Genocide & Climate Genocide

The first swine flu-related death in Australia has been that of a 26 year old Indigenous (Aboriginal) Australian man with medical conditions, this highlighting the horrendous circumstance of Indigenous people in Australia.

Pro-war Australian PM Rudd slams The Chasers (TV satirists) over "dying kids' wishes" skit
Source: LiveNews.com

Mainstream media and politicians - notably pro-war Australian PM Kevin Rudd - have slammed the famous Australian TV satirist team The Chasers over a skit about the "unrealistic wishes" of dying children.

Top US CEO Sol Trujillo leaves Oz $30 million richer & slams 'racist, backward' Australia
Source: Yahoo! Finance

PM Rudd's simple response to Telstra boss American Sol Trujillo's leaving the telco (in which he earned over A$30 million) was "Adios" . Sol Trujillo has indignantly labelled Australia as "racist" and "backward".

PM Kevin Rudd: Australian debt to hit A$300 billion (US$231 billion) by 2013
Source: The Age

After only about 18 months in office pro-coal, pro-war Australian Labor Party (ALP) PM Kevin Rudd has admitted Australian public debt will reach A$300 billion (US$231 billion) by 2013 or about 13.8 per cent of GDP in 2013-14.

US Afghan Holocaust (3-7M dead) & Jewish Holocaust (5-6M dead)

It is timely to compare violent and non-violent excess deaths in the US-imposed Afghan Holocaust (3-7 million) with those in the WW2 Nazi-imposed Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).

Right wing Australian PM Rudd's popularity dives over new 67 years retirement age
Source: The Age

Labor's two-party preferred vote has fallen five points since March to 53 per cent, while the Opposition has risen five points to 47; causes: recession, health insurance, debt, lifting retirement age to 67 + war, climate change ...

Nat MP: Australian PM "threw a tantrum" with troops in Afghanistan over a HAIRDRYER
Source: The Age

According to Australian National Party (ultraconservative) Party MP John Cobb, Oz soldiers were full of stories about the PM's tantrum : "Basically, he couldn't hook his hairdryer up and he chucked a temper tantrum" .

Rudd tells youth to earn or learn
Source: bigpondnews.com

Teenagers must 'earn or learn' while jobless under-25s will be guaranteed a training place as the federal government prepares Australia for rising unemployment.

Finally, some good news about CSIS (Canada's CIA)
Source: Toronto Star

Jim Rudd, head of CSIS, (the Canadian version of the CIA, only much-worse funded), has asked the CSIS oversight board to do an independent investigation into allegations that CSIS officials had a hand in the detention of Canadian citizen Abousofian Abdelrazik, when he was in the  …

Oz PM nephew's human rights ART re Jerusalem censored by anti-Palestinian Zionists
Source: The Age

The nephew of Australian PM Rudd created a painting in central Melbourne commenting on a corporation's construction of a light rail system in illegally-occupied East Jerusalem - was censored after Zionist protests.

WTO boss applauds the Rudd manifesto | The Australian
Source: Australian News Network

Kevin Rudd has written a 7,00 word essay in Monthly magazine giving his economic philisophy , which includes the idea that extreme unregulated capitalism has caused the global credit crunch.WTO Boss has comented on the article.Like Rudd he also believes that a global free market  …

Letter to ALL Oz Federal MPs re Climate Emergency & LYING

Australia leads world in coal exports and per capita greenhouse gas pollution - but its Government, advised by lying, pro-Coal lobbyists, won't act. Read my letter to ALL Australian Federal MPs and do LIKEWISE in US, UK etc.

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