Caption: "He was the only one who had not been blacklisted and could speak Italian"...

The merde-och press gets it wrong again...

News Limited chief executive Kim Williams says the media reform package tailored by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is targeted at his company.

Mr Murdoch tells us that the right to tell porkies is sacrosanct...

16 Quotes From Tony Abbott to Remind You Why He Shouldn’t Be Prime Minister ?

On immigration:

It makes my eyes water... I don't know if I should cry or laugh... Is THIS exactly what Tony said?... What does that tell you, not so much about Tonicchio Abbott's ego which we know is bigger than the Titanic, but about his inflated imbecilic minimal understanding of the way the real world works?... 

CHICAGO — There is an advertising war being fought here — not over soda or car brands but over the true meaning of the word “jihad.”

The Climate Commission has received questions from the community and the media seeking to understand the influence of climate change on the recent extreme summer weather.

Sweeping U.S. government spending cuts totalling $85 billion begin taking effect Friday, slicing deeply into military and other programs in an unwanted move toward austerity that displays Washington's paralyzing partisan divisions.

The cuts are kicking in after the White House and congressional Republicans could not overcome bitter disagreements and come up with a better plan to tackle the country's $11.7 trillion debt. The warring sides have spent this week assigning blame rather than seeking a way out, and rival Democratic and Republican measures to modify the cuts failed in the Senate on Thursday.

As Lab rats are being fed water via the internet and, as these ratty communications are hailed as breakthrough in mind development technologies, one also hear some alarm bells on the food front... Gus' apologies to the creators of "Sniffy and Brains"... all we need is a better mouse-trap.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/28/brains-rats-connected-share-information