Tonight's TV debut of Sarah Palin's Alaska has been marred - or given a little extra publicity, take your pick - by criticism from a respected conservationist that the former state governor went fishing too close to protected brown bears for the sake of dramatic footage.

SEOUL, South Korea — The Group of 20 major economies took initial steps to address imbalances in the global economy on Friday. But they did not act as assertively as President Obama had hoped, and he left little doubt that he considered one country, China, the primary source of the problem.

A picture by Roy Lichtenstein just sold for US$42 million... More dosh than the Campbell Soup Can by Andy Warhol. The one on the right is by Roy Lichtenstein that is. The one on the left was of course the inspiration. Meanwhile an old theory in regard to the CIA sponsoring the "modern" arts has resurfaced for whatever reason...

trilogy

They lied. They went to war under false pretenses. They killed. They destroyed a country.

They write about their right to do the things they did and blame "intelligence" that got it wrong - though they were lying about everything - and, in a well-oiled threesome speil, they say they would do it all again...

They take us for fools.

More to come.

One has to congratulate Alan Jones.

One of his favourite words is "rubbish"...

For the last 25 years, Jones has held the number one spot, week after week after week on Sydney radio. Twenty-five years is a long time, a heck of a time to be top rating basically non-stop - even beating all the fancy music FM stations. Alan Jones is an intelligent and flawed man...

Note: the list is in no way complete but comes from a reputable source... and of course does not include all the armaments supplied by the US, and other sundries...

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