Presently, the GOP is white-anting unions from within... Basically GOP is enticing workers to become free from the "oppression and rorts" of unions with a new bill called Employee Rights Act... Brother. The name is sneakily chosen to hide a hiding to nothing... Of course it's the old trick of presenting the carrot of greed and freedom when eventually workers end up worse off... Divide to rule... Nothing new, Here is Australia, the Liberal Party tried the Work Choices legislation that got them booted out... But the Work Choices is not dead as Rattus Detritus (Tony Abbott) would let us believe... Merely delayed by a thread...

Jones talks rubbish... He is a shit bag...

Companies that run aggressive tax-avoidance schemes will be forced to provide the Government with details of all their celebrity and business clients under a crackdown to be announced today.

To which the Chinese would respond: "didn't ya have floods of the century recently?..."

THERE'S a new phrase entering the political lexicon: "sensible centre". It's Tony Abbott's new favourite saying.

* Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the United States during 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or 67% were committed with firearms.[11]

Previously unreported details, documented in Massachusetts corporate filings and other public records, show that Bain Capital was enmeshed in the largely opaque world of international high finance from its very inception.

There is controversy about climate change...  Yet, the serious scientists in both camps have clearly established that the surface of the earth has been warming up...

This warming is estimated at a certain amount (0.1 degrees C average) per decade (now around 0.2 degree C) for the last 150 years... Gus' present estimate is for a full one (1) degree C increase for the next 10 year. I could be wrong, but considering the sun is awakening and El Nino is about to come back, I may be right.