Presidential candidate Barack Obama has reached out to US voters in a half-hour, prime-time advertisement on seven US TV channels six days before polling. 

The broadcast came as the Democratic senator appeared with former president Bill Clinton at a rally in Florida. 

On channel Seven 4:30 afternoon news today, (29/10/08) Westpac's Global Head of Economics, Bill Evans, said something stupefying... Amazingly, he did not understand the way money was ebbing and flowing anymore...

Imagine!!!!

On this site we've pointed out way before the financial crisis that Greenspan was asleep at the wheel..., same went with Costello. That's our opinion and some people are entitled to express views to the contrary.  

Many serious cartoonists in the US are already joining the bandwagon. Here is my serious contribution for the day... 

With the final week of campaigning ahead, Senator Barack Obama redoubled his efforts to tie Senator John McCain to the Bush administration by seizing on Mr. McCain’s remark Sunday that he shared a “common philosophy” with the president. 

The Federal Government and Opposition have both given the thumbs down to calls to change or abandon the Lord's Prayer recited at the beginning of each day of federal Parliament. 

But the Greens want the prayer replaced with a period of reflection and a conscience vote in both houses on the issue. 

World leaders vowed today to overhaul the global financial system in the face of recession fears, but US President George Bush urged nations to 'recommit' to free markets despite economic turmoil. 

After a week of growing economic gloom and plunging stock markets, Asian and European leaders meeting in Beijing promised wide-ranging reforms, while UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also called for quick change. 

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama reported spending $82 million on advertising during the first two weeks of October - more than half of what Sen. John F. Kerry spent on television commercials for the entire 2004 presidential campaign. 

Iraq: a potted history (full version: in various places, including this one, not the official history records that are bullshitting us) 

Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch? 

Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser; not Nicolle Wallace, his senior communications staffer. It was Amy Strozzi, Gov. Sarah Palin’s travelling makeup artist, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night. 

Facing a firing line of questions from Washington lawmakers, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman once considered the infallible maestro of the financial system, admitted on Thursday that he “made a mistake” in trusting that free markets could regulate themselves without government oversight. 

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she believes the Middle East is a better place for the policies of President George Bush. 

Speaking to the BBC, Ms Rice insisted that a US-inspired 'freedom agenda' had taken hold in the Middle East. 

President Bush will convene leaders of 20 nations in Washington on Nov. 15 for an emergency summit meeting to discuss the economic crisis, the White House said Wednesday.  

But the session, coming less than two weeks after the presidential election, could put Mr. Bush on a collision course with his successor. 

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens says he supports the Government's move to guarantee unlimited bank deposits. 

A newspaper report today claims the RBA is concerned the Government's recent decision to provide an unlimited guarantee of all bank deposits is distorting the market.

US President George W Bush's first Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has endorsed Democratic election candidate Barack Obama for the White House. 

Backing Mr Obama over John McCain, the Republican Party's choice to succeed Mr Bush in November, he said the Democrat had the 'ability to inspire'. 

President George W Bush has invited world leaders to gather in the US by the end of the year to discuss reform of the global financial system. 

The summit would be the first of a series announced after talks between Mr Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and EU Commission chief Manuel Barroso.