Reprinted from Margo Kingston's Webdiary, this  piece serves well as an overview of the last few months of blogging

While Australians have sat in their trees like manna-gum-'stoned' koalas, the economic landscape has changed around them dramatically.  The new King and Queen of the Southern Defence Colony, affectionately known as Condy and Rummy, will be crowned by Alexander Downer in Adelaide this November, with most of us none the wiser.

‘Derek Burney, Pat Carney, Allan Gotlieb, Simon Reisman and Gordon Ritchie were key members of the negotiating team that forged the 1988 free-trade agreement between Canada and the United States.

‘Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it.

He boasts that "the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist".

He promotes bombing countries and says world war three has begun.

Just in case Mr Carlton from the radio waves and the SMH reads bits of this site, I would advise him that his satire column on Saturday 20th of August, about the government selling everything, including the defense department was very clever... except for one bit.

The government has already sold the defense department...
Not only it has been sold with promises of new troops at every turn to finish the job which obviously will never ever be finished according to Johnnee's own vernacular but was given away for peanuts and a kiss on someone's rear end in the US presidential potty.

Yes, the Ageis system being installed on Australian frigates being built by US Halliburton armament division in Adelaide is exactly that... A sold out defense department... With the Ageis system, The US controls the launching sequences for the missiles on Aussie ships. Thus , our missiles can go where the US wants them to go, and strong indications are we may not even know where they're going...