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

Far from being a competitive market, the same few big players dominate Australia’s corporate landscape, reports Murray Hunter.

from Crikey ….

Tony’s own goal ….

from Crikey …..

Rundle: Chavez dies, and the West hates some more

A complaint about former federal treasurer Peter Costello lodged with Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission highlights potential conflicts of interest between his job overseeing the future of the state's finances and his ownership of a lobby group representing companies that could benefit from state asset sales.

Settling for sleep one night I dreamed I saw a war

the like of which humanity has never seen before

A sea of grey that rose and fell as it spread acros the land

of barren soil- the nanotechs used everything at hand

Every body, every tree, every blade of grass

fashioned by technology to a dark and rolling mass

That held the hearts and and minds of all, for Gaia was within

bound within the construct to fulfill the masses' whim

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.

Victims’ rights groups have called for a registry to be set up to alert residents when Members of Parliament enter their community. They argue the measures are necessary to protect children and other venerable members of society from the dangerous amounts of bullshit that certain politicians discharge.  

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