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the great oil swindle .....Oil prices continue to rise and rise, with no end in sight. Virtually all other commodities seem to be following to be the same suit.
the case for not being taken seriously .....On October 16, 2004 President Bush signed into law the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act, which establishes a special department within the US State Department to monitor global anti-Semitism, reporting annually to Congress. As one of the major steps in the implementation of that law, Secretary of State Condi Rice swore in Gregg Rickman as head of the State Department’s office of global anti-Semitism on May 22, 2006.
struggle street .....Rudd calls for 'restraint' in golden handshakes ….. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says it is disappointing that some corporate leaders do not show wage restraint. The head of Macquarie Bank, Allan Moss, will walk away with a $50 million package when he retires later this month.
our weapons of mass destruction .....
oil spill .....A shareholder revolt at ExxonMobil led by the billionaire Rockefeller family has won the support of four significant British institutional investors who will call on Monday for a shakeup in the governance of the world's biggest oil company.
fractured fairytales .....After basking in a showy celebration of America’s close ties with Israel, President Bush criticized other Middle East leaders on Sunday, prodding them to expand their economies, offer equal opportunity to women and embrace democracy if they want peace to become reality.
the picture show man .....Oliver Stone, the Hollywood director known for his controversial movies about John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, is less than six months away with his film about George W. Bush. Filming of W starts this month and Stone has cast Josh Brolin, the actor who starred in the Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men, as Mr Bush.
policy vapours .....Turnbull pledges support for petrol tax cut plan …… The Opposition's Treasury spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, has been forced to publicly declare his support for the Coalition's policy to cut petrol tax, after a damaging email leak.
crime fighting capers .....The NSW Police Minister, David Campbell, and two of his staff spent $40,000 on a 12-day, five-star, surf-and-turf romp across the United States, splashing out on steakhouses in Hollywood and oyster bars in New York. Their official engagements included briefings by the New York Police Department on Tasers, gangs, terrorism, identity theft and radicalisation; meetings with the FBI in Washington; and a visit to the Davis Training Facility in California.
fashioning terror .....After 9/11, of course, George W. Bush and his top advisors almost instantly launched their crusade against Islam and then their various wars, all under the rubric of the Global War on Terror.
burning bushit .....from Crikey ….. Dubya unites the Democrats US correspondent Guy Rundle writes:
another all occasional man ....."Mr. President," he was asked, "you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq? "Yes," began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our lives as Americans - on our history.
learning about early childhood .....
our kevin .....Whilst Kevin Rudd is clearly in-touch with community sentiment on a range of issues, he still finds time to pursue errands for lower profiled political outriders.
the importance of budgeting ....."The poor tell us who we are, The prophets tell us who we could be, So we hide the poor, And kill the prophets."Phil Berrigan
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