Christmas in Afghanistan

Tyrantasaudius wrecks

Does the US have the stomach for another police action and will China and Russia stomach it? ardeet.blogspot.com

Antiwar.com - "US deploys aircraft carrier to Syrian coast."
Zerohedge.com - "Aircraft Carrier CVN-77 Parks Next Door To Syria Just As US Urges Americans To Leave Country 'Immediately' "
Forbes - "US Government Urges American Citizens to Leave Syria as US Aircraft Carrier Approaches"

Who is really winning in Afghanistan?

While the USA pumps in hundreds of billions of dollars, China is buying oil and copper production.

Article from Businessweek "China builds lead in Afghan Commodities - Adds Oil to Copper"

Hitler and Satan sit down to watch their favourite TV show

Foodini

World leaders celebrate the death of Gaddafi

Government helps kidnappers

In "Kidnapped photojournalist takes aim at Government" from the ABC/AAP, Nigel Brennan reveals the bungling by the Australian Government in trying to free him from his Somali kidnappers.

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" - Love or hate Ronald Reagan, he was spot on with this statement.
Typical of activities that the government gets involved with, this life endangering farce cost ten times more than the original estimate and took five times longer.
It's telling that Brennan's family had to sever ties with government help and involvment in order to get the job done themselves.

Here are some of the key bungles, according to Brennan:

• Final ransom was $US658,000 when the average cost is $US54,000
• Captivity was prolonged to 15 months when 3 months is average
• Stephen Smith was "tardy and eventually dishonest"
• Kevin Rudd was "less than involved"
• A number of DFAT personnel believe that they handled the case incorrectly
• 24/7 monitoring of his family's landline by Australian Federal Police failed to pick up two calls from the kidnappers. Hilariously Brennan was making these calls with a gun to his head ... ah those crazy government officials.

The Senate committee is scheduled to report on it's investigations by November 24 so we'll see if the fox has any meaningful comments on it's inability to guard the henhouse.

Sawdust Allergy

Steve Jobs leaves his mark on Apple

Murderous business as usual in Afghanistan

The following interview with Gareth Porter on The Real News Network gives a useful update and summary on the continuing battle to win the hearts and minds of the Afghani people through Night Raids by JSOC, civilian maiming Predator drone attacks and opportunistically imprisoning civilians.

Those Afghanis just won't roll over and let us scratch their tummies will they?



Remember if you live in one of the following countries participating in the Afghanistan "War(?)" then your government is using your money and your name to murder innocent people and create more generations of terrorists.

United States
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Germany
France
Belgium
Lithuania
Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
Italy
Turkey
India
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Romania
Estonia
Finland

Government works hard to solve the unemployment problem

"If you propose that the world is full of bad people then why would you want a monopoly organisation that people can gain control of? If you propose that the world is full of good people then what would you need a monopoly organisation for? If you propose that the world is full of good and bad people then wouldn't the bad people be attracted to the monopoly organisation of force and privilege?"

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Julia Gillard solves climate change.

ABC - Gillard begins carbon tax sell.
Gillard's address to the nation


While a little left leaning the following post gives a very digestible overview of the Carbon Price/Tax deception:

Grog's Gamut: The Carbon Price: The Tim Tams are safe; not sure about hyperbole