Ok I lost the milk off... My cow kicked the bucket... Twice http://t.co/zwUUnXxO3G

Indonesia has delivered a rebuke to Tony Abbott's turn-back-the-boats policy, signing a communique warning against unilateral action.

Abbott's views on foreign policy are rarely discussed, but he seems to retain a Bush administration perspective on the world – 'you're either with us or against us'

From the AAI website: On Wednesday, Pope Francis addressed people from all walks of life by claiming that anyone who does ‘good’ will go to heaven, even atheists.

As Uncle Rupe is being dragged into a new scandal, his suburban newspapers are praising the lord...

In a funny twist of fate, according to the Morgan polls, the ALP is now ahead of the coalition... 

One does not know what to believe anymore... Actually we should know. There is a lot of shoving and punching about and it's only the beginning....

First, PRISM stole the image for its logo...
Second, the PRISM spying operation in Europe may have had the blessing of European governments... 

The pedestrian diatribe that follows fails to explain much, away from old tired grounds. It comes from a Chair of Philosophy in New York and part time Professor at a university in the Netherlands plus a famous psychoanalyst.

Their essay has fallen into the mundane pit of simplistic summation, of a very complex present shift in humanity's invention of purpose... The book may be more detailed of course:

Oliver Stone: America's brutality started the day we dropped the bomb

On Sunday night, Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia, and in a matter of hours President Vladimir Putin agreed to grant it. But there was just one catch: the NSA whistle-blower had to hang up his whistle. “If he wants to stay here, there is one precondition,” Putin said on Monday, a few hours before Snowden’s asylum request was made public. “He has to stop doing work that is aimed at harming our American partners.”In other words, no more leaks. Whatever secrets Snowden has left to expose would have to be locked away (except maybe for a private Kremlin showing)...

There is a picture doing the round amongst the LNP Queenslanders, denigrating Mr Rudd... So Gus thought of improving the picture as he did above...

Meanwhile there is a misconception in the mind of most of the public that we elect our Prime Ministers the same way as the American Presidents... This confusion of course is firmly cultivated by the cult of personalities presented to us in a bucket by the macMedia... 

 

The U.S. National Security Agency allegedly conducted spying on European Union diplomats, according to classified documents taken by whistleblower Edward Snowden and reported by German news magazine Spiegel on Saturday.

Two resurrections in one week are hard to get your head around. In a stunning return from the wilderness, Kevin Rudd will open the batting for Australia in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge next month. Shane Watson becomes prime minister again and will lead Labor to the election.

 

 

Kerry in the Mideast: Tilting at Windmills

By Mitchell Plitnick...