Thursday 28th of March 2024

Gus Leonisky's blog

in memoriam

in memoriam...


ups and downs

greenspantruism

 

bomb away cooking fuel...

angela merkel

 


Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel says she "deeply regrets" any loss of innocent life, after civilians were killed in an air strike in Afghanistan.

But Mrs Merkel told parliament that Germany's mission in Afghanistan remained necessary.

There has been heavy criticism of the strike, ordered by a German commander.

short poppies...

 

He has been mocked for wearing stacked heels and standing on tiptoes in official photographs, and now Nicolas Sarkozy is embroiled in a new controversy over the alleged lengths he will go to in order to make himself look taller in public.

political delicacy...


Fake Afghan Poll Sites Favored Karzai, Officials Assert

By DEXTER FILKINS and CARLOTTA GALL

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites where no one voted but where hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded toward the president’s re-election, according to senior Western and Afghan officials here.

selling coal to newcastle...

chaveziran

 

Venezuela has agreed to export petrol to Iran, in a sign of closer ties between two of America's most vocal adversaries.

At the end of a two-day visit to Iran, President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela would supply 20,000 barrels of petrol a day to the country.

Iran is a major oil exporter but lacks domestic refining capability.

Iranian leaders expressed support for the Venezuelan socialist leader's anti-American policies.

hot deal...

gaddafiblair

 


Tony Blair will be thrust into the controversy

 

over the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi with questions in Parliament over a secret meeting the then Prime Minister orchestrated that brought Libya in from the cold.

crazy world when...

 

QandA Latest Program: Thursday 3 September 2009 at 9:30pm http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/

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Gus: There are times when one has to pay dues against one's ingrained beliefs. For example one has to admit that Senator Bill Heffernan has "improved"... Even one of my buddies who had seriously bad interaction with him way back in the wild 1980s told me in the afternoon before the show that Heffernam had mellowed and strangely grasped the major issues, including climate warming... Weird...

feral tide of homo sapiens...

ferals

From the ABC

A new report has found pests cost Australia's agriculture industry more than $740 million a year.

Rabbits are considered the nation's biggest feral animal problem, causing $200 million worth of damage every year.

Birds cost the horticulture industry about $300 million annually.

Tony Peacock from the Invasive Animal Cooperative Research Centre says the total estimated cost is a conservative estimate, which does not include environmental or social impacts.

Midnight sludge...

garrettextinction

 

The Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, has warned that money to save endangered wildlife is limited and some species may have to be abandoned when funding decisions are made.

In one of the strongest speeches of his ministerial career he told an international conference of ecologists in Brisbane that the Government will shift its focus to protecting ''ecosystems'', rather than putting money into individual projects for endangered animals.

...

Mr Gibbons added that Mr Garrett and the Rudd Government had not yet been prepared to have a debate about ''the links between economic growth and the damage we are doing to our natural ecosystems''.

Garrett garrots his old self...

garrettology

The Federal Environment Minister has toured the West Australian Government's preferred site for a gas hub in the Kimberley.

Peter Garrett yesterday met traditional owners at James Price Point, 60 kilometres north of Broome, as part of a two-day stopover.

Mr Garrett will have ultimate responsibility for signing off on the development after reviewing Aboriginal heritage and environmental impact studies.

He says an impartial approvals process will occur, irrespective of the demands of the State Government or industry.

a sick public servant midget, puppeteer...

puppets

Gus: Of course, if one believes Malcolm Turnbull, "he was conned" by a great puppet-meister — who, we all know, is a very sick public servant who has been a mole of the Liberal Party for years. Thus the Malcolm stance does not make sense, even if Grech was a complete dummy or a very devilish man.

Yet Malcolm and Abetz are pouring as much rubbish on Grech as they can put their hands on for the fake Ozcar email debacle...

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