Australia alters stance on climate change pact - National - www.theage.com.au: “Bush Administration officials at the conference opposed the use of the phrase ‘climate change’ in favour of the more benign ‘climate variability’.”
And I thought that Climate Change was a watered down version of Global Warming!!!

EPIC 2014: This is certainly worth a watch, particularly for anyone even vaguely interested in the Internet, blogs, democracy, the future and so on and so forth.
Goes for 8 mins but is well worth it.

George Monbiot is rightly concerned that the recent out break of violence in Rwanda has received bugger all media attention and is on a scale that is astronomical (already over 3 million dead).
So I thought I’d evoke the power of the blog to try and draw your attention to this…
George Monbiot � A Deadly Reversal: [...]

Blow for Blair as Blunkett resigns - World - www.theage.com.au: “Britain’s Blair Government has been rocked just months from an expected general election by the resignation of its third most important member, Home Secretary David Blunkett, whose stellar political career has been effectively snuffed out by a failed love affair.”
It was not so long ago [...]

A really nice point:
Geof Stone: “It’s also important to point out a critical feature of free speech. Few people rationally believe that their decision to sign a petition, send an email, or march in a demonstration will have any effect on national policy. Thus, the benefit to them of speaking out is very small. If [...]

I’m reading Ann Capling’s All the way with the USA.
It is quite an interesting read and what I have read so far is about the history of trade agreements and the various sorts that are around (unilateral, bilateral, multilateral, regional and global).
The book argues that with the exception of a few rare cases global trade [...]

2005 Australian Blog Awards - Nominations:
I know I’ll never get a nomination but I think this is a really interesting exercise and process.
I never wanted to submit my blog to a competitive process anyway - stop judging me MAN!!!

I have a new link - Dream on Black Girl.
Not only is it a great blog but indigenous voices are much needed in what is an increasingly dark hour for our indigenous population and I suspect our non-indigenous population as well.

Thank you to Robert Corr for this post and this post. Both showing a much better level of research than mine on this issue of mutual obligation contracts, their failure and racist undertones.
He points out that community introduced face washing programs have already been put in place and incidence of trachoma are now at [...]

RIP Dimebag - you rocked it like a mother fucker!