Sex, spies and WikiLeaks
WIKILEAK mastermind Julian Assange should have read the Swedish novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo more closely before having sex with two of his Nordic admirers.
WIKILEAK mastermind Julian Assange should have read the Swedish novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo more closely before having sex with two of his Nordic admirers.
The outrageous response of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the murder of the 298 civilians aboard MH17 shows he is determined to march in the bloody footsteps of his Soviet predecessors.Having supplied the soldiers and the weapons responsible for bringing down the Malaysian Airlines aircraft, the former KGB officer is now pretending that Russia had no responsibility for the destruction of the airliner.
THE future of the politically-driven ABC, the audio-visual arm of the extreme Green Left, needs to be reviewed. It has abused its charter. It does not contribute to a sense of national identity, inform or entertain as its charter decrees.
IT’S A-Day in Canberra. Not A for Australia, but A for Assassination.
It has not been enough for Julia Gillard to go through an election on a lie, to maintain her fiction she now must rely on a report based on outright falsehoods.It is a painful but obvious truth that Gillard promised before the election that there would be no carbon tax under a government she led.She leads the government and she is now promising a carbon tax. That is the big lie in Australian politics today.
The wind, while still warm enough to encourage bare chests or perhaps t-shirts, carries within it the hint of creeping cold.We are no longer in the South Pacific.
We found Nemo on Christmas Island.Not Jules Verne’s insane captain of the deadly submarine Nautilus, but Nemo, the clown fish star of the animated film that delighted kids and adults with its fishy characters sweeping down to Sydney Harbour in the East Australian current.
As the night sky flushed with the Anzac dawn Van Diemen III was on a course to cross the Equator south and west of the “other” Christmas Island.
It doesn’t look like we’ll have fish this Easter.The only fish we have seen since leaving the market place in Apia have been tinned anchovies and one stiff flying fish which came aboard during a rain squall early Thursday.
While the morning air filled with the crowing of roosters and the tolling of church bells, the full moon set across Apia Harbour and Van Diemen prepared to slip out to sea on Palm Sunday.
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