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A peculiar report from Reuters reveals again the foolish attitude prevalent in much modern journalism that should the world, nay the universe, change in any way then catastrophe must follow. The great irony in all this is that those who expect a never-changing world sneer at conservatives.

NEW YORK: Aboriginal rock art at Australia’s Dampier Archipelago has been named among the planet’s most endangered sites, joining treasures threatened by war, climate change, development and tourism.

And the morning cuppa was sprayed across the breakfast table on sighting a sidebar to the report in The Australian. Under a sub-head stating Global warming was the declaration that “Scotts Hut, Antarctica is being engulfed by vastly increased snowfall thought to be a result of changes in the weather”.

Who needs enemies when you’ve got Paul Keating on your side?
PAUL KEATING: They’ll do him no good. Because in the end those kind of conservative tea-leaf-reading focus group driven polling types who I think led Kim into nothingness, he’s got his life to repent in leisure now at what they did to him. They’re back, they’re back. Gary Gray lost the ’96 election with me and then lost ’98. He’s been given Kim Beazley’s best seat in Western Australia.
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won’t get out of bed in the morning unless they’ve had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

Communication lines between Greece and California were close to meltdown as Tony Mokbel’s people tried to set up a meet with Paris Hilton’s people.
However, latest reports from LA-LA land suggest it could be a futile quest and Hilton’s new-found freedom may be short-lived.