Public Opinion"...public opinion deserves to be respected as well as despised" G.W.F. Hegel, 'Philosophy of Right'Washington's "war on terror"- (Found July 23, 2008 ) It would appear that the central front in Washington's "war on terror" has moved eastwards about 1,800 kilometers from Iraq to Afghanistan and the frontier regions of Pakistan. This war is marked by the increasing insurgence of the Taliban, Islamabad's alleged failure to prevent the Sunni Taliban forces, both Afghan...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/opinion/2008/07/washingtons-war.php a time of renewal- (Found July 23, 2008 ) I guess Benedict XVI, in attacking has attacked the spreading "spiritual desert" of the modern secular world, and calling for a new religious age of faith and redemption, has given the Liberals a new message. Bill Leak They can begin to talk in terms of for a new age in...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/opinion/2008/07/a-time-of-renew.php a coal fired Queensland- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Queensland, during Peter Beattie's premiership, marketed itself as the Smart State. Under Anna Bligh it is the Resource State. Queensland's mining boom is a coal boom: coal is dug up in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland exported to China and India, with McKay as the epicentre of the coal...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/opinion/2008/07/a-coal-fired-qu.php reducing the political costs of reform- (Found July 23, 2008 ) The dust is settling on the RuddWong Green paper on emissions trading and Big Business continues its campaign to ensure that the approach is softly softly with bundles of compensation. We can see more clearly no that the whole RuddWong exercise has been primarily aimed to reduce the political cost...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/opinion/2008/07/reducing-the-po.php ABC comedy- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Fandom and media convergence academic Henry Jenkins is pleased to have discovered a few of the ABC's comedy series and thinks Americans could acquire a taste for them. I've fallen under the spell of programs from the Australian Broadcasting Company during my many previous trips to the country. And I've...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/opinion/2008/07/abc-comedy.php |