Clinton, the Claytons President you have when you dont really have a President?

NYT 24-10-3 "Clinton Announces Plan to Cut Cost of AIDS Drugs"

"the price of one of the triple drug combinations will be reduced to $140 a year from the current ...$255"
Africans should get Free treatment...
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Georgie porgie came out to playDidnt hear any dissenting voices except Brown & Nettle. How can a chap be sane if he never hears a contrary voice?

Bob Brown stood up to GeorgieW in the parliament yesterday, and said: Return the 2 Australian citizens the USA is holding illegally - his exact words are not reported this morning, not even on Bob's "media site"

This morning:24-10-3
"GREENS Senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle were today refused entry to the House of Representatives"

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hotworld

hotworld
hotter yet
hot enough for ya?
The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. ... Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have occurred in the past fourteen years...the average English garden moves south, climatically, by a distance of 20 metres every day.

Who is responsible? We are - our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can we moderate it, slow it, eventually reverse it? Yes-if we try.
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251 Million years ago, at the end of the Permian life on Earth was almost completely wiped out ...6C rise in temperature......
It took 20 or 30 million years for coral reefs to re-establish themselves, and for the forests to regrow
wipeout
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The Rapture
Big Cars, Big Oil

Today that millenial christion GeorgieW is in this country.
I feel a bleak certainty that we are headed for a Greenhouse led mass extinction of a Permian level.
I believe that without a Cultural Revolution equal or surpassing that of 1968 the world, led by insane big oil men like Rummie & Georgie, is headed for grotesque disaster.
I believe that there is no present prospect of any such cultural revolution. People are blithely blissed out, in their big cars, spraying their golf greens with neurotoxins.
I believe I will be old and dead before our present evil course is recognised, let alone reversed.
Guess I can be glad to have lived through one cultural rev. Cant be bitter about not seeing 2.




..you allow him to make war at pleasure.... If today he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, "I see no probability of the British invading us"; but he will say to you, "Be silent: I see it, if you don't."
- Abraham Lincoln 1848

Jaslyn Hall Presents: Habib Koite
From the backstreet bars of Bamako to International Big Star. HK is from a griot family, but has a tremendous range of influences.
At The Basement Sydney tomorrow (Wednesday 22Oct) and at Petersham RSL on Friday - I got the 32-to last ticket there.
Habib was well regarded by Banning Eyre in his book "In Griot Time" - which book is one of the best stories of a white guy in a third world setting, as well as being the definitive book on Malian music - Banning is not shy of namedropping ("You musnt neglect these things Banning" says Oumou Sangaré)

Good to see Jaslyn Hall is gainfully employed. The ABC dumped her after she spent 9 years teaching Australians about World Music. Jaslyn knows everything about world music, a fan of West African amongst all the others.
I have a dozen 90 minute cassettes crammed with the last few years of her radio show, I used to record her 3 hour shows on Video Cassette, and edit them down to 90 Minute cassettes - most Mondays I would get an hour of excellent tracks.