Police formed a ring around the Stop The Bombing Rally at Hyde Park, Sydney on August 12, 2006. They had nothing to do.

I took some footage of the Stop The Bombing march and rally in Sydney this afternoon. About five minutes of video can be seen on Youtube.

I'll add some more images tomorrow and make a few comments.

Anti-war demonstration in Sydney, 12 August 2006

Placard of George W Bush. Sydney anti-war demonstration, 12 August 2006

Before you buy that beach house, check out Thursday's press release from the University of Texas Austin concerning the acceleration of the melting of Greenland's ice cap.

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/11/austra13964.htm

Human Rights Watch, whose Middle East arm is so busy documenting all the Israeli and Hizbollah war crimes at the moment, has had to turn its attention to Australia as the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 winds it way through Parliament.

It's been an eventful week for Beazley comma B full stop. An amusing confrontation on the steps of Parliament House this morning between his Bomberness and that loosest of Liberal Party loose cannons, Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey.

Video footage at smh.com.au - nearly as funny as George Galloway v Anna Botting.

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=23764

Once billed as “the most dangerous man in Mississippi,” former Ku Klux Klan member and terrorist Tom Tarrants became a Christian while in prison for attempted murder and now serves as president of the C.S. Lewis Institute in Washington, D.C.

More of this story at the Baptist Press.

Kim Beazley Junior would make a better Prime Minister than John Winston Howard. So, however, would the average blue-tongue lizard or, in Bill Hayden parlance, would the average drover's dog.

Bomber Beazley demonstrated yet again in Parliament yesterday his unsuitability to lead the Australian Labor Party back into government. Not only does he blindly accept the nonsensical concept of a "war on terror", but he actually says that Howard pulled Australian troops out of Afghanistan too soon!