Chinese Crack Down in Lhasa Tibet

You really have to wonder. CNN was broadcasting video live from Lhasa, Tibet just now, on relay from a cable network in Hong Kong.

There was a period o exactly 14 seconds where the broadcast was blacked out, only to resume with an overlap of 14 seconds a short time later.

It makes you wonder if the Olympics will be broadcast on 14 second delay just in case a Chinese athlete doesn't win, so that history (albeit 14 seconds of it) can be re-written.

On a lighter side, the CNN correspondent in Hong Kong (John Vause) is an Australian. When speaking of the deadline just issued for protesters to give themselves up, he said "they have till midnight to dob them in". In Australia to "dob" on someone is to inform someone in authority. He immediately corrected himself for the international audience.

From an Australian's point of view it's nice to see all the Aussie bits have not left him during his overseas assignment.

Iemma cautious over new poll

NSW Premier Morris lemma is refusing to get carried away with
opinion polls suggesting Labor will easily win the March state
election. lemma needs a wake up. He cannot continue to be smug and think it's all in the bag. The people of NSW are more than angry Morris and it's you, and your team that have caused the problem. Did you really think that saying that a filtration system test failure on the new Lane Cove Tunnel, would be enough to convince us that the new road needs to be opened after the election, and not before ? The truth is, you're scared. Your scared that the incompetences of Ministers Scully, and Roosendal, will come to haunt you at the polling booth, if the road opens before the election.

Don't be scared Morris, it will anyway. People in NSW are sick of the way we've been treated. March 24th will prove that.

Debnam considers desalination plant

Debnam considers desalination plant "The NSW opposition says it has never tried to hide the fact it might consider building a desalination plant in southern Sydney if it wins the state election."

I have a problem with this. It's not that people may or may not be drinking de-salinated water, or may or may not be drinking recycled sewage, it's more about why not.

I think we should have not one single de-salination, or recycled water plant in this state. We should have dozens, all pumping water to the inland where we can once again reap huge benefits from our farms, and our land. There are billions of people wanting food in the vast sprawls of China, Africa and India, all we need is the foresight to water Australia and get cracking on a grand master plan for our nations agricultural wealth.