US President George W Bush has called Iran the "single biggest threat" to peace in the Middle East ahead of a visit to the region centred on celebrations of Israel's 60th anniversary.
"To me it's the single biggest threat to peace in the Middle East, the Iranian regime," because of its nuclear program and its support of groups like the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, Bush told Israel's Channel 10.
"Their funding of Hezbollah - look what's happening in Lebanon now, a young democracy trying to survive," Bush said in excerpts of an interview to be broadcast in its entirety on Tuesday.
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Socialists stick together
Andrew Bolt
By their guy instincts you may judge them. It’s not just China that’s against a humanitarian intervention in Burma. Remember that the next time you see some donkey in a Che T-shirt.
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Free money
Andrew Bolt
Tell me it won’t happen:
THE first Rudd Government Budget will dump work-for-the-dole programs ...Oh, dear. Back to the something-for-nothing mentality.
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Swan bites back after budget labelled ‘anti-mother, pro bludger’
The Work for the Dole program has been guaranteed by the Federal Government, amid reports it's in line for the scrap heap.
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10,000 killed in China’s worst earthquake in 30 years
China's most devastating earthquake in 30 years has killed nearly 10 thousand people, with the toll likely to soar as authorities struggle to reach casualties in areas cut off from relief.
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Burmese relief work unacceptably slow: UN chief
The military junta in Burma is continuing to delay the aid effort to desperate communities, which are now in danger of starvation and disease.
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Roads closed, shot fired as police chase stolen car
Police have charged a third man over last night’s pursuit which caused traffic chaos in Sydney, when police were forced to close Parramatta Road near the M4.
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Aussie woman continue to drink while pregnant
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Consumers the losers with St George, Westpac merger
While the focus is on tonight’s budget Alan Jones comments on the possible merger of St George and Westpac, and the way it deprives consumers of choice.
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Spielberg plans Abraham Lincoln biopic
Legendary director Steven Spielberg is planning a biopic of former US president Abraham Lincoln to tie in with the 200th anniversary of his birth, reports say.
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Sendler dies. Nobel should cry
Andrew Bolt
Irena Sendler has died. She was last year beaten for the Nobel Peace Prize by Al Gore in a decision which shames the Nobel committee.
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Your money or your money
Andrew Bolt
Sydney’s Daily Telegraph talk to a member of one of the teen girl gangs behind a spate of robberies and vandalism in Glebe
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The institute of group-think
Andrew Bolt
Should we believe them?
TAMARA OUDYN: Is it possible for a think tank that’s funded by two Labor governments to be truly independent?
ALLAN MYERS: Yes, it is.
Myers is the chairman of a new think tank at Melbourne University that’s being given $30 million of your money to give “independent” advice on stuff like climate change. All involved, Myers, Victorian Premier John Brumby, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Melbourne University vice chancellor Glyn Davis, chairman of his friend Kevin Rudd’s ideas summit, swear blind it won’t be biased.
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Booze safe
Andrew Bolt
The ABC reports:
Police in Alice Springs say they were appalled to find a driver put a seatbelt around a carton of beer - but left a five-year-old child unrestrained.Ethnic descriptors omitted, of course, so that valid conclusions cannot be drawn.
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Liberal heavyweights unleash on Budget
Rowan Barker & AAP
Australia's longest-serving Treasurer says the problem facing his successor Wayne Swan is what to do with the budget surplus believed to be between 17 and $22 billion.
With Labor's first budget under Kevin Rudd being handed down tonight the Government has continually warned that there will be unpopular spending cuts to curb inflation.
Peter Costello now a back bencher says Mr Swan is the luckiest treasurer in the world and he needs to be very careful with the extra revenue.
Mr Costello, making a rare appearance before the media since the coalition lost office at the November federal poll, said his Labor successor had inherited, without doing anything, a budget surplus of $15 to $20 billion.
"All the hard yards were done by the coalition, opposed by the Labor Party and inherited by Mr Swan, the luckiest incoming treasurer in Australian history," Mr Costello told reporters.
"Inheriting probably the strongest economy, certainly of any of the G7, and any of the developed economies in the world."
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