Headlines Wednesday 15th October

Rees fails to stimulate
Andrew Bolt
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spends:

Growth will slow, and unemployment will rise. That’s why the Government today announced this $10.4 billion Economic Security Strategy to support continued positive growth in the national economy...

NSW Premier Nathan Rees saves:

A FIFTH of NSW public service fat cats face the axe as NSW Premier Nathan Rees struggles to drag the state budget back into the black.
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Bryce more brazen
Andrew Bolt
The Governor General really can’t resist playing politics. The latest example:

The Governor-General, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, AC will launch the book publication of The Garnaut Climate Change Review in Melbourne on Thursday October 16, 2008.

Shameless. She’s actually helping to spruik a highly political document, written by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s hand-picked advisor on climate change as part of a report to government.
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Rudd opens the Government’s wallet
Andrew Bolt
Damn. Not tax cuts, but handouts:
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is announcing a $10.4 billion “economic security strategy” in response to the global financial crisis.
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Levi vs the hooting media
Andrew Bolt
Levi Johnston, just 18, rejects the smears spread by alleged adults of the media world:

Johnston, who’s having a baby with the daughter of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, can’t believe all the things he’s hearing.
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Rudd to keep chasing what Europe now resists
Andrew Bolt
Benny Peiser sums up the mood of the cut-emissions meeting:

Representatives of German business have called for a moratorium on any European Union legislation that would impose higher costs on companies at a time when they are grappling with the fallout from the financial crisis.
--Chris Bryant, Financial Times, 13 October 2008

The financial crisis and slumping economic activity are threatening Europe’s ambitious plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions, with governments eager to avoid saddling companies with additional burdens. “The Germans are giving up and the Italians are getting ready to follow,” said one European negotiator on condition of anonymity.
--AFP, 12 October 2008
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NAMES UNNAMED
Tim Blair
Victorian schoolteacher Scott Bridges ("the Editor") offers his considered view:
Conservative bloggers, long pissed off about the fact that Kevin Rudd won last year’s Australian election, and now indignant about the fact that a blackie with a muzzie name looks likely to win this year’s US election …
Bridges hasn’t done his homework. It isn’t conservative bloggers who are fixated on Obama’s race (Bridges doesn’t identify any) but certain leftish pundits.
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FUTURE SEEN
Tim Blair
American Reuters environment correspondent Alister Doyle covers warmenist predictions:
Refugees are moving to Antarctica by 2030, the Olympics are held only in cyberspace and central Australia has been abandoned as too dry, according to exotic scenarios for climate change on Monday.
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“COMPLETELY UNFAIR AND OUTRAGEOUS”
Tim Blair
A victim of the Bill Henson scandal speaks out:
Journalist David Marr says he feels “terrible” being at the centre of the Bill Henson controversy and that he has harmed the boy chosen to pose for the photographer and the principal who allowed Henson to scout for a model on school grounds.