the long, long day

It's the summer solstice... the longest day of the year... and actually, it's my second 'longest day' of this year.

Six months ago, I was in Paris in the northern hemisphere, and it was the Fete de la Musique... a city-wide fresh-air music festival that brought the whole city out to enjoy a huge range of live musical performances on seemingly every second street corner. I loved it so much that I even stopped and listened to reggae :-O Gotta get back there soon.

conspiracy theory

And speaking of WikiLeaks, I'm more than a little mortified by the international conspiracy to get Julian Assange extradited to the USA to be 'Gitmo'd' by the American right-wingers!

The UK, Sweden, Australia... all seem to be complicit in this outrageous attempt.

Let's hope that democracy can win out and get Assange out of their hands, because the politicians running our 'democracies' sure don't seem willing to help.

wiki traitors

What do you call someone who secretly reports back about his own government to a foreign power?

Yes, it is an 's' word, but in Australia, apparently, it's 'Senator', as in Senator Mark Arbib, rather than the more common term, 'spy'.

In many countries, not only would people like Arbib be treated as spies, but their acts of deceit would be viewed as a crime, and a serious one at that - treason.

How can anyone ever again trust Arbib, or the others named in WikiLeaks (such as my 'hometown' member Michael Danby), to have a say in the running of our country, when their loyalties are clearly shared with a foreign nation? They should resign in shame, or be kicked out of parliament.