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Meet Kevin Rudd, Australia’s New Prime Minister
PJM Sydney: Australia has dumped President Bush's rock-solid friend and ally John Howard. Now, meet Kevin Rudd... a new and formidable force in Australian politics. Peter Day says his election-night victory speech should comfort conservatives... somewhat.
The Day After John Howard
Peter Day looks at what will happen if -- as the polls predict -- Kevin Rudd defeats John Howard on Friday (US time) and becomes the new Prime Minister of Australia. While it's true that Rudd campaigned on the promise that he'd withdraw Australian combat troops from Iraq - he may have left himself some wriggle room.
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 | MORE PHONE FUNNIES: The Justice Department Investigated a New York Times Reporter, Too. “The New York Times reports the Department of Justice investigated national security leaks given to Times reporter David Sanger over his story last year about the Stuxnet virus by pulling all the email and phone records of government officials who communicated with the reporter. . . . The Times’ Ethan Bronner, Charlie Savage and Scott Shane report the FBI requested for any phone and email logs from the White House, the Defense Department and other “intelligence agencies” that showed any contact between employees and Sanger. It does not appear they went so far as to seize Sanger’s telephone records or emails, as they did with the Associates Press and Fox News reporter James Rosen. They at least got creative this time. Instead of looking at his communication records, they looked at the communications between him and every government employee by looking on their end.” ... |
| GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: A Wet And Miserable Start To Memorial Day Weekend: Business Owners On Jersey Shore, Coney Island Curse Mother Nature. “And remember, it can always be worse. Upstate, some areas were seeing light snow on Saturday morning, Murdock reported.” ... |
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