There are few people in this world who would defend Gaddafi as a sane and viable leader of Libya; but I think there would be even less that would see the logic in the U.S selling guns to someone as psychotic as him and then parading about as world police.

It's the equivalent of a sheriff giving an outlaw a six-shooter and then acting surprised when he starts popping off the town folk. 

The second one U.S plane gets shot down by one U.S surface-to-air missile, all the military big wigs should get together and make a decision once and for all - "we have to stop shooting at tyrants we've given guns to".

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In its search to reduce debt, Rio Tinto is planning to sell about 20% of its equity to Chinalco - China's nascent TNC and mining giant. This flourish occurs just as Western democracies are dusting themselves down following the failure of free market capitalsim to deliver fairness and security to their citizens and the thumping discrediting of credit.

The whiff of protectionism is in the air as governments bail out the banks and launch stimuli to ‘save' their national economies. How can these new policies which are re-shaping the public interest be reconciled with the private behaviours of the TNC boardrooms which have no interest -public or private- in national boundaries?

If the Australian government allows this acquisition to go through it will invite the Chinese Dragon inside the Australian economy. And when that happens, the writing will truly be on the (great) wall.

Kill it, now, Kevin, or it will kill you.