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During the first several days of the war between Georgia and Russia, the US medias readers and viewers could find in the nations newspapers and on its airwaves a degree of ambiguity and even rare moments of objectivity. Though vaguely anti-Russian, a good share of the initial coverage tended not to lay the blame for the war fully at the feet of Moscow and provided some insight into the Georgian militarys devastation of the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali. Then, between August 11 and 12, a sharp change occurred in the way the US media presented the war. The initial response to the war gave way to what can only be described as a tidal wave of anti-Russian propaganda. Now there was only one side to the story. What had happened?

To people who wants to "Free Tibet", study history first. I hope from studying you will be more rational. Do not be used by politicians. Created by Freemedia1 (AUS)

Anxiety over China syndrome (28/10/2008) The Reserve Bank intervened to keep a floor under the dollar at around 61 US cents. One big reason the dollar is being dumped on financial markets is because of Australia's reliance on its resources boom to help stave off the recession now threatening America and Europe and because commodity prices have also been forced down by the global slowdown. Even China's miracle economy has slowed to nine per cent and its satiable hunger for Australian iron ore to feed its steel mills effectively keeping the economy relatively buoyant is also diminishing. But will Chinese growth be able to resist pressures enough from without and within to save Australia from the worst impacts of the global crisis.

The former CIA Executive Assistant, Sam Halpern, said "I think the basic the whole idea was to keep Chinese occupied somehow, keep them annoyed, keep them disturbed. No body wanted to go to war over Tibet. That's pretty clear. We did go to war over Korea. We did go to war over Indochina. We won't go to war over Tibet. And so, it was nuisance operation, basically nothing more. And I'll think it's American point of view, it wouldn't cost very much, even money or manpower. Anyway it was not manpower, it was Tibetan manpower. We were willing to help Tibetans from becoming a running sore and a nuisance to the Chinese"