Loaded

The new US ambassador to Australia, Robert McCallum, is a Skull and Bones man.

The new Australian ambassador to the UN, Robert Hill, has been Australia's Defence Minister throughout the whole Iraq War debacle and is throroughly complicit in the lies and cover-ups. He shares John Bolton's views on the need for UN reform.

Given how these little stories illustrate what is happening in our sorry little world at the moment, it was more than a little refreshing - in fact is was hugely satisfying - to hear the Australian Opposition Foreign Minister, Phillip Rudd, call Prime Minister John Howard a "liar".