Pope’s visit: road closures like APEC
Up to one third of Sydney city’s ability to carry traffic will be lost during the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI, for the World Youth Day event, in July this year. It will be like APEC and the Sydney Olympics all over again, according to government figures.
“World Youth [...]

Chaser’s War on Servers takes down ABC’s IT
It looks like the Chaser crew have been a little too successful for their own good, according to ABC boss Mark Scott.
While their stunts (can anyone say APEC summit?) are probably an internet marketer’s dream come true in terms of generating traffic, such as been the demand to [...]

Next week
1
man, US President, George W Bush will visit Sydney, Australia, for
5
days. He will travel in Air Force One which will be one of
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747 Jumbo jets his entourage will fly in. A further
5
transport aircraft will accompany the Jumbos, carrying
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helicopters (including Marine One, his official chopper), more than
20
motor vehicles including
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ambulance
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Presidential limousines, and
18
secret service and other [...]

APEC is coming to Sydney!
As the above photo shows, the spin doctors are out in full force trying to put the best possible gloss on this “opportunity”.
So let’s go over some of the opportunities.
Lock downs in Sydney CBD, and restricted access to parts thereof, concrete barricades galore, apparently unlimited police powers of arrest, the closing [...]