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Here is video of President Obama doing an interview with an Australian reporter where he said he shares the same "world view" as Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - Obama said "I find him smart, but humble" - and "pragmatic." Are you kidding? Obama does not even register on the "humble" scale, and he is a far-left ideologue who is absolutely committed to his radical agenda and philosophy. Where have we EVER seen the "humble" Obama? Just for memory's sake, watch the McCain 2008 Campaign Ad below that focused on "The One's" patent lack of humility . . .

United States president Barack Obama says he and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd share several personality traits - one of which is humility. The US president made the comments to the 7.30 Report's Kerry O'Brien during an interview which will be aired on ABC1 tonight.

Few are laughing in Australia following Robin Williams' joke that its people are "basically English rednecks". His remarks, made on The Late Show with David Letterman, prompted Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to respond on a Sydney radio show. "I think Robin Williams should go and spend a little time in Alabama before he frames comments about people being particularly redneck," said Mr Rudd.

The US government opposes the Federal Government’s planned internet filter, claiming it runs contrary to their policy of encouraging an open internet to promote economic growth and security. Coming off the back of Google’s announcement they are no longer censoring their Chinese search engine, officials from Obama’s State Department are mounting a diplomatic assault on internet censorship worldwide. The Punch reports today that US State Department spokesman Noel Clay raised concerns about the proposed internet filter. “The US and Australia are close partners on issues related to cyber matters generally, including national security and economic issues,” Mr Clay said. “We...

For the past few months I have been hearing reports of an increasingly totalitarian approach to Homebirth in Australia...

MASSACHUSETTS is a long way from Australia. Even so, you can count on the Rudd government paying close attention to what happened in the Bay State last week. A little known Republican, Scott Brown, won the Senate election by campaigning against the US President's radical healthcare plan. Massachusetts is sacred Democrat turf, held by the Kennedy clan for more than 40 years and by Democrats since 1952. It was the only state to vote for George McGovern over Richard Nixon in 1972. Barack Obama's overreach on health care has plenty in common with Kevin Rudd's dogged pursuit of an emissions...

A letter sent from: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 1 January 2010 His Excellency Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister, Climate change: proposed personal briefing Your speech on 6 November 2009 to the Lowy Institute, in which you publicly expressed some concern at my approach to the climate question, has prompted several leading Australian citizens to invite me come on tour to explain myself in a series of lectures in Australia later this month. I am writing to offer personal briefings on why “global warming” is a non-problem to you and other party leaders during my...

THE Rudd Government is forcing hundreds of long-serving military personnel to sacrifice up to $20,000 a year in superannuation benefits. The working lives of about 320 staff were extended by five years when the Government raised the military retirement age to 60. But their employer superannuation contributions ceased because they had reached their so-called "maximum benefit limit". That means they are effectively paid about $20,000 a year less than a younger person doing the same job. In some cases super benefits of up to $240,000 could be lost. The Government's review of military superannuation said the injustice should be corrected...

Warming Scandal: The architect of climate fraud steps down, the creator of the infamous "hockey stick" is investigated, and Australia's parliament defeats cap-and-trade. We love the smell of truth in the morning. As the high priests of what Czech President Vaclav Klaus has called a "religion" prepare their pilgrimage to worship the earth goddess Gaia in Copenhagen, complete with humanity being sacrificed, the heresy of climate truth is finally being heard. The gospel of climate change, once expressed with the messianic fervor of an Elmer Gantry by Al Gore, is now expressed with the stammering incoherence of an Elmer Fudd...

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's Senate has rejected legislation to set up an emissions trading system in the country to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The Senate voted Tuesday to defeat a bill that is the centerpiece of the government's plans to slash Australia's emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020 as part of global efforts to fight global warming. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a leader on the issue. The government's next step is unclear. Rudd...

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's private jet has been forced back to the US because of a mechanical fault. "Due to a minor mechanical fault, the prime minister's RAAF plane has returned to Washington," a spokesman for Mr Rudd said. "The Prime Minister will (stay) overnight in Washington, his return to Australia has been delayed."

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is set for a stoush with the ACT Government over territory laws allowing same-sex civil union ceremonies. Mr Rudd has told caucus that although informal discussions had been held with ACT Government, no decision had been made yet about whether to veto the laws. But ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said the Federal Government had already demanded the laws be reworked, and had indicated a willingness to intervene. Mr Stanhope met with federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland yesterday to discuss the new legislation. "They are prepared to intervene to overturn the recent amendments to the civil union...

KEVIN Rudd is poised to sign off on Australia's biggest military buy -- up to 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters for the RAAF. The sign off is happening as pressures continue to bear down on defence spending in the face of the global financial crisis. Federal cabinet's national security committee is set to approve the $16 billion F-35 acquisition in late November but the number of aircraft in the RAAF's initial squadron could be cut from 24 to as few as 14. On present planning the air force will get its first operational squadron by 2018 with two F-35s to...

KEVIN Rudd has had another expletive-riddled brain explosion - this time directed at Labor's faction bosses, including three women MPs... The faction leaders had gone to see the Prime Minister in his Parliament House office to object to Government plans to cut MPs' printing allowances from $100,000 to $75,000 a year. The decision was in response to a report into parliamentary perks by the Auditor-General. Mr Rudd had been given an advance copy and had decided on the dramatic cut, fearing a voter backlash to the revelations about how the allowances were being abused... According to sources, three of those...

The shadowy internet group known as Anonymous has hacked into the prime minister's website to protest over proposed internet censorship reforms. An Attorney-General's Department spokesperson confirmed to ninemsn the Prime Minister's website was taken down at 7.25pm last night, but said the site was operational again "within minutes". "Visitors to the site received a service unavailable error," the spokesperson said in a statement. "There was no unauthorised access to site infrastructure." The Australian Communications and Media Authority's website was also affected. A message posted on the Inquisitor website by Anonymous stated that the action was in response to a federal...

KEVIN Rudd has decreed his government will never "get a permit slip from another country" before deciding who should receive a visa to enter Australia, as the Coalition made contradictory statements about whether it agreed a visit by Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer should have been allowed. In a statement reminiscent of John Howard's "I will determine who comes to this country" pledge on asylum seekers, Mr Rudd said yesterday: "The government I lead is one where Australia makes decisions on who it issues visas to or not. The Liberal Party is now saying that when it comes to Australia's visa...

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says the arrest of four people suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Australia is a sober reminder that the threat of terrorism remains. The four people arrested, all Australian citizens, were allegedly planning a suicide mission using semi-automatic weapons on an Australian military base. Police are presently interviewing a 26-year-old Carlton man, a 25-year-old Preston man, a 25-year-old man from Glenroy and a 22-year-old man from Meadow Heights. "There is an enduring threat from terrorism at home here in Australia as well as overseas," Mr Rudd said. Mr Rudd said there was no need for...

YOU could see defeat forming on the faces of Liberal MPs yesterday just when they should have been growing convinced they could secure a chance of winning the next election. Kevin Rudd's statements of innocence over giving a mate and Labor Party donor special help have been vindicated, and the Prime Minister has turned a potentially deadly argument against Wayne Swan for misleading parliament into a potentially mortal wounding of Malcolm Turnbull. The Prime Minister is now in the clear, the Treasurer will survive and the Leader of the Opposition's character and political judgment are being seriously questioned. The Coalition...

MALCOLM Turnbull was last night holding firm against government demands that he quit, after police revealed as fake an email the Opposition Leader used to label Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan as liars. An Australian Federal Police raid on bureaucrat Godwin Grech's home yesterday uncovered the hoax email, which originated in the Treasury. The discovery prompted the Prime Minister to say his opposition counterpart was "swinging in the wind" and unfit for office, having made false allegations with no real evidence. "He has no alternative now but to stand up, be man enough to apologise and resign," Mr Rudd told...

LABOR's long-held strong lead over the federal Coalition in opinion polls has collapsed, with the latest Newspoll showing the opposition just one percentage point short of the Government. While Kevin Rudd has maintained a strong lead over Malcolm Turnbull as preferred prime minister, the past fortnight has brought a four-point turnaround in primary voting intentions, with Labor now ahead by 41 per cent to the Coalition's 40 per cent. The shift, which followed the resignation of former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon, puts Labor at its lowest point since last October and well below its 2007 election primary result, when it...