AUSTRALIA SPIES ON INDONESIAN LEADERS; IT GETS PERSONAL FOR PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO

LISTEN UP, AUSTRALIA! 

Indonesian President 

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono 

BUT NOT TO MY WIFE'S PHONE 

First Lady Ani Yudhoyono 

(Kristiani Herawati) 

OR MINE, OR MY GOVERNMENT'S 

Indonesian-Australian cooperation suspended 

Some of the reporting here and here and here 

ANALYSIS here 

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ARE DEVASTATED BY TYPHOON HAIYUAN; PRESIDENT AQUINO IS TEMPTED "TO DESPAIR"

THE TOLL KEEPS RISING 

PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT 

BENIGNO S. AQUINO III 

bows his head as leaders and their spouses gather for a group photograph at the APEC Summit on Bali, Indonesia, October 2013  

Today it is reported that nearly four thousand people were killed when Typhoon Haiyan hit the central Philippines, and that the estimate of people "displaced by the catastrophe" was now up to  four million. 

ART IN RELIGION (BALI, INDONESIA)

UNFINISHED 

RELIGIOUS OBJECTS 

BY THE ROADSIDE 

WORK IN PROGRESS 

BALI, INDONESIA 

SHOPPING FOR A CELL PHONE ON BALI

CELL PHONE SHOPPING 

FAMILY CHECKS OUT 

A ROADSIDE STALL 

BALI, INDONESIA 

BECAUSE WE CAN? OBAMA AND THE NSA

SPYING FOR 

OBAMA? 

STATUE OF THE BOY 

"BARRY" BARACK OBAMA 

JAKARTA, INDONESIA 

On his left hand a butterfly; above his head, a surveillance camera.   

To be continued