NEWS...SHARES AND POLITICS!

Day 326

Santiago, Chile, South America

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Watched Sir Edmund Hillary´s funeral last night. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark made a great speech! He died Jan 11th aged 88. He was the first man to reach the summit of mount everest in 1953. He was a beekeeper. (Like Greg´s Dad is!) A Very Inspirational Man.
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Gosh! The main news here on CNN is all about the stock market in the US!!! And how it´s falling..and there could be a global stock market crash!!! They´re saying it has been the worst since 9/11!

But...the scary thing is...when i went to news.com.au the headlines are all about how the Aussie stockmarket is falling as well!! US has such a world effect!!

Drats. Should have sold our managed funds months ago! Glad we got rid of Telstra and put it to good use! (traveling haha!).

The hot news on the BBC and CNN is also all about the US elections (which Greg and i have gotten into seeing that´s about all the english news we get in the countries we´ve been in!)

Looks like Hillary is in the lead, for the democrats, by a small margin (Barack Obama a close second). Apparently this could all change when they have the voting in the South Carolina region because the blacks will vote for Obama and the whites will split their votes between Hillary Clinton and the republican candidate! So..well see what will happen at the Democratic presidential primary next Saturday!

SUPER TUESDAY as they´re calling it, because 20 states will vote (Tuesday 5th Feb) will be THE day, though, they say, to find out who will basically be the next US president!!

Will it be a woman or will it be a black??

OR...will it be another republican? (Hope not!)

I´m hoping it will be Hillary (sorry KATE!)...

I think it will be cool for the US to have a woman as their president..and if there´s any woman that can do it, i reckon it has to be Hillary Clinton!

I remember hearing once, that if Bill was a garage attendant...he still would have been president, because he was married to Hillary!!! :-)

Hope we can see the broadcasts when we´re in NZ!

Are you guys following all that?

We´ve also been seeing on CNN about the floods in Queensland as well...looks terrible. The weather in Australia has been featuring a lot lately, probably due to the Australian Open being held there...

It´s great for us to hear Australia get mentioned!!!

Okies...just thought i´d share what the news is featuring over here!!!

Oh yeah, Osama Bin Laden´s son has been all over the news as well...and we´re wondering where in pecking order he comes...was he the 1st or the 100th child or did he come in between somewhere? hehe

Okies..time to read more news. Greg and i are on a computer each...!!! We´re recovering from our wine adventure from yesterday..but soon, we´re going to the Pre Columbian Museum in the Plaza de Armas which we´re heard..is excellent!!!

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PS I hope the Aussie finals will include Federer and Rafael Nadal but i think it´ll be more likely it´ll be between Tsonga and Novak Djokovic to be in the final against Federer (the one that beat Lleyton Hewitt!) if that´s the case, I want Federer to win!!! (He´s such a champion!)