I am using the free wifi at Coffee Bean in Kuta, Bali and the internet is crawling and there is just one other person here using it.

Just as 26 people, including four foreigners have died from alcohol poisoning after drinking locally made arak, customs officials have raided bars in Kuta and Nusa Dua, confiscating imported alcohol which had fake duty labels.

Tourism operators are worried it will have an affect on people wanting to visit Bali.

From WA Today:

“We’ve asked for this confiscation process to be temporarily suspended because we are running out of stocks,” Perry Markus, head of the Bali branch of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association.

The Australian has reported that rabies treatment vaccine is critically low in Bali and tourists visiting the island should have vaccination before they go on holiday.

There was an outbreak of rabies last September and vaccine supplies are now limited.

“Nobody should be allowed to leave Australia without travel insurance,” said Craig Beveridge, the Australian chief executive of the Bali International Medical Centre. “An air ambulance back to Perth costs about $60,000. Some people have had to remortgage their houses. When people go away on holiday they think they’re not going to get sick, or they’re not have that heart attack, yet we see that sort of thing on a daily basis.”

Around 2000 stray dogs have been killed to prevent spreading of the virus to the island’s monkey population.

I have no idea who penned this…………..

Could this be the start of a new wave of national pride!!!!!!

You hurt us bombing bali, but we can take the pain,
But if you think you’ll beat us you can think a-bloody-gain
We battled at Gallipoli and we fought the bloody hun
Of all the areseholes we’ve had to face you’re just another one
You won’t get your hands dirty, you won’t fire a gun
Whenever danger threatens you just pack your gear and run
You brainwash innocent children to do your evil deeds
Careful not to let them know just where it really leads
You get them to believe all your bigotry and lying
Until they cannot see that there’s no glory in their dying
Now we’d like to pose a question, answer if you can
Where does your holy book tell you to kill your fellow man?
Now listen hard and listen well, we’re giving you the word
You’re never gonna beat us you spineless bloody turd
You’d never face us personally you haven’t got the guts
You know that if you ever did we’d have your bloddy nuts
Our spirit is unbroken, and our heads are still unbowed
We sure as hell aren’t scared of you and your gutless crowd
So get your act together you’ll never win because
What your’re really up against is the spirit this is oz