from our friend Vacy Vlacy …..

from Crikey …..

More Australian companies are facing an online backlash over halal-certified products in an organised attack by a network of Islamophobic groups on social media.

The latest proposal for Westconnex is nothing more than a tunnel to a traffic jam.

The Russian Front

With apologies to Gibert and Sullivan 
When I was a lad, I served a term at writing words in Murdoch's firm. 
I made the coffee and swept the floor, 
and polished up the handle on Rupert's front door. 
Yes I polished that handle so carefully, 
that one day I became the State's A-G 
(refrain) He polished that handle so carefully, 
and now he's here for all to see)

To enter the lost city, go through me.

Through me you go to meet a suffering

Gus: All in all, it is an awful way for a social construct to be mainly based on "economic" factors as the world is presently poised. Economic factors rely mostly on greed, god (beliefs) and guns — and are no way to run the world. All they do is encourage greed, psychopathy and hypocrisy to flourish in people's relationships. Ugly. 

Gus: A social Australia

Climate change is set to inflict “severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts” on people and the natural world unless carbon emissions are cut sharply and rapidly, according to the most important assessment of global warming yet published.

A leading international climate change economist has urged Tony Abbott not to “wish away” the evidence for climate change or prevent it from being discussed at the upcoming G20 summit because of “local politics” and a “lack of courage” to confront the scientific evidence.

Ferchrissakes, the British version started under the name of the "Future Warships Project".  I've summed up how I see the situation in a wee letter published in the Adelaide Advertiser on Friday: