from Crikey …..

Abbott's $10k Pollie Pedal expenses: did he make a profit?

The expenses scandal grows deeper by the week, write the editors of Red Flag.

Good evening. Tonight I want to speak to you about honesty. And dishonesty. On honesty good government depends. Dishonesty is the seed of bad government. It is a betrayal of the people, of democracy itself.

“And then a Plank in Reason, broke / And I dropped down, and down” – as the poet said.

It is time to call a spade a spade. Lying racist, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, has ordered his department to call asylum seekers illegals and detainees.

It is not illegal to seek asylum. Oh, but the lying racist whines, they have arrived illegally. Really? Which court were they convicted in? On what charge? Or are they illegal because the Minister says so?

The spying row between Germany and America is deepening, with fresh reports that United States president Barack Obama knew his country was monitoring the German chancellor's phone calls.

from bill Rowlings ….

Not even the US President has the right to order killings without due process under the rule of law. By claiming otherwise, Emperor Obama lives in a fairy tale world.

One has a bone to pick with Ergas pushing his opinion on various platforms from the Sydney Institute to the ultra right wing rag of the merde-och press, The UnAunstralian...

Today the brave Henry (who, by the way, is far far younger than old Gus-the-Shithead) argues about the waste of Labor's NBN and that of the Collins Class submarine... Well Mr Ergas, one can say that having any weapons or armies of any sort is a waste of money...

Tony Abbott and the Australian mainstream mass media raped your soul... If you have voted for him and have not realised this, you are fucking idiots...

Tony Abbott has a heart full of stones — his asylum policies are as un-Christian as they come — and he has a head full of straw — his understanding of the danger of global warming is nil, zero. nada, nothing — and if you have not realised this— especially if your house has burnt down — you are fucking idiots...

Tony Abbott has no respect for anyone else who is not as brash, crazy or crazy as he is — while being cocky about the colour of his own boots... if you have not realised this, you are fucking idiots...

Concentrated solar thermal is again making the news, with the world’s largest parabolic trough array with thermal storage – opening for business in Arizona.

Food manufacturers could be facing their tobacco moment as growing consumer awareness on well-being turns towards commodities such as sugar, a global report says.

According to this Huffington Post report, the Israel flag was banned in an international swimming competition in Qatar... Sure. Why not also ban the Saudi flag, the Iraqi flag or the Syrian flag...?... or the flag of all the countries like Australia that support Israel?

An EU summit is due to begin in Brussels with fresh allegations of US spying threatening to overshadow talks.