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Blogsthe tragedy of our inertia...Why it is important to tally the number of days above a certain temperature compared with similar period in past records...
forward to the abyss ....Thursday's sound and fury in Canberra changed only one thing. A government that was on the ropes now has the smell of death to it.
the theatre of politics...As most of the mainstream media uses epithet like "disaster", "Labor's shrivelled bacon", "chicken Kev", "catastrophe" and even a "%$&(#@ that" to describe Julia staying in the PM chair — and of course blames Julia and Swan for the "debacle" (it's not a debacle — it was actually lancing a big boil that has been festering in the Labor Party), I for one could not be happier... Having been through many changes of fragile government in Europe, I can see a Shakespearian drama/comedy being climaxed... and there will be a clever twist at the end... Julia wins the election...
the visitor...JERUSALEM — President Obama made an impassioned appeal Thursday for renewed peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, urging each side to compromise on key issues so as to sideline extremists who “thrive on conflict.”
crean buns and ruddy lemon juice on a day of sorry...
What a farce... And I don't mean the Labor's spill today... the fault of which lay squarely on Simon Crean's lap...
constipation in the media...a case study of quick picture switch at News Limited...
from the henhouse .....News Limited is the main perpetrator of media abuses in Australia, writes Alan Austin, and hence the strongest proof the current self-regulation system is useless.
shooting the wounded .....Journalists and editors love to bang on about press freedom - but which interests curtail freedom of the press most? Veteran journo Trevor Grant on the day his idealism died
culture in a petri-cracy dish...Media is there to entertain us — not to inform us. The product of choice is inanity. When media tries to inform us it's always with twisted view points and a pander to our express desire to be distracted from reality with make-believe "reality" and to feed our pre-munched bigotry... And the more we enjoy the make-belief, the more we develop the habit to be entertained with illusions until we get bored and demand more powerful entertainment. The process is addictive as it presses the buttons of our creature of habits, with cleverly added "surprising" increments to alleviate the habit of habit-forming... Like a drug addict, we need stronger doses of inanity to make us enjoy more inanity...
the media wars...Anyone who think that the media self-regulation works please place your hand up...
the water treatmentThis Gus picture shows "the Gulf" about 100 miles from Normanton.
white smoke....Caption: "He was the only one who had not been blacklisted and could speak Italian"...
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