Not a real beetle in this picture... The dung beetle pushes the shit with its hind legs, face down, rolling backwards...

Trump Endangers the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act

August 16, 2019

The protection of threatened species will now be weighed against the economic benefit their extinction might mean. Meanwhile, states would no longer be able to review the impact of projects on water quality, in accordance with the decades-old the Clean Water Act

 

Machiavelli
Slowly but surely we come to “understand” politics. 

It has been a long road home for Gundagai's much-loved Dog on the Tuckerbox after the 87-year-old bronze statue was vandalised last month.

 

From Red Flag:

"They should go to jail for that."

Alan Jones has revealed he has written to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to apologise for a comment made on his program.

One more quote from Louis Betty’s book, explaining the Houllebecquian worldview:

Australia's special forces will sport new weapons and body armour as part of a $3 billion spend on new equipment and training over the next two decades.

Asleep on the floor with a pup in his arms 
in the free tram heading for town
The driver told him he'd have to get up 
as he gazed on him with a frown
As the tram trundled he got to a seat
and muttered while resting there
"Excuse me, will this give me a ride
across to Victoria Square?

The report of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide comes a few weeks after speculation that the US financier was found injured and unresponsive on the floor of his prison cell in Manhattan. At the time, multiple media outlets suggested that he might have attempted to kill himself.

Humanity is not homogenous. This is why we often disagree with each others. Sometimes we disagree for the sake of having an argument, but overall we are in a crap-pickle for seeing things with a different eye. Whether we find grit or shit at the bottom of our cage often stems from our education, culture, influences from peers and the age of the captain.

When New Zealand slashed its interest rates by half a percentage point this week, it sucked the Australian dollar into a vortex, dragging it to its lowest point in 10 years.