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the panama papers explained by uncle rupe in a toon and surveyed by offguardian...The Panama Papers broke, yesterday. Dozens of MSM outlets joined together in echoing this startling piece of investigative journalism: Rich people avoid paying their taxes. I know, I was shocked too.
greece's bleak future...Greece hasn't been saved just yet - and the conflict between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Europe is sharpening. Greece's former Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis expects a showdown between IMF and Germany.
the guardian picks on him exclusively...
vale bob...
Legendary Australian writer, journalist, playwright and auteur Bob Ellis died today, 3 April 2016.
the joke seems to always work...You know the joke: your point the finger at someone's shirt and you say "Oh" as if there was something your interlocutor had to look down at and then you raise your finger and hit his/her nose? Got ya... Meanwhile Moscow has to deal with US aggression and ingratitude...
loony park...Loony Park... Picture by Gus at Luna Park, Sydney, modified by Gus The prime minister says defeat of his income tax plan is a wake-up call for state premiers to start living within their means.
COAG-ulation...
Senior ministers have thrown their support behind Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, after his contentious plan for income tax was rejected at yesterday's Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra.
the language of politicians …Electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide. It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic, militaristic, inflexible, intolerant and inhuman. So why do we keep doing it over and over again?
mr burns power plant in japan...In this issue of Science magazine, 4 march, 2016, the story of Fukushima is not too good. The power plant now is surrounded by ten metres tall tanks that hold 750,000 tonnes of radioactive water. There are diagrams of the tools that are the only thingsters that can go into the "hot zone" which is too radioactive for people to work in, even with safety gear on. The Japanese are clever with their robots. There are four main types designed to perform different tasks. Meanwhile there is jump in thyroid problems:
signature of a madman: more nuclear weapons on the planet...Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's nuclear policy is "catastrophic", the White House says, as world powers meet to debate the future of nuclear weapons.
hit and miss at malcolm's old pub that has run out of beer...Malcolm is throwing everything at it.
From John Passant:
saving palmyra... silence by the US and the UK governments is telling of their impotence and double dealing.saved by precision bombing... Image rendered by Gus.
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