A big reason Joe Hockey isn’t getting much support from independent observers like me in his battle to get the budget through the Senate is that so few of his contentious measures are worth fighting for.

Treasurer Joe Hockey admits to a New Zealand audience there never was any Australian budget emergency, yet the ABC don't think it's newsworthy. Managing editor David Donovan reports.

One has to kill in the bud this idiotic rant (24 july 2014) by a conservative writer, Alan Daley, on an ultra conservative US website. These are people with no understanding of anything that does not have the word profit attached to it...:

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The continued use of “anti-Semitism” as a weapon against its critics - even to the extent of the recent invention of a “New anti-Semitism” - is essential for the survival of Zionism because it serves to deflect attention from the lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, war profiteering, blatant violations of international law, and barbaric crimes against humanity.

from politicoz …..

The reforms proposed by the Abbott government are intended to make it easier for the peak spy agency, Asio, to monitor computers and computer networks. They also contain provisions which create a new offence punishable by five years in jail for “any person” who discloses information relating to “special intelligence operations”.

from politicoz …..

I am mightily disturbed by the mixing of notions. John Hughes, the Dean of Jesus College in Cambridge, was suddenly killed, in a car accident that deprived his followers from promises of more religious enlightenment... For all we know, Hughes may have become an atheist in his old age...

From the ABC religious and ethics department:

So, not satisfied with having financially emasculated the corporate ‘regulator’ ASIC, the Abbott government is now reportedly in favour of watering-down the Corporations Law & ASIC Act to relax accountability standards for directors.

One million dollars which was transferred from a Swiss bank account operated by former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson was likely to have been Eddie Obeid’s share of the mysterious Offset Alpine deal, a new book reveals.

The smell around the alleged criminal behavior of Reserve Bank of Australia subsidiaries & claims that members of the bank’s Board failed to meet their legal responsibilities after being made aware of the facts just gets stronger every day.

Global warming is basically a macro-mechanical science of flux with statistical, observational calculations and applied technology. It is a simple science. Compared to the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, global warming should be as easy to understand as buttering a toast on the right side.