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Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Sunday, August 29, 2004
The day is coming when a single media dragon, freshly observed, will set off a revolution .
Paul Cezanne, French painter (1839-1906)
Bush like a rock or a car only dumber. His supposed intellectual failings are the butt of countless jokes, but so far the question is why is a political village missing its idiot?
Eye on E(l)ection 2004 AD: Overboard But Treading: Just as a culture of trust is contagious, so is one of courage
Howard: election to be about trust.
As predicted by the Media Dragon in June the Prime Minister, John Howard, announced an October 9 election date today saying the six-week campaign would be one fought on the issue of trust.
• I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it; [Nation needs new leadership, says Latham; PM: I'll stay as long as party wants me; Howard in losing mode: Brown; Labor win could see boost in women Mps; Labor to subpoena ministers' staff; Michelle Grattan: Howard's vulnerable whatever the timing; Comment: How angry voters forced the PM's hand
• From Little Things Big Things Grow MPs call for full disclosure over Orange Grove; Grove Going, Going, Going Overboard ; [ via 27 August 2004 Stateline (Coming, Coming, in the fullness of the public diservice time) Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway despite people like Quentin Dempster or the e(l)ection pebble Tonko Green (smile) ]
• · The Politics Of Bullying Democracy requires dissent, right or wrong
• · · What's love got to do with it? Governments promise economic growth and prosperity in exchange for their overbearing embrace ... Less love and more words
• · · · Slavoj Zizek Reviews Timothy Garton Ash's Free World
• · · · · Bob Dole caught on camera when he thought he wouldn't be saying McCain was right about Bush's tactics
• · · · · · · Nathan Vass Guttman Israeli spy said operating in the Pentagon; [The Pentagon analyst who officials said is under suspicion was one of two department officials who traveled to Paris for a secret meeting with Manucher Ghorbanifar, Iranian arms dealer who had been a central figure in the Iran-contra affair]