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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Vaclav Havel

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my tendency to trust where inappropriate, my politeness, my silly faith in signs of good intentions on the part of my antagonists, my cons...

Innovation : The money Jobs generated

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“I, whose imperfection Is evident and admitted Needing further assurance Must year-long be pitted Against fool and trooper Pract...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Raw News

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Be careful, as each choice has lasting consequences; throw a pebble in the pond, and its ripples will spread throughout the rest of the wate...

Made in China with Chemical Love ...

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Kommunists know how to make fools living in so called kapitalism to part with their money  Made in China with asbestos Chinese products ar...

Provocative economies and Brooms Inside the German Army

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How countries spend your money  BBC (this story does not include Australia) The German army has faced a shortage of equipment for years,...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Pigeonholes of Universal Views

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“Beware: we know that critics’ spite, a boomerang, comes back to bite.”       Industry insiders could probably make several lists of twe...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

The Great Tax Robbery

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In the last century the famous American Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, in one of his judgements, argued that ‘Taxes are what we pay for civil...

Great Poets Musing on Lazy Sundays

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“It always seems to me amazing that we had such flawless poets among us in our youth. But for that very reason I also keep wondering, with...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Iceland convicts bad bankers and says other nations can act

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Le Monde owner’s criticism of HSBC leak coverage lays bare fragility of press freedom Guardian  Iceland convicts bad bankers and says ot...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

New Aristocracy

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The Atlantic, Stripping a Professor of Tenure Over a Blog Post With These Hires, Congress Becomes Even More Like a Corporation  Nation  ...

Bugging Sagas

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Nothing surprises any more about the depths to which  NSW bureaucracies  can sink.  It was around August, 2012, when a retired NSW pol...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Doodling Currents and Slogans

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~ Politics of contaminated rasp-berries “Don’t slogan at them, don’t pretend problems don’t exist.” Mr Turnbull described (sacking of ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Politics and Sacrifice: ANZAC

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One hundred years after the Gallipoli campaign was marked by terrible casualties, the Channel Nine mini-series is also suffering extensive ...

MAKING STORIES WITH AUSTRALIA

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“…we have made innumerable books To please the Unknown God. Time throws away Dead thousands of them, but the God that knows No death...