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Trouble in Greece, but don’t blame the media

david — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:35:32 +0000

On the Greek news agency site, the Greek Reporter, Anastasia Chaini tells us 800 Greek Right-Wing Racist Blogs are under police supervision. Meanwhile AP are running this story about the rise of the ultra-right in Greece which it links with increasing economic hardship.

The xenophobic rage exploded in May, when youths rampaged through a heavily immigrant [...]

Bolt calls it “the gloating sound” from the left polemicists

david — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:07:12 +0000

Andrew Bolt, outspoken shock jock for the Murdoch press in Oz is keen to defend Christianity against the charge that Breivik’s religious and political beliefs somehow contributed to his decision to commit mass-murder in Norway. However in true Bolta style his article is long on opinion while short on facts, he seems far more concerned [...]

Let’s hear it for word fatique…

david — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:05:35 +0000

Government loses bid to keep oil drilling ban | Reuters

david — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:59:34 +0000

Despite reports that oil continues to leak into the gulf at an alarming rate the continuing pressure on the stock of BP and the need for other oil companies to stay afloat has forced one man, a judge in the US, to overturn the Obama moratorium on new oil wells in the Gulf.

Oil companies [...]

Taking a position…

david — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:37:55 +0000

Oops just watched a trailer for Unrivalled…urgh what is going on with the world or am I just some latte drinking trendy overeducated and underpaid, indulging in some romantic sensibilities? Lordy lordy be.

It seems everywhere you have to have a position on something. Where do I stand on land rights for gay whales? Do [...]

This is what the war looks like « Overland literary journal

david — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:41:27 +0000

From the Overland website

Wikileaks has just released this footage from a US Apache helicopter killing a group of civilians in Baghdad in 2007. The clip shows the crew strafing the men from the air and then returning to kill the occupants of a van attempting to collect the wounded.

The dead included two journalists from Reuters. [...]

To beat terror, defeat its ideas | The Australian

david — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:02:24 +0000

Interesting…

How to you defeat an idea? Shall we put two ideas in a ring together and see which one is victorious after a number of rounds? The two ideas can slug it out for the amusement of punters and the financial benefit of the promoter.

But the metaphor is inadequate since a defeated idea can simply [...]

YouTube – A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn

david — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:31:27 +0000

Some great cartoon work…

YouTube – A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn.

Albrechtsen leaves her mark

david — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:05:30 +0000

Oh what a feeling! Planet Janet has announced her departure from the board of the ABC and I would personally like congratulate her on her worthy contributions and selfless devotion to the difficult task of ridding the ABC of

the progressive predilection for emotion over reason and stealth over honesty.

Sure it was difficult for the [...]

Gerard Henderson on Pilger

david — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:13:47 +0000

Must have really got up the old fart, there’s Pilger basking in the glory at the Sydney Opera House while receiving his Sydney Peace Prize (now’s there’s an idea, just as well they asked a few aborigines along to make it look good) and poor old Gerard fuming quietly on the dunny at home. Even [...]