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To beat terror, defeat its ideas | The Australian

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 [...]

OMG what have they done?

A week ago the Libs looked like a rabble, then they spent the week proving it and now, after a bit of a break and a nice night’s sleep they wake up an elect TONY ABBOTT as their leader?

Barry Cassidy summed it up with Annabel Crabb on the rather extravagant ABC coverage of the #spill; [...]

The revolution might be twittered, but don't count on it.

While Julie Posetti wants us to believe in the power of the twitterverse to achieve significance in the way news is reported, I think her comments overlook some aspects of how news is made and she asserts a significance for twitter which seems to gloss over some of the “noisy” aspects of that particular internet [...]

Quadrant Online goes to town

Nothing like a good stouch, complete with the usual character assassinations. Mervy Bendle must have gotten out of the wrong side of bed before he penned this little diatribe…complete with an attack on the lunatic left, represented in the red corner by none other than Guy Rundle of Crikey fame. Of course the wicked witch [...]

Annabel Crabb

Annabel writes about the latest disaster in NSW politics –

“That any of them think they have the time to plot and backstab, to feast and fornicate, to construct elaborate strategies whose aims and outcomes are entirely independent of the public good is a marvel.” I think a marvel a bit tame Annabel, its a fuckin [...]

Polluters win no matter who is in power | theage.com.au

Kenneth Davidson sums its up rather nicely…“policy is developed between key ministers and industry lobbyists representing mining, private heath insurance, religious and independent schools and employer groups….It is clear that the Rudd Government is not prepared to undertake reforms to reverse the Howard government’s policies, which created two-tier health and education systems where access is [...]