Friday 29th of March 2024

loony park...

loony park

Loony Park... Picture by Gus at Luna Park, Sydney, modified by Gus

The prime minister says defeat of his income tax plan is a wake-up call for state premiers to start living within their means.

COAG-ulation...

 

mr magic and dracula...

Senior ministers have thrown their support behind Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, after his contentious plan for income tax was rejected at yesterday's Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra.

the language of politicians …

the language of politicians …

Electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide. It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic, militaristic, inflexible, intolerant and inhuman. So why do we keep doing it over and over again?

mr burns power plant in japan...

fukushima

In this issue of Science magazine, 4 march, 2016, the story of Fukushima is not too good. The power plant now is surrounded by ten metres tall tanks that hold 750,000 tonnes of radioactive water. There are diagrams of the tools that are the only thingsters that can go into the "hot zone" which is too radioactive for people to work in, even with safety gear on. The Japanese are clever with their robots. There are four main types designed to perform different tasks.

Meanwhile there is jump in thyroid problems:

 

signature of a madman: more nuclear weapons on the planet...

madman

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's nuclear policy is "catastrophic", the White House says, as world powers meet to debate the future of nuclear weapons.

hit and miss at malcolm's old pub that has run out of beer...

hit and miss...

Malcolm is throwing everything at it.

 

From John Passant:

 

 

a fool's errand ...

a fool's errand ...

from Crikey …

For all the talk yesterday of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's state income tax proposal representing a major reform to the federation, it's hard to see it as anything other than a political solution to a political problem.

love and punishment.....

love and punishment

Donald Trump said Wednesday that women should be punished for having abortions in a hypothetical world in which abortions were made illegal in the US.

The Republican presidential frontrunner made the comments after after being repeatedly questioned on the subject by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during a pretaped town-hall event.

the old shell game ...

the old shell game ...

only in 'merica ...

only in 'merica ...

The Republican-dominated Mississippi state Senate approved a bill on Tuesday allowing churchgoers carry concealed firearms without a permit while also allowing churches to designate and train members to serve as armed security.

global and local surveillance: ... metadata is still constipated.

surveillance

This week on CounterSpin: Wherever they come down on it, many Americans think of surveillance technology—like facial recognition—as spurring a more or less Platonic argument about the relationship between the individual and the state and/or corporations. That’s a rich enough subject for debate.

the news...

news you won't read in the western media...

I was thinking about posting something new about the pathetic MMMM (the mediocre mass media de mierda). Actually I wanted to show white anger and rage at the lack of integrity, the lack of investigation and about the improper cosy relationship of the media with the governments, for profit and disinformation dissemination. 

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