Monday 6th of May 2024

Blogs

the view from the picket line .....

the real thing .....

The ALP has been attacking the Greens and talking about Labor values.  Here’s how the Prime Minister described Labor values in a speech last year. She said:

let the games begin .....

let the games begin .....

Olympic security is in disarray, but organisers are taking no chances with corporate deals...

here's hillary .....

here's hillary .....

Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured cars carrying Clinton's delegation in the port city of Alexandria.

sharing the pain .....

sharing the pain .....

remembering rattusland .....

 

in the shadow of rattusland ..... 

Was John Howard’s Australia the place admirers like Tony Abbott promote?

‘The Happy Land’ is Graham Jackson‘s satirical alternative reality.

a land in darkness .....

the prince of darkness .....

In political fortune telling self-delusion is not helpful — the stakes are too high. This is my reading of the available evidence of our immediate political future. I think that we are witness to a frightening convergence of forces in Australian political and social life.

parody of the year .....

allegory of the year .....

It is billed as the greatest show on earth. But the closer you get to the London stadium that will be the centre of the Olympic Games in just over a fortnight, the more it's starting to look like a militarised occupation zone.

East London has become lockdown London. The Olympics are the focus of Britain's largest security mobilisation since the Second World War.

bad medicine .....

 

 

bad medicine .....

A few hours after the Supreme Court upheld his signature health care legislation last week, President Barack Obama approached a White House podium, addressed the camera and declared that the nation's top justices had reaffirmed an important guiding principle of his presidency.

memories .....

best we forget .....

The Australian Defence Force stands accused of gross breaches of behaviour in regard to sexual harassment and assaults. There can be no doubt that instances of sexual abuse of young men and women occurred during the six decades examined by DLA Piper in its seminal report delivered to the government in October last year. The question now is: what to do about it?

in the shooting gallery...

londonsports

The Armed Forces are to provide up to 3,500 extra troops for security duty at the Games after a private firm admitted it could not supply enough guards.

In a humiliating move, Home Secretary Theresa May has been forced to plead with the Ministry of Defence to release thousands more service personnel to work as security officers at London 2012.

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