A new report from the CSIRO mapping Australia’s innovation and investment priorities out to 2030 has put its energy focus squarely on fossil fuel exports and the technologies required to best exploit them, under a number of different possible future scenarios.

News you won't read in the mediocre press.... 

'Australia is my favorite European country': Twitter competes in wittiness following Eurovision

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has launched his campaign for re-election in his local seat with a rigorous defence of his time in office and a call to re-elect Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister.

I have no idea what Warren means in regard to Bill Shorten having a brassiere. But Warren is a full-blown right-wing cartoonist. He publishes in the right-wing Daily Telegraph — an ultra right-wing paper designed for the plebs who think the paper represents the workers. The DT is a clever con of course. Everything in it is not so much designed to give you a hearty meat pie of news but a large paperbag of a nasty teeny soggy pastry. Warren included.

Here Gus has added the necessary "Emperor's new clothes" to balance the cartoon.

Seymour Hersh erases public's role on Syria

I have been slightly disturbed by Paul Craig Roberts comments. Not that I don't value his inside information and judgement but he has made a few "wild claims" in the recent past, including conspiracy about 9/11. On closer analysis, his claims make sense and are very disturbingly on par with what we spruik here on this site — or even what we could spruik, beyond the ridiculously conspiratorial. 

Fairfax Media staff will hold stop-work meetings after up to 30 journalists were made forcibly redundant.