Tuesday 24th of December 2024

John Richardson's blog

hey george ....

hey george .....

tony abbott's downhill run .....

tony abbott's downhill run ....

Tony Abbott will be having a great holiday.

He is no doubt luxuriating in one of France’s snowfield resorts – built by collaboration between business and strong unions.

would you kill the fat man .....

would you kill the fat man .....

At 4:13 in the morning on June 13, 1944, there was an explosion in a lettuce patch 25 miles southeast of London.

the dark ages .....

the dark ages .....

The Abbottite heresy grows not just wickeder but crazier by the day.

public enemy no 1 .....

 

public enemy no 1 .....

Over 12 years into the so-called "Global War on Terror," the United States appears to be striking terror into the hearts of the rest of the world.

I believe in Santa too .....

I believe in Santa too .....

Almost everyone on the left is paying close attention to Tim Wilson’s appointment to the Human Rights Commission. Even I have written about this outrage, this outrage I tell you.

It is a sideshow compared to what is happening in the Australian Tax Office.

a wedding gift from america .....

a wedding gift from america .....

The headline - "Bride and Boom!" - was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a half.

the con merchants .....

the con merchants .....

from john passant ….

talking of entitlement .....

  

talking of entitlement .....

 

The US Senate voted Thursday night to authorize nearly $633 billion in military spending. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation, which provides $552.1 billion for the regular military budget and $80.7 billion for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas contingency operations (OCO).

real anti-semitism .....

real anti-semitism .....

The intellectual dishonesty of Israel’s supporters is appalling. But in some odd way, it is also understandable. How else could they respond to the massively growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign?

the seductive semantics of totalitarianism .....

the seductive semantics of totalitarianism .....

Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera.

I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk to, and what we say.

the price of trust ....

the price of trust .....

The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will no longer pay doctors to promote its products and will stop tying compensation of sales representatives to the number of prescriptions doctors write, its chief executive said Monday, effectively ending two common industry practices that critics have long assailed as troublesome conflicts of interest.

real political leadership .....

real political leadership ....

Unlike the rest of the world’s nations, Iceland has taken strong steps to reduce some of the in-your-face corruption that led to the global financial crisis. Four former heads of Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank have been sentenced to prison for between three to five years – the heaviest sentence for financial fraud in Iceland’s history.

just desserts .....

just desserts .....

Why are Australians so unhappy with their lot? Why do we vote for politicians who want to trash our common heritage? Karl Mathiesen spoke to former Greens leader Bob Brown about the 2013 election

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