A partially-declassified DIA report brings disturbing details about US support for jihadists in Syria.

What kind of game is the US government playing in the Middle East?

For the third year on the trot, Shell service stations generated billions of dollars and revenue but not a cent in company tax. In fact the owners of the sunny yellow servos reported tax benefits in all three years despite total sales which may be in excess of $60 billion.

This is an incredible situation for a nationwide network of services stations as well as a large refinery which makes up the "downstream" division of the global oil brand.

As usual, The Daily Turdograph exaggerates anything to promote Turdy's idiocy and his henchmen's (as well as that of their god and master Uncle Rupe). Today's (or was it yesterday's) poster tells us the cost of Labor's Carbon Policy, costed by a dumb monkey in a human suit, with a tie, punching numbers on an abacus. Thus you "can trust" the The Daily Terrorgraph. The monkey was educated at Taronga Zoo and passed Banana Accounting 101 with Honours. 

Meanwhile if you look into a real global warming crystal ball, you would be able to know that the Liberal (CONservative) cost of the future would go way beyond imaginings, especially with inflation and people trying to find a life-jacket.

Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has defended taking his family with him on a work trip to Perth, costing the taxpayer around $8,000 in airfares.

The Abbott government is approaching an existential moment. The existential question: What is the point of the Abbott government?

In the week before Bronwyn Bishop's career-ending exposure for abusing the public purse, Tony Abbott issued a warning to some of his ministers.

from Crikey …..

The government's controversial citizenship-stripping bill is in deep trouble, as it becomes apparent that it has been drafted too hastily and the "solution" to the problem of ministerial discretion has merely pushed it further up the bureaucratic chain.

One of the bosses’ best economic think tanks, the working class taxpayer funded Government agency the Productivity Commission has released its Workplace Relations Framework Draft Report.

And Shearer is interested in Trump, not only as a satirist but because the candidate seems genuine in his boorishness.

It just is startling to people, because they’re so unused to seeing real behavior in the public sphere

Australia’s political leaders are “wilfully blind” to the challenge of climate change, with the country at risk from an “economically reckless” reliance upon fossil fuels, the former head of the National Australia Bank has warned.