The day started funnily enough. The media reports from various countries placed various slant on the events of the times, being Paris. Paris, New York, Moscow, Sydney (News Limited) all had different spin. 

Make your own T-shit: buy a T-shirt and paint stuff on it as per sample on top. You will save the planet from the terrorists who use coal as their weapons against the planet.

Exactly 26 years ago last week, peace was breaking out in a manner that the world had not experienced since June 1914. The Berlin Wall - the symbol of a century of state tyranny, grotesque mass warfare and the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over the planet - had come tumbling down on November 9, 1989.

Ashbygate roars back into life as the Australian Federal Police raid James Ashby's house, looking for material relating to three Turnbull Government frontbenchers.

At 8am on Tuesday, 17th November, eight AFP detectives raided the property of James Ashby’s mother.

Tony Abbott: a few cartridges short of a full clip, says Bob Ellis.

from our friend, Dr Vacy Vlazna …

In Red Dwarf, Lister, the last human in the entire universe, teaches Kryten, the droid with a head shaped like a badly-peeled potato, to lie — as if lying was at the core of being human. 

May I convey my sincere condolences to the families of those who have been killed in Paris.

May the injured recover fully.

May peace enter the heart of everyone. 

I'd like to apologise for this crummy cartoon which is too complicated but simplistically represents how we distort the human condition with stupid religious views. 

I feel like the annoying uncle creating mayhem in a perfectly "normal" family, by telling eager junior it's okay to be a prankster. I seem to harp on about the religious hypocrisy and useless faith day in day out. It has nothing to do with any doubt in my life, nor about trying to defend my patch of lawn.

Aboriginal dispossession served capitalist interests, argues Paddy Gibson, but Aboriginal people have remained a “problem” from the point of view of Australia’s rulers ever since.

In 2009, Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten released his film "Bananas!*", telling the story of a lawsuit brought by 12 Nicaraguans against the multinational Dole Food Company.

But before it was due to premiere at a Los Angeles film festival, the company filed a lawsuit against Gertten and his company for defamation.

Our glorious site yourdemocracy.net.au has been a bit sick for a couple of days. It seems the gods of the internauts are possibly angry. My guess is that some doozy from the Metadata collection pressed the wrong button and mucked up. Or it could be just an accident of a provider going plonk.