from Crikey …..

The thoughts of Chairman Don - same old, same old

Many may wonder what in today’s world can writers and investigative journalists actually change. At the very least, they can chronicle the truth. And that’s no mean feat. The truth matters. Dissention can not only provide an alternative to official propaganda, but also a historical account for future generations of the deceptions and barbarity currently being carried out in the names of justice and freedom.

Missing those not interested ….

from politicoz ….

When it comes to asylum seekers, the government is at an impasse, and the situation is not helped at all by the absurdities served up by the opposition.

A long-standing proposal to require all health claims on packaged food to be substantiated before they go on the market may have been derailed by the billion-dollar grocery industry, which is proposing that it be allowed to sell first, prove later.

The people who gave you Julia Gillard are now attacking the Greens.

Sam Dastyari, the right wing head of the right wing party machine in New South Wales, called the Greens ‘…extremists not unlike One Nation’.

In his recent Michael Kirby Lecture, Malcolm Turnbull made an excellent case for same-sex marriage that came to an appalling conclusion, civil unions.

Part of the problem is that Turnbull has his facts wrong.

For example, his claim that civil unions are "better than nothing" has been shown by the overseas experience to be false.

News footage of Egyptians queuing patiently for hours to exercise their first free vote in decades is a sobering sight. Even more sobering is the whining of those Australians who currently complain about having to vote at all. Our political culture has never been more cynical; it is fraying at the edges, mired in ignorance and negativity.

Protestor In A Chicken Suit .....

Mr Abbott lied to us; he said the world would end!