abnormal is the new normal

This is an excellent piece by Barry Jones in The Australian in which he highlights the extraordinarily dangerous attitude currently being promoted as the “new normal” by politicians and their lackeys in the western world, in which objectivity, rationality and…

we’re in the dark/spin (random travel photograph)

Bazooka Circus is what the whole world would be doing on a Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.

- Hunter S Thompson

I would say, sir, that there were something dreadfully wrong somewhere

You might have seen this: the US military ‘lost’ five or six live nuclear warheads and ended up mistakenly flying them across the country. The mistake was not discovered for three and a half hours, when the B-52…

demanding equality in pre-crime

Britain’s Lord Justice Sedley has caused quite a fuss by suggesting that all Britons (and any visitors to the Isles) should be added to the British criminal DNA database (alternative article).

Unsurprisingly the suggestion has caused…

police state: sneak preview

Crikey yesterday described the APEC security arrangements thus:

For the cops, APEC is a vision of the world as it should be. Expanded powers, new equipment, media support, and maybe a chance to try out new toys like the water

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