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internet censorship – national protests
Further to the previous post, there are national protests on 13 December 2008 in relation to Labor’s mandatory Internet filtering scheme. Details here. Attend, if you don’t want the federal government to decide what you can and cannot…
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internet filter – positive noises from… the Liberal Party?
No doubt stung by the fact that no-one in the electorate actually pays them any attention at all (or maybe just because they don’t have to pal up to right wingnuts like Steve Fielding any more), the Liberal Party appear…
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DVD piracy = child molesting
And so it begins: link. If you copy DVDs, you are directly supporting drug trafficking and the rape of small children. As if you didn’t know that, you raping, drug-dealing monster, you.The USA has been subjected to…
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president obama will destory us all
Take a moment to marvel at the subtlety and correct spelling of US presidential campaigning: link.
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no clean feed
This is probably the most significant issue for Australian democracy since the amendments to the ASIO Act by the Howard government: link.
More on it later. If you already know about it, get a move on and write…
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McCain debatebot
McCain debate simulator (somewhat amusing): link
Palin Whitehouse simulator (very amusing): link
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US election fever
A couple of sites I find provide really good US election coverage:
- Electoral Vote – summarises the likely electoral college based on up to date polling in each state (remember that the US system is mostly a winner-takes-all state-based
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it’s the biggest scandal since watergate-gate
No matter how often I read this statistic, I still find it somewhat startling:
A vast majority of the nation, 73 percent of the country, disapproves of the job President George W. Bush is doing. No president has
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fukuyama on the decline of the American brand
I found this article by Francis Fukuyama to be a very worthwhile read on the subject of the current financial crisis and it’s implications for US politics at home and abroad.It’s written with a clear-eyed understanding of modern…
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Serious Crime (Control) Bill 2007 (SA) – a bill controlling what, exactly?
I just became aware of this piece of legislation, recently introduced into the South Australian Parliament: the Serious Crime (Control) Bill 2007 (SA). You can see the bill here in Rich Text Format or here in…
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verballing 101
The South Australian Government has gone ahead with legislation to ban David Hicks from selling his story. He’s still allowed to tell his story, but he’s not allowed to sell it. Lucky him. Presumably he’ll be able to…
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no ape in 08: i !heart huckabee
FYI, Mike Huckabee, potential Republican presidential candidate and by extension potential President of the United States, has this to say about creationism (and the fact that he believes in it):
If you want to believe that you and
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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
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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…
