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STATE OF PLAY - 6 days ago
The flow of opinion has been brought to a stop due to computer failure following a “blue screen of death” experience.Since hope springs out of any wreckage, there is an anticipation that the technical status quo may be restored. The... Topics: Blogging in general

CLIMATE CRISIS POLITICS - 10 days ago
John Quiggin was somewhat irritated, even angry, with the climate “delusionists” (as I am) and so invoked a violent image, suggesting that Rudd had given then both barrels.I tend to think it is a matter of squarely facing the evidence as much. Topics: Australian Politics, Humankind/Planet Earth, Natural Environment

THE EMPIRE, THE EMPIRE - 11 days ago
Along with all the other problems of Empire, the natives are whinging, and unwilling. This only adds to the lesser breeds who seem, as they have since World War One, prone to combat fatigue. The profits from the resource stealing game had better be good.

FALL OF THE WALL - 12 days ago
On this day twenty years ago the Berlin Wall was no more, and with it the USSR was dispatched to the memory of history and Germany was reunited.Just for the record Deutsche Wella recounts the events and their significance of the day that changed European. Topics: European Politics

AFGHAN ELECTIONS - 90 days ago
Many commentators in the propaganda media are telling us that the elections in Afghanistan have been a conditional success.Everybody on the planet is enormously surprised by the conclusion. Of course it is double talk, and the people of Afghanistan are... Topics: CENTRAL ASIA


