I started having Orwellian visions of the New Blog Order. All these blogs, who knows what percentage, may come from cramped sub-continental call-center style environments with the coolies mindlessly banging out articles and blogs all day while their colleagues over the partition are flat out adding comments to them all as quickly as they...
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           “AUTHORITIES HUNT KILLER SHARK”. My immediate thought was – so will it be killed or what? Brought to trial? Suited up, provided a public defence lawyer, innocent until proven guilty and all that? Then I read “The latest attack has prompted calls for the offending shark to be hunted down and killed…...
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August 24, 2011 was a particularly sad day in Australia. In the early hours of Wednesday morning news broke that 11 people, including 8 children had been killed when a fire decimated a house in the Brisbane suburb of Kingston. While the media is often too keen to use the words tragic and horrific...
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What an amazing photo taken by Peter Macdiarmid on August 7 at the height of the London riots. At first glance one is drawn to the centre of the picture. We can see a discerning looter dressed in baggy pants and obligatory hoody. He looks well pleased with his booty, casting his eye over...
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   I love readers comments. Infact I am beginning to like them more than the articles themselves. And when it comes to certain topics, like immigration for example, I don’t even bother reading the article itself anymore, I just scroll straight to the readers comments. Sometimes I have to go back and scan the...
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The scale of the recent flooding in Queensland has been nothing short of astonishing. 15 confirmed dead, thousands homeless and a monumental clean up to follow. I’ve seen quite a bit on the TV over the past 2 days, in fact it’s been pretty hard to find anything else to watch. Yeah I know...
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WikiLeaks, man it’s crazy stuff, not that there’s any major surprises for those of us who already knew that the US had such an intricate web of octopi tentacles around the embassies of the world. It will be nice to at least to see those White House puppets struggle to respond, and all their...
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I picked up my copy of the Sunday Herald Sun yesterday. Like most people I buy one paper a week only for the TV guide and this week it was the TV guide that caught my eye. Great news Gen X nostalgia freaks “Skippy” is back on the 9 network. Yep Matt Hammond, Sonny,...
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                                                                                              I’ve just read, the prime story on the ABC News site, that in Australia a 13 year old was given Sunday night prime-time on all television stations to spread indigenous equality propaganda from under the mask of political innocence. My first thought: who is paying for this? Then I read that the four...
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I received this email yesterday, subject: ‘Reconnect with Friends’ “Hi, You haven’t been back to Facebook recently. Here are some people you may know on Facebook. Connect with friends, family, classmates, and co-workers to see their updates, pictures, and more.  Thanks, The Facebook Team”  And more what, ‘Team’? I opened a Facebook account, or...
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