September 4, 2010 – 7:53 am
Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle To think well of themselves. [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Environment, Skeptics, Society, Technology, The Left
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Tagged class, climate change, climate change policy, clive hamilton, Environment, environmental concern, financial modeling, George Monbiot, holocaust denial, Insight, Jenny Brockie, left wing, noel pearson, public policy, right wing, risk analysis, Science, scientific method, Simon Niemeyer, skepticism, Skeptics, Stephen Schneider
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August 29, 2010 – 11:25 am
…you just feel disappointed in your countrymen. Like today. I happened to click on this awful little story in The Australian (reported in more detail at Perth Now): Aboriginal Liberal candidate Ken Wyatt has got [sic] hate mail from people who say they wouldn’t have voted for him if they had known he was indigenous. [...]
August 25, 2010 – 2:02 am
Julia Gillard is a childless 48-year-old unmarried atheist redhead who lives in sin with her hairdresser. She is also the first woman to become prime minister of Australia. Just in case you thought that might mean a new era had dawned, be assured that it is probably just about over. Not that Gillard had radical [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Economics, Environment, Feminism, Funnies, Law, Media
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Tagged australia, Australian politics, Bob Katter, Germaine Greer, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott
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August 22, 2010 – 5:27 pm
The outcome of the 2010 Federal Election is fascinating. The Liberal National Party have 71 seats, Labor has 70 seats, the Greens have 1 seat (their first ever won in a General Election), and other independents have 3. It looks like Labor is better placed to form a minority government, but we’ll wait and see. [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Society
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Tagged Australian Greens, Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, Federal Election 2010, General, Hung Parliament, independents, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, Tony Abbott, voting
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August 14, 2010 – 9:24 pm
David Cameron claimed on Tuesday that he and his wife Samantha are members of ‘the sharp-elbowed middle classes’. This statement was at the same time an attempt to proclaim his ordinariness and a dig at middle-class values. The Prime Minister was in effect saying that he is much like everyone else while deprecating those whom [...]
Work and pensions minister Chris Grayling is conducting an urgent review into a new medical test for incapacity benefit after fresh figures showed only 6% of those tested were deemed to be totally incapable of working. The figures, covering all new claims from October 2008 to the end of November 2009, show 39% are being [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Personal, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged ATOS, Chris Grayling, computer says no, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, DWP, employment support allowance, LiMA, UK coalition government, UK politics, welfare, welfare reform, work capability assessment
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I am not going to link to anyone making ‘dog whistling’ claims this election campaign; there are too many of them. Instead, I am going to make a few requests. 1. Before using this phrase, please take some care to find out what it means. 2. When claiming that this or that politician is ‘dog [...]
FRIENDS of an acclaimed Scottish writer have accused the new government’s crackdown on welfare benefits of being a factor in his suicide. Paul Reekie, who, along with Irvine Welsh, was part of a wave of young Scottish authors who rose to international prominence in the 1990s, killed himself in his Edinburgh home last month. The [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Depression, Economics, Funnies, Society, scotland
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Tagged George Osborne, housing benefit, incapacity benefit, Paul Reekie, suicide, welfare, welfare reform
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O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. (William Blake, The Sick Rose, Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1794) plate here There is a canker eating at the heart [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in General, Society
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, belief, fear, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, opinion polls, politics of fear, reason, the worm, Tony Abbott
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