The Journal
Current Affairs
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NSW MPs Putting State in Darkness
But I thought that’s what everyone wanted? Surely that couple of extra Earth Hours didn’t bother anyone? Where are your priorities? Pretty obviously, if your population increases, and you don’t build new power production infrastructure, you…
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Holden Cuts Production to Half – Good News?
According to PM Kevin Rudd, Holden is the bright star in the GM firmament, the only good GM news anywhere in the world. This because a new four cylinder car is due to come into production in 2010.…
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North Korea Fires Rocket Over Japan
North Korea has fired a rocket over Japan. Pyongyang says this is part of North Korea’s ‘peaceful space development,’ and was intended to launch a satellite. Right. Why fire it over Japan then? It is hard to believe this…
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Another Baby Dead in a NSW Hospital Toilet
How can this keep happening? The woman did not know she was pregnant. Well, OK. But she is not a medical professional. She doesn’t work at the hospital in New South Wales. But heck, why not,…
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Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapsing (Again)
The media has been blabbing on about how the Wilkins Ice Shelf is in imminent danger of disintegration because of global warming for years. Now, yet again, scientists are alarmed at the extent of rapid changes.…
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Stimulus Package Worse Than Useless
Professor Neal Stoughton, head of Banking and Finance at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, has come out in support of my argument of several weeks ago that the stimulus…
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End of the Line for Tamil Tigers
I have blogged about the Sri Lankan civil war before. There are reports that some 20,000 people have fled conflict zones in March. About 30,000 fled in February – but fighting was more widespread then. The…
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Body Part Dropped in Neighbours Yard
But the police won’t say what body part. Apparently the killer got into a fight with an older drinking buddy and attacked him with a hatchet (small axe, tomahawk, whatever). During the attack, the older guy…
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Man Swallows Scissors He Was Using to Clean His Teeth
Yes it is true. There are even X-rays to prove it. If this guy had died he would have deserved a Darwin award. But I guess he’s still got his whole future ahead of him. Provided…
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Bishop Backs Rudd on Bushfire Climate Lessons
I know George Browning slightly. He is a a personable and apparently intelligent man. He has also been pushing the global warming agenda pretty relentlessly for the last ten years. Understandably, since he is convenor of the ‘Anglican…
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Banks Funding Virus Creation (or Forcing You To)
In an article on the Australian ABC website, Patrick Gray suggests that the major motivation for writing viruses is financial. This is certainly true with ‘key logger’ type infections, but I am not sure it is true…
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Sayyaf Hostages Still Alive
According to latest reports from the Philippines, the Red Cross workers kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf are still alive – though no ‘proof of life’ has been received, despite requests. Abu Sayyaf has already shown it is…
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Men Earn $1 Million More than Women Over a Lifetime
Really? They have better paying jobs than I do, obviously. Equal pay for equal work for men and women is mandated in Australia, as in most countries. So if this figure is accurate, what can account…
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Hospital Waiting List Fraud
I am a bit confused about this whole story. Is it claimed hospitals were exaggerating their waiting lists in order to increase funding, or that they were understating them in order to look good? Like many…
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This is an April Fool’s Day Joke
The G-Ball. It measures your kick – velocity and direction, and transmits this data to satellites, from where it is sent to football scouts who are waiting to offer you a lucrative contract. But this is not…