Spotlight the Spin
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Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics.
Never mind the pork…
…feel the long-term trajectory. There’s already a great deal of insta-reaction to the Clean Energy Future online – you can try Climate Spectator or Crikey for some analysis if you like. Or you could start by reading the actual policy [...]
Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Climate clippings 34
Volcanic CO2 Open Mind tells us that even earth scientists outside the field of volcanology don’t know how much CO2 volcanoes emit. Claims are made that it dwarfs human activity and that Mt Pinatubo emitted more than humans in the [...]
Leaky boat
Tonight ABC1 puts to air its documentary Leaky boat plus a special edition of Q&A. Can’t say I’m looking forward to it, but the arrival of MV Tampa which Howard turned into the Tampa affair in the context of the [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a summary of Every Michael Bay Film In Under A Minute. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
E. coli finally tracked
You’ve no doubt heard of the E. coli outbreak in northern Germany. You may have missed the fact that after several false starts authorities have now fingered fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt. The EU has now placed bans on the [...]
State of origin, 2011: game three
Yep, it’s on again with history to be made. Will Queensland seal an incredible sixth series win, or will the resurgent Blues prevail? Will Lockyer go out a winner, as Wally Lewis did by all of two points, or will [...]
Countdown to the carbon pricing package announcement
I’m calling it the “carbon pricing package” because that’s what Julia Gillard called it in parliament yesterday. It doesn’t yet have a sexy name like the CPRS, one of the details still to be settled. We know now that the [...]
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