Planned Outage Tonight
Hello everyone, it’s your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant here. I plan to migrate our servers to a different data centre tonight. There will be some disruption during the move, and it may take time for your DNS records to be updated. [...]
Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’
Cultural disdain is about more than humour. It’s the new politics.
Quick link: Sparrow on the cultural contradictions of the right
I’ve rarely seen the culture wars explained better than by Jeff Sparrow in this piece at The Drum.
Climate clippings 40
German electric vehicle goes 1,014 miles (1,631.5 kilometres) on a charge That’s the Schluckspecht E developed at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with Frauenhofter Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems. The electric vehicle sports extremely aerodynamic bodywork, two [...]
Twenty years since the death of communism
It was twenty years ago today that a clique of Soviet political and military officials attempted a coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with the aim of “saving” the USSR. Their actions had exactly the opposite result – the coup [...]
Deficits, debt, etc: Bad for business, bad for the economy?
We learned last week that Joe Hockey plans to cut $70 billion from government spending (as he has to do to fund Tony Abbott’s Direct Action and parental leave policies, and to make up for all sorts of foregone revenue [...]
The ABC, balance and right wing propaganda
I don’t know if anyone saw The Drum this afternoon? (And I don’t know if there are any audience/ratings figures for ABC News 24, but I’d be very interested if anyone does…) We had a panel composed of two ABC [...]
Stop gloating, lefties? #notw
(We all know only lefties gloat. Brendan O’Neill told us.) So, Margaret Simons, writing in today’s Crikey, probably rightly, suggests that the latest revelations in the #notw phone hacking saga imply that to Rupert’s crown, no woman or man of [...]
London burning IV: Tory authoritarianism triumphant
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the House of Commons in the aftermath of the English riots set the tone for a bizarre crackdown: Responsibility for crime always lies with the criminal. But crime has a context. And we [...]
A crisis of political economy
President Barack Obama recently told members of Congress and the public: If we don’t come to an agreement, we could lose our country’s triple-A credit rating, not because we didn’t have the capacity to pay our bills – we do [...]
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