Addressing the preconditions of atrocities: Silvestri
Writing at Open Democracy, Sara Silvestri makes an excellent argument about the massacres in Norway, and how we should act to avoid their repetition.
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!
So, does that make Obama Sauron?
Titanic battles between good and evil are fantasies, and the debt ceiling crisis illustrates what can happen when the fantastic power of ideology prevails.
Cold weather cooking: Pea soup two ways. #1 – Vegetarian
What’s nicer (don’t answer that!) than a warming bowl of pea soup in winter, especially the icy depth of winter we’re experiencing in Melbourne now with breezes alternating between antarctic (southerly) and alpine (northerly). I love soups like these because [...]
What we didn’t blog lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Climate clippings 37
UN Security Council accepts climate change as a threat to global security The best outline I could find was at Deutsche Welle. What we got was a Presidential Statement rather than a resolution, but one that had to be voted [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the superb voice of Ella Fitzgerald. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
On leadership and Christine Nixon
It appears that former Victorian Police Commissioner Christine Nixon’s new book (of which you can read an extract here) has relit the metaphorical fires surrounding her tenure. Her political battles with sections of the force, and News Limited, were brought [...]
Clean economy jobs pay better, employ more workers
A report by the Brookings Institution has found that clean economy jobs pay low and semi-skilled workers in the US significantly better than the median. Similar research in Australia would be very valuable in informing the carbon price debate.
Skilled graffitist makes the front page
Oh Noes! The NBN ha5 been hax0red! The police have saved us from “…what could have been Australia’s biggest hacking attack.”
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