Ah, Mr Gittens. You’re my hero!

by | Jul 11, 2005 | Uncategorized

Ross Git­tens on Howard’s IR reforms in the Sydney Morn­ing Herald. If you’re at all con­fused about what’s going on or just want more inform­a­tion, Git­tens ana­lyses the Howard Gov­ern­ment’s claims in week­end advert­ise­ments, one by one, clearly and...

chaos/control

by | Jul 10, 2005 | Uncategorized

these pared down, har­rowed days con­jured from flame and fervour spread thin like a cry drawn from parched lips; like an ache refracted. in our cities, bodies drift like sparks in con­flag­ra­tions — ash-light; empty rhet­oric falls gnarled as tinder. what...

Now it’s just getting weird

by | Jul 10, 2005 | Uncategorized

Lab-grown meat on its way. Ah, sweet sci­ence fic­tion future. There you are! I’m intrigued: qamar and other vegetarians/political eaters out there. Would you eat lab-grown meat?

G8 analysis from indymedia

by | Jul 10, 2005 | Uncategorized

As the protests and repres­sion were taking place on the streets of Scot­land, a summit to deliver Africa into the arms of the G8’s cor­por­a­tions and aban­don the (already heav­ily com­prom­ised) Kyoto treaty cli­mate change was also hap­pen­ing behind the...

Belief

by | Jul 9, 2005 | Uncategorized

Good things today: 1. Aus­tralia grants asylum to Chinese defector, dip­lo­mat Chen Yonglin 2. G8 for­give debt, make token noises about cli­mate change and AIDS I spend a fair bit of time com­plain­ing and cri­tiquing and ana­lys­ing. I don’t often...