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Kids and Reality….

There’s a most beautiful day out there… I can see it through the window from the kitchen.  Blue sky… couple of little fleecy white clouds just for good measure…  trees standing tall and quiet in the windless air… temperature mild, … Continue reading

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Too Much/Too Little Information

We can’t see the wood for the trees, can we? Given so much information, so many colourful, professionally, expensively produced information videos/movies/documentaries that in fact we learn nothing…. I’ve just been watching such videos on four different subjects: Education: the … Continue reading

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World’s Best Primary School…

This is a joke. I have two children perforce attend a primary school that has displayed some unfortunate behaviour: demonising my child, coercing parents to put children in uniform, that sort of stuff. You can see: authoritarian. They have a … Continue reading

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Immigrants/Boat People….

Just learned something: ‘Boat People’ arriving in Australia since the ‘concerns’ began (not sure of that date, missed it) : about 20,000 Immigrants settled in Australia during that same time: 3,500,000 Yep.  Three and one half million against 20,000 That … Continue reading

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Noam Chomsky

I’ve been trying to be upbeat and happy. Didn’t want to keep reiterating all the bad things…. But they are so  bad. I just keep finding out so much more.. Now  I have run into Noam Chomsky’s speech on ‘The … Continue reading

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Instant Roofing

Here I am..  20 years out of date, apparently…….. Go downtown the other day where they’re building a new shopping centre for us (? for ‘them’, really, of course) – a ‘mall’ – an enormous building. See lots of new … Continue reading

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Quick Cure Concrete

They’re pouring concrete not far from where I live. New shopping centre to blight our lives.  Pouring slabs bigger than a football field. You can see them pouring wet concrete from a pipe at this end while in the background, … Continue reading

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Check The Glee

In this litany of gloom that is a perusal of the state of the world today I can only find one area of light: Glee.  The American series about a High School Glee Club. I’m talking about viewing the world … Continue reading

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Costs $10 Million to Lend $2.7 Million

Check this out http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/8545177/10-million-in-costs-for-just-15-loans/ It is a story about the Northern Territory Government here in Aus.  Here’s the first two paras: A federal government program aimed at helping indigenous Australians buy their own home used up nearly $10 million in … Continue reading

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Wikileaks…

Isn’t it wonderful how all the evils exposed by Wikileaks fail to attract any political attention in their chorus of condemnation and even hardly any media attention? The story is the vendetta against Assange.  The story(ies) should be on the … Continue reading

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