2015.06.16 God's On Shard

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. - Orwell


Show Notes

Word of the Week

Crook

Eddie Obeid's fire problem http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/eddie-obeids-bankstown-function-centre-hit-by-a-suspicious-fire-20150615-gho5gz.html

FU

Graeme Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Deakin

Falkland Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands

RIP

Scaramanga aka Christopher Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee

Ornette Coleman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbZIiom9rDA

Vinny Musetto https://twitter.com/hirider750/status/608332958945157121

Philip Toyne http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-13/landcare-co-founder-phillip-toyne-dies/6544366

PM of Oz

Number 20: Wiliam McMahon aka Silly Billy aka 'Tiberius with a telephone' (Gough) aka 'a Volkswagen with the doors open' (Killen).

Billy http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Nla.pic-an23458756-v.jpg

Julian http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Julian_McMahon

NEWS

Wind farms

Housing (and negative gearing in particular)

Citizenship

Paying people smugglers

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/tony-abbotts-tangled-web-over-paying-people-smugglers-20150614-ghnqh8.html

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/11/turkish-officer-ordered-plant-trees-gassing-protester.html

F35 and fires https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-f-35-can-just-catch-on-fire-sometimes-eecce430792b

Fear http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s4255820.htm

WEATHER

SPORT

Arm wrestling http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-12/arm-wrestling-how-easy-is-it-to-break-an-arm-explainer/6540898 http://radiopaedia.org/articles/humeral-shaft-fracture-1

Football

Matildas beat Nigeria 3-1, there was dirty play from the opposition http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/nigerian-defender-ugo-njokou-banned-for-three-games-for-elbowing-matildas-sam-kerr-20150615-gho165.html

Socceroos commence the Road to Donetsk tonight against Kyrgyzstan in Bishkek http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/nigerian-defender-ugo-njokou-banned-for-three-games-for-elbowing-matildas-sam-kerr-20150615-gho165.html

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