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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside. Quite a number of people console themselves with this thought, now that totalitarianism in one form or another is visibly on the up-grade in every part of the world. Out in the street the loudspeakers bellow, the flags flutter from the rooftops, the police with their tommy-guns prowl to and fro, the face of the Leader, four feet wide, glares from every hoarding; but up in the attics the secret enemies of the regime can record their thoughts in perfect freedom—that is the idea, more or less.

- George Orwell

F.U.

MH370

Manus Island closing?

Turnbull gave a fiver to a bum https://twitter.com/cathywilcox1/status/767132469535440896

Private prisons in USA https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/

18C https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/19/the-defence-of-free-speech-is-limited-for-the-anti-18c-brigade

SJWs, safe spaces, micro-aggressions, PC gone mad

Andrew Bolt and the calculator https://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/04/17/why-andrew-bolt-should-be-sodomised-with-a-calculator-–-part-142/

Salim Mehajer http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/08/22/18/56/salim-mehajer-unleashes-violent-sexual-threats-against-estranged-wife-and-her-parents

Bagpipe lung https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/22/wind-musicians-warned-over-hygiene-as-fatal-case-of-bagpipe-lung-reported

Same-sex Marriage

The Green Whistle

RIP (aka Things Coming to an End)

Mr. SR Nathan - longest serving President of Singapore 1 September 1999 – 31 August 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Nathan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_elections_in_Singapore#Application_for_certificate_of_eligibility

Lour Pearlman https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/21/backstreet-boys-founder-lou-pearlman-dies-in-prison-aged-62

NEWS

Long Tan 50th

Hilary's Emails https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/22/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-release-election-day

Sara Connor http://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-sara-connor-charged-over-death-of-police-officer-in-bali-20160820-gqxfa1.html

SPORT

'lympics

Funding for sport/culture/arts, etc.

Caster Semenya https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/21/caster-semenya-wins-gold-but-faces-scrutiny https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/21/lynsey-sharp-caster-semenya-rio-2016-olympics

Olympics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_Brundage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Olympiad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartakiad

Cricket

AFL

Port Adelaide ... the Collingwood of South Australia?

The World Game

Celtic fans are pro-Palestine

Bentleigh Greens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentleigh_Greens_SC#2016_-_More_Silverware

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