2015.04.21 The One Day of the Year
You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners. - George Orwell
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Weather in Sydney
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR031.loop.shtml
PMs of Oz
Number 15: Frank Forde, 6-13 July 1945
The ANZAC® Myth/Legend/Bullshit
Troops depart Brisbane for the Mess o' Potamia http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/21/tony-abbott-farewells-australian-troops-bound-for-iraq-training-mission
Camp Gallipoli https://www.campgallipoli.com.au/what-is-camp-gallipoli/
Camp Gallipoli Commemorative Products http://kingdomsg.com/campgallipoli/commemorative-products.html
Woolies and Fresh in Our Memories http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/gruen-transfer-panellists-review-woolies-fresh-in-our-memories-anzac-campaign/story-fnkgdftz-1227305024316
Weekend terror raids http://m.smh.com.au/comment/weekend-raids-raise-questions-about-counterterrorism-laws-20150419-1mo51z.html
Governments and The Public Good
Penicillin
The 204 essential medicines according to the W.H.O. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Medicines#Antibacterials
NBN
Food
What We Do in the Shadows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv568AzZ-i8
RIP
RIP Betty Willis http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/betty-willis-designer-welcome-fabulous-las-vegas-sign-dies-n345386
Orwell
"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten lives after him in the sound or rotten bones of his children. I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion....Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners." - George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier.
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