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
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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
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