https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia

Quote

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

Nelson Mandela

F.U.

MH370 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3762218/Mangled-MH370-wreckage-Mozambique-suggests-plane-exploded.html

Flatworms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatworm

Narcissism and Sociopathy http://www.dsm5.org/

RIP (aka Things Coming to an End)

The Waco Kid (aka Willy Wonka) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/29/gene-wilder-death-willy-wonka-mel-brooks-comedy https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/29/gene-wilder-obituary

Nick Thomas https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/28/endurance-athlete-nick-thomas-dies-swim-english-channel

Tom Jackson http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/home-hill-stabbing-victim-tom-jackson-dies-in-hospital-20160830-gr4iit.html

Islam Karimov ... the authoritarian leader of the Uzbekiest of all the 'Stans http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uzbek-president-islam-karimov-hospitalized-raising-fears-power-vacuum-n639331

Election Profit Makers http://www.electionprofitmakers.com/

NEWS

18C https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/29/conservatives-flex-muscle-over-marriage-equality-and-18c

BBC - The Briefing Room - the 'Alt Right' http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07pjb9y

CUB dispute http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/battle-of-the-brewery/7792416

ScoMo's idiotic little speech

"On current settings, more Australians today are likely to go through their entire lives without ever paying tax than for generations. More Australians are also likely today to be net beneficiaries of the Government than contributors - never paying more tax than they receive in government payments. "There is a new divide ^ the taxed and the taxed nots." http://sjm.ministers.treasury.gov.au/speech/015-2016/ https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2016/aug/29/scott-morrisons-car-crash-logic-and-the-real-story-behind-the-taxed-nots

Weather and Climate

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/08/noaa-confirms-2015-highest-everything-for-global-warming/

https://twitter.com/Rottoturbine/status/770550560390979584

Rumtown Gazette

Operation Spicer report presented http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/operation-spicer-larceny-charges-recommended-against-former-minister-chris-hartcher-20160829-gr451q.html

Repayment of illegal donations http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/icac-former-liberal-mps-forced-to-repay-illegal-donations-20160829-gr3tcv.html

The Secessionists

Kalgoorlie riots http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/crowd-threatens-violence-outside-boulder-court-after-local-boys-death-20160830-gr4bzn.html

Star Hotel riot - 19 September 1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Hotel_riot

Araucana chickens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucana

Araucanians (Spanish exonym for the Mapuche) of Chile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche

Magpie Alert! http://www.magpiealert.com/

SPORT

ICC Test Championship Mace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_Test_Championship http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/8718099/The-ICC-Test-Championship-mace-and-other-terrible-trophies.html http://www1.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/ICC+Presentation+Test+Championship+Mace+ODI+7f1XeNmdWVdl.jpg

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