Sprummer Haiku XXIV by Dr Gob

Dead Fidel will smell

Eras ending everywhere

What the fuck comes next?

Quote

"I'm not thinking of cutting my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we fulfil our promise of good government I will cut my beard." - Castro in a 1959 CBS interview, 30 days after the revolution

"Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live for seventy years? Why should some be miserably poor, so that others can be hugely rich? I speak on behalf of the children in the world who do not have a piece of bread. I speak on the behalf of the sick who have no medicine, of those whose rights to life and human dignity have been denied." - Castro's message to the UN General Assembly, 1979

F.U.

Jamie Murphy http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-23/bali-police-drugs-test-returns-negative-result-jamie-murphy/8050268

NASA Director schools Senator Malcolm Roberts http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-24/nasa-director-schools-malcolm-roberts-in-climate-change-letter/8052132

Pauline and The Coral http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/11/28/18/23/hanson-coral-incident-under-spotlight

Thunderstorm Asthma http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-26/we-couldve-seen-thunderstorm-asthma-coming-and-ways-to-prepare/8058682 http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/a-fifth-person-has-died-from-thunderstorm-asthma-following-melbournes-storm/news-story/679fecfe7868a6ae6342f9798e1edcf6

Noel Pearson http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-28/pearson-abuse-claims-'straining'-relations-with-qld-government/8057908

Drug law reform and The Greens http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/greens-in-radical-new-drug-legalisation-push-20161126-gsy5ee.html http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/just-say-no-australian-medical-association-rejects-greens-new-drug-legalisation-push-20161127-gsyh5c.html

Microgrids and power distribution https://www.good.is/articles/samoan-island-goes-solar http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/renewable-energy-and-the-national-grid/7987134

Singapore and the APCs it was shipping back from a military exercise in Taiwan http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2049831/does-hong-kongs-seizure-armoured-vehicles-give-beijing

People setting other people on fire

Punk Memorablia http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/11/27/punk-memorabilia-burnt-thames

RIP (aka Things Coming to an End ... aka The End Times)

Fidel Castro http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-27/trudeau's-positive-castro-remarks-spark-ire,-humour/8061848

Stan Jones http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/obituary-another-chapter-closes-in-australias-war-history-20161127-gsypkq.html

Joe Esposito, 78, American author and publisher, road manager for Elvis Presley.

Florence Henderson, 82, American actress (The Brady Bunch) and singer, heart failure.

Keith Richards is still alive. Our new warrant canary.

NEWS

Right and far-right in France https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/25/fillon-beats-juppe-in-tv-debate-ahead-of-vote-on-presidential-candidate https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/27/francois-fillons-victory-creates-strategy-problem-for-marine-le-pen https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/francois-fillon-threat-liberal-values-marine-le-pen-france

Weather and Climate

Soil https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/treating-soil-like-dirt-fatal-mistake-human-life

Patagonia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/28/how-two-clothing-tycoons-saved-patagonia-doug-tomkins-kris-mcdivitt-tomkins

Health

Scurvy http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/scurvy-surprise-archaic-sickness-that-struck-down-sailors-resurfaces-in-sydney-20161129-gszrhx.html

The Nation's Capital

Brandis' latest http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/george-brandis-is-unfit-to-sit-at-the-apex-of-the-nations-legal-system-20161125-gsxeo4.html

High Court of Australia http://malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/appointments-to-the-high-court-of-australia

Fencing off the green grass over Parliament House http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/like-putting-a-barbed-wire-fence-over-the-opera-house-fearless-politicians-reject-parliament-house-security-push-20161129-gszw8v.html http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/07/25/3553147.htm http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/publications/papers-and-podcasts/designing-canberra/giurgola-guida-berg.aspx

Rumtown Gazette

Toaster building and Crowded House `

Seppo Land

Recounts

The Latte Libel https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/the-latte-libel-is-a-brilliant-strategy-the-left-cannot-counter-it-with-facts-alone

Economy vs The Voters https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/22/donald-trump-lost-most-of-the-american-economy-in-this-election/

Obama reckons with Trump presidency http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency

James Fallows on how to report on a lying narcissist http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/11/a-reflexive-liar-in-command-guidelines-for-the-media/508832/

OJ: Made in America

What does the alt-right want? http://www.vox.com/world/2016/11/28/13716038/alt-right-policy-platform-trump

Tourism slogans https://www.familybreakfinder.co.uk/holidays/map-every-countrys-tourism-slogan/

SPORT

Cricket

Chess http://kottke.org/16/11/why-chess-has-failed-to-catch-on-as-a-spectator-sport

Faarkup final. Melbourne is Sky Blue.

#TheEndIsUponUs