F.U.

Long Tan https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/mar/17/long-tan-anzac-commemoration-ruled-out-by-vietnam

Dutch election ... GroenLinks ... tolerance, integration, public transport, taxing cars ...

Last of the Leak https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/15/the-australian-is-howling-offence-but-calling-bill-leak-a-racist-is-free-speech-too

Mangroves http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/they-died-of-thirst-extreme-conditions-wipe-out-forest-over-1000-kilometres-20170313-gux252.html

People setting other people on fire

Israeli nurse dies after being set alight by patient http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39266358

Soft white paraffin (setting themselves on fire, I suppose ...)

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

Chuck Berry http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html http://dangerousminds.net/comments/chuck_berry_reviews_sex_pistols_talking_heads_clash_and_many_more_1980 https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/17361511_10154099274871841_8830625039382674420_n.jpg?oh=fcc990d8e1fbdb7df985c4e390de180b&oe=5965B1D6

James Bigby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigbyv.Dretke

Hasyim Muzadi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasyim_Muzadi

James Cotton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cotton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FQT8zrsLzE

Martin McGuiness Sinn Féin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_McGuinness

Skynet News

Downing a ($300) drone with a ($3mill) Patriot missile http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39277940 "In fact, if I'm the enemy, I'm thinking, 'Hey, I'm just gonna get on eBay and buy as many of these $300 quadcopters as I can and expend all the Patriot missiles out there'."

Speaking of drones ... http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445708/f-35-replacement-f-45-mustang-ii-fighter-simple-lightweight http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/27/navy-moving-ahead-with-its-stealth-attack-drone-program/

http://mashable.com/2017/03/16/drone-rifles-china-police/#_ekrTVGiWOq8

MH370

REX Saab 340B http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/passenger-planes-propeller-shears-off-in-midflight-forcing-emergency-landing-at-sydney-20170317-gv0i1c.html

ATC audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvDafKV7hOc

NEWS

Baltics and Balkans https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/18/british-troops-land-in-estonia-for-nato-mission-to-deter-russia http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/09/gop-lawmaker-says-macedonia-is-not-a-country-macedonia-goes-ballistic-dana-rohrabacher-congress-balkans-diplomatic-controversy/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/27/balkans-foreign-policy-headache-trump-kosovo-serbia-bosnia-montenegro

Erdogan http://gizmodo.com/twitter-accounts-hacked-with-swastikas-through-third-pa-1793286451

Curious Fluids

Episode 3: Vinegar

New to the list: Oil of Hartshorn

Weather and Climate

Hot and wet on the East

Old new, but have you heard about the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum? Fancy that, so have I; we must listen to the same podcasts….

BlackRock http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/climate-change-blackrock-manager-threatens-directors-ignore-global-warming-a7631266.html

The Nation's Capital

Sally McManus https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/sally-mcmanus-has-guts-who-cares-if-the-liberals-moan-about-her

Gas and Energy

Wetherill v Frydenberg

All over the place, including this treat http://abc.net.au/news/2017-03-16/alinta-energy-sold-to-chinese-after-ipo-about-face/8360374

"Gets worse folks. Norway sovereign wealth US$885bil or $170,192 per head pop; Australia US$91bil or $3744 per head pop. We've been sold out." https://twitter.com/phillipwmoore49/status/841789671680094208 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C66jMlKVwAAhBkU.jpg

Reaction to the plan https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/south-australia-shows-up-the-federal-government-and-rightwing-commentary

Bible Society and Coopers https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/13/coopers-brewery-under-fire-for-bible-society-video-debating-marriage-equality

CUB and Boycott

Bananaland and Crocland

Kakadu wild animals https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/17/kakadu-aerial-cull-kills-more-than-6000-horses-buffalo-and-pigs

Camels!

Seppo Land

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/03/texas-lawmaker-proposes-fining-men-usd100-every-time-they-masturbate.html "An attending physician must administer a medically unnecessary digital rectal exam and magnetic resonance imagining of the rectum before administering an elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure, or prescribing Viagra. This digital rectal exam and rectal sonogram must take place during the initial health care consultation before an elective vasectomy is performed, a prescription is given for Viagra, or a colonoscopy is performed." “Men have to answer for their actions and so forth,” Farrar explained to the Texas Tribune. “So if there’s going to be an emission, it would have to be done in a hospital where the semen could be preserved for future pregnancies or it would be directly deposited into the vagina of a woman.”

Trump Tax Return https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/mar/14/trump-tax-return-rachel-maddow http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-look-at-trump-s-2005-tax-return-898054723694

SPORT

Cricket

Socceroos

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-17/mark-kavanagh-danny-obrien-win-cobalt-ban-appeal-at-vcat/8362510