Fake Quote

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ," Mahatma Gandhi

Real Quote

Ours is an industrial civilization, in which no society can prosper unless it possesses an elite of highly trained scientists and a considerable army of engineers and technicians. The possession and wide dissemination of a great deal of correct, specialized knowledge has become a prime condition of national survival. In the United States, during the last twenty or thirty years, this fact seems to have been forgotten. Professional educationists have taken John Dewey's theories of ‘learning through doing’ and of ‘education as life adjustment,’ and have applied them in such a way that, in many American schools, there is now doing without learning, along with courses in adjustment to everything except the basic twentieth-century fact that we live in a world where ignorance of science and its methods is the surest, shortest road to national disaster. During the past half century every other nation has made great efforts to impart more knowledge to more young people. In the United States professional educationists have chosen the opposite course.” -Aldous Huxley, from "Knowledge and Understanding" in Collected Essays (1958)

F.U.

Electric vehicles in Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_Norway

The Lucid Air https://youtu.be/6aRbhWk99Xk

Ryan in Jabiru

Jousting

Macron http://www.smh.com.au/world/emmanuel-macrons-honeymoon-comes-to-a-halt-20170807-gxrbzl

Paul Pisasale fails to appear

Skynet News

Drones http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170731-how-cops-catch-drone-flying-criminals

Balls have zero to me to me to me http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/a-step-closer-to-skynet-ai-invents-a-language-humans-can-t-read/article/498142

Robots colonising Twitter https://www.businessinsider.com.au/hr-mcmaster-steve-bannon-russia-trolls-2017-8?r=US&IR=T

Boris, Natasha and Pottsylvania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatashaFatale <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BorisBadenov">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Badenov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottsylvania

NEWS

Manus
Who could have guessed that someone might die?

Obeid, Tripodi and Kelly http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/icac-operation-credo-report-fresh-corruption-findings-against-obeid-tripodi-and-kelly-20170802-gxo7zy.html

Also, in Malbourne: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/matthew-guy-did-not-know-tony-madafferi-would-be-at-dinner/8783910 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/matthew-guy-alleged-mafia-head-dinner-phone-call/8785700

... market gardener Frank Lamattina had met Mr Guy at a Liberal fundraiser in November, 2016, where the Opposition Leader gave him his personnel number and committed to attending an intimate dinner with him. Mr Guy appears to have initially avoided this commitment, but later agreed to meet at the Lobster Cave when Mr Lamattina complained, saying: "The promise is, you know, John Howard used to keep all his promises. Is there a problem?" ...

And then there's sellout cnut of the day, Martin Ferguson https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/08/minerals-council-lobbies-for-curbs-on-unions-powers-to-strike

Ieaun, the Pom https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/08/greens-move-to-refer-malcolm-roberts-senate-eligibility-to-high-court https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/he-was-only-19

Phonies and electoral breaches http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-03/one-nation-blames-weather-for-multiple-electoral-law-breaches/8767946

The gravy train: "No conflict existed between my parliamentary responsibilities or FCA role." http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/bruce-billson-sorry-for-not-disclosing-salary-from-lobby-group/8785174

CBA http://abc.net.au/news/2017-08-07/commonwealth-bank-how-smart-atms-and-coding-error-caused-mistake/8781066

"Imagine if you're caught for speeding again and again and again, and you say, "Well, look, my speedo was broken so I didn't know how fast I was going, so therefore I should only have to pay the fine once, not the 450 times that you've caught me speeding.' "You reckon that'd fly?" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-13/should-australias-anti-money-laundering-laws-be-extended/8703354 http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/cba-dumps-shortterm-bonuses-for-execs-this-year-20170807-gxrd8u.html

Clive of Pies

Martin Place tents http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/nsw-government-to-change-laws-remove-martin-place-tent-city/8785504 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/21/social-housing-stock-one-sixth-empty-while-195000-people-remain-on-waitlist http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/thousands-of-empty-homes-adding-to-sydneys-housing-crisis-experts-say-20160323-gnpc52.html

Martin Shkreli https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/04/martin-shkreli-guilty-securities-fraud-new-york

Europe temperatures https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/04/extreme-heat-warnings-issued-europe-temperatures-pass-40c https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/aug/05/heatwaves-airport-queues-protests-holiday-season-from-hell ... with the delightful bonus of long dead hikers and others emerging from the melting glaciers…

... also in weather https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/08/trump-administration-climate-change-ban-usda

Venezuela http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40843494 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/venezuela-unprecedented-economic-collapse-by-ricardo-hausmann-2017-07 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/06/venezuela-government-terrorist-attack-military-base

Apropos of which ... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/jeremy-corbyn-refuses-to-condemn-venezuelan-presidents-actions/8784586

India and China - Jostle, you crazy muthafuckas https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GInjFzPqLKY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uucX6ckfSYw

Sau Thefrica

"Now we know that the sanctity and security of the state are under direct attack from a felonious nexus of politicians‚ state officials and privateers. We are witness to larceny on a grand scale‚ leaving the country not only impoverished‚ but also increasingly in the hands of criminalised and compromised governance." https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2017-08-06-dissident-anc-stalwarts-veterans-urge-mps-to-vote-no-confidence/

Garma and all that