It is no measure of mental health to be well-adjusted to a society which is profoundly sick. - Krishnamurti

Quote

"...the emperors exchanged Mars for Venus and the nation descended into corruption and apathy. The decline of Persia anticipated almost every detail of the decline of Rome. Immorality and degeneration among the people accompanied violence and negligence on the throne. The Persians, like the Medes before them, passed from stoicism to Epicureanism in a few generations. Eating became the principal occupation of the aristocracy. These men who had once made it a rule to eat but once a day, now interpreted the rule to allow them one meal prolonged from noon to night. They stocked their larders with a thousand delicacies and they often served entire animals to their guests. They stuffed themselves with rich, rare meats, and spent their genius upon new sauces and desserts. A corrupt and corrupting multitude of menials filled the houses of the wealthy, while drunkenness became the common vice of every class." - Will Durant, 'The Story of Civilisation', 1935

"Et meme si ce nest, pas vrai, faut croire a I'histoire ancienne." (You must believe in ancient history, even if it is not true) - Leo Ferre, quoted by Pierre Briant in intro to ‘From Cyrus to Alexander’

Leo Ferre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Ferr%C3%A9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRgYenO7tk

William Shatner - LSD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM

John Laws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2svJ1LZzjTc

Ögedei Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96gedei_Khan

F.U.

SSM

The LNP are Communists?

Michaela Cash

Arty Sinodinos

Barry O'Sullivan https://twitter.com/hughriminton/status/908199757910220800

Lionel Murphy papers

Russian military exercises https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/14/what-you-need-to-know-about-russias-huge-military-exercise/

Media reforms https://mumbrella.com.au/senate-passes-media-reforms-bill-467653 http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2017/09/13/media-reform-legislation-senate/amp/

Ipswich Council https://twitter.com/ABCNewsBrisbane/status/908257080745771008

Stacks https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/jared-kushner-data-operation-russia-facebook https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/theres-blood-in-the-water-in-silicon-valley http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/facebooks-heading-toward-a-bruising-run-in-with-the-russia-probe https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enabled-advertisers-to-reach-jew-haters

Cuban mystery https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/mystery-of-sonic-weapon-attacks-at-us-embassy-in-cuba-deepens https://www.theguardian.com/world/news-blog/2017/sep/17/trump-closing-us-embassy-cuba-tillerson

NEWS

Burma. The lady is in a tight spot. Gob sez: All of y’all smug cnts in comfy chairs need to back the fck up. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-19/aung-san-suu-kyi-speech/8960468

...it is possible that there is somewhere more constructive to direct our concern, like our own government, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/19/australia-offers-pay-rohingya-refugees-return-myanmar

Some interesting history https://gnxp.nofe.me/2017/09/03/rohingya-unmasking-complexity-in-a-world-we-want-simple/ https://gnxp.nofe.me/2017/09/06/burma-can-thank-the-british-for-its-current-mess/

And an angle on Indonesia ... https://gnxp.nofe.me/2017/09/13/the-rise-of-orthodox-sunni-islam-in-indonesia-is-inevitable/

Scrotox http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a8370377/i-got-botox-in-my-scrotum-scrotox/