Welcome to one of the most neglected political Blogs in the history of blogging. (It's hyperbole I know, indulge me.) Having been very busy attending to a family crisis that is now resolved, I'm back to work! What has been happening in the world of politics?
Middle East - human rights breaches
and various kinds of war
UK - Investigations into the media
(the Leveson inquiry) and such serious
problems found that the role of media as 'the fourth estate'
and/or the value of this is under serious question (while the media
thinks of vital to democracy the rest of us don't know what it is or
means.)
U.S - climate change and weather
disaster along with political interest following a federal
election
Europe - climate change and weather
related disaster
Asia - apparently a joke naming the
North Korean leader the 'sexiest man alive' was repeated as gospel
by certain Chinese media
Australia - nothing... wait … my
mistake … federal stoushes relating to claims the Prime Minister
did bad things long ago or that the leader of the Australian
Opposition is sexist and given to dishing 'sleaze' and … last
year … in the state of Queensland the ruling party changed
the law, so that MPs from it's ranks who quit and sought to join
a small fringe party have lost the right to be considered a 'party'
by the parliament, unless they have three elected members … seen
as a blatant move to silence opposition and punish the
'unfaithful'. Federal moves supposedly designed to cause single
parents (most of these are female so single mothers) to 'get a job'
resulting in increased impoverishment for an all ready
powerless, impoverished group at least half of whom have been
working anyway and their children, the internet providing a ready
window into the lives of a group who now will go without food so
that their kids can eat. Congratulations Australia.
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