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I have set my ad blockers and Ghostery to trust TAE. It would be a bad day indeed if TAE were to close.
I can handle Patreon: already supporting two other sites. For as long as my income endures at its current level, I enjoy sharing the wealth.I don’t see many people rising up in Assange’s support. The Australian government is silent. Been told to be, I suspect. Does the average man in the street even know who Assange is? Probably not. Some might, but I suspect their knowledge is obtained from the MSM and we know what they say.
Drought strikes parts of Australia again. One area north of Sydney has never been so dry in decades, not even during the Millennium Drought. Farmers across wide areas of the south east are suffering. The general population doesn’t feel anything as food is too easy to import. One large supermarket chain recently decided to stop purchasing home-grown garlic — a popular part of the diet — and import it all from China. Crazy short-term thinking or prudent drought-proofing policy?
It would turn leaks and whistleblowing into treason.
Something very close to this has on the verge of taking place in benighted Australia. Proposed National Security legislation creates many new crimes punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment. ‘National security’ is defined so broadly that practically any criticism of Australia’s foreign policy could be deemed an espionage offense.
It’s really all about insulating the elites from the consequences of their own actions and ensuring their wealth skimming continues unhindered. Even the “Opposition” supports it. Told to do so, I guess.
Another way to deal with cell phone tracking is simply to leave the wretched thing at home assuming you must own one at all. I successfully spent my first 60-plus years without one of these and I don’t see why I can’t continue doing that.
Well, I can, until the carrying of a cell phone is made compulsory. One can think of quite a number of reasons why that might happen.
Come to think of it, the term “cell phone” seems entirely accurate and descriptive of how the gadgets are used and, increasingly, how they’re purposed. CELL phone. Hmmm.
Greetings. My first comment. Couldn’t resist correcting the lurid newspaper headline:
Australian Plastic Bag Ban Sparks Abuse, Violence From Angry Shoppers (Ind.)
I can report from personal experience tha the plastic bag ban was accepted with NO violence in the rest of Australia. Indeed, generally it was accepted almost with gratitude and relief: at last something is being done. People are switching to re-usable woven shopping bags quite readily. I have. At first I felt odd using one; now I feel odd (and delinquent not using one.
