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Rabz’ Radio Show November 2023: Theme? What Theme?
Cats, this is not necessarily a point of zero inspiration. Imposing a “theme” on a Saturday night Radio Show seems unnecessarily restrictive, racist and hoplophobic*. So there will not be any of that. On a personal note (again) I’ve been lately listening to above album by Matt Johnson, which essayed themes that were simply not conscious…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #88
Wannsee. There have been a number of dramatisations of the infamous meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and the SS held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. But none have been as compelling as the 2001 TV movie Conspiracy. This chilling dramatisation of the meeting that sealed the fate of millions of…
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Despicable lies are on the rise
Politicians lie compulsively, it’s sometimes said. Maybe. Certainly they don’t let reality interfere too much with their promises before elections. At the same time, I am reluctant to badge them all as liars. For example, both George Bush senior and Paul Keating failed to deliver tax cuts which they’d promised. Tony Abbot introduced tax measures…
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Guest Post: Muddy – Riotous Brisbane.
Just short of twelve months into the Pacific War, Australia’s east coast capital cities had succumbed to an invasion of sorts, albeit from friendly forces. While the influx of American personnel and equipment buoyed public morale and allowed the process of forward defence – in Papua and New Guinea – to begin, the economic and…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #87
I’ll be back. It’s been a number of weeks since I last posted after an extended holiday in Europe and the UK but I’m back and reviewing a low budget science fiction classic, released in 1984, that broke box office records, and gave cinema a new superstar and a director to take notice of. In The Terminator,…
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I don’t care what your politics are but that is a disgraceful way to act towards a family member, especially…
I will have the Teal ‘independent’ last. Green second last. Greens at least honest about who and what they are.
Thanks for giving up your afternoon Lizzie. In private I remind people who are dazed and confused that they merely…
A court might apply the “presumption of regularity of official acts”. That is, that the pardons were made in accordance…
Back in February according to Wiki. No mention of his extreme left-wing political views there though, unsurprisingly.