Protesters arrested in Sydney for annoyances.
Members of PETA have been arrested in Sydney under the new ‘anti-annoyance-of-pilgrams’ laws. Granted they were half naked, but its still a huge injustice towards civil liberties.
Big Brother Axed!
Channel 10 has confirmed the axing of Big Brother after a dwindling viewer count this season. I personally was a big fan of Big Brother until this season (I even watched evictions online when travelling in the UK and France) but this year when it was hosted by Kyle & Jackie O, it started dying for me. The final nail in the coffin was when one of the house mates was Corey Delaney (Wikipedia wont even have a page on this guy – his page redirects to the BB2008 page) and a guest house mate was Pamela Anderson. God help me, I have never seen a greater example of ‘scraping the barrel’.
There is speculation of a series return in 2010, but I’m not holding my breath. Even if it does come back, unless they get Gretel back, it’ll be shit.
Big Brother dumps Gretel Killeen.
Axe Finally Falls on Big Brother.
An average Australian? Not bloody likely.
In a story published today by the Sydney Morning Herald, they talk about an Australian bloke living in Africa and his contributions to the global society as a whole. He owns wikileaks, which, until now, was unheard of by myself. It is a site that allows confidential contributions by whistleblowers all over the world. There have been amazing documents submitted to the site, including many US military documents.
The truth is out there, no matter how covered up it may be.
Nice work Julian, you are now in my list of heroes.
Further regulations for WYD
All protesters must have their T-Shirts, banners, placards, everything pre-approved by police or risk being arrested.
Apparently freedom of speech has a price.
Pope demos need our blessing, say police.
Redbubble have a thread for t-shirt designs about these rules.
Here is my fave so far;
GetUp’s FuelWatch ad gets airtime.
With $70k raised, GetUp’s fuelwatch ad gets a bunch of time slots on multiple channels.
Bloody Awesome.
New police powers see them able to fine ‘annoying’ people.
Extreme dictator-like powers have been given to NSW police and other World Youth Day volunteers that see them able to fine people $5500 for wearing a T-Shirt that may annoy patrons of WYD services.
I wonder, if I am driving to a WYD service and some Shmo doesn’t indicate to change lanes in front of me (rendering me 100% annoyed) can I perform a citizens fining of said shitty driver? Or should I just call the cops?
Bleugh, bugger the fines. This gives me more reason to get out there and protest this nazism.
People can get so worked up.
An RAAF Boeing 707 did a ‘farewell’ flight over Sydney today as it is going to be decommissioned. It was tailed by a fighter jet that was taking photos. Apparently a whole swarm of Sydney office workers freaked out! Omg, more terrorists using the same plot as before!!
Chillax people, you’re pissing me off.
Die Hard in the CBD? Not quite
And for the record, I dont think 9/11 was performed by terrorists.
Jane McGrath Dies at 42
I am incredibly saddened by this news. Jane and Glenn McGrath founded the McGrath foundation which continually endeavors to place breast-care nurses in more hospitals (particularly in rural areas). If nothing else, she was just another lovely woman brought down by this disease (My mother died of complications surrounding cancer when I was 18).
My thoughts go to Glenn and their two children.
Facebook ‘dipping’ group.
In other news, Teenagers in the UK have been using google maps to locate neighbours’ swimming pools for late night dip-n-dash sessions.
Facebook Group Using Google Maps To Go "Dipping" At Strangers' Pools
My first disappointment with our new Government
For years now the Japanese have been whaling in Australian waters and for a long time our government has not done anything about it. Until Now. Kevin Rudd has threatened to take the Japanese to court over whaling issues. Or should I say ‘had’.
Kevin Rudd today has announced that he and Japan’s leader, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, have “agreed to disagree” on the topic of whaling and no further action will be taken. What the hell kind of action is that?
I have to admit to you that I am not sold by economic promises by politicians. Money is not a big drive for me. But animal welfare and environmental issues do drive me and this was a campaign promise and was one of many contributing factors for me voting for the guy.
Now, before you start chuckling at me believing campaign promises, you have to admit that Kevin Rudd has seriously made a difference since coming to power. He has ratified Kyoto, he has said sorry to our indigenous people. He has made a difference. But now he has stalled.
While I am very happy about our relationship with Japan, there has been a lot of history about other countries’ relationships with japan going sour. (Not that I am expecting this to happen, just that diplomatic relationships are not all they are hyped up to be).
I know that the last Japanese whale hunt killed only two thirds of their targeted Minke whales and that the Minke Whales are not endangered, but thats only due to the direct action of some fantastic activists from Sea Shepherd (my heroes) and Greenpeace. Not because of our $1m surveillance ship that spent most of its time in port.
I think this is my first let down by our new Government. I am disappointed in you, Mr Rudd. I am sorry to say it because I do defend you a lot, but I am now afraid of what other issues you’l simply ‘agree to disagree’ on.