Archive for the ‘violence’ Category
11 Jul 2008
Barry Hall’s current suspension from the Swans may be the best thing that ever happened to him. If today’s article in the Fairfax papers is any guide, Barry has a promising future as a business motivational speaker.
Titled I must be proactive to get through these confusing times, Hall’s article is a cornucopia of corp-speak buzzwords: “on the front foot”, “source”, “going forward”, “timeframe”, “worst-case scenarios” and so forth.
You have to admire his honesty and he definitely has a commanding stage presence. A bit more coaching on the language - a few end-to-ends and a best practices or two - and he’s got it made.
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18 Apr 2008
US President George W Bush has criticised Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe for not releasing the results of last month’s election.
” . . . you can’t have elections unless you’re willing to put the results out. What kind of election is it if you not let the will of the people be known?” Bush told reporters after a White House meeting with British PM Gordon Brown.
George W should perhaps have consulted his diaries for 7 November 2000, or thereabouts, before making statements of this kind.
But I suppose, it makes sense. George W rigs elections, nobbles the media, spies on his citizens, imprisons and tortures people without trial, abuses human rights and keeps poor black people in third-world conditions while ruining the economy to corruptly enrich a cadre of cronies and insiders, blaming all the country’s ills on a nebulous foreign bogeyman.
Whereas Mugabe . . . ?
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27 Feb 2008
Indonesian police have paraded before the media a man who has admitted to murdering Heidi Murphy. 23 year old Ahmad Fahrul Rosi was arrested last night in East Java. Police say he had been robbing Murphy’s house when she woke up and made a fuss, whereupon he stabbed her 37 times with a kitchen knife he happened to have brought along.
“Yes I regret it, at first I was going only to steal, I admit what I did,” Rosi told the media.
Not that one could ever cast doubt on the integrity of the Indonesian judicial system.
This gruesome crime netted Rosi a laptop, two mobile phones and about a hundred bucks in cash. He sold them and used the money to buy two rings, a new mobile phone and a watch, which he planned to use as part of a marriage proposal to his girlfriend, police said.
Awww, romantic. No wait, that other thing.
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12 Feb 2008
Absent of any facts, speculation rages in the Aussie meeja about the motive for the gruesome murder of Heidi Murphy in Bali. The current odds-on theory is a revenge attack for not paying workers’ wages. If it’s true, it puts the debate on industrial relations laws in this country into sharp relief.
Always striving to out-tabloid the tabloids, the Sydney Morning Herald’s reporter “discovered” a journal of love poems at the crime scene, which the police confiscated. But not before the Herald’s man in Bali managed to jot down a few lines, and then saw fit to publish them.
Stripped naked I am here waiting for you and my eyes can only see you. It’s like we’ve met 1000 times before.
Had it been published in the Sydney Goth Herald, no doubt this poem would have been reported as the author foretelling her own death. But of course with the SMH it’s always about sex.
One has to wonder, of course, about the Bali police allowing a Herald journo to poke around the crime scene. And the ethics of publishing this prurient detail of the dead woman’s private life. And the tenuousness of claiming this poetry as evidence to a crime of passion.
I mean, sure it’s shit poetry, but it’s not that bad.
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17 Jan 2008
It must be summer . . . a rugby league player is up on rape charges.
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15 Sep 2007
The democratising brilliance of Web 2.0 is that it has allowed one billion global citizens to post “OMG, me too!”, “LOL” and “This is so fucking gay” next to every single item published on the web, 24 hours a day, 100,000 times a minute.
Can anyone doubt that if we had not developed this ability, just in time, the terrorists would already have won?
Posted in damned lies and statistics, politics, techno-wankery, violence | 3 Comments »
