People who automatically equate purchasing domestically produced with environmentally friendly make me angry. Partially because it commingles something I love about progressive politics (Environmentalism) with something I detest (Protectionism, tariffs, anti-trade ( Read more... )

The papers in Melbourne this week are a buzzing with the departure of Victoria's highest paid public servant ( Read more... )

Apparently Wi-Fi is now a health risk. So sayeth the environment editor at The Independent ( Read more... )

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but the thread on the_christian's lj made me realise it's about more than just silly little vegetarian Austrians. Maybe it's the Ides of March. Maybe it's the whole Aries rising thing. Because apart from being the 35th anniversary of My Lai this week it's the 70th anniversary of the burning of the Reichstag.

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