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Explaining Australia’s fall in the RSF World Press Freedom Index : Comments

By Mark Pearson, published 10/2/2012

Reporters without Borders pushes Australia down the list of press freedoms.

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Bonmot,

<<Unless you are a sock-puppet, you obviously did not contribute to the thread.>>

I was pointing you to the *article* which criticized the Durban potlatch -- not your Marie Antoinette-esque attempts in the comments section to spruik it to us lesser beings!

In particular this bit:

"If something nasty happens - meteorologically and climatically - in the developing world today, a cacophony of voices invariably insists it is the developed world's fault. Most delegates at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) seventeenth annual meeting of its Conference of the Parties (COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, agreed with this alleged causal connection."

Perhaps we could term the widespread acceptance of such a false causal connection as the fruits of *your labor*.
Posted by SPQR, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 3:18:19 PM
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Thanks for the links, Mollydukes. I've briefly perused the first and will give them both an in-depth read later on (it's all happening here today, so quite busy).
I'm a little wary of diverting this thread anymore than we have - but we could consider starting a thread in the general section on these sorts or psychological and behavioural questions.

...besides I wouldn't want to interrupt SPQR and Shadow Minister's act of alternately standing on each others' shoulders trying to attain the level of bonmot : )
Posted by Poirot, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 4:10:49 PM
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<<besides I wouldn't want to interrupt SPQR and Shadow Minister's act of alternately standing on each others' shoulders trying to attain the level of bonmot>>

ROFL

Birds of a feather!
(Though if linking you & Bonmot, Drosophila might be a better fit)

For your bedtime reading: http://blogs.fu-berlin.de/neuro-jc/2012/02/the-role-of-experience-in-flight-behaviour-of-drosophila/
Posted by SPQR, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 4:26:12 PM
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Hmmm, definition of an idiot?

A wannabe international leader, diplomat and 'expert climatologist' who said "climate change is crap".

Yep, Shadow can sure pickum.

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Master SPQR, like I said (to the author, 2nd comment):

"Well sung Maestro Michael ... now let the chorus begin."

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=13002&page=0

It did and you're still chirping - a tad off-key and slow off the mark - not unexpected but well done ; )

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Poirot

HAHAHAHA !!

The imagery of SM & SPQR stumbling and fumbling over each other will endure in my dreams.

tende ad astra : )
Posted by bonmot, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 5:01:00 PM
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SM & SPQR

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=13247#228915

ce qu'il fallait démontrer
Posted by bonmot, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 9:21:12 AM
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What we have in Australia is basically a corrupt media, it just sells out to the highest bidder who butters their bread.
Whether it is the big end of town corporate Newspaper, TV, radio, being showered in hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising from the former Howard Liberal Govt, which as we see, all of these newspapers are just tripping over themselves to return to business as usual from their 24/7 repetitive propaganda campaign against the reformist Labor Gillard Govt.
To the little suburban, newspaper, Radio, "all the TV stations were gobbled up long ago", that will ignore a developer building an estate on a flood plain approved by corrupt council and State Govt, because that developer will advertise in said newspaper, radio, we see this happening day after day, every one knows it's happening, follow the money trail, it is corrupt and it should be illegal.
The Monkton (GET UP video) just shows every one exactly how rotten to the core the manipulated media really is.
There is virtually no investigative news any more it's only opinion and propaganda, have a look at some old Docos from the late 1920's and early 1930's see the real right wing fascist propaganda in action, Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, all we are seeing today are plagiarists copying their roll models, some of what we see and here on the repetitive radio shock jocks and usual suspects of the media 24/7 is almost word for word fascist comment.
Posted by HFR, Thursday, 16 February 2012 7:06:22 AM
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