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Junk For Code is a blog by Gary Sauer-Thompson where he posts and comments on political cartoons, discusses philosophical issues, and chimes in on events in the news. Editorial cartoons are an interesting art form and are well represented here, as well as other forms of art and discussions of current events. You’ll also find extensive links on related subjects.
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Date: 05.26.2012
All that is missing from Pope`s cartoon is Craig Thomson, the member for Dobell. He`s a star performer. In his speech to parliament it was Thomson against the world. Under the cover of parliamentary privilege he raised the spectre of someone stealing his identity and cloning his phone to make... read more »
Date: 05.25.2012
The Greek economy has problems over and above a high level of indebtedness resulting from the Greek government being spectacularly spendthrift. Nikos Chrysoloras lists them for us.There are the problems of public finance mismanagement, over-reliance on public and private consumption, lack of medium and large export-oriented enterprises, low competitiveness, tax... read more »
Date: 05.24.2012
Greeks go to the polls on 17 June after the previous vote on 6 May proved inclusive and no political party was able to form a coalition government. A temporary cabinet is in place. The new election is probably a referendum on the euro and it appears that while Greeks... read more »
Date: 05.23.2012
The News International hacking scandal deepens. Rebecca Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is now facing three charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over allegations that she concealed "material, documents and computers" from detectives investigating phone hacking at the News of the World and alleged... read more »
Date: 05.22.2012
The anti-austerity coalition (Syriza), which emerged from inconclusive elections as the most popular force in Greece, refuses to participate in a national unity government to implement the unpopular austerity policies. They want a moratorium on debt payments and aggressive debt write-offs. The mainstream New Democracy and Pasok parties were hammered... read more »
Date: 05.21.2012
Richard Gingras, head of News Products at Google, recently spoke at the spoke at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on the future of news in a digital world. This is a media world where accusations are taken as fact. Rumours are news. Opinion is preferred to news gathering... read more »
Date: 05.20.2012
It is now five years since the Great Financial Crisis of 2007??09 began and there is still no substantive sign of a full recovery of the world economy---especially in the US and in Europe. Consequently, concern is increasingly shifting from financial crisis and recession to slow growth or stagnation. Stagnation... read more »
Date: 05.19.2012
I watched some of Rebeca Brook`s appearance at the Leveson Inquiry. The ex-tabloid editor didn`t give much away about her career moves and political fixes. She is at the nexus of the nexus of the tabloid press and political power the Leveson inquiry is trying to uncover. Martin Rowson LOL... read more »
Date: 05.18.2012
The showbiz routine is the old stuff of hard work, small business and reward, insisting the government live within its means just as households have to, reducing the ???massive??? debt and attacking public servants for wasting all our hard earned money. The pose that is struck is one of big... read more »
Date: 05.17.2012
The Gillard Government`s 2012 budget has been and gone. Most of it was strategically leaked in advance in an attempt to help transform the government??s bad public image and to fend off another Opposition attack about another "broken promise". It probably change the bad image. There was no attempt to... read more »
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