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“…warnings have customarily been directed against those consciously formulated ideologies that appeal to the worst tendencies in human nature. But what is happening […] is not the design of an articulated ideology. No Mein Kampf or Communist Manifesto announced its coming. It comes as the unintended consequence of a dramatic change in our modes of public conversation. But it is an ideology nonetheless, for it imposes a way of life, a set of relations among people and ideas, about which there has been no consensus, no discussion and no opposition. Only compliance.” - Neil Postman, “Amusing Ourselves To Death”

F.U.

Facebook http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-27/facebook-share-price-drop-wipes-$us119-billion-company-value/10042404

By-Elections

“Directing preferences”

Nine-Fairfax and Australian journalism

Murphy and journalism

Guardian Australia profitable https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/31/guardian-australia-reports-first-profit-2018-annual-results

Ubre Blanca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubre_Blanca

MH370 final Malaysian Govt report http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/mh370-report-is-delivered-to-faimilies/10052838

Assange https://www.crikey.com.au/2018/07/25/wikileaks-political-rorschach-test/

Nuclear medicine https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/04/nuclear-medicine-generators-shutdown-endangering-lives-scientists-warn

Ipswich Council http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/ccc-chief-says-plan-to-sack-ipswich-council-entirely-warranted/10050502

I’m with Jose http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/ramos-horta-calls-on-australia-to-drop-spying-exposers-charges/10052546

Trouble in Dreamland http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/dreamworld-value-continues-to-fall-in-wake-of-2016-ride-deaths/10052192

Things

Plastic Fantastics sniffing the winds of change? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/michaelia-cash-awu-raids-tip-off-referred-to-cdpp/10051612

Kissinger’s legacy continues http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/laos-dam-collapse-survivors-warned-of-unexploded-ordinance/10052804

Authentocracy https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/cappucino-gate-or-the-crisis-of-authentocracy

Good week for plane nerds in the Top End http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/fuel-tank-ejected-from-plane-darwin-during-pitch-black/10051802

My Health Record

Sport

Cricket Australia and abortion https://www.theage.com.au/national/cricket-australia-sacks-worker-over-series-of-tweets-about-abortion-20180729-p4zuar.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/cricket-australia-sacks-staffer-over-abortion-tweets/10051972

The World Game http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/matildas-usa-tournament-of-nations/10050814

Not so good? https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/fifa-world-cup-2018/qatar-alleged-to-have-used-ex-cia-to-sabotage-australia-s-world-cup-bid-20180730-p4zuck.html https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/opinion/world-cup-qatar-saboteurs-will-go-scotfree/news-story/caf7fa28be818470e1eb1a4f52a2c175

FFA Cup https://www.theffacup.com.au/