The Gathering Storm
This occurred during a pre-election rally of the Freedom Party when the rafters were raised by a spontaneous rendering of “Wenn alle untreu werden” (If all become unfaithful, we remain loyal).
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Cash protects against a surveillance state
Card payments at shop cashpoints mean the banks and the government know what you are buying. It does more than that as it indicates your real unmonitored wealth. Cash is freedom and protects against a surveillance state, say German politicians warning against left-wing interior minister’s new war on […]
Magumba! Magumba!
At the time when the Soviet Union was interfering in South Africa’s domestic affairs, a joke poked fun at politicians’ buck-wagon expressions. Speaking to a gathering crowd of African villagers in tedious political cliché a visiting uniformed Soviet Commissar earned constant applause. The uniformed Soviet functionary told the […]
THE GUTTER PRESS IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL
Sadly, the clip of a BBC’s main news item that displayed an Indian street celebration as an anti-Gaddafi demo in Tripoli’s main square was par for the course these dark days. One would have thought that modern technology, and the internet, would have ended such knavish behaviour by […]
SHIPWRECKED Lady Captain Sinks $103 Million New Zealand Navy Ship
Officials in Samoa were conducting an environmental impact assessment in the area where the ship sank, Tuala Tevaga Iosefo Ponifasio said in a statement.
WHO SPEAKS FOR US NOW?
“When it came to discussing the war in Iraq staff found it so difficult to find any member of the public prepared to speak in favour that they ended up planting people in the (Question Time) audience.” Is the war in Libya or Afghanistan any different?
Don’t take your cat on holiday
‘Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you.’ – Mary Bly
On a Wing and a Prayer
In airports, you are processed from one unsmiling robotic functionary to another. As in a penitentiary you are given a number, scrutinised, placed under constant surveillance and processed through the system. Typically, you’re in the airport longer than you are in the air.
WHAT DOCTORS REALLY THINK
If you are described by doctors as a GPO, make out a will; it means ‘Good for Body Parts Only’. To such unfortunates might also be applied the acronym CTD. This means either circling the drain or being certain to die.
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