Kevin Rudd needs Netflix and a chill pill
Did Sydney Uni’s travel writer miss the North Korean prison camps because he was drunk?
Demise of Kevin? It was Netflix and kill Kevin Rudd, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 27:
Murdoch made Brexit possible … Murdoch’s Fox News … enabled … the Trump party to … (take over the) Republican Party … The message to Australian politicians is clear: either toe the line … or he kills you politically. This has produced a cowering, fearful political culture … I know dozens of politicians, business leaders, academics and journalists, both left and right, too frightened to take Murdoch on … In my case, Murdoch … most importantly, railed against our … (NBN which) would make it easier for Netflix to become a real Foxtel competitor. Murdoch despatched his leading henchman from New York, Col Allan … to destroy the government … So how did Malcolm Turnbull alienate Murdoch? … Look at the Murdoch coverage of Morrison’s elevation the day after the ballot. Orgasm all round.
Demise of Malcolm? Was it Netflix and chill? Hannah Davies, The Courier-Mail, May 17 last year:
Malcolm Turnbull has said he and his wife Lucy like to “Netflix and chill” … during an interview this morning … The presenters could be heard muffling their giggles as Mr Turnbull replied enthusiastically: “Yes, yes, we do.” “Netflix and chill” is … a euphemism for having sex … Mr Turnbull … went on to … (say) he and Lucy had watched … House of Cards (presumably before “chilling”).
Or is Rudd just settling old scores? Glenn Milne, The Sunday Telegraph, August 19, 2007:
Mr Rudd went to … Manhattan “gentlemen’s club’’ Scores in September 2003 … a well-known haunt of UN diplomats and journalists, with New York Post editor Col Allan … “Yes, we went out for a drink,’’ Mr Allan said. “Yes, it was at a gentleman’s club and he (Mr Rudd) behaved like a perfect gentleman’’ … according to some sources, Mr Rudd was warned against touching the dancers by Scores management.
Victory to Islam! Lamya Rahman, Honi Soit, August 27
(Former Sydney University tutor Jay) Tharappel ... (wore) a patch featuring the Yemeni Houthi (Ansar Allah) slogan … “God is the greatest, death to America, death to Israel, curse on the Jews, victory to Islam” … Tharappel told Honi …“I wore it because it represents the national resistance movement that defends Yemen against this genocidal war of Saudi aggression that, unfortunately, our university is complicit in by investing … in arms companies that sell weapons to the Saudi regime” … Tharappel … said that he does not agree with the line cursing Jewish people … (and) he has since cut the phrase from the patch.
Getting pissed in North Korea! Jay Tharappel, Honi Soit, August 23:
I arrived in Pyongyang … (with) Dr Tim Anderson … (of) USyd … We spent three evenings … (doing) our own thing … and greeted our two guides slightly hungover in the morning … we visited a shoe factory where the workers … had air-conditioning, but the designers … didn’t. We visited a food processing factory where the workers had a swimming pool upstairs … I didn’t see a single homeless person … and the people at the embassy are convinced that it’s one of the safest places to live …
What he missed because he was pissed? BBC News, June 3:
People can be jailed for almost anything … Amnesty has described the prison camps as “harsh beyond endurance” … detainees face torture and beatings … North Korea makes liberal use of the death penalty and has been known to conduct public executions. … UNICEF … (says) 200,000 … children (suffer from) acute malnutrition.