Blog Profile / Kings Cross Times
| URL : | http://kingscrosstimes.blogspot.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Australia / Sydney | |
| Posts on Regator: | 307 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.3 | |
| Archived Since: | December 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Australia's propaganda rag goes over the top
Right here is the main problem with Australian politics. Are Murdoch's readers seriously as stupid as Sydney's Daily Telegraph assumes today? By contrast, Michelle Grattan on 'The Conversation' website gets it about right: "A media policy mouse with a modest roar. Show More Summary
Ten steps to legalisation
With cannabis now properly legalised in Colorado USA, the people behind the campaign have kindly published a blueprint for the success of their campaign.While not all steps apply in the Australian context, it's a pretty good guide. Their...Show More Summary
War on Drugs still killing and incarcerating
Among all the causes promoting human and animal rights... a reminder that international drug prohibition is still mass-murdering and incarcerating people who haven't actually harmed anyone - from London School of Economics: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/ideas/2012/10/how-international-aid-for-drug-enforcement-fuels-human-rights-abuses/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Idiot actions on Kings Cross
Every night sees one or two shootings in Sydney's western/southern suburbs plus usually a few stabbings. Then a western suburbs Bulldogs footy fan punches poor Thomas Kelly to death at 10pm in Kings Cross - alcohol, venues or drugs not involved as far as we know. Show More Summary
Thomas Kelly and the latest Kings Cross panic
Even the recently diminished Sydney Morning Herald has bought into the latest tizz about 'fixing' Kings Cross after the senseless murder of Thomas Kelly who was king-hit from behind at random in Victoria Street, about 100 metres from...Show More Summary
How the tail wags the dog on drug law reform
I've said it before, now someone else is saying it. The self-interest groups opposing drug law reform are an ugly bunch, never mind the clear persecution and injustice it brings (see evidence post below in main blog).
How the War on Drugs = racism
OK this is too wide for this blog template but it's readable. See the original here - it's an excellent piece of research that, especially towards the end, applies to Australia (we didn't have actual slavery and we don't have the same crack laws but we do have the same discrimination). Via Matador Network
A tough list for climate change sceptics to deny
Even climate change sceptics probably like biodiversity, which has already fallen by 30% in the last 40 years - a yellow dragonfly I snapped in our back garden in Woolloomooloo, Sydney. Climate change sceptics never mention the alarming...Show More Summary
How to criminalise children
'Childsplay' in London [Pic: Mirror] Meanwhile, as Sydney weathers its hail of bullets, children in England are being recruited en masse into gangs and a life of crime, according to this graphic Mirror article. The harms of the War on Drugs are greater than the harms of drugs.
Sydney's shooting spree brings back the Al Capone days
Guns confiscated by South Australian police ina "bikie-related" raid - plenty more where thesecame from thanks to the War on Drugs. Suburbs in the south and west of Sydney seem criss-crossed by a hail of bullets as gun-toting gangsters sort out their disputes without recourse to the law. Show More Summary
The Guardian explains again why the War on Drugs has failed
Prohibitionists have railed and rallied against the Australia 21 Report with the likes of Andrew Bolt using a combination of mockery and selective facts to slam it. But such people always ignore facts such as the following, published...Show More Summary
Julia Gillard comes out against drug law reform
Today's push by the Australia 21 group to wind back the War on Drugs has at least smoked out the opinions of heavy hitters like Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Attorney-General Nicola Roxon. Gillard came in particularly hard, apparently...Show More Summary
WA drug laws get even tougher
Colin Barnett's Liberal Western Australian government has just made its already draconian drug laws even tougher according to the PerthNow site:PARENTS could be jailed for 12 months and their children put in state care for growing just...Show More Summary
How prohibition supersized the 'ice' industry
Respected pro-reform journal The Economist lists some revealing statistics about the explosion of the methamphetamine industry under prohibition. 'Ice' is now being produced on an industrial scale. The graph illustrates how the purity...Show More Summary
More blatant bullshit about cannabis
What is it with The Sydney Morning Herald that as soon as the subject turns to cannabis the broadsheet turns into a credulous tabloid? One Nicole Hasham on Wednesday wrote the following about a paranoid schizophrenic who had killed his...Show More Summary
Laneway drama a storm in a coffee cup
Jane and James in Llankelly Place in the old daysbefore it came back to life. A local dispute reported in the SMH over café chairs in Llankelly Place Kings Cross has escalated into a bit of a drama via emails and letters to the editor.After...Show More Summary
Handy links to corporate greed and gutter journalism
Mockery in pictures - this is how The Telegraphpictured Tim Flannery in their hate campaign. OMG the idiot level of public debate is excruciating. Take climate change. The more climate sceptics, and their champions the Murdoch press, are refuted by scientists, the lower becomes their rhetoric. Show More Summary
The amazing cost of mandatory sentencing
Anyone who thinks mandatory sentencing is a good idea needs to read this Canadian piece, written by one of the architects of mandatory sentencing in the US. That went horribly wrong:In the U.S., our Congressional Budget Office initially estimated mandatory minimums would increase costs of federal prisons by $55.2 million over the first five years. Show More Summary
Politicians chase their tails as bullets pepper suburbs
Where the shootings are happening in Sydney.An interesting distribution, don't you think? "There is a very real risk that someone spraying bullets at a house will kill an innocent person," federal Justice Minister Jason Clare told reporters in Sydney. Show More Summary
World's most inaccurate news report is about - guess what?
Yes, the 2011 "Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation" has been awarded to a Daily Mail piece by Tamara Cohen on cannabis. The British tabloid touched all bases with its headline:Just ONE cannabis joint ‘can bring on schizophrenia’...Show More Summary