Fuck, I love sloths too. But this is just cray. Cute, but oh so cray.

Gina Rinehart, mining magnate and Australia’s richest individual worth an estimated $A10 billion, is making a play for Fairfax, eh? This follows on from her purchase of a seat on the Channel Ten board, and installing right wing mouthpiece Andrew Bolt in it’s stables. To understand what kind of agenda will be likely to be pushed into Fairfax newspapers, take a look at the Angry Beast video on the life and times of Gina Rinehart.

I’m sure her latest acquisition will add to the already “diverse” ownership of media in this country, what with Murdoch effectively harnessing 70% of readership with it’s fleet of 150 national, capital-city and suburban news brands.

Fearless, independent and accurate journalism is the very cornerstone of democracy. To see it being suffocated by militant political agenda, in this case big mining interests, is so very depressing.

theniftyfifties:

Sophia Loren in Rome, 1955. Photo by Federico Patellani.

theniftyfifties:

Sophia Loren in Rome, 1955. Photo by Federico Patellani.

guardian:

Winter weather around the northern hemisphere 
A woman walks through the Cimetiere des Rois in Geneva, SwitzerlandPhotograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP
Temperatures have plunged in parts of Europe and further east. Among the hardest hit countries is Ukraine, where as many as 30 people have died on snow-covered streets, in hospitals and in their own homes in the past four days. Parts of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey have all seen heavy snowfalls

guardian:

Winter weather around the northern hemisphere

A woman walks through the Cimetiere des Rois in Geneva, SwitzerlandPhotograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP

Temperatures have plunged in parts of Europe and further east. Among the hardest hit countries is Ukraine, where as many as 30 people have died on snow-covered streets, in hospitals and in their own homes in the past four days. Parts of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey have all seen heavy snowfalls

Taken with Instagram at Goodlet St

Taken with Instagram at Goodlet St

You might need me more than you think you will #thenational #brainy (Taken with instagram)

You might need me more than you think you will #thenational #brainy (Taken with instagram)

popthirdworld:

Miss Piggy smacks down Fox News. Kermit the Frog distances himself.

motherjones:

Protesters break through a fence to escape and resume their march on Saturday, after being blocked on all sides by the Oakland PD. Check out Mark Murrmann’s gripping photo essay on the showdown at Frank Ogawa Plaza.

motherjones:

Protesters break through a fence to escape and resume their march on Saturday, after being blocked on all sides by the Oakland PD. Check out Mark Murrmann’s gripping photo essay on the showdown at Frank Ogawa Plaza.

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