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This week I have been mostly reading...

Australia:
Bishop rebukes Abbott on ground troops

Why is Tony Abbott making so many media appearances while Malcolm Turnbull is away? - Political journo surprised Tony Abbott broke a promise. Bless.

Shane Warne's charity under investigation

AFP raid Mal Brough over Slipper

'No sniping' Tony Abbott's pot shots at Malcolm Turnbull plumb new low

Fact check: Was superannuation designed to get people off the pension?

Northern Territory Speaker survives spill attempt after government MP flips

Anti-Muslim extremists: how far will they go?

US:

America’s politicians are feeding the Islamic State narrative

After Years Of Insults, US Conservatives Now Express Solidarity With France

In Light of Paris Attacks, 26 GOP Governors, One Democrat to Refuse Syrian Refugees - Hundreds of gun attacks every year, but one fake Syrian passport is found on a terrorist on the other side of the world, and the home of the brave shits itself. Just embarrassing. 

Obama on Syrian refugees: Republicans 'scared of widows and orphans coming into' US

994 mass shootings in 1,004 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like

My white neighbor thought I was breaking into my own apartment. Nineteen cops showed up.

Here’s how much of your life the United States has been at war

Why Bobby Jindal’s Candidacy Failed

World:

Countering ISIS by going off-script

What ISIS Really Wants

How Islamic Is the Islamic State? Not at All. What The Atlantic got wrong about ISIS

What The Atlantic Gets Dangerously Wrong About ISIS And Islam

I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes

Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

Wahhabism to ISIS: how Saudi Arabia exported the main source of global terrorism

To Defeat ISIS, We Must Call Both Western and Muslim Leaders to Account

Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam - our allies in the war against extremism.

Iraq warned of imminent Islamic State assaults before Paris terror attacks 

Bombers, one of them 11, target Nigeria market

Deadly Mali hotel attack: 'They were shooting at anything that moved'

When armed insurgents kidnapped the author in Iraq, they interrogated him on building a propaganda machine. A decade later, they became Daesh.

Sections Of A Sphere

Related to all the above:

Greenspan admits Iraq was about oil, as deaths put at 1.2m

Sneaky stray cats break through security, take the main stage ahead of G20 summit

 

Media:

John Oliver Says What We’re All Thinking About the Paris Attackers in a Profanity-Laced Rant

Did the media ignore the Beirut bombings? Or did readers?

Canadian man's selfie altered to look like Paris suicide bomber

Thanks Amazon, but we don't need your solidarité 

Adam Hills says government wanted him to ridicule Islamic State on Last Leg show

Andrew Bolt’s anti-racism campaign isn’t going so well

The News Corp columnist and the case of the missing grand mufti 

Music:

In Memoriam: P.F. Sloan (1945-2015)

Fairlight CMI Honored Australia’s National Film & Sound Archive

“This Is Fresh!” The Secrets Of David Bowie’s ★ Album

What Sam Phillips Heard 

The Phil Collins Petition Is Amateur Hour

Society:

How Fairness Develops in Kids Around the World

Call yourself a woman? Feminists take on transgender community in bitter debate

Mental health:

Why Are So Many People Unhappy?

Tech:
Anonymous Release 'How To' Hack ISIS Guide

Literature:

80 Books No Woman Should Read

Language:
Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is… 💩

Humour and satire:

As Your Governor, I Will Protect You From Mass Shooters If They Are Syrian.

I got stupid on me and now I'm wiping it off on you:

Quite probably the most amateurish piece of crap to appear in a respectable publication all year - even if you agree with it, it's pathetic.

The least boring photo on my camera roll: