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Merry Christmas! And for the non-theistic Pagans and Satanists, Happy Holidays! Q Q Q Q
Did you recognise all of the benevolent tech corporation overlords in the Cool and Normal Summer Holiday Edition cover art last week? Probably not, as these superelites mostly enjoy exercising their dominion over us all from the comfort of their lofty corporate boardrooms, far from the public eye. They were left to right: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (the world’s wealthiest individual), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai over their shoulders. Q Q Q Q
Australia’s offshore oil and gas authority NOPSEMA have approved foreign corporation Equinor’s controversial deep-sea oil proposal in the Great Australian Bight. Nothing can go wrong while drilling a pristine natural wilderness area, can it? It’s a reminder that Australia’s political class are beholden to foreign corporate polluters, among others. It’s a term called ‘state-capture.’ Q Q Q Q
Water utility Rous County Council say that while demand for town water in towns across the region has reduced, ‘continuing dry conditions mean that the dam levels are still dropping’. So please – visitors and locals alike – let’s keep to short showers and try not to drain our rivers and aquifers for the exclusive use of unscrupulous corporations like the government does.
Susie and Pete ‘Muzz’ Murray get among it at the Bruns Housie tent. This year, the family fun tent is hosted by Brunswick Marine Rescue Squad and the BV Rescue Squad. Photo Jeff Dawson County Council’s plan to Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q install a new public water Bangalow Theatre Company No More Stalins, No More filling station in Bangalow, are holding auditions for Hitlers is a 1990 poem by The Echo got the date wrong. their latest production, RENT, William Burroughs, and Rous say they are planning to to be held in June 2020. in these troubled political Head to www.banglaowtheatimes, what better reminder open the station early in the new year, not December 23. tre.com.au for more info. of the insane leadership that inhabits govcorp: ‘We FREE E YO U R have a new type of rule now. ARRANG F OUR O N O I T INSPEC Not one-man rule, or rule of CALL D I S P L A Y. 1 69 aristocracy or plutocracy, 13 0 0 5 61 but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decision. They are representatives of abstract forces who have reached power through surrender of self. The ironD E S I G N E R G R A N N Y FL AT S willed dictator is a thing of Experience the next generation of backyard lifestyle options past. There will be no more at our Byron Bay Display. For more information or to book a Stalins, no more Hitlers. The private inspection, email Josh at josh@backspaceliving.com rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident. Inept, frightened B Y A P P O I N TM E N T 20 B A N G A L O W R D, B Y R O N B AY pilots at the controls of a (cnr of Bangalow Road and Constellation Close) vast machine they cannot understand, calling in B AC K S PA C E L I V I N G .C O M 13 0 0 5 61 1 69 experts to tell them which buttons to push’. Q Q Q Q
Further to last week’s story regarding water utility Rous
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