Raising Hell: Issue 70.5: No Bueno
"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive," Joseph Heller, Catch 22, page 29.
Look, I know how it is. It’s Tuesday morning, sometime after nine. You’ve been waiting in anticipation — and then it lands in your inbox. You click the link, only to find this: a pale imitation of this very newsletter that tells you about everything you love to hate. “What is this?” You ask yourself.
“Where the hell is Raising Hell?”
Well, let me tell you: I’ve spent the last week moving house. Due to the need to move a small lifetimes worth of stuff from Point A to Point B, I’ve had to down tools. That is why you’re getting an Issue 70.5 instead of an Issue 71. If the tech industry can get away with patching out issues from half-formed thought bubble ideas after they’ve gone to air, why can’t journalists?
Rest assured, you will get a full accounting of my latest exploits in my next dispatch.
Until then: Be good. Or be good at it.
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For the Fortnight: March 1 to March 14
Reporting In
Where I recap what I’ve been doing this last fortnight so you know I’m not just using your money to stimulate the local economy …
But, it’s not like I haven’ been busy. Following my trip to Lismore for the book, I squeezed in a story for the Saturday Paper on the one month anniversary of the flood:
‘The strange case against electric vehicle incentives’” (The Saturday Paper, March 4).
“‘Disaster capitalism’: What’s happening after climate catastrophe” (7am, March 7).
Before You Go (Go)…
Are you a public sector bureaucrat whose tyrannical boss is behaving badly? Have you recently come into possession of documents showing some rich guy is trying to move their ill-gotten-gains to Curacao? Did you take a low-paying job with an evil corporation registered in Delaware that is burying toxic waste under playgrounds? If your conscience is keeping you up at night, or you’d just plain like to see some wrong-doers cast into the sea, we here at Raising Hell can suggest a course of action: leak! You can securely make contact through Signal — contact me first for how. Alternatively you can send us your hard copies to: PO Box 134, Welland SA 5007
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