Nostradamus' Media Watch

By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. French foreign minister's second slip French foreign minister de Charette, only a month after inadvertently denouncing nuclear weapons tests, does it again. His first excuse, following his televised statement, was that he made a Freudian slip and had meant to say that he was denouncing the proliferation of nuclear weapons — not their testing. In his second statement, made during an inter-game interview on the popular French TV show Gaullic Gladiators, he said that radiation damage in French Polynesia is smaller than Jacques Chirac's penis. Correcting that, he says that what he meant to say — of course — was that the damage was as small as Chirac's political future. NSW police embarrassed NSW police are embarrassed by a job advertisement that lists the desired qualities for a recruit. They include: taking bribes, drinking heavily on the job, theft of property and victimisation. The error is blamed on a junior clerk who inadvertently mixed a core competency document with a royal commission document. Nevertheless, 400,000 people apply for the positions — including many members of parliament.

From GLW issue 206