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[Diocletian]

Around our nation's capital
There's a freeway 8 lanes wide
White concrete ringed around the city
For those who want inside
Get on, get off
Ignore everything to the sides
In your midst I drive
While homeboys in the back of the van make drugs

Wanna hide something like a crack lab?
Just put it in plain sight
Only stop to refuel and unload
More poison to tear more lives apart
Whole neighbourhoods are goin’ psycho
Gang wars like never before
Better lock your doors, buy some guns
And pray for martial law

On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In a black van with no windows
And a chimney puffing smoke
Bloody headlines in the news each day
Drug "crisis" everywhere
So much comes in so easy
It's as though someone wants it there…

It would be a little obvious
To fence off all the slums
Hand out machine guns
To the poor in the projects
And watch 'em kill each other off
A more subtle genocide’s
When the only hope for the young
Is to join the Army or slowly die
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
The last roads left of the American Dream

Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Only one road leads to this neighborhood
Little kids wanna sell drugs when they grow up

The folks just might get a little upset
If they knew where that dope comes from
From Columbia to the Contras
To our Air Force bases, where we trade it for guns
The moral equivalent of a serial killer
And his CIA friends call the shots from the White House
But now that we own the media too
Those stories just aren't run

On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In a black van with no windows
and a chimney puffing smoke
Some gang that ran smack in Vietnam
Ain't got no reason to fear
Just get a Vice President so dumb
The crook at the top never gets impeached…

That sure was easy wasn't it?
That sure was easy wasn't it?
More crack - more panic - more cops - more jails
You see emergency - total war
You see emergency - total war
You see a black face - you see a crackhead
You see a black face - you see a crackhead
You see a black face - you see Willie Horton with a knife
You see Willie Horton with a knife
You’ve seen one Willie Horton, you've seen them all
They're everywhere, I know

You asked for it, you've got it
Drug suspects have no rights at all
Property seized and sold before trial
Labor camps - on American soil?!?
Neo-Nazi bootboys
That the cops never seem to arrest
Prowl neighborhoods with baseball bats
Why do they get so much press?
Mein Kampf - the mini series
Oliver North - "patriotic" hero
The leader of tomorrow is yours today
Finally gotcha psyched for a police state

On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In a black van with no windows
And a chimney puffing smoke
My van's a mobile oven now
That burns the bodies you never see
Just like in Chile or Guatemala
People just seem to disappear…

Just like Rome
We fell asleep when we got spoiled
Ignore human rights in the rest of the world
Ya might as well lose your own
As the noose of narco-militarism
Tightens around our necks
We worry about burning flags
And pee in jars at work to keep our jobs
But if someone came for you one night and dragged you away
Do you really think your neighbors would even care?
Do you really think your neighbors would even care?

Embrace the red white and blue Reich [x12]

Ollie for president! He'll get things done! [x11]

[🏅Dooks]

Illuminati list did they? Tinders match box last night  graph was even better

Nearly got another boat through  bents. Few hundred metres from Xmas island apparently. Bloody newscorp trying to play games with us. Wish they would report all the boats FFS

Good luck with all that tighty righty.

[Stalin]

whos the bitch?

[Stalin]

hint, it aint Mr Rothschild

[Stalin]

No one talkin about tim tam-gate?

Big news lads

[Diocletian]

There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

[1965]

Trouble in paradise?

Liberal MP Ian Macfarlane defects to Nationals in shock move against Malcolm Turnbull

Former industry minister Ian Macfarlane is set to defect from the Liberal Party to junior Coalition partners the Nationals, in a shock move that has significant ramifications for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberal-mp-ian-macfarlane-defects-to-nationals-in-shock-move-against-malcolm-turnbull-20151203-gle6rd.html#ixzz3tDYvuZfF

[1965]

So much for Tony keeping quiet...

Tony Abbott: I would have won the next election
December 8, 2015
Mark Kenny

Tony Abbott has fired a broadside at the plotters who brought him down, defiantly declaring he would have led the Coalition to a victory at the next election.
The comments came in an interview in which he flagged an intention to stay around in Parliament; called on Malcolm Turnbull to spend a week in an Indigenous community each year; advocated a more robust defence of "superior" Western values in the struggle with Islamic extremism; and said his first budget was fine.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-i-would-have-won-the-next-election-20151208-glifg7.html#ixzz3tkrYoz9W

[1965]

Gotta love the timing of these resignations.

 

Jamie Briggs resigns over late-night bar scandal in Hong Kong, Mal Brough stands aside over Slipper affair
By political reporter Francis Keany

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Government has been rocked after two scandal-hit MPs stood down from their frontbench portfolios on Tuesday.

Liberal MP Mal Brough will stand aside, pending a police investigation, while Jamie Briggs has tendered his resignation.

Mr Briggs has resigned as Minister for Cities and the Built Environment following a late-night incident involving a female public servant in a Hong Kong bar during an official overseas visit last month.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-29/mal-brough-and-jamie-briggs-stand-down-from-frontbench/7058266

[1965]

A Federal election, a US election and a Richmond flag.

 

[Hard Roar Tiger]

A Federal election, a US election and a Richmond flag.

 

What do a couple of elections have to do with Richmond winning a flag? 

[Diocletian]

I think he's getting at the fact that last time we won the flag there was a Federal election here & a Presidential election over there.....

Though perhaps '65 has forgotten that the conservatives won both elections back then ...unless he's hoping for a Turnbull-Trump-Tigers trifecta....

[1965]

I think he's getting at the fact that last time we won the flag there was a Federal election here & a Presidential election over there.....

Though perhaps '65 has forgotten that the conservatives won both elections back then ...unless he's hoping for a Turnbull-Trump-Tigers trifecta....

Turnbull is a left wing republican Greenie from way back.   

Trump would certainly shake things up a little.   

Tigers win the flag and I will die a happy man.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Fair enough, I'll see if I can get a hundred on that multi.....

[Stalin]

At least trump is a nutter, not a puppet..