The overblown rhetoric on imminent war with China has been justified as the need for the Australian people to be fully informed of threats to the nation. But the same rationale has not been applied to the security threat of climate change, a far greater risk the response to which will be far more costly Continue reading »
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Following “revelations” of $8 billion Medicare “rorts” in the Nine newspapers last spring, Health Minister Mark Butler commissioned Dr Pradeep Philip to conduct a review of Medicare integrity and compliance. His report has now been publicly released, and subject to vastly different readings. Judging by the press reports so far, two versions of the review Continue reading »
Pathetic, snide and feeble Starmeroids – but happily there are usually receipts Keir Starmer’s latest attempt to smear his far more worthy predecessor has consisted of his team briefing their media allies that Corbyn left the leader of the opposition (LOTO) office strewn with an unholy mess – with even mention of an abandoned sleeping […]
AI is here and it will change everything! OMG the sky is falling! Programmers are now obsolete. No, they are needed more than ever before. Large language models will destroy journalism, democracy, society. No, they will free us from drudgery and we will all be happier. Cancer will be solved because of AI. AI’s hallucinations […]
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They say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But that night, as I sat around the seder table—single, thirty, and once again eating a dinner of crackers and four glasses of wine—I started to think that maybe the biggest inevitability is monotony. I couldn’t help but wonder: How is this night different from all other nights?
After dunking my parsley in the salt water for the second time that evening, I was reminded of Samantha’s monologue on the pleasures of polyamory. Was it possible that she was right? Does there come a point when “the one” turns into “the two”? It got me thinking: Why is it that only on Passover are we encouraged to double-dip?
It turns out matzah wasn’t the only thing that didn’t rise that night. But in today’s sex-obsessed culture, were we overlooking sad little flatbreads for the everything bagels of the world? I mean, why is it that on all other nights, we indulge in tall, beefy hunks of sourdough—and only tonight, we’re suddenly gaga for the flimsy stuff?
Anton Jäger discusses his new book "Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income" co-authored with Daniel Zamora Vargas.
In Sweden in 2023, we allow poorly performing private school companies to make sky-high profits — profits that the Swedish state gladly allows these companies to take from our tax-funded school vouchers. These smart welfare plunderers generally have higher profitability than the business sector as a whole, but when they are finished plundering, they hand […]
The threat of imprisonment for contempt of court again looms over me if I tell you (again) too much of the truth about the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell. But I can make a few observations. As I stated on twitter on March 19 (I am not going to repeat all my tweets […]
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He could have paid off Stormy Daniels without legal troubles.
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EXODUS: THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE is an interactive exhibit that allows you to experience the story of Exodus like NEVER BEFORE because you NEVER PAID ATTENTION to all those seders your parents forced you to sit through while Jacob Feldstein dropped GEFILTE FISH down the BACK OF YOUR SHIRT.
Opening just in time for Passover, our curated journey will TRANSPORT YOU to the Egypt of the Pharaohs. Toil relentlessly under the BURNING SUN. Sleep on a ROCK PILLOW. Suffer the incessant blistering rash of BODY LICE.
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Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg helped to end the Vietnam War when he bravely provided the Pentagon Papers to media outlets in 1971. Ever since then, he has been a tireless and inspiring advocate for peace and prevention of nuclear war.
Welcome to my Wednesday Blog. And it’s time for another ambition fulfilled. Weird Tales #367 I’m proud to say I have a story in a forthcoming issue of that most renowned of genre magazines, Weird Tales, which is 100 years old this month. Not only that, but I share the issue with Christopher Golden and […]
One problem with covering Covid right now is that it’s becoming harder and harder to get good stats, because governments want to pretend it’s over. In Canada, the best reporting provincial government is Quebec, so we’ll look at that and I’m quite sure this is effectively the picture everywhere, though the bumps may not synchronize. The important line is the orange one, that’s excess mortality. It’s over 35%. And these numbers are a known understatement.
Sorry. The picture above was NOT Canada's fast-reporting provinces. It was Quebec, Canada's fastest-reporting provinces and the only province that still tries to track and report COVID in a transparent, complete fashion.
Already dealing with rate and energy hikes, Meloni government eliminates two programs that were effectively providing stimulus just as Italy becomes country with lowest employment rate in the bloc. Now billions of EU recovery funds are at stake too.
The Nordic state's accession into NATO was Tuesday’s most significant and historic event — by far.
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Some ideas for how to dial down your political hostility.
I’ve written a book chapter on subsidized rental housing and homelessness under Alberta’s first UCP government. My ‘top 5’ overview of the chapter is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/subsidized-rental-housing-and-homelessness-under-albertas-first-ucp-government/
Four years ago, the Finnish left was content. For decades, Finland had been ruled by governments who, in the name of efficiency and globalisation, slowly but steadily chipped away at the framework of labour negotiations, state ownership and indicative planning that underpinned the welfare state. The social and health care system was creaking and weariness […]
Rishi Sunak's new list of green announcements merely shows how far the UK has fallen behind other nations on reaching Net Zero, reports Thomas Perrett