Evangelical military vets are using “counterterror” internet surveillance techniques to help police get search warrants against sex workers.
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. [The interview was given to Mark Blaug in 1995. In transcript: “I think there is an element of truth in the view that the superstition that the budget must be balanced at all times [is necessary]. Once it is debunked, [it] takes away one of the bulwarks that every society must have against expenditure […]
As regular readers will know, CT blogger Ingrid has long been making the case for limitarianism, that is, the idea that there should be an upper limit on the amount any one person can own or consume. As Ingrid has observed, limitarianism is a constraint, rather than a complete ethical principle, so it’s important to […]
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The youngest offspring at Zoo Vienna is hard to miss. On July 17, a female fur seal was born. When it’s hungry, it loudly draws attention to itself to get its mother’s care. “In the first few days, the mother and the young seal were in the backstage area, but now they can be seen by the visitors in a specially designed shallow water area. The little one is already making its first attempts at swimming. The mother is very experienced and takes good care of her offspring,” says Simone Haderthauer, the zoological curator. Fur seals can swim and dive from birth, but practice makes perfect! Once the young seal is confident both on land and in water, she will join the rest of the group. The commented feeding of the fur seals is a highlight of every zoo visit for many visitors. However, it will take some time before the young seal exclusively eats fish and participates in the feeding. During the first six to eight months, seal pups are nursed by their mothers. Haderthauer says, “Currently, even the adult seals don’t have a big appetite for mackerel, sprats, and other fish.
Trump addressed the new superseding indictment: Donald Trump on Friday defended the handling of surveillance footage at his Florida home that is at the center of major new criminal charges in the federal case over the former president’s retention of classified documents. “These are my tapes that we gave to them,” Trump told a conservative radio host in his first public interview since being accused of the new crimes. “And they basically then say, ‘That’s not enough,’” Trump said on “The John Fredericks Show.” Trump, the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, also vowed to continue his campaign even if he is convicted and sentenced. “Not at all, there’s nothing in the Constitution to say that it could,” Trump said when asked if being sentenced would end his presidential bid. Later in the day, Trump fired off several social media posts raging against the Department of Justice.
While average Ukrainians suffer amid NATO’s proxy war against Russia, business is booming for the surrogate baby industry, which requires a steady supply of healthy and financially desperate women willing to lease their wombs to affluent foreigners. Surrogates “have to be from poorer places than our clients,” explained the medical director of Kiev’s largest “baby factory.” Ihor Pechonoha of the Swiss-based BioTexCom says the business model that enabled him to build one of the most profitable surrogacy companies in the […]
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In light of the news that Trump ordered his minions to “erase the server” that held the surveillance footage outside the storage room at Mar-a-lago, I’m just going to leave that here for you to enjoy. Trump projection 101.
How’s it going down in Florida these days? The inflation rate hit a two-year low in June but the financial relief may not be felt in Florida. The Federal Reserve raised the interest rate again on Wednesday in an effort to lower inflation. It comes as the Tampa Bay area still has among the highest inflation rates reported, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater has a Consumer Price Index, which is measured for inflation, of 7.3% for the year ended in May. Meanwhile, the Consumer Price Index grew at an annual rate of 3% in June — the smallest increase since March 2021, the Labor Department said on Wednesday. South Florida is also reporting similar numbers. The CPI for Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-West Palm Beach is at 6.9% in June from the year before. […] Those like Nhick Ramiro Pacis of Tampa keep an eye on his budget from the rising costs at the grocery to his insurance. “It’s really affecting a lot of people. Not only me,” Pacis said. Like other Floridians, Pacis has had to make adjustments.
Adaptations that once saved creatures are now putting them in peril.
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“We can still stop the worst,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres insisted. “But to do so we must turn a year of burning heat into a year of burning ambition.” As new data released Thursday showed that July is all but certain to be the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, the heads of the United Continue reading »
The spectre of an international nuclear waste dump in Australia hangs over AUKUS and what this secretive agreement commits Australia to. Does it oblige us simply to dispose of spent nuclear reactors from our submarines if and when we get them? Or is there a hidden agenda whereby we also take the expired nuclear reactors Continue reading »
Can the United States avoid a descent into political violence? Of the 52 cases where countries reached the levels of polarisation which now exist in the US, half had their status as democracies downgraded. The US is the only Western democracy to have sustained such intense polarisation over such an extended period. It really is Continue reading »
In Asian media this week: Assaults on democracy in Cambodia, Thailand. Plus: Thaksin sets date for his return; Opportunity for BRICS to seize, or squander; ‘End of regime’- blunt message to North Korea; ‘Swimming in circles’ on South China Sea. Political Islam is waning Hun Sen’s guaranteed landslide win in Cambodia’s national elections this week Continue reading »
The Lawyer X scandal is one of the most outrageous examples of the undermining of the rule of law in Australian legal history. What is at stake here is nothing short of confidence in the legal system in Victoria. The Victorian Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes must step up and ensure the integrity of justice in her Continue reading »
The Reserve Bank is transferring wealth from working Australians to retired baby boomers; Liddell Power Station has closed; and, apart from Sussan Ley, who wants the Commonwealth Games? Read on for the Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy. Economics University education Continue reading »
Senior Australian “conservative” figures continue to attend conferences backed by illiberal Hungarian leader Viktor Orban. The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) hosted its 2023 London Summit in late June, featuring Alexander Downer and Greg Sheridan as two of the five speakers. Australians must focus on connections between our Right and Hungarian fascistic politics. Peter Browne of Continue reading »
Qin’s replacement has been named, ending weeks of speculation, but it’s still not clear what prompted the former foreign minister’s removal. Wang’s appointment makes him the most powerful person to hold the position in decades. China has replaced its foreign minister Qin Gang with his predecessor Wang Yi in an unprecedented move that leaves more Continue reading »
This is from the horse’s mouth: There’s a little bit more to it than that, I’m afraid:
Our family has been FRYING UP CLAMS at the Clam ‘n’ Putt for more generations than we can remember. When it’s summer, you can count on two things: HOT SUN, and us here making clams, because Neptune totally fucking cursed our family.
Basically, like a thousand years ago, one of our ancestors was starving on a boat. One day he caught a clam and ate it. This pissed off Neptune, the protector of the sea, who was so ripshit he cursed him to make clams forever, which didn’t make sense, because Neptune was mad about him eating a clam in the first place. Was he protecting the clams OR NOT? Either way, Neptune hated his guts SO MUCH. Then our ancestor passed the curse along to all the next generations. Also, he slept with Neptune’s wife, which DID NOT HELP.