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In a fight centered on abortion rights, Republicans trying to pass a constitutional amendment could be violating their own new election law.

The post Jan. 6 Megadonor Helping Ohio GOP Preemptively Overturn Will of the Voters appeared first on The Intercept.

A Georgia book ban is creating a hostile environment.

An extraordinary Met Police disciplinary hearing concludes with a female officer being exonerated from abuse claims from her former partner, a more senior cop himself facing abuse claims

Tom Mutch talks to the owners of a chain of dance studios in Donbas, whose epic journey suggests a brighter future for their war-ravaged homeland

Exclusive documents and interviews reveal that Kissinger bears significant responsibility for hundreds more Cambodian deaths than was previously known.

The post Henry Kissinger’s Bloody Legacy appeared first on The Intercept.

War and wine: how decadent Persian wine vessels were given a playful, dynamic makeover in the hands of Athenian potters

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A sonnet contains an emotional drama of illusion and deception, crisis and resolution, crafted to make us think and feel

- by Timothy Hampton

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A new analysis suggests that the food expenditures category of the consumer price index could be a useful signal of future headline inflation.

Thomas Perrett explores how factory farming and agribusiness industries have successfully lobbied politicians, advocating against carbon taxes and biodiversity targets

. Using formal mathematical modelling, mainstream economists sure can guarantee that the conclusions hold given the assumptions. However, the validity we get in abstract model worlds does not warrant transfer to real-world economies. Validity may be good, but it is not enough. Mainstream economists are proud of having an ever-growing smorgasbord of models to cherry-pick […]

Aidan Saggers, Lukas Alemu and Irina Mnohoghitnei Decentralised Finance (DeFi) may seem a tempting option for those seeking financial gain, autonomy, and self-governance… But how safe is a world in which ‘code is law’? Closer inspection reveals an ecosystem experiencing several hacks, attacks, and fraud. Estimates show at least US$6.5 billion has been stolen since … Continue reading Flash loans, flash attacks, and the future of DeFi →

Genuine anti-racist internationalism calls for much greater radicalism, writes Sunit Bagree

James Supple examines why carbon offsets are a climate disaster that don’t genuinely reduce emissions—and why Labor is so committed to them

The post Why the offsets scam feeds climate catastrophe appeared first on Solidarity Online.

Israel was founded 75 years ago through the massacre and expulsion of Palestinians, argues Raul Haagensen, and the brutality and dispossession continues today.

The post The Nakba 75 years on appeared first on Solidarity Online.

EMERALD Beach Fair Committee is busy building a bumper program for the village’s annual family event taking place on Saturday 3 June at Fiddaman Road and Emerald Beach Reserve. “This year we are celebrating the resilience of a community, our multicultural connections and local history,” Sherrie Rutherford, Emerald Beach local and Chair of the Emerald...

The post Emerald Beach Fair celebrates culture, local food and lots more appeared first on News Of The Area.

ORG’s new report exposes failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in protecting the public privacy and data rights during the Covid-19 pandemic. Failure to act Data privacy and the Information Commissioner’s Office During a Crisis analyses the ICO’s role in relation to three key Covid-19 health programmes: Our report finds that the ICO repeatedly […]

A new report exposes failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in protecting the public privacy and data rights during the Covid-19 pandemic. The report analyses use of data in three key Covid-19 health programmes NHS Test and Trace, NHS Contract Tracing App and the NHS Datastore. It compares the ICO’s response to that of […]

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THE North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens in Coffs Harbour hosts its annual Open Day on Sunday 28 May. As part of a coordinated event with other botanic gardens around Australia, organised by the Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ), the 2023 Open Day is themed ‘People and Plants that Inspire’. Advertise with News...

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A BUZZY, busy day at Bunnings Coffs Harbour on Saturday 20 May saw local beekeepers from the Mid North Coast Amateur Beekeeping Club and the Coffs Harbour Branch of the Australian Native Bee Association mark World Bee Day with an interactive, educational stall. The beekeepers were invited to set up an informative display and engage...

The post To bee or not to bee: Just one of the questions on World Bee Day appeared first on News Of The Area.

Activists in Adelaide staged fantastic actions against two planet-threatening confabs—on fossil fuels and war. But Labor responded with hasty legal changes to crack down on protest.

The post SA Labor rips up rights after Adelaide’s week of protest for planet appeared first on Solidarity Online.

Today’s Payments System Board meeting discussed the Bank’s targeted self-assessment of Australia's real-time gross settlement system against the relevant international standards, the pricing of New Payments Platform services, competition in the debit card market, improving the security of debit card transactions in the online environment and the results of the Bank's 2022 Consumer Payments Survey.

Regular readers will know that I have spent quite a lot of time reading the literature in social psychology trying to understand how groups of scholars become crippled with the patterned behaviour that Irving Janis identified as Groupthink in his ground breaking study published in 1972. I feel that my own profession is dominated by…

Actually it was a joke… That’s what happened. It glitched and went silent and people lost connections and they left and then they started a new “space” and only a few people stuck around so hardly anyone heard this catastrophe of an announcement speech. You couldn’t make up a better metaphor. Oh, and a wiseacre took a shot too: When they got it back up, this was an example of the discussion: The cover of The Daily Mail: Meanwhile, the front runner had this to say: Hookay… It must be prescription drugs. Josh Marshall has the full take: Okay, here’s my take. Obviously the tech snafu at the beginning is going to be the irresistible headline. A major fail. The announcement he read was a mess. Once they actually got down to talking, DeSantis is fairly good at talking about the issues that matter to him. But the issue is what matters to him. This is a way way WAY online minded campaign. And really lives within the keyboard warrior world of the right. What are the issues a winning GOP presidential campaign is going to run on?