Influence peddlers have taken key congressional jobs.
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Facing pressure to act, America’s chief rail regulator now insists he is “constrained.” He’s not.
A smart political promise People made fun of Biden for putting so-called Junk Fees on his agenda but it turns out to be a very smart move. People hate them: Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on many things but paying less for concert tickets or to switch cable TV providers is one of them. During his Feb. 7 State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass the Junk Fees Prevention Act, which would limit extra fees or surcharges across the travel and entertainment industries, including early termination fees from cable TV or internet providers and service fees often attached to tickets for concerts and sporting events. Biden previously called out companies like Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s Ticketmaster to lower the “huge” service fees it places on many events and to be more transparent with consumers about a ticket’s full costs. The ticketing platform has been under Congressional scrutiny since November for its disastrous handling of presales for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which renewed accusations that the company is monopolizing the live event industry.
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I bet you could use a creative way to increase your income by a mere 10 to 30 percent to get through this inflation-wrecked year. Maybe you need some extra dough for that ever-growing percentage of your finances going toward keeping a roof over your head. Or perhaps you need to buy a dozen eggs. Not to worry. I’ve discovered the secret to scraping through late-stage capitalism: simply take anything that sparks a modicum of joy and turn it into a capitalist enterprise. Because nothing says bootstraps like turning something you love into twelve dollars before taxes.
Say, for example, you like to unwind with a craft—maybe you knit while watching your brother’s Netflix account? Great! Let’s get your Etsy shop up and running and start you producing macramé plant hangers or crocheted snoods on a level that will net you forty bucks a month and also debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome.
While you’re at it, get yourself a Medium account and hustle for enough followers to pay you a couple cents for your thoughts on, I dunno, Pilates, or train travel, or beagle breeding.
How might the renown mid-20th century linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein have addressed the current defence strategic review? As the perceptive mid-20th century Cambridge based English/Austrian linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein explained, the answer you get to a question depends on how the question is formed. The same wisdom could have been conveyed to military planners in the past Continue reading »
What motivated the Australian government when it announced that it would get rid of CCTV cameras on public buildings because they were Chinese devices? They are to be discarded not because they malfunction but because they function all too well. The contention is that, if a Chinese firm produced them, they are bound to relay Continue reading »
Katy Gallagher’s recent rejection of an ATO supported pay increase was entirely justified if the Government is to move away from agency-based remuneration to an APS-wide approach. The problem is that achieving an APS-wide approach which delivers the remuneration necessary to attract, develop and retain the skills the APS needs will not be easy and Continue reading »
A week or so ago, on a visit to the ICU ward in the Alice Springs hospital, the Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney was shocked to discover that of the 16 beds in the ICU, 14 were occupied by Indigenous women who had been subjected to violent assaults. Alcohol is widely acknowledged to Continue reading »
Jim Chalmer’s Monthly essay is an attempt to prepare us for a shift in the coming budget, from the era of neoliberal domination to giving more attention to non-economic factors. But we need far more than that given we are headed for catastrophic global breakdown. Chalmers’ move is commendable and a few decades overdue, but Continue reading »
Government action must lead the way by having 16 and 17 year olds vote at the next national election. Let us copy the “Make it 16” campaign in NZ. As a young person I lived in the UK through some of the terrors of bombing in World War II. Our parents always told us, and Continue reading »
Shocking false narratives are concocted by the west to create animosity towards rivals, says 500-page study from University of London researcher. U.S. government bodies working with the western media created a massive “atrocity fabrication” industry to discredit China and other perceived enemies of the west, says a stunning new book to be published next month. Continue reading »
Self-described Christian reactionary Nick Fuentes built his youthful following by claiming the title of “The Most Canceled Man in America.” Now, he’s consciously weaponizing it to undermine the America First movement. In part one of this three part investigative series, we sort the fact from fiction in Fuentes’ tale of persecution. Read part two of The Grayzone’s investigation into Nick Fuentes here. Read part three of The Grayzone’s investigation into Nick Fuentes here. Far-right agitator livestreamer Nick Fuentes has urged […]
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Wilbur Walters’ mission: To use the platform of STEM to transform communities.
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On 3 February 2023, the Wales cross-party group on digital rights and democracy – for which Open Rights Group serves as the secretariat – held its fourth session on surveillance and facial recognition technology in the UK. Chaired by Sarah Murphy MS, the session heard powerful accounts from campaigner Ed Bridges, who launched the groundbreaking […]
Trump’s campaign strategy comes into focus When Donald Trump took office in 2017 he was determined to best Barack Obama in every way and, as absurd as it was, he was especially determined that he should win the Nobel Peace Prize as Obama had done in his first year in office. Trump even went so far as to ask then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to nominate him (which he dutifully did). At times he also went around saying that because a couple of right-wing European randos had also nominated him, he’d actually won it, claiming that he was bringing world peace and so deserved it. This ruse played into Trump’s cultivated image as some sort of peacenik, despite the fact that he is one of the most bloody-minded public figures in American history. Sure, he managed to avoid getting into a major war during his term but that was mostly a combination of luck and adversaries who knew a sucker when they saw one. But it was always clear from his history and his rhetoric that Donald Trump had a very violent imagination.
Melanie Xue shares insights from her research into the parallel history of women and the intelligentsia in Chinese society.
. Det är en tröst att Teds och Kenneths underbara texter och musik fortfarande finns kvar. Men att de inte vandrar vid min sida är svårt att förlika sig med. Första gången jag hörde Ted var jag femton år gammal. Under mina tonår var han en stor idol. Det kommer han alltid att vara.
I’m really excited to share this new resource from the Office of Digital Learning. We’ve created a public resource so that anyone can now sample a handful of online courses that ODL has designed for OU Online programs via a public URL. Our instructional designers reached out to a number of our online instructors, and I am […]
How a bleak Christian theology influenced the development of the dismal science
When you think of original sin and the fall of Adam and Eve, an economics class probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. After all, economics is a secular discipline. Or is it?
On February 14 a high ranking NATO source, cited by Bloomberg, warned that NATO members were preparing plans for the alliance to involve itself in multiple conflicts simultaneously - including conflicts beyond its traditional areas of responsibility. During meetings in Brussels on February 14-15 NATO Defence Ministers will sign a classified guidebook containing plans of action for "high intensity" conflicts and conflicts "beyond the area of responsibility" of the alliance, which will include requirements for NATO members’ military investments. Members will additionally be directed to redirect investments to the sectors seen as most important for collective security - whether it be tank forces or missile defences - to strengthen the military bloc’s collective warfighting capabilities.