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COFFS Harbour nurses say there is a staffing crisis in local hospitals and are calling for urgent action. They say new hospital buildings are welcome, but the real need is for enough staff to do the job. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us –...

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Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad February 12, 2023. Peoples Dispatch. Cuba, a country of eleven million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the United States government for over six decades. Despite this embargo, Cuba’s people have been able to transcend the indignities […]

I guessed that most people would think that industrialists like Ford and Edison were opposed to fiat money, and in favour of “sound money”—money backed by gold or some other commodity. As this post will show, that is a false belief. These two industrialists were outright fans of fiat money—money created by the government—and critics … Continue reading "Ford and Edison, the anti gold bugs"

For conservative pundits reevaluating their life choices Watching conservative pundits and consultants reevaluate their life choices in the time of Trump is heartening. It doesn’t mean that the Bill Kristols and Mona Charons and Rick Wilsons won’t rediscover their three-legged roots once MAGA fever inevitably passes, but for now, they provide refreshing clarity about their Late Great Republican Party. Jennifer Rubin is enjoying seeing the cordyceps-infected in Congress taken down by Democrats. The GOP’s sideshow “hearings” that opened in the House last week are not going as planned. House committees may get C-SPAN coverage, but the forum is not as mine-free fro Republicans as Fox News. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), freshman Rep. Daniel S. Goldman (D-N.Y.) , and Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) are nobody’s props. They came to puncture MAGA Republicans’ Chinese balloons. And did, repeatedly. Rubin writes: Democrats came to these hearings prepared and focused. They not only eviscerated GOP conspiracy theories but also did a bang-up job exposing Republicans as the ones who have “weaponized” the government.

‘Refugees are welcome here – fascism isn’t’, say crowds gathering to counter hate A large demonstration of Merseysides gathered in Knowsley this weekend at the Suites Knowsley hotel – the scene last week of far-right violence and hate toward refugees housed by the government at the hotel – to say loud and clear that refugees […]

When questioned, a spokesperson for Richard Sharp referred Byline Times to the Bank of England

Over 50 years of regenerations made Doctor Who not only a show that could run forever but also turned the Doctor increasingly Christ-like.

From the Ohio derailment disaster to the holiday flight meltdown, Pete Buttigieg has failed at his job.

Black-led anti-racist group also pays tribute to people of Liverpool and other communities who have welcomed refugees The Liberation Movement (TLM) is a cross-party, multi-faith, anti-racist alliance of African Asian Caribbean and other people of colour and their allies inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and strongly supported at the grassroots by community and […]

If Democrats will let it Whether Republican or Democrat, it is not often that state power players fail to get their way in North Carolina politics. On Saturday, however, high-level Democrats’ pick for state party chair lost reelection in an upset to a young, rural activist. Center-left Carolina Forward, a nonprofit progressive research group, dubbed the election “a massive rebuke of the party establishment.” Anderson Clayton, 25, is chair in Person County (pop. 39,000) bordering Virginia north of Durham. N.C. Democrats’ State Executive Committee (SEC) chose Clayton over incumbent, Bobbie Richardson, 73, a former state House member and the party’s first Black chair elected in 2021. Richardson garnered endorsements from all seven Democratic members of the Congressional delegation, Attorney General Josh Stein, and Gov. Roy Cooper. Cooper delivered a prerecorded pitch for Richardson on the statewide Zoom call. Richardson brought endorsements. But Clayton brought game, too.

The players are preparing to face off, but billionaire NFL owners are all on the same team.

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By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack An article by The Washington Post titled “Pentagon looks to restart top-secret programs in Ukraine” contains some interesting information about what US special ops forces were doing in Ukraine in the lead-up to the Russian invasion last year, and what they are slated to be doing there in the future.  […]

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By Juan Cole / Informed Consent Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad reports that on top of the now nearly 30,000 known deaths in Turkey and Syria, millions people are estimated to have been made homeless. Not only are they without shelter, they now lack water and electricity, and often even food and the World Health Organization […]

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A series of disasters — including catastrophic flooding, political paralysis, exploding inflation, and a resurgent terror threat — risk sending the global player into full-blown crisis.

The post Pakistan on the Brink: What the Collapse of the Nuclear-Armed Regional Power Could Mean for the World appeared first on The Intercept.

By David Story / Labor Notes Unionism has seen a resurgence in popularity the past few years. The problem is, it’s very difficult to get our members organizing in their communities when they hate the way our leadership (I use that word loosely) is operating. Our unions shouldn’t be, and I’d argue weren’t meant to […]

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TST rejeita acordo e diz que empresa fornece serviços de transporte, não tecnologia. Uber fala em decisão 'ideológica'.

The post Decisão reconhece direitos trabalhistas de motorista da Uber e acusa a empresa de manipular jurisprudência a seu favor appeared first on The Intercept.

"[Healthcare] is a dysfunctional system that to my mind needs to be fundamentally changed to a Medicare for All system — but we ain’t gonna get it."

Last year, I wrote a couple of posts defending historical presentism, that is, the view that we should examine events and actors in history (at least in modern history) in the light of our current concerns, rather than treating them as exempt from any standards except those that prevailed (in the dominant class) at the […]

I have finally moved my blog and integrated in within my long-standing home page. The new blog address is – http://www.billmitchell.org/blog – although the old address will work forever. However, I do urge you to update your bookmarks to the new address. The blog is now running on a new Linux distribution with more secure…

The Big Four banks have been asked to halt any planned branch closures upon this week's announcement that the Federal Senate will hold the first parliamentary inquiry into regional bank closures in 19 years. read now...

Exclusive Omnisis poll finds public believes Richard Sharp should now quit over the loan scandal involving Boris Johnson, as a committee of MPs urge him to "reflect" on his position

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