This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan. Nara I took last Friday off as a holiday and we took the train to Nara which is about an hour away from Kyoto. The motivation was to do the…
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Thousands of CFMEU members in Sydney stopped work today for the third time since August to protest administration, standing up to threats from the administrators and bosses.
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Tuesday’s strike and demonstration by NSW CFMEU rank and file and union supporters, in defiance of the Labor-appointed administrator, is just what the campaign against administration needed.
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"The council sees this legal action as an assault on press freedom and an attempt to undermine the accountability that is vital to democracy."
I have already written about the incumbent rout all over the world theory. I’m persuaded that was probably the main driver of this election. It’s just sad that the Republicans are so far gone that they put up their previous loser, a convicted felon who attempted a coup d’etat, but that’s how we roll here in ‘Murica. We are so exceptional. I think the second point is just obvious. We have never had a woman president and a rank misogynist brute beat the two that we have managed to nominate. The racism is as American as apple pie and you don’t have to be a political scientist to know that it has an effect. But the third reason is something I think we need to explore much further. Our mediaecosystem is in deep, deep trouble and regardless of the macro political influences, we are going to be under threat of this fascist movement. Michael Tomasky at The New Republic wrote a very good piece on this. He notes that people are rightfully stunned that we would elect someone like Trump. Didn’t they know how unfit he is? And why didn’t they? The answer is the right-wing media.
Unbelievably, President-elect Trump hasn’t even been inaugurated yet, and he’s already solved so many of the problems he talked about on the campaign trail. Almost as if they were never there at all. I’m so glad I voted for him.
I was really outraged about inflation. But miraculously, today I woke up in Trump’s America, and the average worker’s paycheck goes further than it did pre-COVID. Not only that, but the United States is ahead of every developed economy in recovering from the pandemic. I don’t know how Trump pulled that off so fast. Tariffs?
“These studies reveal an interesting fault line. While most women get their news from TikTok, most young men get their news from YouTube, X, and Reddit.” You can do all the postmortems in the world but in the end it comes down to that. We are living in separate political realities. Over half of Trump voters say they don’t follow political news at all. It’s hard to say if that’s just because they don’t see Joe Rogan and Youtube as political news or if they genuinely just don’t consume any political news at all. It’s not unlikely that some people just follow what people in their families, workplaces or communities say as much as anything. Those who identify as evangelical Christian probably get a lot of political information from their churches, even though it’s not explicitly identified as that. All it takes is one Fox News junkie or a Rogan fan in any group to influence several people in their orbit.
Fewer male sea turtles are being born. What does that mean for the future?
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I’ll confess something up front. I hate election postmortems. I’m not sure anybody likes them,...
As the Democratic Party falters and Trump steps into office, U.S. policy on immigration, war, and economy is poised for a dramatic shift—one that could reshape the nation and its role in the world.
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I don’t think Trump will be celebrating suckers and losers day this way over the next four years. What’s in it for him?
What we can learn about growing old from a tiny aquatic monster.
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Peter Dutton’s traditional owner, Gina Rinehart, has put the call out to all the swimmers she ‘sponsors’ to ask if one of them could be so kind as to start a podcast. Preferably a podcast similar in style and reach... Read More ›
Eugene Schofield-Georgeson synthesises, amongst other things, a juridification of social relationships, the centrality of contract as a means of repatterning those relationships, a synergy between neoliberal economic theory and law, and an opportunistic legal indeterminacy that can justify most outcomes.
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He’s also a very sensitive guy: And Trump just loves him: Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club has been brimming in the last 48 hours with two kinds of people: those angling for a job in the president-elect’s incoming administration, and those trying to influence him into hiring their picks for the top spots. But the one person who has loomed over it all and has exerted a great deal of influence is Elon Musk, according to multiple sources. The tech billionaire has been seen at the resort in Palm Beach, Florida, almost every day since Trump won the election last week, dining with him on the patio some evenings and hanging out with his family Sunday at the golf course. Musk has been in the room when multiple world leaders have phoned Trump, and he’s weighed in on staffing decisions, with the SpaceX and Tesla CEO even making clear his preference for certain roles. In one instance, Musk was with Trump at Mar-a-Lago when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called to congratulate the president-elect the day after the election, according to a source briefed on the call.
A Resolve Political Monitor poll published in today’s Sydney Morning Herald makes clear that the Australian community at large possesses a contrary view to the foreign policy priorities of the Albanese government and its predecessor under Scott Morrison. On the significant question of whether Australia should avoid taking sides in any conflict between the US Continue reading »
Australian territory has been used in supporting US B-2 bombers en route and in return from strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on October 17, and highlights the profound strategic significance of this event for the future role Australia may play in US strategic bomber operations against China, in the Asia Pacific and beyond. NAPSNet Continue reading »
There’s a new, stark reality we must face: Donald Trump’s victory will push the Earth system further down a perilous path towards three degrees Celsius of global warming or more, with catastrophic consequences for human civilisation and the environment. This moment requires clarity about the existential nature of the climate threat to humanity’s future; and Continue reading »
Somewhat surprisingly, careful analysis and modelling show that Trump’s crude attempt to Make America Great Again, mainly damages the American economy. The rest of the world, and Australia in particular, should proceed with their own business as usual. At this stage it is difficult to know how America under Trump will relate to the rest Continue reading »