For some reason the new “weaponization committee” called Tulsi Gabbard, Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson and Jamie Raskin as their first witnesses. You can imagine how the first three testified. It was the predictable shit show. But Raskin was magnificent. This is how you do it: Fox didn’t show this? How interesting. I wonder why?
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Based on a recent Instagram post, it appears that Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa is wrapping up his run on Netflix's Sex Education.
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News of Russian banks connecting to Iran’s financial messaging system strengthens the resistance against US-imposed sanctions on both countries and accelerates global de-dollarization.The Cradle
The Big Stiff: Russia-Iran dump the dollar and bust US sanctions
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“One factor that could well be keeping the gold price so supported is the strength of buying from central banks, including those in China, India and Turkey. As these fast-growing economies look to diversify away from the hegemony of the US dollar, these banks have bought considerable volume last year with that trend expected to continue into this year.”
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The buying coming from China is in preparation for war – not bullish gold for the sake of gold.…
Footage from the aftermath of a deadly police raid on anti-Cop City protesters shows an Atlanta cop asking, “They shoot their own man?”
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James O’Keefe wants to be the next … Robert Preston? Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe has always been a little bit nuts. But now his own organization has turned on him, and he’s reportedly taking a break from being a dirty trickster for a while. The staff has produced a memo to the board saying that he’s abusive and crude (you don’t say!) and that donors are sick of his antics. Apparently, he’s been spending money like a drunken sailor. All of this is par for the course for a standard right wing grifter, which he is (among other things) but I have to admit that this surprised me: The memo’s authors also raised concerns about O’Keefe’s use of Project Veritas money to promote his own theatrical ambitions. Project Veritas is best known for its undercover stings against Democratic groups and other Republican targets. But O’Keefe, who performed in high-school musicals, has added a series of musical productions to the group’s repertoire, including an elaborate “Project Veritas” experience that involves O’Keefe dancing while wearing a bulletproof vest.
Daring leadership is what makes or breaks organizations. Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen, which is why I’m bringing my whole self into this meeting. Let me put down my shield and reveal my truth before we dive into today’s Brené Brown lunch-and-learn.
By the end of this presentation, I will fire twelve of you.
Yes, it’s not ideal timing. And I’m not happy to do it. But as Dr. Brown says, “Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.” So, let me be clear. Half of you will no longer have a job by day’s end.
Let me first address what you all are probably worried about. Our revenue is fine. Healthy even. We’re actually making more money than ever, and by “we,” I mean the company. Unfortunately, the reason for the cuts is far more threatening than financial concerns; it’s organizational efficiency.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong invoked the power of shared colonial histories in a speech during her recent visit to the United Kingdom. The statement was clearly carefully prepared and framed but, judging from her recorded comments, it seems that she has not thought through the implications of the adoption of radical post-colonial diplomacy. Rather, she Continue reading »
The previous two parts in this series addressed soft power and Australia’s alliances respectively. The focus of Part 3 is hard power and a discussion of self-reliance and Australia’s evolving military strategy. Hard power: Australia’s military strategy In an offensive sense, hard power represents the ability of a nation to coerce another country and bend Continue reading »
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a story Wednesday alleging that the United States was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline system last year, citing a source “with direct knowledge of the operational planning.” The Biden White House adamantly denied the veteran investigative journalist’s reporting, calling it “complete fiction.” Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative Continue reading »
The Medicare Review contains welcome aspirations, but the instruments to achieve them are poorly delineated. An early statement in the Medicare Review report is challengeable. “Most Australians enjoy ready access to quality Primary Care services and with that good health outcomes”. That is certainly not true for the 33% of Australians who live in rural Continue reading »
Secrets make us paranoid. We should do away with secrets and spies and become a truly open society. We have become so obsessed with the so-called ‘China threat’ that our fears are now totally irrational. The decision by the USA to shoot down a Chinese balloon might have had a strange logic to it, but Continue reading »
At personal, national and international levels, crises provide learning opportunities. How to adapt to loss by seeking change, how to think differently about family, community and nation by, among other things, pondering the meaning of security and sovereignty. Immediate responses to the massive earthquake disasters in Turkey and Syria concern rescue, shelter, food supply, healthcare Continue reading »
Amnesty International just made a submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and some of it surprised me. I live in China, I’ve travelled extensively, including many kilometres in Xinjiang. First in 2014 when I cycled from Macau to the Kazakhstan border and again in 2019, I flew to Urumqi and Continue reading »
Sarah Sanders acted like Trumpie didn’t exist and turned that hokey secret Iraq trip into a story about her. It didn’t go over well with some of the MAGAs: Prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. Sanders, who served as Trump’s White House press secretary, delivered a rebuttal to the president’s speech that largely focused on Republican culture war issues and accused Biden of surrendering his presidency to a “woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.” “Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace, but we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn’t start and never wanted to fight. Every day, we are told that we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols, all while big government colludes with Big Tech to strip away the most American thing there is—your freedom of speech. That’s not normal.
James Wilson is suing James Mendelsohn, Edward Cantor and the late Peter Newbon for libel, misuse of private information, harassment, and breach of data rights. Dr Newbon died in January last year, with right-wing media attempting to blame his death on author Michael Rosen The High Court has today rejected an attempt by the defendants […]
Back in November, as the first round of national strike action by university staff began, an email from the head of the Sheffield Institute of Education appeared to ask students to report striking lecturers. In a tweet, Jo Grady, General Secretary of the University and Colleges Union (UCU), said universities asking students to ‘grass’ on […]
Josiah Mortimer reports on how TalkTV's Piers Morgan Uncensored struggled to get feminists to discuss “has Me Too gone too far” on the day a serial rapist was sentenced
If the diagnosis fits From Hullabaloo’s earliest days, Digby has attributed juvenile behavior on the part of the GOP’s most unwanted to an epidemic of arrested development. “Maybe the only thing we need to know about Trump and his followers is that they are all suffering from arrested development. It really could be just that simple,” she wrote in 2015 as the Trump train picked up steam. One suspects that cultural historians will explain the last couple of decades as a period of mass cultural insanity (my expectation). In the end, Digby’s arrested development take may be more accurate. Speaking of arrested devlopment, if you missed the crackup on the set of Deadline White House on Wednesday (at MTG’s expense), it’s in the first minute. Enjoy.
Letter from RMT head Mick Lynch last month offered talks but TSSA insiders say offer covered up by figures now condemned by Kennedy report on sexual harassment The scandal-hit TSSA union, whose management-backed merger with a right-wing US union fell through last year, has been in talks with another right-run union, the GMB – recently […]