By any standard, the money the United States government pours into its military is simply overwhelming. Take the $858-billion defense spending authorization that President Biden signed into law last month. Not only did that bill pass in an otherwise riven Senate by a bipartisan majority of 83-11, but this year’s budget increase of 4.3% is the second highest in inflation-adjusted terms since World War II. Indeed, the Pentagon has been granted more money than the next 10 largest cabinet agencies combined. And that doesn’t even take into account funding for homeland security or the growing costs of caring for the veterans of this country’s post-9/11 wars. That legislation also includes the largest pay raise in 20 years for active-duty and... Read more
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In the latest version of the Online Safety Bill, a provision governing so-called “legal but harmful” content for adults has been removed. It would have likely meant the over-removal of lawful content, but its replacement is equally worrying. New provisions inserted by the government herald a regime of state-mandated enforcement of tech companies’ terms and […]
“It’s not even clear that the documents had been in Biden’s possession” The GOP is beside itself over news that some classified documents were found in November among papers stored at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. by Biden’s own attorneys. Isn’t this just what prompted the FBI to investigate Donald Trump, they demand? Where’s the outrage? Where are the jackbooted thugs? Where’s Attorney General Merrick Garland’s investigation? Twitter quipster Jeff Tiedrich put the affair in context, tweeting, “weird how Joe Biden found classified documents and voluntarily returned them without claiming he magically declassified them, or saying the FBI planted them, or lying about having already returned them, or needing to have his shitty golf motel searched. what game is Biden playing”? Indeed, reports indicate the White House notified authorities immediately and the National Archives retrieved the Penn documents the next day. Clearly, the papers surfacing is unwelcome news for the Biden administration. As is news that a search turned up a second batch this week.
Good morning! We’re minutes away from the December CPI report. I’ll be on Bloomberg TV to talk about inflation, the Fed, and the macro outlook at 12:10 p.m. ET today. As I wrote last week, the December jobs report was full of good news. Let’s hope the CPI report delivers more positive news about the pace at which inflation is receding.
Reação das empresas foi 'perigosamente lenta', diz relatório de ONG que monitora big techs.
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Hi all, I’ve written an article explaining why it’s high time we overcame our irrational fear of nuclear energy — a perfectly safe, zero-emission clean energy source — and embraced its revolutionary potential to offer cheap abundant energy for decades to come. The article is filled with lots of of myth-busting trivia about this tragically misunderstood technology.
Hi all, I’m proud to announce that the book I co-authored with Toby Green of King’s College London — The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left — is finally out! Here’s the description: During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that “following the science” with …
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Climate campaigners are taking to ‘adbusting’ to get their message across and target oil and gas funders, Josiah Mortimer reports
Following the easing of Covid-19 polices in China, which was quickly followed by a spike in cases, several countries — including the US, Japan, Italy, Spain, France and, most recently, the UK — have reacted by reintroducing restrictions for passengers from China, requiring them to show a negative PCR or antigen test before boarding. The …
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Excuse me, car salesman? I have an insecurity about my body that I hope to solve by purchasing a flashy vehicle. I know I should love and accept myself the way I am, and I honestly do try to embrace body positivity. In my heart, I know that it’s what’s on the inside of a person that counts. But unfortunately for me, what’s on the inside is a super huge vagina.
That’s why I’ve come to this car dealership to purchase a vehicle so sleek, so compact, and so ridiculously out of my price range that people will look at me and say, “Damn, with a flashy car like that, I bet her cooter is as tight as Scrooge McDuck.”
I’m tired of driving around in my current car, a 1992 Ford Tempo that screams, “Her slot is looser than the ones at Circus Circus.”
I need a car that makes people assume my inside corset is cinched up like the waist of the main character in a Jane Austen novel.
I know, some people claim that size doesn’t matter. They say it’s not the size of the boat, but the motion in the ocean. Unfortunately for me, I’m not the boat in that metaphor.
It’s Monday night, and in typical Monday fashion, there is nothing exciting to do. I check my wallet: my driver’s license is expired, so bars are out of the question, bus pass, my dental insurance card—I suppose a teeth whitening wouldn’t be the worst use of my time.
Then I see my Kroger card. I have a normal-sized one for my wallet and a miniature version that hangs off my keychain because I’m that serious about the great discounts it offers on exciting products like generic-brand pasta (cut with sawdust!), generic-brand coffee pods (now with half the coffee grounds!), and any products that the location is eager to get rid of (still food!). Tonight’s club is Kroger, no cover fee required.
There’s a display by the entrance: baskets stuffed with limited-edition packages of a new product by the think tank at General Mills: Spicy CinnaFUEGO Toast Crunch. They’re on sale for Kroger cardholders: three dollars are marked off of their five-dollar price tag. I would be an idiot to pass up such an amazing deal.
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THE Coffs Coast, named in November 2022 as having one of the world’s Top 100 Green Destination stories, is in the running for the tourist organisation’s People’s Choice Award in the Culture and Tradition category. Voting is open now and ends on January 24 at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time. Advertise with News of The...
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Maybe they are just going to use their capital to accept the Fed’s 5% subsidies and lay everyone else off?
Banks are telling you to buy stocks, saying the bottom is in & cancelling their recession calls for Europe.
— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) January 11, 2023
Meanwhile, all of them are closing investments, departments & laying off staff.
Seems unusual, no? 🤔 https://t.co/99AUWXOkMP
Dimon now hoping for 6%:
PLEASED, impassioned and perhaps most of all proud of the Coffs Harbour community’s willingness to give in support of others, Doris (Cowan) and David Wake who organised the Community Christmas Luncheon are saying a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who made it all happen. Numerous people across Coffs Harbour donated food, money, their time,...
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TUTORING maths to high-school students has provided retired maths head teacher, Drew Bogema, with a way to raise funds for a range of charities that are close to his heart. Raising some $13,000 during 2021 and 2022 from after-school-hours maths tutoring, through the students’ fees, Drew donates 100 percent of the payments to a pool...
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The bizarre Ukrainian claim that Russia is seeking negotiations and even offering up a DMZ provides a window into the state of disarray.
Oh no! …. “Inflation!”…. Fed better go up the 0.5% now!
Egg prices rise more than 64% in some stateshttps://t.co/natM1HoTr7
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) January 12, 2023
THE heart of Coffs’ community swelled to support the 2022 Community Christmas Luncheon held on December 25, and hosted for the second year running by Doris and David Rake. Donations, volunteers and a who’s who of local connections delivered a wonderful, warm and welcoming festive get-together with lunch, entertainment and gifts, all for free, for...
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AUNTY Yvette Pacey, Chair of the Garlambirla Guuyu-Girrwaa (Coffs Harbour Aboriginal Elders group), provided Minister for Regional Transport and Roads the Hon Sam Farraway with an accompanied walk around the Mackays Road (Grandpa’s Scrub) site on Monday 9 January. Minister Farraway was in Coffs Harbour to announce amendments to three interchanges on the Coffs Bypass...
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“EXTREMELY disappointing.” That is the response from Dave Wood, Advocates for Grandpa’s Scrub spokesperson, to an official statement from Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) noting its reasons for not taking necessary steps to avoid and protect a 0.5 ha remnant of original Lowland Rainforest between Shephards Lane and Gatelys Road, known by some as...
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