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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 07:25
‘Sexual harassment is caused by the very structures in McDonalds’, says Bakers’ general secretary The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has issued a statement cautiously welcoming an ‘intervention’ by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and a statement the ERHC and the McDonalds fast-food chain are preparing to issue on an agreement […]
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 07:24

Please join the Drupal Association in welcoming our new board member:

Rosa Ordinana

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“As a passionate advocate for open-source technology in the public sector, I am proud to have been invited to serve on the Drupal association Directors Board,” Rosa shared upon accepting her position. “I am eager to contribute my expertise and experience to help the Drupal community grow, support interoperability, digital sovereignty, and create a safe, secure, and open web for everyone.”

About Rosa
Rosa is currently working in the Informatics directorate of the European Commission in Brussels. Since 2009 she and her team have promoted the use of open source solutions and Drupal as CMS for public websites of the European Commission and other EU institutions.

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 07:13

Please join the Drupal Association in welcoming our new board member:

Lynne Capozzi

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When accepting her position, Lynne shared: “I’m excited to join the Drupal Association Board, and I’m hopeful that my past experience at Acquia and my nonprofit and marketing experience can benefit the community and help the community to grow!”

About Lynne
Most recently, Lynne was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Acquia in Boston. Lynne was at Acquia for eight years in this role.

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 07:06

How was the Republic of Ireland transformed from having been one of the most socially illiberal countries in Western Europe? Patrick MacDonagh’s new history of Gay and Lesbian Activism in Ireland between 1973 and 1993 establishes more recent developments in sexual and gender politics as the successors to three decades of grassroots struggle. While male […]

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 06:00

We are delighted and very grateful to receive the 2022 AIPEN Richard Higgott Prize for our article “COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state,” published in the journal, Review of International Political Economy. It is getting harder to remember just how extraordinary, and extraordinarily awful, the response to COVID-19 was in so many countries, and the sense of shock and disbelief that accompanied every step towards lockdowns and closed borders in the early months of 2020.

The post COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 06:00
It was very, very bad. When she wasn’t talking about herself she was casting very ugly aspersions on her political rivals and then telling an interminable story about flying to Iraq on Christmas without ever saying Donald Trump’s name. These speeches are almost always bad but this one was for the books. Here’s how it started: Trump had a rebuttal too. Oy vey: This video campaign of his is bizarre. The dilated pupils (which appear in all of them) are very suspicious. Maybe it’s just the lighting or something but they’re weird. I think he and Huckasanders are pretty representative of the GOP in general. And that’s frightening.
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 05:26
Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted the interest rate target for the ninth consecutive time (they didn’t meet in January) claiming that they had to do this to stop inflation accelerating and restoring price stability. Except inflation already peaked in the March-quarter 2022 as a result of the driving factors abating. Further, none of the major driving factors are remotely sensitive to domestic interest rate movements. The RBA’s excuse is that there are dangerous domestic demand pressures that need to be curtailed. Except the evidence for that claim is lacking. Most of the demand measures are in retreat. So what gives? Well there is a massive income redistributing being engineered by the RBA from poor to rich and if they keep going unemployment will certainly rise, in part, because the lame Australian government is claiming it has to engage in fiscal restraint to ensure the RBA doesn’t hike rates even more than they are. It would be comical if it wasn’t damaging the prosperity and solvency of tens of thousands of the most vulnerable Australians. Disgraceful.
Bill Mitchell – billy blog
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 05:00

“The House on Thursday approved a resolution denouncing socialism in a bipartisan vote that fractured the Democratic caucus.” — The Hill, 2/2/23

“US military fighter jets shot down the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean … the operation ended a remarkable public drama that prompted a diplomatic fallout between Washington and Beijing, as the American public tracked the balloon from Montana all the way to the Carolinas.” – CNN, 2/4/23

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:59
The announcement of the Australian Government’s decision on the purchase of nuclear powered submarines is looming and it is timely to take a cold hard look at the “facts” rather than the inevitable spin. The more Prime Minister Albanese maintains this will be a momentous decision for Australia the more it should have been the Continue reading »
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:57
The foundational story of the United States of America is its fight for freedom against tyranny. Every schoolchild learns of how the American revolutionaries fought bravely to be freed from the tyranny of King George III of England. They learn the indomitable freedom fighters’ heroic sayings, such as “Give me liberty or give me death!” Continue reading »
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:56
While alliances and treaties offer some protection against an aggressor, they cannot be counted upon. Australia needs to maintain an independent military capability to deter possible future threats to our independence – not least because we cannot rely on the US in all possible future circumstances. Today Part 2 of this series on Australia’s national Continue reading »
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:55
NSW needs a government prepared to bell the cat when it comes to the ongoing provision of public funding to grossly over-resourced private schools. Funds provided on the grounds of assumed entitlement are funds diverted from distribution according to demonstrated need. Political pressure forced the Whitlam government to include high-fee, high-resource schools in its 1970s Continue reading »
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:53
Like the environment itself, discussions of our collective future are becoming heated. They are also contradictory, polarised and – in my case, at least – increasingly pessimistic. No doubt my views about climate change say as much about me as they do about the problem itself. Given incontrovertible and inescapable evidence of climate change, however, Continue reading »
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:52
Hardly a month goes by without a new media report (and here) of alleged scandalous conduct of some doctors who call themselves ‘cosmetic surgeons’ but who lack recognised specialised surgical training. These reports have tended to focus on the harm done to patients and generally failed to explain to the public how and why the Continue reading »
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:50
Richard Woolcott leaves a legacy that all modern diplomats could emulate. Richard Woolcott, generally known as Dick, died on 2 February in Canberra aged 95. He is survived by two sons, Peter and Robert. Woolcott was one of the last great Australian diplomats, in the wake of those like Sir Arthur Tange and Sir James Continue reading »
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:49
. In mainstream economics, both logic and mathematics are used extensively. And most mainstream economists sure look upon themselves as “twice blessed.” Is there any scientific ground for that blessedness? None whatsoever! If scientific progress in economics lies in our ability to tell ‘better and better stories’ one would, of course, expect economics journals to […]