Intro Born in 1957, Lauren Berlant theorized neoliberalism’s affective life. From 1984 to 2021, they taught at the University of Chicago, an institution which was…
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Hello and welcome to Blends Bash 2022, hosted by the lovely folks at The Book Club Cook Book. Every year they send out some of their delicious spice blends to bloggers like myself who experiment and then share the results with you! This year I was assigned 3 different spice blends to play with. ThisContinue reading BLENDS BASH 2022: Shrimp with Red New Orleans Sauce (1960)
The October Budget delivers on a range of welcome bread & butter commitments, but has deferred solving Australia’s meat and potatoes revenue problems until at least May 2023, according to independent think-tank the Australia Institute. “The meat and potatoes revenue reforms Australia needs, like scrapping stage 3, a windfall profits tax, or fixing the PRRT
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Harvard University Professor Claudia Goldin explained how she worked to eliminate 'informational barriers' to the economics field.
The impact of climate change is becoming more evident every day, which means that businesses across all industries must take appropriate action toward a greener future. To make your business more sustainable, sometimes all you need is to introduce a few small changes to your daily work processes. This will help you demonstrate your commitment…
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Logistics is the system that makes everyday products come to you. You might not have thought of the exact definition. Next time you order a product online or get something from the grocery store, you might want to think about it. Logistics is the flow of goods, connecting the manufacturer and consumer. Without this industry,…
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APO and Wikimedia have both been existing in the free knowledge ecosystem for the last two decades. They have finally … More
New research shows multinational gas corporations are using sophisticated accounting tricks and loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of tax, despite making windfall profits. The new report Reforming the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax shows how billions could be raised in the Budget by fixing loopholes and cracking down on multi-national tax avoidance in the
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The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly accelerated a transition to working from home. What does the Census tell us about this trend? How did lockdowns and work-from-home rules and recommendations affect the data and how we should...Check out this new series featuring economist Dean Baker, brought to you by the Institute for New Economic Thinking: See more about the “Unf*ck America” series here.
Opinion by William Neuheisel - Responsible Statecraft -- October 18, 2022
The Agency’s carelessness in protecting its own agents reveals the cynicism of the US government’s treatment of whistleblowers.
Reuters recently published new reporting on the story of one of the worst U.S. intelligence failures in decades. From approximately 2010 to 2013, dozens of CIA informants in China, Iran, and elsewhere were rounded up and executed, jailed, or flipped to double agents. In Iran and China, almost the entirety of the CIA’s network in two of its top-priority countries are reported to have been exposed.
Opinion by Jesselyn Radack, Kathleen McClellan - Salon -- October 20, 2022
Donald Trump has an indisputably delusional view of what it takes to declassify national security secrets, recently claiming that he, as president, could have declassified documents just "by thinking about it." As much as Trump's latest self-serving crazy makes for good late-night comedy fodder, it also reminds us how much absurdity the U.S. government has created in national security litigation. As attorneys for whistleblowers and media sources, our cases have been the breeding ground for abuse of the broken classification system.Beneath the public laugh-fest over Trump's outlandish claims of telepathic declassification powers lies the implication that somewhere, somehow, there is a clear, fair process for doing so.
Imagine a new democracy imposes taxes on itself; the tax-credit is then spent, taxed back, thus provisioning public goods in the process. Not all spending is taxed back, thus the public has savings of tax-credits. Why would it make sense to pay more tax-credits to those holding tax-credits? If for any reason the public decided … Continue reading When are payments to holders of the tax-credit by the state ever a useful policy?
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There is still no explanation as to why the judge chairman Lady Poole, the lead counsel Douglas Ross KC and three other lawyers have all quit the public inquiry into the handling of Covid in Scotland. This is an astonishing event. The inquiry currently is not happening. But nobody in the media seems particularly to […]
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Cross posted from Quillette from 16 Feb 2019, but now behind a paywall. When a conversation is not a conversation: party political discourse in the early 21st century I It looks like liberal democracy is falling apart. The chaos of … Continue reading
New polling reveals the majority of Australians (53%) support a ban on fossil fuel companies sponsoring national sporting teams, with only 32% opposed. The polling also shows three in five Australians (60%) agree fossil fuel sponsorship ‘is the new cigarette advertising’. Key Points: Three in five Australians (60%) agree that fossil fuel sponsorship is the new cigarette sponsorship, more than double
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Hello and welcome. Today’s essay is about my interest in psychedelic
substances.
The Carmichael Centre at the Centre for Future Work invites applications for the Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow position. It's a three-year posting, with awesome potential to explore a range of progressive issues related to unions, collective bargaining, industrial policy, and workers' education.
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Replacing things that aren’t broken helps push up GDP, but is absurd. Much like Tory economic policy
Continue reading...The government borrows at a price of its choosing. Here’s how.
A new report claims this. But I have doubts about the whole wealth measurement enterprise.
Here is a clip from one of our live songwriting sessions on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.
Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.
Play an organ chug (Live Stream Clip)
The band is in the studio during a live-stream songwriting session. I started out with an organ chug idea for lack of a better thing to call it.
It was just a four beat organ chord chug idea and I asked the band to play along to see what they come up with.
I think I liked the guitar strum Eric came up with the most.
-Tom