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SEVEN new probationary constables have begun their duties in the Coffs/Clarence Police District after new officers attested at last Friday’s ceremony at the Goulburn Police Academy. Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh welcomed the new police officers to the Coffs Coast and joined them for a walk-through of Coffs Harbour’s central business district, where they...

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As Assad falls, Washington exploits Syria’s fractured state to enforce free-market reforms, normalize ties with Israel, and cement its grip on the region.

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The NY Times is reporting that Trump is conducting most of his business at Mar-a-Lago these days after dark, often over dinner with whichever CEO or dignitary has traveled to offer fealty and tribute that day. Of the more than 80 personnel announcements Mr. Trump has made since Election Day, 45 have been announced in social media posts and emails that he has sent after 6 p.m. Many have come after 10 p.m., prompting a wave of social media chatter and television coverage that sometimes continues throughout the night and into the early morning hours. One of his veteran staff members said Mr. Trump was known to leave voice mail messages in the middle of the night saying: “This is your favorite president.” He sometimes follows up the next day, suggesting the person might want to share the audio with his friends and family. Trump’s lovely spokesman Stephen Cheung says that Trump’s working night and day which is obviously bullshit. But several people close to Mr. Trump — along with aides who have come to expect emails, texts and phone calls to arrive well after bedtime — say he is often just getting started around dinnertime. That is usually when Mr.

Many, many thanks to all of you who have contributed so far this year. I can’t tell you what it means to me, especially now when everything has been feeling a little bit bleak. It reminds me that none of us are alone in all this and gives me hope that we’ll be able to regroup and push back on what Trump and his henchmen have planned for us. Everybody with a blog or a substack is quoting Professor Timothy Snyder these days, especially his admonition not to “obey in advance.” Sadly, we’re watching so many do exactly that right now. Media figures, government officials, world leaders and CEOs are making the pilgrimage down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring (even, in some cases, holding their hands over their hearts to strains of the January 6th choir singing the national anthem!) Democrats are starting to signal that Trump is someone they can work with. It’s enough to make you crazy. It feels as if they’ve all completely given in to his noxious authoritarianism before he’s even started to implement his plans.

14th of December 2024 Til denne uges Fri Tænkning har jeg talt med den britiske økonom og historiker Robert Skidelsky, der siden 1991 har siddet i det britiske parlaments overhus. I de første ti år som konservativ, men siden da har Skidelsky ikke repræsenteret et politisk parti. Han har tidligere været medlem af både Labour … Continue reading Trump som diplomat og kampen om den retfærdige fred – Flemming Rose Article

Should we focus on the plastic or the pollution to eliminate plastic pollution? How to ensure that climate action produces a fairer, more inclusive, healthier world. Brush turkey urban population takes off.  Eliminating plastic pollution by 2040 The growth in the production and use of plastic since the 1950s has been remarkable and is predicted Continue reading »

What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly the destruction of the Syrian state. We are being told by the Western media that we should join Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and the Europeans in celebrating what risks being the creation of yet another failed state in the Middle Continue reading »

If anyone still believed that political Zionism’s objective was anything less than ethnic cleansing The Fall of Israel would surely disabuse them of that delusion. The English edition of Max Ghilan’s How Israel Lost its Soul appeared in 1974, not long after Israel’s ignominious defeat by Egypt in October 1973. I didn’t know much about Continue reading »

Some of us were not too surprised when the Prime Minister pulled the plug on the passage of legislation to establish an environmental protection agency (EPA). Along with colleagues from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists (WG) and other environmental organisations, we had been advocating for a strong independent authority that would meet the requirements Continue reading »

Given Joe Biden’s apparently intimate involvement in Hunter’s dealings, it follows that his intent in pardoning his son is effectively to secure a pardon for himself. Special to Consortium News This is the sixth in Consortium News’s series on the extensive criminal allegations levelled at Hunter Biden in the course of the past year and President Continue reading »

You can’t really blame them. Most voters made it pretty clear that they don’t give a damn about female equality or even autonomy. So why pretend? The GOP knows which way the wind is blowing and it’s not into a future where female leadership is considered important or, frankly, even acceptable. We need to concentrate on coddling young men and reassuring white males that they still run the world. All this women stuff only hurts the ball team.

I also want to emphasise strongly the point about economics being a moral science. I mentioned before that it deals with introspection and with values. I might have added that it deals with motives, expectations, psychological uncertainties. One has to be constantly on guard against treating the material as constant and homogeneous in the same […]

“Drones the size of cars” Yes, that’s your next Commander in Chief. “And that’s how MAGAts started shooting down small private airplanes all over America,” a friend quips. Forbes: For weeks, citizens across New Jersey — as well as New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut — have reported seeing clusters of drone-like objects flying low in the sky at night, yet information remains scarce, even as state officials now say they’ve seen the drones firsthand, received mixed information from federal agencies and pushed the FBI for answers. Citizens report seeing “drones the size of cars” overhead. With those red and green lights, I suspect we’re simply seeing those giant flying cats The Weekly World News told us years ago were terrorizing New Jersey. The flying kitties are just showing off their Christmas spirit. Donald Trump has none. And he hates pets. Especially oversized flying ones.

Two huge grocery chains can’t merge, a junk-fee loophole gets plugged, crypto fraud goes to trial, and the Supreme Court has a big day off.

Guess what he’ll do there? Election rigging has been Republican SOP at least since their REDMAP project in 2010. The gerrymandered districts they drew in 2011 continue to pay dividends a decade and a half later. Republicans are now so brazen about their intentions to seek power above all else that they’ve said so into microphones in state after state. Thomas Mills of Politics NC that the latest comes from (you guessed it) North Carolina: On Wednesday, the state house overrode Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the bill that strips power from the in-coming Democrats elected to executive branch offices. Out-going Speaker and Congressman-elect Tim Moore told Steve Bannon, “This action item today is going to be critical to making sure North Carolina continues to be able to do what it can to deliver victories for Republicans up and down the ticket.” Yes, you read that right. The bill was not about disaster relief. It was not about good government. It was not about the people of North Carolina. It was about consolidating power and rigging elections for Republicans.

Doctor Who: The War Games will get a 90-minute colorized re-edit that also includes the Second Doctor regenerating into the Third Doctor.

Clarté Lund bjuder in till en samtalsserie i tre delar om visionär ekonomi. Det första panelsamtalet berör ekonomisk politik och det nya omtalade balansmålet i det finanspolitiska ramverket. Varför fick vi inte ett underskottsmål och vad för konsekvenser får detta för ett Sverige med enorma investeringsbehov? Med hjälp av sakkunniga panelister kommer vi att fördjupa […]

They fear the country’s incoming anti-Western president will quickly push to declare a state of emergency

Bobo the cat! (And a spry almost 99 year old Dick VanDyke) He was particularly worried about his cat. Luckily, he survived! Dick Van Dyke’s Beloved Cat Bobo Has Been Found After He And His Wife Were Forced To Leave Him Behind Amid Malibu Wildfire Evacuations Dick, 98, previously told concerned fans that Bobo the cat had escaped as he and his wife evacuated their Malibu home with their other pets on Tuesday evening. Among these residents was legendary actor Dick Van Dyke, 98, and his wife, Arlene Silver, who reassured fans on Tuesday that they’d safely escaped the danger zone. However, one beloved family member ended up being left behind: Dick and Arlene’s beloved cat, Bobo. Posting to his official Facebook page, Dick explained that they’d managed to leave with most of their pets, but Bobo had sadly escaped at the last moment. Commenting on the original Facebook post late on Wednesday evening, Dick confirmed that Bobo was dutifully waiting for his owners at home when they returned. Bobo doesn’t look too thrilled about all the attention. But he’s an Orangy. Waddya gonna do?

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