The UN General Assembly is set to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member Security Council, allows all members to vote and there is no veto in the General Assembly, this is an opportunity Continue reading »
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At a lavish ceremony at the Highline Venue in Bankstown, NSW on Sunday, 15 September, the independent Australian Muslim Times newspaper celebrated its 10th anniversary. The celebration’s key theme concerned the invaluable role of independent media in addressing question about justice, whether in domestic policies or concerning international relations. The evening’s keynote speaker, Senator Fatima Continue reading »
“This is a genocide of children,” said Heba Gowayed, a sociology professor at the City University of New York’s Hunter College. Gaza’s Ministry of Health on Sunday released a document containing the names and ages of Palestinians killed by Israel’s assault since the Hamas-led 7 October attack, an incomplete list that nonetheless runs to 649 Continue reading »
Why didn’t the Sydney Morning Herald mention the Pope’s visit to the region? Continue reading »
Big Finish Productions announced that Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor returns in January 2025 for the Doctor Who audio adventures "Most Wanted."
Dear [CHILD NAME],
I’m sorry. I really am. I have a job. And I raise you. And neither of those two things is as time-consuming or difficult as creating space on my iPhone.
I have iCloud Sync, but somehow, that’s designed so that if I delete a photo or video from my phone, it deletes from the cloud. It’s less of a digital storage solution and more of a digital data prison.
I have Google Photos, but my Google Drive is out of stock. I don’t know why. And I can’t bear to figure it out. (I deleted a ton of old emails last year. It took forever to do and accomplished nothing.)
I have Dropbox. I think that’s just file storage. I don’t think I can sync my photos and videos automatically. My god, I can’t try to figure that out right now.
This is what I’m up against.
An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.
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An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.
The post The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk appeared first on The Intercept.
The plan could reduce pollution, create jobs, reduce imports, while also helping the UK meet its net zero targets
A MintPress investigation reveals that the Atlantic Council’s call for NATO nuclear deployments is directly tied to millions in donations from weapons manufacturers who profit from war escalation.
The post Selling War: How Raytheon and Boeing Fund the Push for NATO’s Nuclear Expansion appeared first on MintPress News.
Israel’s attack that turned pagers belonging to Hezbollah members into explosive devices is shocking — but not unprecedented.
The post A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up appeared first on The Intercept.
Israel’s attack that turned pagers belonging to Hezbollah members into explosive devices is shocking — but not unprecedented.
The post A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up appeared first on The Intercept.
. Arrow’s impossibility theorem is correct given its ‘rationality assumptions.’ To ‘escape’ this, we must therefore abandon some of these assumptions. The non-dictatorship, independence, and Pareto conditions remain quite unassailable. Arrow himself believed that the independence of irrelevant alternatives condition was the most likely to be modified. One way to do this, without compromising the […]
“News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.” Byline Times exposes a practice used by Rupert Murdoch's daily tabloid to suppress negative celebrity stories
A class of a practical sequel (or, if you prefer, sequela) to my previous post on this topic. The great modern advocate of applied (as opposed to theoretical) Straussianism, is Tyler Cowen [update: Tyler Cowen says in email that he has a very different perspective on Straussianism – see here]. Plausibly, Straussianism provides a skeleton […]
When Keir Starmer scrapped the Tories’ disastrous Rwanda deportations deal within days of assuming office, there was a sigh of relief. Many welcomed what seemed a decisive shift away from the previous government’s strategy of using relentless cruelty toward people migrating to distract from their failures to govern. Some even hoped that Labour’s campaign — […]