Human societies are setting themselves on a collision course with climate-induced catastrophes. Lithium-ion batteries will soon be facing competition. How to deal with x and the conflicts it creates? Collision course with climate disaster and societal collapse I am sorry to be starting the new year with depressing news but for anyone wanting a readable, Continue reading »
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Australian political leaders and their mainstream media backers are in moral outrage mode. Anti-semitism they say is rife, infectious, getting worse and must be stamped out. At first sight these claims seem plausible. They are made in response to the burning of a synagogue, a child care centre, to a Jewish community leader’s home being Continue reading »
“I do hold the view that the luckiest thing that happened to this country was being colonised by the British,” he said. “Not that they were perfect by any means, but they were infinitely more successful and beneficent colonisers than other European countries.” – John Howard, October 26, 2023. In confirmation of our erstwhile prime Continue reading »
I have been reading Stan Grant’s beautiful new book, Murriyang song of time (Bundyi: Sydney 2024). There is in it a sentence pertaining to the Uluru Statement of the Heart and the subsequent failed Referendum. Stan Grant says, poignantly, that ‘the Uluru Statement spoke from the afflicted to a nation that has never loved us.’ Continue reading »
COFFS Lions Club members and friends have completed their biggest ever catering gig, feeding breakfast to 3500 Scouts on their way home from Maryborough in Queensland to Victoria. The Scouts had attended the Australian Scouts 26th Jamboree from 6-15 January. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....
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Grassroots support can help many refugees find their feet. Working with very stretched organisations to support refugees. Safety is a primary concern. Right now, the goal is securing a safe flat for M to live in. M is a 17 year old female refugee who was harmed as a child on Nauru. Her father was Continue reading »
The International Court of Justice heard, last month, that after reconstruction is factored in Israel’s war on Gaza will have emitted 52 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. A figure equivalent to the annual emissions of 126 states and territories. It seems somehow wrong to be writing about the carbon footprint of Continue reading »
Wars, like that being waged currently by the Zionist terrorist government of Netanyahu are the destructive and mindless outworking of dualism; about winners and losers. ‘We unequivocally condemn the October 7th, 2023 heinous attack on Israel by Hamas’. And it’s absolutely right that we do. The attack was evil and indefensible, although understandable in the Continue reading »
FOR the love of their mums lost to cancer last year is why two Nana Glen horsewomen have created an equestrian event to raise funds for medical research. North Coast Equestrian Club (NCEC) committee members Lilli Bowen and Bree Daley have launched the two-day dressage and showjumping event, which will take place at the Nana...
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At the end of this month we farewell Aran Martin, after over two years as our editor. From early February, Sam Varghese will be acting editor of Pearls and Irritations. Sam previously acted as editor when Aran Martin went on paternity leave late last year, smoothing the transition. Aran is leaving us at the end Continue reading »
LOCAL band Boss Stomp, comprising longtime friends Skotty Fairclough and Greg Farr, is playing a free gig at the Big Banana Sunset Sessions on Saturday 25 January. The Northern Beaches-based duo is the result of a musical journey that has been anything but ordinary. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...
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Shamelessness was their superpower For a man with a decades-long obsession with the world laughing at us (him) and a visceral fear of looking weak, Donald Trump sure is determined to give the world plenty to laugh about. Especially for our sworn enemies. Vice President J.D. Vance cast a tie-breaking vote Friday night in the U.S. Senate to confirm Pete Hegseth, the scandal-spangled, alleged hard-drinking, former Fox News weekend talk show co-host, as Trump’s next secretary of defense. What won’t Hegseth do at Trump’s whim? Shooting Americans in the legs could be the least of it. Stuart Stevens, former chief Republican strategist and Lincoln Project adviser, posted to social media Friday night that “Trump could have appointed serious Conservatives to his Cabinet. Instead, he picked nuts and freaks. Why? To prove he could make Republican Senators do whatever he told them to.” “Humiliation through submission,” Stevens concluded. Republican senators are not the only ones Donald Trump means to humiliate through submission. He just wants to “do them” first to show the world who’s boss and who’s the gimp.
. John Nash made groundbreaking contributions to game theory, particularly through his development of the concept of the Nash Equilibrium, which became a cornerstone of the analysis of strategic interactions in economics. Late in his life Nash, however, also came to be aware of a fundamental methodological weakness of game theory. Overemphasizing the reach of […]
Clean energy money stays in clean hands, reproductive health is shielded from harm, Big Landlord takes a hit, and geothermal energy pumps up the heat.
Oversight, His ass! Donald Trump, twice-impeached convicted felon and career huckster, spent the first week of his second term exacting revenge against current and former officials who as much as contradicted his frequent misstatements. He cancelled the federal security details for Dr. Anthony Fauci, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook (The Hill): Fauci led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for almost 40 years, including at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bolton was Trump’s national security adviser, and Pompeo was Trump’s secretary of State. Hook was a key Pompeo aide. All four men have fallen out of favor with Trump, with Bolton in particular now a strident critic of the president. Fauci has long been the target of threats from anti-vaccine extremists. Iran has targeted Bolton for his role 2020 drone killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Friday night, Trump fired 17 federal inspectors general, internal watchdogs for multiple government agencies, including the Departments of Defense, State, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Energy, reports The Washington Post.
As progressive as Doctor Who is, it took a long time for it to employ more women behind the cameras and develop better female characters.
Asylum-seekers are being detained because they come from Russia and Central Asia, immigrants and attorneys told The Intercept.
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. A great poem. It helped one of the greatest men that has walked this earth keep hope alive during twenty-seven years in prison.
“Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according to Steve Bannon. But the the seeds for this tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago
I find that I need animal soothers much more often than I used to. These are tough times. One of the sites that I look at every morning before I look at anything else is We Rate Dogs. I read it on Bluesky but you can find it on the other sites as well. The videos are fun and inspiring and heart warming. I think we all need a little bit more of that. Every day. Maybe twice a day… There are hundreds more and each one makes me feel just a little bit better. They also sell very cute merch which goes to helping dogs in medical need. Check them out if you need a quick soother.
