‘Joe Biden allows Ukraine to use long-range US-supplied ATACMS missiles on targets in Russia, prompting threat of world war’ – so runs the ABC headline of 18 November. Serious stuff, not to be lightly discounted, and yet perhaps what we are seeing is primarily performative politics, viewed through the smoke of uncertainty and reflected in Continue reading »
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Gaza – what can we do about Australia’s complicity in this abhorrence? It is a question that rots the soul… Indiscriminate destruction of civilian populations on an industrial scale as a legitimate weapon for war started, in the West, with the attack on Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. The outage depicted by Picasso’s painting Continue reading »
A major new report has detailed the “extraordinary economic opportunity” for Australia to replace its coal and gas exports with decarbonised commodities, and reap six to eight times more than the typical revenues it earns from fossil fuels, and help other major economies to meet their own climate goals. But renewed calls for Australia to Continue reading »
Trump’s anti-China 60% import tax barrier will weaken China’s economy and is predicted to have flow on effects impacting negatively on Australia’s economy. Will our political leaders now realise that Australia’s involvement in a military war against China for which they are furiously preparing, would have a devastating impact on our economy and Australian life Continue reading »
To reduce social harm, instead of a ban on teens accessing social media, should we consider a ban on over 60 year olds reading and listening to News Corporation outlets? Announcing the Government’s proposed ban on social media for under 16 year olds, PM Albanese said “Social media is doing social harm to our kids. Continue reading »
The ACT Bar Association has confronted Chief Justice (CJ) Lucy McCallum over her self-admitted controversial statements about juries in sexual-assault trials. The Bar, normally somewhat reserved in such areas, issued a statement on 19 November, expressing concern that there may be a perception, based upon the CJ’s words at the Jury Research and Practice Conference Continue reading »
Activist for East Timor, Acheh and Palestine, Vaclava ‘Vacy’ Julie Vlazna was born 31 August 1946 in Susice in the region of Bohemia after her parents survived the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in WWII. As a baby, she nearly died of an infection but received new antibiotics in a trial and fortunately survived. The family Continue reading »
Trump’s shocking cabinet picks are reminiscent of what Mao Zedong did after launching the tumultuous Cultural Revolution in 1966. Under his slogan “revolution is no crime; to rebel is justified,” Mao encouraged the firebrand Red Guards and grassroots loyalists to take over power at central and local government levels across the country, writes Wang Xiangwei. Continue reading »
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The admission came in a legal statement by Keir Starmer's Government to the High Court, amid a challenge to the UK's arms and F-35 exports to Israel
A joint resolution from Sen. Bernie Sanders would block arms sales to Israel. The challenge is convincing Democrats to act.
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The idea Alison Pearson should have avoided investigation simply because of her position at the Daily Telegraph is abhorrent to natural justice, argues lawyer Gareth Roberts
From the Armenian genocide to Gaza, survivors face a common struggle: fighting the erasure of their history and identity in the face of calculated annihilation.
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Your families are embroiled in a bitter feud.
Not a red flag. This is a problem that couples have faced throughout history, and most of them have solved it by agreeing to never host an extended family Thanksgiving.
You’re thirteen years old.
Not a red flag, as long as he is also a teenager. But if he is a much older suitor (let’s say, for example, a forty-nine-year-old with a history of never dating anyone over twenty-five), this should probably give you pause.
He was recently in love with your cousin Rosaline, and he has been going on at length about how no girl could ever be as beautiful as her.
Not a red flag. Rosaline’s like a solid nine, so, honestly, you get it.
He crashed your family’s party, and his main reason for doing so was to get another chance at putting the moves on Rosaline.
Not a red flag. Because, again, Rosaline’s a catch. And at the end of the day, you feel confident that fate will be a much stronger force than whatever was drawing him to Rosaline—probably her knockers.
The Great Depression was cause by a demand problem: there wasn’t enough demand for goods, prices crashed and so did employment.
The policies put in place by the New Deal were almost all intended to increase demand and prices. Farm support, social security and so on. Elites were slaughtered by the great crash of 29 and the Depression. Not all supported the New Deal, in fact many don’t, FDR bragged they hated him. But obviously FDR had elite support.
This chart shows what happened:
After gargantuan industry donations, the government is ready to go all-in on cryptocurrency — at the risk of consumers and the greater financial system.
European leaders fear Donald Trump could soon open Europe's doors to Moscow
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