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SOME of the Coffs Coast’s finest vintage cars will be on display this weekend in Woolgoolga. The C.ex Coffs Sports Touring and Classic Car Club will be holding its annual general meeting (AGM) at C.ex Woolgoolga on Sunday, 25 August. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....

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_______________________________________________ Stephen M Walt, Professor of International Relations at Harvard University, in “The Dangerous Decline in Israeli Strategy”, argues that Israel, the US and their supporters are wedded to long-honed, conspicuously bad policies. Continue reading »

BELLINGEN’s The Belfry Guesthouse has won gold at the North Coast Tourism Awards in the Outstanding Accommodation Experience category. “[This] was an incredible achievement for our guesthouse as we were up against some strong competition between Byron and Hawks Nest,” Belfry manager Rowan Simon told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area...

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If the Democrats thought that having Republicans speak at the convention might help persuade some Trump skeptical GOP voters to come over to the other side, it’s doubtful it worked, unfortunately. At least if those voters were watching on Fox: Fox News did not air a second of the speeches from alienated GOP leaders and former Trump officials who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris at this week’s Democratic National Convention. The DNC speakers included former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who spoke in prime-time before Harris’ Thursday keynote; former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan; former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham; Olivia Troye, who served as a homeland security aide to former Vice President Mike Pence; and Mesa, Arizona, Mayor John Giles. MSNBC and CNN treated those speeches as newsworthy, airing each of them in full, according to a Media Matters review of the networks’ convention coverage. But Fox hid the content of all of those speeches from their viewers, often displaying the video on screen without audio as the network’s on-air hosts and guests offered commentary.

@msnbc A look at two very different 2024 roll calls: RNC vs. DNC. #dnc #rnc #kamalaharris #donaldtrump #trump #joebiden #music #election2024 #chicago #news #politics ♬ original sound – MSNBC The Nielsen ratings are rigged, of course: Nielsen data showed that Harris’ well-received acceptance speech was watched by 29 million viewers across 15 networks. The figure is 14% higher than for Trump’s speech, which scored 25.4 million viewers July 19. Harris also drew substantially more than the 24.6 million viewers who watched Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the convention in 2020 and about the same as the 29.8 million viewers who tuned in to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Harris helped herself by keeping her speech to 37 minutes. Trump’s 90-minute-plus stem-winder went on well past midnight on the East Coast. The speech caps a successful week for the Democratic National Convention, which topped the audience for the GOP’s gathering every night this week. Poor Trumpie.

I’m the lead author of a recent report, commissioned by Vibrant Communities Calgary, looking at factors associated with social disorder on public transit (including social disorder involving people experiencing homelessness). Here’s a ‘top 10’ overview of the report: https://nickfalvo.ca/report-finds-insufficient-daytime-options-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/

Extreme right meets extreme past Did Republicans build a time machine out of a DeLorean? It seems they’re pining for the time of slavery (Alternet): A prominent Republican group is citing one of the most reviled Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decisions in American history to justify its case that Vice President Kamala Harris should be deemed ineligible to run under the U.S. Constitution. In an official resolution, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) – a 90 year-old GOP-aligned organization that counted former President Ronald Reagan among its membership — took the position that Harris should not be allowed to hold the office of president, citing several “precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court cases.” Among the six cases the NFRA cited was the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857, which is regarded as one of the worst SCOTUS decisions of all time, if not the worst ever.

Leaked documents obtained by MintPress News make clear that the CIA-backed NED is preparing to pull off another coup in Jakarta under the aegis of “democracy promotion.”

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“It was Jamaal and I this time,” said Rep. Cori Bush, who was ousted by AIPAC millions, “but who is it going to be in two years?”

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Plus, clean energy cleans up, immigration reform becomes a family matter, and plastic bags get sacked.

A memo went out Thursday night An old speaker’s trick at the end introductory applause is to settle one’s hands on the sides of the podium to quiet an audience and signal time to begin speaking. When Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tried that on Thursday night, the cheers seemed for a moment as if they might subside. But Democratic National Convention delegates packed to the rafters in Chicago’s United Center were not having it. The cheers swelled anew, and louder still. Overcome with emotion, Warren pulled back from the podium a half step and wiped away a tear. Warren’s ovation was the loudest and longest of any speaker save for President Joe Biden’s hero’s welcome late Monday night, and Vice President Kamala Harris’s on Thursday as the Democrats’ presidential nominee. President Barack Obama’s matched Warren’s welcome in length but not in intensity.

Psychic paper is the coolest, most underrated invention ever on Doctor Who, and it's the best symbol for not only the show but all stories.

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When South African shop assistant Eleanor Logan was arrested in August 1963 under the apartheid government’s 90-day detention laws, it shocked the genteel world of Durban bohemians she belonged to. A white single mother with parents well connected with South Africa’s artistic world, the secret police seized her from her workplace of Grigg’s Books under […]

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At Dems’ convention, The Lever’s David Sirota explores the tension between the party’s populist rhetoric and its corporate sponsors.

Wolf pups! When we visit dens, we try to count the number of pups in the den. However, we often cannot see all the way in the den so we set up trail cameras at the den to see how many pups are in it. Sometimes the trail camera footage verifies our initial pup count and other times we realize how many pups we “missed”. E.g., when we visited this den a few weeks ago we counted 5 pups. When we checked our trail camera footage, we realized there were actually 8 pups!

Democrats united behind Kamala Harris, but tension over Gaza simmered throughout the DNC.

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She showed us the biology behind the rhyme and reason of our most intense feelings.

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