It was announced in late in 2023 that Tony Abbott was to be a “visiting fellow” for Viktor Orbán’s Danube Institute, a hub of ultra reactionary thought that gathers anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-feminist, anti-LGBTQIA+ speakers who celebrate the Christian Nationalist project. Or, as Abbott describes it, “a point of light to Conservatives around the world.” It Continue reading »
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One reason Israel is constantly criticised, even from within its obedient posse of Global West backers, is that it has failed to articulate what it has planned for the “day after” the completion of its Gaza-cleansing, genocide project. The respected historian, Adam Tooze, recently revealed that future planning for “Gaza 2035” has, however, been a Continue reading »
Two major Malaysian logging companies that have devastated Borneo’s forests have been granted “Forest Carbon Research Permits” in the first step to enable them to log old-growth forests and claim carbon credits. The Malaysian state government of Sarawak has granted Forest Carbon Study permits to the Shin Yang group of companies and SaraCarbon Sdn Bhd, Continue reading »
Well it finally happened: Biden is now letting Ukraine strike Russian territory with US-supplied weapons. Escalations in nuclear brinkmanship which would have been unthinkable a few short years ago are becoming increasingly common as Ukraine loses more and more territory and runs out of soldiers to fight. In a new report from Politico titled “Biden secretly gave Ukraine Continue reading »
The island’s current political status is as good as it gets, and any further military partnership with Washington will deliver only diminishing returns. Say what you like about Taiwan’s new leader William Lai Ching-te, but he really did ask for it. Days after his inauguration, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted live drills around the Continue reading »
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 02 2024
by Tony Wikrent
Strategic Political Economy
Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist?
Sam Pizzigati, May 30, 2024 [inequality.org]
He mostly just stood there nodding and smugly smiling when they chanted (as they did at Every Single Rally since 2016) but he slipped from time to time because he couldn’t help it. I always wondered if that would ever blow back on him. He should be confronted with it in every single interview. Even the MAGAs might be a little embarrassed. How about the future? Glenn Beck: “Do you regret not ‘locking her up.’ And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?” Donald Trump: “The answer is you have no choice, because they’re doing it to us.” — Aug. 29, 2023 Context: Trump appeared on Beck’s show amid his mounting legal troubles, with Beck harkening back to the informal slogan of the 2016 Trump campaign, “Lock Her Up!,” referring to then-rival Hillary Clinton. Trump claimed he was being victimized and said of his political and legal antagonists “these are sick people; these are evil people.”
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An “imprecise analogy”? “Mad Carolinians,” Samuel Wiley Crawford, 31, called the populace of antibellum Charleston, South Carolina in a letter to his brother after Abraham Lincoln’s election. Even the children were caught up in secessionist fervor, he wrote, and perhaps the women more so than the men, Erik Larson recounts in “The Demon of Unrest.” Larson sees parallels in the events of January 6, 2021: Planters who had been wearing ordinary clothing one day turned up the next in elaborate uniforms, red sashes glaring—their “soldier’s toggery,” as Mary [Boykin Chesnut] put it.
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The narrative that took hold ignored inland campuses, like in the Rust Belt and into Appalachia, where students formed their own encampments.
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In modern times legal currencies are totally based on fiat. Currencies no longer have intrinsic value (such as gold and silver). What gives them value is basically the simple fact that you have to pay your taxes with them. That also enables governments to run a kind of monopoly business where they never can run […]
Labour’s 2024 election pledges means we’re going to get more Batley Grammar Schools
LOCAL radio station 2 Air FM have deemed their annual Biggest Morning Tea “a great day”. Held on Thursday 23 May at their studio in Glenreagh Street, a good turnout of friends-of-the-station supported this year’s event. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02)...
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COFFS Harbour Surf Life Saving Club’s (CHSLSC) electrical powerboard is getting an upgrade thanks to a $56,575 grant through the NSW Surf Club Facility Program. The humble powerboards – the main board on the external rear wall and two subsidiary boards in the kitchen and bar areas – are responsible for all electrical devices across...
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MANLY Rotary Club President Ken Farrow presented the benefits of the new Defib Hero app to Coffs City Rotary members recently. Ken wants to make Defib Hero a major Rotary project. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us –...
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“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known.” – from The Manchurian Candidate (1962) “[Donald Trump is] a husband, a father, a grandfather and a friend to a lot of people. When you see that happen to him, and I was standing right next to him today, it’s heartbreaking.” -Donald Trump’s defense attorney, reacting to his client’s conviction on 34 felony counts this past Thursday To quote The Giant in Twin Peaks, “It is happening again.” Embracing Donald Trump’s strategy of blaming the U.S. justice system after his historic guilty verdict, Republicans in Congress are fervently enlisting themselves in his campaign of vengeance and political retribution in the GOP bid to reclaim the White House. Almost no Republican official has stood up to suggest Trump should not be the party’s presidential candidate for the November election — in fact, some have sought to hasten his nomination.