Today (March 21, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for February 2024, which shows that the weakening we observed over the holiday period has reversed and was probably due to variations in flow behaviour over the break that has become evident since the pandemic. As I noted…
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Did you know that Judge Scott McAfee delayed his written order on Willis and Wade for a week because he had been receiving threats? He needed time for proper security to be in place for him and his family. The ONLY source that I found who mentioned this was Kyle Griffin at MSNBC. This really PISSES ME OFF. I try to be all logical about the reasons the threats keep working and point to solutions, but I’m really sick and tired of the BS excuses by law enforcement when it comes to dealing with threats from the MAGA base to the judges, prosecutors, witnesses, jurors AND THEIR FAMILIES, in Donald Trump’s legal cases. I’m a fast talker but slow writer so I dictated my thoughts to Otter.AI (a service I use to transcribe videos). It has a feature to summarize what you said and provide action items. It worked surprisingly well! Spocko is frustrated with the lack of action taken by law enforcement to address threats made against judges and their families.
The UK’s electoral registration arrangements are a 'threat to the rights of British voters'
Yes, he really should be worried about it. I wrote about Trump’s mortal fear of getting dementia because he watched his father deteriorate with Alzheimer’s disease because he watched his father mentally deteriorate with Alzheimer’s disease. In today’s Washington Post (gift link) they tackle that subject in depth: Donald Trump invited his extended family to Mar-a-Lago in the mid-1990s. As the clan gathered at the palatial Florida estate, though, his father was badly struggling, according to Mary L. Trump, Donald’s niece. Fred Trump Sr., the pugnacious developer then in his late 80s, didn’t recognize two of his children at the party, recalled Mary L. Trump, who attended the gathering. And when he did recognize Donald, the family patriarch approached his son with a picture of a Cadillac that he wanted to buy — as if he needed his son’s permission. The incident, Mary L.
A week from the 13th anniversary of the US-backed Syrian dirty war, the American Coalition for Syria held its annual day of advocacy in Washington DC. I went undercover into meetings with Senate policy advisors and witnessed the lobby’s cynical campaign to starve Syria into submission. On the morning of March 7, as the US Capitol teemed with lobbyists securing earmarks ahead of appropriations week and activists decrying the Gaza genocide, one special interest group on the Hill stood out. […]
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A conversation with artist and naturalist Zoe Keller.
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A buried irony.
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The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free. Lawyers for Julian Assange and officials of the U.S. Justice Department are engaged in talks for a possible plea Continue reading »
The Guardian reports: Shortly before Joseph Ladapo was sworn in as Florida’s surgeon general in 2022, the New Yorker ran a short column welcoming the vaccine-skeptic doctor to his new role, and highlighting his advocacy for the use of leeches in public health. It was satire of course, a teasing of the Harvard-educated physician for his unorthodox medical views, which include a steadfast belief that life-saving Covid shots are the work of the devil, and that opening a window is the preferred treatment for the inhalation of toxic fumes from gas stoves. But now, with an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation’s third most-populous state. As the highly contagious disease raged in a Broward county elementary school, Ladapo, a politically appointed acolyte of Florida’s far-right governor, Ron DeSantis, wrote to parents telling them it was perfectly fine for parents to continue to send in their unvaccinated children.
Moderate PAC, funded by Republican megadonor Jeff Yass, became the first outside group to run ads in a contested Democratic primary.
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The Post needs $100 million; its owner gave that amount to retired Adm. William McRaven and Eva Longoria to direct to charity.
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Fresh of the success of their ”roast” of John Cleese which featured a who’s that of Australian comedy, Channel 9 has announced that their next roast victim will be former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Not only that but the roast... Read More ›
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The testimony today of a couple of Trump toadies once again showed that they have absolutely nothing to prove that Biden did whatever it is they want people to believe he did. But the Democrats brought this fellow to testify and it was like something out of a movie: Lol: This was the worst day yet for the House Impeachment farce. I still think they’ll try to go for a vote because Dear Leader wants it and they really don’t have anything else to do but performative BS for the election. There’s talk about simply sending over criminal referral, probably under the assumption that Trump is going to win and they can prosecute Biden and his son next year. But that’s really a fallback. Trump wants an impeachment on Biden’s record. The question now is whether they can get one with the tiny majority they currently have.
In recent weeks, as Republicans rejected an immigration bill that met most of their demands...
That was March 20th, the day he started aggressively pimping Hydroxychloroquine. Here’s my rundown of that day’s White House press atrocity: At the daily Trump White House rally, MSNBC’s Peter Alexander asked the president : There are 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, and millions who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?” That is a totally reasonable question and an opportunity for Trump to say he understood people’s fears and that he and his team were working night and day to ensure that we get through this as best we can. But Trump went batshit on Alexander: CNN’s John King reacted appropriately after the rally was over: What the president did to Peter Alexander was reprehensible. The people are looking for answers. They do want hope, they do want support, Mr. President. That was a very fair question.
Corporations think they’re entitled to sky-high profits, and it’s destroying the economy.