The recent article by Christopher M. Johnson on Australia’s liquid fuel security risks underscores an urgent reality: our nation remains dangerously dependent on imported oil. As global supply chains face increasing instability, the risks to Australia’s economy and national security are mounting. The solution is clear – electrification of transport, particularly rail, offers a pathway Continue reading »
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Jeff Bezos recently announced that the Washington Post would henceforth dedicate its op/ed pages to “free markets and personal liberties”. His Whole Foods business also asked the National Labor Relations Board to “set aside the results of a union election” that endorsed collective bargaining. The Australian social psychologist Alex Carey explained these interrelated events in Continue reading »
Why a controversial chemical is tainting your foods — and what you can do to protect yourself.
Trump’s EPA could stop states from warning people about potentially dangerous chemicals sprayed on their food.
The relation of knowledge to power is one not only of servility but of truth. Much knowledge, if out of proportion to the disposition of forces, is invalid, however formally correct it may be.If an émigré doctor says: ‘For me … is a patological case’, his pronouncement may ultimately be confirmed by clinical findings, but […]
In a clash of self-described progressives, GOP donors are pouring money into the race to unseat Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey.
The post Trump Donors Try to Buy Pittsburgh Mayor’s Race appeared first on The Intercept.
Mahra was just 31 years old when she was forced to seek refuge in a camp. A mother of four, and expecting a fifth, Mahra was one of 4.5 million people in Yemen displaced by the Saudi-led war, and one of 21 million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid. Conflict had compounded an already […]
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“I’m a medical doctor who just looked at your health records, and good news! You’ll never get cancer!”
“Your parents were wrong to name you that!”
“Your name is NOT my name too! I just like shouting at people I don’t know, because I am a small, empty garbage person! I’m gonna stop right after this!”
“How can I make your life easier!?!”
“What does that song even mean!?! Is it just about two guys with the same name? It doesn’t make any sense! Who’s the main character in the song? You or the person who is singing? Is someone walking with you with that name or does the whole world have the same name as you? You don’t have to answer! These questions are rhetorical!”
“Is it okay if I throw you a bag with enough money in it to pay off all your credit card debt?”
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Some parliamentary seats have as many as 30,000 voting-age residents who are unable to vote
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Update 2025-03-21: This blog post is extremely long (if you're reading this, you must already know I'm terribly long-winded). I was in the middle of consolidating it with other posts to make a final, single “wrap up” post of the OSI elections when, in the middle of doing that, I was told that Linux Weekly News (LWN) published an article written by Joe Brockmeier. As such,I've carefully left the text below as it stood it stood 2025-03-20 03:42 UTC, which I believe is the version that Brockmeier sourced for his story (only changes past the line “Original Post” have been HTML format fixes). (I hate as much as you do having to scour archive.org/web to find the right version.) Nevertheless, I wouldn't have otherwise left this here in its current form because it's a huge, real-time description that as such doesn't make the best historical reference record of these event.
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The UK must accept that its economic and political interests now lean heavily towards Europe, argues Richard Barfield
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March 3rd, 2025: Exciting update from yesterday's comic: I'm now back home amongst my normal posters which say normal things like It is hard to keep track of the major shifts in world politics that are going on at the moment. I am in the camp that saw the extraordinary confrontation between Trump/Vance and Zelensky as demonstrating how embarrassing the US leadership has become. I am not a Zelensky supporter by any means but the behaviour…
Trump felt a tingle up the leg after that one. Oooh baby.
Huge student-led protests have rocked Serbia, with the potential to unseat the current regime. The post Serbian students and workers rock corrupt government first appeared on Solidarity Online. The Australian media continues its hysteria over the China warships. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledges all support for Ukraine, while Israel’s Netanyahu thanks Donald Trump for his support. Meanwhile, our US alliance has been in crisis for longer than we think. Everything the Australian media says about the Chinese warships is hysterical and twisted. Continue reading »
Mike Johnson has long been a Ukraine supporter. But he loves Trumpy more. Here he is spinning like a top: In a stunning exchange on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Johnson took umbrage with the notion that President Donald Trump and others on the Right are “on Putin’s side” in the wake of the chaotic Oval Office meeting with Zelensky on Friday “It’s pretty absurd for anyone in the media or Democrats to somehow proclaim that President Trump, the White House, or Republicans in Congress are on Putin’s side,” Johnson said. “It’s a joke. We understand that he is a dangerous adversary and he is the one that provoked the war.” Of course, Trump expressed the exact opposite sentiment in a Feb. 18 statement — making clear he believes Ukraine, not Russia, was the aggressor which sparked the war. “You should’ve never started it,” Trump said of Ukraine. Welker promptly referenced Trump’s comment. “But Mr. Speaker, you’re saying that we all know that Putin provoked the war,” Welker said.
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