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Sydney book launch for Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures

Gareth Bryant and Sophie Webber

Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe

When: Wednesday 3rd April 2024, 6pm for 6.30 start

RSVP: https://www.gleebooks.com.au/event/gareth-bryant-sophie-webber-climate-finance/

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Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson's promises to "Level Up" the country are going nowhere fast, according to a damning new report by MPs

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You sure can see the tiny hands of Donald Trump on the party apparatus. Most Republican officials, even MAGA, do not want any of this. They know that people like to vote early and they know that it can benefit them. But no, “Honest Don” wants people to only vote on election day because he’s so stupid he thinks that allows him to win. He also wants all counting of all the (paper) ballots to stop on election night. Did I mention that he very stupid?

How tiny one-celled protists pull off their strange and marvelous feats.

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Hat Fitz and Cara Unveil Their Latest Single and Video for ‘These Times’ and Announce Live Shows Convict Rhythm and Roots duo Hat Fitz and Cara are among Australia’s most talented and most loved roots music artists with a shared history stretching back years. Combining their backgrounds, this dynamic power force showcases Fitzy's weathered vocals [...]

"Put simply, mistakes were made."

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This is disgusting but unsurprising. Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers—a dynamic my colleague Garrison Hayes analyzes in his latest video for Mother Jones. […] In 2022, just one week after Musk purchased Twitter, the Center for Countering Digital Hate —an online civil rights group— found that racial slurs against Black people had increased three times the year’s average, with homophobic and transphobic epithets also seeing a significant uptick, according to the Associated Press. More than a year later, Musk made headlines once again for tweeting racist dog whistles in a potential attempt to “woo” a recently fired Tucker Carlson. But, his new shift into sharing tech-bro-friendly bigotry carries its own unique set of consequences. Garrison also talks to Dr.

That he’s managed to convince so many people that it was the greatest they’ve ever experienced is a testament to the power of lying repeatedly I know that the media is hooked on telling the “vibes story” but maybe if more of them would tell the “facts story” like the following, the vibes would be different: .@SteveRattner: Trump’s tax cuts increased the deficit, even before COVID. Biden brought it down. Trump added more debt than any other president in history. The idea that he was going to attack the deficit and debt problem is actually completely false pic.twitter.com/Jwe1CoxL0d — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 14, 2024 Trump’s tax cuts increased the deficit, even before COVID. Biden brought it down. Trump added more debt than any other president in history. Also: Chris Hayes has been doing this all week and it’s excellent too. And more of this please: Democrats’ newest trick is introducing hilarious montages of Trump, but here at #LNSM we’ve gotten it down to an art form.

From Fifth Avenue to Dorchester Heights, this St. Patrick’s Day will feature the traditional uilleann...

A bill stating that TikTok must divest or sell TikTok or stop operating in the US has passed.

Commenter KT Chong pointed out the stakes for China and the US

Are you better off now? Yes you are. Four years ago today, Trump bragged that only “50” Americans had died from COVID because of his “good decisions” Over 1 million Americans would go on to die from COVID pic.twitter.com/Bc9vWM7zCf — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 14, 2024 I can’t even believe we have to have this conversation. The idea that the MAGA dunces would actually be asking it says everything about their bizarre confidence that the majority of Americans have forgotten everything.

It’s 8 pm in Gaza, Palestine right now, the end of my fourth day in Rafah and the first moment I’ve had to sit in a quiet place to reflect. I’ve tried to take notes, photos, mental images, but this moment is too big for a notepad or my struggling memory. Nothing prepared me for Continue reading »

Australian governments routinely assert that the country is respected as a “middle power” in regional and global forums. Meanwhile scholars increasingly agree that the middle power concept is more fantasy than reality. In Australia’s case, the uncritical assumption of the middle power self-image, by many politicians and commentators, is undermining the country’s security. Back in Continue reading »

Instead of actually engaging in measures to promote peace, the AUKUS governments are feeding us a racist notion that three Anglo nations targeting China from thousands of kilometres away are needed to ensure it. Text of talk given to IPAN (Independent and Peaceful Australia Network) forum “AUKUS and military escalation: Who pays and who benefits”. Continue reading »

A recent poll conducted by The Guardian found that nearly twice as many people agreed with Paul Keating’s suggestion that Australia should be an independent ‘middle power’ in Asia, rather than an ally of the United States. Perhaps the electorate are smarter than some of our political class seem to think. There really is something Continue reading »

March 7, Evening, Washington D.C. : Joe Biden announces an incredible plan to provide a route for aid into Gaza, with no American ‘boots on the ground’. Incredible: too extraordinary and improbable to be believed. At least, unless one is a serious conspiracy theorist, because this idea is staggeringly stupid or of Machiavellian cunning. This Continue reading »

It is not difficult to understand, nor to agree, with the growing numbers of thoughtful people who argue that humanity is on the brink of extinction. And that, without transformational change in the way, we think, and live, our descendants are doomed. The size of our human population, the way we operate the economy, the Continue reading »

“The quasi market-based nature of the Australian education system entrenches disadvantage.” The degree of socio-educational stratification among schools makes Australia an anomaly among comparable democracies. Inequity is at a level where an archaeologist delving in to the system might label it as Out-of-Place stuff! Soon after coming to office, the Albanese Government recognised the need Continue reading »