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No more rainbow colors, damn it! Red, white and blue ONLY for Freedom Summer. By the way, Florida Freedom extends to your dietary choices as well. So far this year, lawmakers in Florida and Alabama have made it a criminal act to manufacture and sell lab-grown meat in their states. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) went first, signing a bill earlier this month and warning cellular agriculture companies: “Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere … we’re not doing that in the state of Florida.” It isn’t actually available but damn it, red states are banning it anyway. Apparently, the mere idea of saving the planet and making it possible to not have to actually kill animals for animal protein is oppressive. I feel so free, don’t you?
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“He only cares about holding on to power. I care about you.” If you haven’t seen Trump’s “Reich” video, that’s it. He didn’t make it but he did share it. Nazis just love the guy. Republicans say it’s no biggie: Here’s Biden’s response: Dan Pfeiffer looks at the strategy behind the Biden campaign’s approach in his newsletter: What’s interesting to me is how and why the Biden Campaign is waging the fight this time and what it says about their strategy. Keep Trump on the Defensive and in the News Since officially kicking off the campaign earlier this year, the Biden Campaign has aggressively pursued every Trump misstatement and misdeed. Their BidenHQ account tweets day and night to lift up everything Trump does — from falling asleep in court to suggesting he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It is in their strategic interest to focus the electorate on Trump and remind them who he is and what kind of President he was. This is also why Biden is so eager to debate Trump.
Opposition leader (for now), Peter Dutton, has gathered his cabinet colleagues together to tell them the special news that he has taken the shadow Treasurer, Angus Taylor, to the country to ‘live’ on a farm. The move follows Taylor’s disastrous... Read More ›
House Republicans have ruled that only comments condemning Trump’s criminal trials are allowed to be spoken in the congress. They just struck Rep. Jim McGovern’s words from the record: Nothing he said was untrue. It’s all factual. But the Republicans are so deep into the cult of Donald Trump that they now panic at the mere idea of someone saying them on the record. Are there any limits to what they’ll do for him now?
Earlier this year, the Discipline of Political Economy, together with the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc), hosted an outstanding and well-attended talk by former Greek finance minister and Honorary Professor of Political Economy Yanis Varoufakis at the University of Sydney. The talk focused on the development of technofeudalism as the latest era of capitalism, and implications for Australia of a changing global economic order. You can stream Yanis’ talk here:
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The Southern Ocean controls how much carbon is released into the atmosphere—and our warming world is changing it.
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It’s only noon but I’m already drinking. I think I’ll just keep going. Maybe until November: Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian. The survey found persistent pessimism about the economy as election day draws closer. The poll highlighted many misconceptions people have about the economy, including: -55% believe the economy is shrinking, and 56% think the US is experiencing a recession, though the broadest measure of the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), has been growing. -49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, though the index went up about 24% in 2023 and is up more than 12% this year. -49% believe that unemployment is at a 50-year high, though the unemployment rate has been under 4%, a near 50-year low. Many Americans put the blame on Biden for the state of the economy, with 58% of those polled saying the economy is worsening due to mismanagement from the presidential administration.
We are confronting a deep structural crisis in our society. We have confused the idea of democracy with the institutions of political parties and representative democracies. The major parties have become structures representing economic and security elites to which only second rate personalities flock, incapable of navigating the huge challenges we face globally. Meanwhile, the Continue reading »
The Ghost Shark, a new underwater drone being developed for the Australian Navy, could kill off the deeply flawed plan to acquire eight nuclear submarines for a projected cost as much as $360 billion. Australia’s defence department says the new undersea drone would provide the navy with “a stealthy, long-range autonomous undersea warfare capability which Continue reading »
Russian weakness has enabled China to emerge as Eurasia’s dominant power. But it also limits the partnership of the two. Visits by heads of state to each other are cloaked in symbolism. But insensitivity to cultural or historical nuances can see the best of intentions go awry. In March 2013, when Xi Jinping made his Continue reading »
The sentencing verdict of David McBride gives rise to question that, if unaddressed, will haunt the Australian Defence Force (ADF) forever. Justifiable anger is so easy to come by these days that any more reasons are gratuitously excessive. Nevertheless, they are not only intruding on daily life but to such an extent and significance that Continue reading »
“The Australian government and its most senior officials have both failed to prevent or respond to the genocide committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza and been complicit in the carrying out of this genocide in a manner which falls squarely within Article 25 (3)(c) and/or (d) of the Rome Statute of the ICC,” state Continue reading »