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ALP rank-and-file activist group, Labor Against War, has called on the Albanese government to immediately freeze all planned AUKUS payments earmarked to underwrite the US Navy industrial shipyards. The call comes after the US announced it has cut its budget for the Virginia-class submarine, slashing its 2025 construction plans in half for the nuclear-powered boats. Continue reading »

It’s Wednesday and I have looked at the US CPI release overnight that has set alarm bells off in the ‘financial markets’ and among mainstream economists. My assessment is that there is nothing much to see – annual inflation less volatile items is still falling and the lagged impact of shelter (housing) is still evident…

The Chair of a cross-party committee condemned the Prime Minister's plans for a new wave of fossil fuel power plants

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He really likes him I’ve always thought it didn’t make any sense that Donald Trump kept a copy of Mein Kampf on his nightstand because he doesn’t read. (He later said it was a book of Hitler’s speeches given to him by a friend.) I do think someone has told him that Hitler built the Autobahn which is why he thinks he’s just great: Huffington Post: John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, discussed the former president’s apparent dictatorial aspirations for a new book by CNN’s Jim Sciutto. “My theory on why he likes the dictators so much is that’s who he is,” Kelly said, according to an article published Monday about the forthcoming book by the CNN anchor and chief national security analyst. Kelly told Sciutto, “Every incoming president is shocked that they actually have so little power without going to the Congress, which is a good thing. It’s Civics 101, separation of powers, three equal branches of government.” “But in his case, he was shocked that he didn’t have dictatorial-type powers to send U.S.

I’m still working on the manuscript, but I just got the proof for the cover for my upcoming book about Southern music, and I’m very pleased with how it turned out. The book, “LARGE TIME: On the Southern Music Beat, … Continue reading →

I don’t know if Biden will get credit for this but he should. It’s from the Hur transcripts: It’s important not to get too carried away here. Biden may not have owned stock but he wasn’t called the Senator from MBNA for nothing. Representing Delaware he took up for a lot of banks in his day, including shepherding through a punitive bankruptcy bill back in 2005 on their behalf. He played the game. But there is no evidence that he personally enriched himself while in office. He bought some real estate back in the 70s that ended up being worth quite a lot. And he sold books and gave speeches like they all do. But of all people accused of influence peddling he’s one of the least likely.

According to the Hur transcripts Biden had very detailed and distinct memories of the past including time he spent in Mongolia. George Conway recalled Trump’s embarrassing ignorance about world geography and linked to this article in the Independent about a list he made a few years ago: Mr Conway’s Twitter thread came after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly berated an NPR reporter who was asking him about the president’s Ukraine scandal which sparked an impeachment inquiry in Congress. Mr Trump has been accused of withholding crucial military aid to Ukraine as it fought a war with Russia while demanding the country’s president announce political investigations into his own 2020 political rival, Joe Biden.

Banks are fighting a rule that would stop predatory fees they claim they don’t even charge.

A plan to divert money from police ended up funneling an $8.6 million contract back toward the prison-industrial complex.

The post Biometrics Giant Accenture Quietly Took Over LA Residents’ Jail Reform Plan appeared first on The Intercept.

I didn’t watch the whole thing but from the reports it appears that the Republicans held a hearing in which the Democrats showed a bunch of clips of Donald Trump sounding demented, illustrating that Donald Trump’s classified documents theft is a serious crime and getting the Special Prosecutor to admit that he said that Biden had a photographic memory but didn’t include that in his report. Other than that it went really well for the Republicans.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a new report today warning that consumption of the ‘super-food’ kale over a period of time can lead consumers to have heightened levels of arrogance. The study was conducted in several cafes in... Read More ›

Following the eradication of invasive goats, giant tortoises are once again flourishing in the Galápagos islands.

The post The Quiet Comeback of the Tortoises appeared first on Nautilus.

This is the person who runs 538 now: I always remember that time Michael Dukakis came out of his convention 18 points ahead and we all sat back on our laurels thinking that the election was over. Yeah, that didn’t work out.