The parliament wisely gave a treasurer the power to reign in the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) when it was not acting in the best interests of the Australians. Jim Chalmers should use it. Reserve Bank governors in Australia have never achieved the same mystique as Montague Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England Continue reading »
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The ABC is in trouble again as it abandons its cultural role to become “fully digital” by 2028. On Thursday last the ABC told a “pretty flabbergasted” political editor Andrew Probyn that he’d been made redundant along with 120 others, 41 of them in news, in a major cost-cutting measure. The purpose: so that the Continue reading »
Ten years ago, I wrote a book titled In Praise of Ageing. I found there is strong evidence that our attitude to life influences our longevity. But the obstacles we face today make slouching towards Bethlehem seem like a walk in the park. The old I wrote about, shared several characteristics. They are not just Continue reading »
Following the award of the Korean “Jeju 4:3 Peace Prize” to former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, it is good to note that Pearls and Irritations has taken up cudgels on the long-neglected question of the Jeju Island massacre of 1948 (articles by Heo Ho-joon and Alison Broinowski). And it is good to see Evans Continue reading »
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Tom wrote about Trump confessing to his crimes on last night’s Bret Baier interview earlier. It really was a doozy. I just wanted to add a few more of his comments that are unrelated to the Mar-a-Lago case. Like this hilarious story where he supposedly scared Vladimir Putin into not invading Ukraine, which he was apparently asking Trump’s permission to do: Right. Sure. That happened. And this will happen too: He’s not the first to run with this sort of macho preening. The sainted john McCain famously used to say that he’d get the Shia and Sunni in a room together and crack some heads. But at least he knew they existed which I’m sure Trump does not. And he didn’t take one side over the other as Trump clearly does. It’s insulting that America ever dreamed of putting a man like this in the White House. It’s tragic that we are even contemplating doing it again.
Miko Peled explores the controversy surrounding the Biden administration's plan to use the ADL to silence Palestinian voices under the guise of combating antisemitism.
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What a pair This piece by Ruby Cramer about the DeSantis’ is fascinating. To me she seems like a version of Kari lake — a local broadcaster with a little bit of kook behind the eyes. (I don’t think she’s as out there as Lake, however.) But apparently, DeSantis is pretty much a robot and she’s his engineer: She knew, starting with his early days in politics, when Ron was still a member of Congress, elected at the age of 34, how she wanted to figure in his world. She knew the staff he should hire, former aides said, the invitations he should accept and the invitations he should decline. She knew his walking path at events, the people he’d stand next to on a stage. She knew his schedule, down to every meeting and call and fundraiser and congressional vote, because she asked to be copied on every calendar entry. She knew the cowboy boots he should wear, even though, at first, he complained that they hurt his feet, until a staffer suggested he buy dress shoes instead, at which point he said, “Casey got them for me,” and that was the end of the conversation about the cowboy boots.
In a statement, Rupert Murdoch criticized the Fox personality Bret Baier for “disseminating information that was recklessly and unforgivably true.”
Judge Aileen Cannon sets Aug. 14 trial date But don’t get too excited (CBS News): U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has set an Aug. 14 start date for former President Donald Trump’s trial in the case over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. In a brief order issued Tuesday, Cannon said the criminal jury trial is set to take place over a two-week period beginning Aug. 14 at the federal district court in Fort Pierce, Florida. That date, however, is likely to change, as Trump’s legal team files requests with the court that could result in the trial’s delay. Prosecutors suggested in their indictment that Trump’s documents trial might take 21-60 days, not two weeks. So there’s that. We are told that the Southern District of Florida has a “rocket docket,” but what do I know? Is this normal procedure, or an attempt to keep Trump from rope-a-doping justice yet again with his delay-delay shtick? Not that Cannon would help stop that. Or is it an attempt by Cannon to help Trump clear his legal dance card in advance of his 2024 run for president?
The tale of a schoolgirl identifying as a cat has become catnip to the anti-trans media machine, including the BBC and ITV. But the real story is of weaponised bigotry
On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government’s debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — the Pentagon. Congress spared military-related programs any cuts while freezing all other categories of discretionary spending at the fiscal year 2023 level (except support for veterans). Indeed, lawmakers set the budget for the Pentagon and for other national security programs like nuclear-related work developing nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy at the level requested in the administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal — a 3.3% increase in military spending to a whopping total of $886 billion. Consider that preferential treatment of the first order and, mind you,... Read more
On this week’s episode of The Audit, the team discuss several PragerU videos about male identity.
Trump’s “I was very busy” interview with Fox News “Good morning, everyone, especially those of you who didn’t admit to committing more federal crimes on television last night,” snarks the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson. “I don’t like watching the former guy EVER – least of all on Juneteenth – but he just confessed to the crime of stealing classified documents,” tweeted Christine Pelosi Monday night. ICYMI, Wilson and Pelosi mean this Donald Trump interview with Bret Baier of Fox News. “Because I had boxes, I wanted to go through the boxes and get all of my personal things out. I don’t want to hand that over to NARA yet. And I was very busy, as you’ve sort of seen,” Trump insisted about why he failed to return all the national defense documents he removed from the White House. But he was not too busy to order his attorneys to affirm in a sworn statement that he had complied fully with the subpoena. Also, he’s not a very good listener, is he? The sniffing is back. “His tell… whenever he’s spewing an egregious lie,” observed GottaLaff on Mastodon.
The prominent role of Banderite Neo-Nazis in Ukraine's government propaganda operations suggests that Nazi apologism has spread into the core institutions of its government – perhaps more than the dominant Western view is able to admit.
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1. All four humors are out of whack.
2. May be experiencing menstruation and, as such, advised against standing.
3. In the event a man impregnates me, I will likely be dead by then.
4. Simply can’t find my good tooth.
5. The apparition of a tubercular boy whose soul is bound to mine makes it impossible to obtain a visa.
6. After inquiring about local politics, I was diagnosed by the family doctor with an overactive mind and prescribed a rest cure until the foreseeable future.
7. Sea salt air is harsh on acidic bones.
8. Father says temperament isn’t well-suited to “too balmy of climates.”
9. Every evening I stare beyond the cliff’s edge, waiting for my long-lost brother to return from sea. I fear the one weekend I am gone for your wedding will be when he returns.
10. The restless Caribbean waves beating against the shore suggest a more profound truth of how trapped I am in a life of domesticity dictated by societal norms that I neither help define nor benefit from.
11. Hotel is not cemetery-adjacent for daily sojourns.
In the first week of the Covid Inquiry, the importance of aerosols has been ignored, and the WHO's disastrous initial claim Covid 'is not airborne' has been overlooked
Ptolemy constructed an inordinately complex model of the universe in order to make all of the empirical data conform to a central, organizing false assumption, namely, that the earth was at the center. Michel Foucault, as we shall see, made a similar contribution to contemporary social science … Given Foucault’s general dismissal of anti-capitalist and […]
Since the 2019 general election, there have been three Conservative Party leaders and prime ministers. While each professed to represent a clean break from their predecessors — whether on the economy, defence, or crime — there has been one alarming consistency in the respective policy prescriptions: the assault on civil liberties. The proposed ‘Anti-Boycott Bill’ embodies precisely […]
Despots and kleptocrats have their eyes trained on British politics – and our laws are doing little to protect us