Everywhere you look in the health service, the signs of thirteen years of austerity and wilful Tory neglect are apparent. The Tories have, throughout their time in government, allowed the NHS to go to rack and ruin, sending staff morale crashing through the floor and putting patients’ lives at risk. The waiting list for surgery […]
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La philosophie n’est pas une science, ni ne peut l’être. Prétendre le contraire, c’est la vouer immanquablement à l’échec, comme elle l’est en effet, mais aussi à l’illusion ou à la mauvaise foi … Il n’y a pas de démonstration philosophique, et s’il y en avait ce serait la fin de la philosophie – puisqu’elle […]
Sometimes, one thinks that the intellectual world should evolve as intelligent people take account of the dissonance between their ideas and the facts before them and adapt their views. I know that doesn’t happen much but it should. I have studied the philosophy of science deeply enough over my student and postgrad days and beyond…
On colorism in the Philippines, and the yearning for western beauty standards.
Wow, can you believe we bought a home?
Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine? Newly declassified British Foreign Office files have added disturbing details to the history of Operation Gladio. The covert operation was uncovered in 1990, when the public learned that the CIA, MI6 and NATO trained and directed an underground army of fascist paramilitary units across Europe, […]
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In 2022, Australia’s population grew by record numbers – our largest ever recorded increase a calendar year. This was driven largely by a surge in international migration. Glenn breaks down the story by state and...DETECTIVE Superintendent Steven Clarke of the Coffs/Clarence Police District, based at Coffs Harbour Police Station, has been awarded the Australian Police Medal (APM) in the King’s Birthday 2023 Honours. Nominations for the awards can be by an officer’s peers, commander or a member of the community, and are announced twice a year, in January (Australia...
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GEORGE Gardiner, an 82-year-old resident of Shephards Lane, Coffs Harbour finally had the opportunity to fulfil a two-year-long desire to witness the Coffs Harbour Bypass from a bird’s-eye perspective, thanks to a helicopter tour with Precision Helicopters. George expressed his delight after experiencing the breathtaking aerial view. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s...
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A ‘BURGER and Beer Christmas in July trivia night is the launch fundraiser for the annual Coffs Harbour Community Christmas Luncheon held on Christmas Day. The trivia night will be held at King Tide Brewery in Studio Lane, central Coffs. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....
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CEDAR and Steam, Glenreagh Memorial Museum’s annual art and photography exhibition, takes place at Glenreagh Hall on the weekend of Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June, 2023. The highlight of the official opening on Friday 16 will be the launch of the book ‘The Big Flood, Glenreagh 1950: Stories of Heroism and Survival’ by local...
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DID you know there are thousands of camp oven enthusiasts in Australia? In fact, there are 350,000 members on one Facebook group alone – just sharing recipes. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au Fancy kangaroo meatballs...
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RISING country music star Billie-Jo Porter admits she’s taken the long way round to releasing her self-titled first album. “But boy has it been worth the wait,” she said. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au The...
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KEVIN Hogan, the Federal Member for Page, announced $1.1 million in funding four years ago to build an iconic Whale Trail project for Woolgoolga. The project was to include pedestrian access, viewing platforms, car parking, seating and picnic shelters, landscaping and revegetation, and a fitness node. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...
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Imagine reading this 10 years ago in the Washington Post: “A conviction and a decisive defeat at the ballot box might force Trump from the political scene and cause the Republican Party to move in a different direction, although in an era of close elections, the prospect of 2024 producing a blowout in either direction remains doubtful — and even that would not necessarily cleanse the system.” “A conviction and a decisive defeat at the ballot box might” force Trump out of politics? And maybe it would cause the Republican party to sober up? If that doesn’t do it, what would? Violence, I guess. Great.
If those words mean absolutely nothing to you, please buy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy now. If your local bookshop is too many planetary systems away, you can buy it from local outlet of the one of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor at https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Boxset/dp/1529044197/ or https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams-ebook/dp/B000XUBC2C/. Read at least the first volume … Continue reading "I am Zaphod Beeblebrox"
Trump did it so it’s ok now Reuters reports that even if Trump was allowed to declassify documents in his mind, which is, of course, ridiculous, he couldn’t have declassifed the nuclear document they found among his hoard: Even when he was president, Donald Trump lacked the legal authority to declassify a U.S. nuclear weapons-related document that he is charged with illegally possessing, security experts said, contrary to the former U.S. president’s claim. The secret document, listed as No. 19 in the indictment charging Trump with endangering national security, can under the Atomic Energy Act only be declassified through a process that by the statute involves the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense. For that reason, the experts said, the nuclear document is unique among the 31 in the indictment because the declassification of the others is governed by executive order. “The claim that he (Trump) could have declassified it is not relevant in the case of the nuclear weapons information because it was not classified by executive order but by law,” said Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy expert with the Federation of American Scientists.
“A Tulsi Gabbard drag king act” For those of you who wisely don’t follow twitter, the ere was a brouhaha over the weekend over RFK Jr’s appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast in which he blathered about his anti-vax nonsense with Rogan the idiot dupe believing every word. Elon Musk joined in on twitter affirming RFK and somehow Rogan called out Dr Peter Hotez (a world renowned virologist and expert on vaccines) for refusing to “debate” him on his show on the subject. Let’s just say,m the stupid was very, very strong. Here’s one thread that explains RFK’s idiocy from someone who actually understands the science. You may not want to go that deep into the weeds but if you do, it’s interesting. Mehdi Hasan says it best: It would be easy to ignore all this but the anti-vax faction in America got a lot of people killed and they want to keep doing it. Meanwhile, RFK Jr is being promoted all over the right for equally nefarious reasons. As Tim Miller says here, it’s basically become a ratfucking operation:
He did post a few other things about how the Justice Department needs to apologize and Fox news getting bad ratings. But that’s it.
Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, died on June 16. Asked about his decision to dispute the Nixon White House claims about US progress in the Vietnam war, Ellsberg said he had one regret. ‘I waited too long to release those papers. The bombs were already falling.’ From his death bed he stressed the value Continue reading »
The Western hope that Taiwan could serve as a catalyst for an attack of China seems likely to remain the fantasy it always was. I first knew Taiwan in the sixties – dirt poor and brutally oppressive. A well-known lawyer, Duan-Mu Kai, I came to know spent his time rescuing from execution people falsely accused Continue reading »
Secrecy and the need to ensure natural justice for Peter Collins & other PWC Australia staff who received or used confidential information, prevents disclosure of the specific offences being investigated by the Australian Federal Police (AFP). But there will be no shortage of possible offences to investigate. They range from a breach of tax secrecy Continue reading »