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A digital rights advocate said, “This is like the CIA putting out a statement saying that going forward they’ll only waterboard people with dignity and respect.”
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Episode 14 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode, we consider the so-called Intergenerational Report, which the Australian government released this week. These Reports are released every few years and are designed to scare us into believing that unless the government cuts spending and services now…
How the legal system is silencing climate activists fighting for their right to speak up about the crisis
The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries – Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
BRICS already included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
The era isn’t over yet, but when you consider that US/European sanctions against Russia failed to gain much support from India, China, and almost all of Africa and South America, it’s clear that US/West is down to its core again: the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. These are all either core West states or their key “uplifts” — the nations they let into the club and industrialized.
Is human extinction the future?
Eric Adams orders social media blitz amid criticism over migrant crisis.
The Russian president’s role in Wednesday’s fatal plane crash is not entirely clear, but the day’s events were reminiscent of Hitler’s 1934 purge.
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Lawmakers invoked a new law that’s supposed to target reform DAs. The real targets are Black Democrats.
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The “ratings” are a little bit tepid Trump is bragging about his unprecedented numbers on Tucker’s Xitter show last night saying that it got over a hundred million viewers. That’s not true. “Views” on the platform are recorded as anyone who may have scrolled past it , not how many people actually saw it much less watched it. Here are the more pertinent numbers: As of this writing, Carlson’s interview with Trump has been reposted (formerly “retweeted”) 171,800 times, quote-posted (formerly “quote-tweeted”) 14,500 times, liked 578,100 times, bookmarked 46,500 times, and has been replied to around 47,000 times. Not especially low numbers. It’s undeniable that Trump has a lot of supporters, many of whom swarm on Twitter. But these days, Fox averages about 1.7 million viewers during its primetime broadcast. And notice the specificity of the word “viewers.” Because none of the numbers tracking engagement on a X post tell you if someone actually watched the video.
THE Zonta Club of Coffs Harbour Inc invites young women to apply for the prestigious Zonta International STEM Scholarship 2023. Completed application forms are to be emailed to the Awards Coordinator at Zonta Coffs Harbour by Friday 1 September. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone...
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ROSS Colquhoun, who studies Automotive Mechanics at TAFE NSW Coffs Harbour Education Campus, has won a gold medal in the WorldSkills Australia 2023 National Championships. Lestatt Hammond-Hurst, a passionate Retail Baking student at TAFE NSW Coffs Harbour Education Campus, has won a silver medal. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...
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THE ‘Walking Together – from Heart to Heart’ art exhibition opens at The Art Factory in Coffs Harbour on Saturday 2 September. The exhibition is supported by the City of Coffs Harbour through its Arts and Cultural Development program and Coffs Harbour Arts Council. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...
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AS part of Men’s Shed Week (2 – 9 September), Coffs Harbour Men’s Shed will celebrate three decades of the organisation with a birthday bash open to the public. This year’s Men’s Shed Week theme is ‘30 years of Sheds’, and the local Shed is marking the milestone with a monster garage sale and open...
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Here’s an article about how Trump mini-me Vivek Ramaswamy made his fortune. He’s a familiar type: On the campaign trail, as he lays out why he is a different kind of presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy calls himself a Harvard-trained “scientist” from the lifesaving world of biotechnology. “I developed a number of medicines,” Mr. Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and conservative writer, told a gathering at a construction firm this month in Davenport, Iowa. “The one I’m most proud of is a therapy for kids, 40 of them a year, born with a genetic condition who, without treatment, die by the age of 3.” The reality of Mr. Ramaswamy’s business career is more complex, the story of a financier more than a scientist, and a prospector who went bargain hunting, hyped his vision, drew investment and then cashed out in two huge payouts — totaling more than $200 million — before his 35th birthday. Mr. Ramaswamy’s enterprise is best known for a spectacular failure.
Cooking columnist Mark Latham has today been let go by The (un)Australian following some confusion over the term crushed nuts and an unfortunate incident involving an intern. “It’s a bloody stitch up, the recipe said crush nuts so naturally I saw the... Read More ›
It’s so awful in so many ways. But since people are taking it seriously as some sort of political manifesto. (They talked about it in the debate last night.) I think it’s worthwhile to point this out: Reminder: The “Rich Men North of Richmond” policy agenda is utterly incoherent. Anthony says government spends too much money, but also isn’t helping people enough. Miners (who earn 20 percent above the average national wage) are somehow in trouble. Skinny people are dying in the streets from drugs and suicide. But fat welfare queens are bringing home the bacon. The entire thing is an evasion of personal responsibility and an exercise in special pleading: The government should spend more money on the people I like and less money on the people I do not like. And also: Everything that’s wrong in my life is someone else’s fault. Finally: Oliver Anthony seems unaware that the places he romanticizes are actually the ones sucking the most off the government teat and contributing the least to our economy. We are indeed a nation of makers and takers. And the takers are Oliver Anthony and his friends. Thank you JV Last.
A social psychologist on how Trump’s speech links to the Jan. 6 attack.
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Jodie Whittaker's regeneration into David Tennant earned Doctor Who the "TV Moment of the Year" award at the Edinburgh TV Festival Awards.