politics

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Fri, 07/07/2023 - 04:54
The ACT’s judiciary will henceforth be lacking a meticulous pillar of consistency, but the resignation of Magistrate Beth Campbell allows also pause for reflection on the exceptional criminal courts the Territory has grown across Campbell’s quarter-century on the bench and indeed across the 34 years since self-government. The ACT was always different, having no intermediate Continue reading »
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Fri, 07/07/2023 - 04:55
Missing records, billions in over-runs, conflicts of interest, and flawed ships. How the Australian Defence Department’s new frigates project is a boondoggle for a British weapons-maker. In a two-part investigation, Declassified Australia examines the flawed contracting process that led to a $46 billion naval ship-building deal that has been found to be suffering what an investigative audit described Continue reading »
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Fri, 07/07/2023 - 04:56
The footage is harrowing. Drones launching missiles over people’s homes. The front doors of a hospital pelted with tear gas. Young children in tears fleeing their homes in the middle of the night, arms raised high in surrender. Israeli bulldozers ripping up roads. It is time we stopped being bystanders to these atrocities and stepped Continue reading »
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Fri, 07/07/2023 - 04:57
China it seems, is nowhere near as isolated or feared by the “international community” as Western mainstream media would have us believe. The USA uses the term “international community” very often to include the G7 and a few “partners with shared values”. When this community is viewed through a different lens, it becomes clear there Continue reading »
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Fri, 07/07/2023 - 04:58
Does it really matter that Australia’s defence policy has no moorings, and is created unaware of past pain, lessons and policy responses? By agents with unknown interests. And that American influence has been ushered into this void, most recently by Minister Marles? ‘De-risking’ is the latest term in geopolitics. It mostly concerns China. European leaders Continue reading »
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Fri, 07/07/2023 - 03:11

A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.

The post FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors” appeared first on The Intercept.

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Thu, 06/07/2023 - 04:50
The manufactured ‘China threat’ is really about Taiwan’s hidden drive for independence and America’s need to preserve regional dominance. Magic and politics, if you think about it, are very similar. Both involve making ostentatious moves to distract their audiences from seeing what really happens on stage to produce the desired trick. That’s why “sleight of Continue reading »