And as political strategy “[T]he American right wing is trying to create a Hobbesian state of nature where violence and fear of death is everywhere and the rule of law is increasingly meaningless,” writes Chauncey DeVega, Salon’s senior politics writer. Who needs random squads of brownshirts when everyone, everywhere is armed, anxious, and primed to go to guns at the slightest provocation? That’s “primed” in the psychological sense. As a political tactic. DeVega walks readers through how German legal philosopher and political theorist Carl Schmidt’s views of “sovereign authority.” Per the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Legal norms, Schmitt argues, cannot be applied to a chaos.” Thus the need for a sovereign. In post-Weimar Germany, read “dictator,” who might rule this “state of exception.” That’s not unlike the book of Revelation’s return of Jesus at Armageddon. It’s something that makes Christian nationalists and a self-described “Leninist” like Steve Bannon shiver with antici … pation.
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Stop yelling at me. I don’t know why I’m plowing into this corner either, but the harder I push this toggle-pusher thingy, the harder it pushes back. Also: why are there four screens? It’s hard for me to tell what I’m looking at.
Oh, that’s all of us? That’s so sweet. It makes me so happy to see us all together like that. We really ought to grab a picture for Gran and Granpop before we—oh no, what just happened?
Am I—floating right now? Why am I floating?
I died?
How do I un-die?
I think I remember asking you to stop yelling at me. Do we make good choices when we yell? We do not. I think someone’s going to see a precipitous decline in their screen time allowance if we can’t work on our tone.
Oh, thank you for un-dying me. Now let me figure out how to—oh, hey, movement! I’m moving! I’m—
Jumping.
Okay, so I’m still in this corner, but at least I’m seeing a different part of it. A higher part. Repeatedly. But look, I just landed on two of those goblins. And these laser beams—wow! They just shoot right out of my eyes, I guess?
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PCS members, who mostly work in UK Government departments and other public bodies, are currently engaged in a long and bitter industrial dispute over pay, pensions, redundancy terms and job security. Alongside ongoing strikes in HMRC, DVLA, the British Library, the British Museum and other public sector bodies, the dispute has already seen three national […]
Natasha Phillips reports on the success of the Coventry City reunification pilot featured on Channel 4’s ‘Kids’
In a fight centered on abortion rights, Republicans trying to pass a constitutional amendment could be violating their own new election law.
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A Georgia book ban is creating a hostile environment.
An extraordinary Met Police disciplinary hearing concludes with a female officer being exonerated from abuse claims from her former partner, a more senior cop himself facing abuse claims
Tom Mutch talks to the owners of a chain of dance studios in Donbas, whose epic journey suggests a brighter future for their war-ravaged homeland
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Exclusive documents and interviews reveal that Kissinger bears significant responsibility for hundreds more Cambodian deaths than was previously known.
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A new analysis suggests that the food expenditures category of the consumer price index could be a useful signal of future headline inflation.
Thomas Perrett explores how factory farming and agribusiness industries have successfully lobbied politicians, advocating against carbon taxes and biodiversity targets
. Using formal mathematical modelling, mainstream economists sure can guarantee that the conclusions hold given the assumptions. However, the validity we get in abstract model worlds does not warrant transfer to real-world economies. Validity may be good, but it is not enough. Mainstream economists are proud of having an ever-growing smorgasbord of models to cherry-pick […]
Aidan Saggers, Lukas Alemu and Irina Mnohoghitnei Decentralised Finance (DeFi) may seem a tempting option for those seeking financial gain, autonomy, and self-governance… But how safe is a world in which ‘code is law’? Closer inspection reveals an ecosystem experiencing several hacks, attacks, and fraud. Estimates show at least US$6.5 billion has been stolen since … Continue reading Flash loans, flash attacks, and the future of DeFi
Genuine anti-racist internationalism calls for much greater radicalism, writes Sunit Bagree
James Supple examines why carbon offsets are a climate disaster that don’t genuinely reduce emissions—and why Labor is so committed to them
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Israel was founded 75 years ago through the massacre and expulsion of Palestinians, argues Raul Haagensen, and the brutality and dispossession continues today.
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EMERALD Beach Fair Committee is busy building a bumper program for the village’s annual family event taking place on Saturday 3 June at Fiddaman Road and Emerald Beach Reserve. “This year we are celebrating the resilience of a community, our multicultural connections and local history,” Sherrie Rutherford, Emerald Beach local and Chair of the Emerald...
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ORG’s new report exposes failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in protecting the public privacy and data rights during the Covid-19 pandemic. Failure to act Data privacy and the Information Commissioner’s Office During a Crisis analyses the ICO’s role in relation to three key Covid-19 health programmes: Our report finds that the ICO repeatedly […]
A new report exposes failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in protecting the public privacy and data rights during the Covid-19 pandemic. The report analyses use of data in three key Covid-19 health programmes NHS Test and Trace, NHS Contract Tracing App and the NHS Datastore. It compares the ICO’s response to that of […]
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THE North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens in Coffs Harbour hosts its annual Open Day on Sunday 28 May. As part of a coordinated event with other botanic gardens around Australia, organised by the Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ), the 2023 Open Day is themed ‘People and Plants that Inspire’. Advertise with News...
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