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The Albanese Government has come up with the novel solution of solving Australia’s gas shortage by selling the mining rights to niche news network Sky News After Dark ”The gas reserves coming out of Paul Murray’s show alone is enough... Read More ›

The coming federal budget, to be tabled in May, would be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first opportunity to build what he calls “values-based capitalism”.

In an essay published in The Monthly, Chalmers envisions an Australian capitalism that is not defined by just one notion of value (presumably economic value), but by values, or “our (Australian) values”.

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Observing his glee in humiliating Floridians who don’t agree with him — from high school students to immigrants to Disney to well, everyone — this does not surprise me: The torture regimes is well documented. We know what they did. And apparently, DeSantis was part of it, assigned to “ensure that the prisoners rights were upheld” but in fact, he oversaw torture, specifically the force feeding tactics to stop the prisoners from staging hunger strikes, (which the Pentagon fatuously defined as a form of “asymmetric warfare.”) DeSantis has been accused of overseeing the force feeding of massive amounts of Ensure causing the inmates to vomit and choke. (Don’t read this link about his time at Gitmo if you have a weak stomach.) I don’t know if it’s all true but the mere fact that DeSantis was part of this grotesque program disqualifies him from ever holding office as far as I’m concerned.

CDC turns out to be superb at scientific communication....

Another Message Board Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’ve moved my irregular email news from Mailchimp to Substack. You can read it here. You can also follow me on Mastodon here I’m also trying out Substack as a blogging […]

The gutsy thing for Anthony Albanese to do in the wake of the coalition’s decision to vote “no” in the Voice referendum would be to carry on virtuously with the ballot, taking such advantage as he can from the Liberals’ decision to break the heart of more than half the country. But the inspired response Continue reading »

The most consequential aspect of AUKUS is it embeds the UK and the US firmly into Australia’s Indo-Pacific strategy. But what if the secret US calculation behind AUKUS is to goad China into war before China’s superiority outpaces US and allied capabilities? A war that China does not want and will likely lose? Meeting in Continue reading »

In a who-cares-about-standards world, the appointment of some university professors looks very much like insider trading, secret patronage, and who you know, not what you know. How else to explain appointments as professors of public figures, seemingly agile enough to vault over the usual obstacles straight to the top of the academic hierarchy? Most treadmill Continue reading »

All history is politics, and every politics is a future. The proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament is part of a collection of actions seeking to hold colonial history and post-colonial future together, and so to propose a new Australian polity. Australian colonial history is painful, and our natural aversion to pain makes the appropriate mode Continue reading »

Antisemitism, like all forms of racism, is a scourge and Australia has not been immune to it. Traditional antisemitism is not hard to identify or call out whether it is in graffiti, slogans or slurs. However, when it comes to debate over Israel and Palestine, what is or is not antisemitic is a highly political Continue reading »

Seventeen months ago the US State Department officially declared the US will “NEVER” recognise Crimea as part of Russia. Three months ago Ukrainian President Zelensky vowed to “take back” Crimea. Is this possible? In June 2016, I visited Crimea with a delegation from the Center for Citizen Initiatives. This is a US organisation which has conducted Continue reading »

The real reason for the AUKUS submarine deal might well have been the U.S. wish for a port and base in Australia from where it can send its own nuclear submarines to harass China. The offer to Australia to buy nuclear submarines was likely only made to remove Australian public resistance to the stationing of Continue reading »

(Some thoughts on the efforts to regulate children’s use of social media) Have you noticed how many people ages 65+ watch television every day? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost 90% of those in this age bracket watch TV Every.Single.Day!!!! ::gasp:: And that data was collected before the pandemic! By <hand-waving logics of a […]

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Mifepristone is safer than aspirin. Much safer. The FDA approved the drug for early abortions...

Mastering the art of omelet-making is a must for serious after-dinner entertainers. With a little practice you will quickly have the expertise to prepare 20-30 individual omelets, right in front of your guests, in a matter of minutes. This dessert omelet is an easy one and requires no special talents; it is finished in the […]

The last 24 hours I’m not saying he’s having a mental breakdown because I think he actually believes this is a good strategy. But it’s still startling to see how it looks one right after another:

“When Republican megadonor Harlan Crow isn’t lavishing Justice Clarence Thomas with free trips on his private plane and yacht, he lives a quiet life in Dallas among his historical collections. These collections include Hitler artifacts, plus a garden full of statues of the 20th century’s worst despots.” — The Washingtonian

Welcome to my home. Did you have much trouble finding it? I realized that “take a left once you pass the skull on a spike” was sort of vague. Yes, there are multiple heads on spikes. They’re simply a reminder of the atrocities of which humanity is capable.

So, what do you think of my place? It’s difficult to find a mansion that’s been bathed in blood, but I told my realtor I just needed a house with character. How about a quick tour?

Straight down this hallway, you’ll find the kitchen, and next to that is the sitting area. Across the hall is the library and, of course, the bedrooms are upstairs.

Does it matter? New polling: With former President Donald Trump now formally charged on criminal charges, a majority of Americans (53%) believe he intentionally did something illegal, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. An additional 11% say he acted wrongly but not intentionally. Only 20% believe Trump did not do anything wrong, and 16% say they don’t know, per the ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel. As part of the Tuesday charges against the former president, Manhattan prosecutors alleged that Trump engaged in a “scheme” to boost his election chances during the 2016 presidential race through a string of hush money payments made by others to boost his campaign, and then “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records” to conceal that criminal conduct. A “statement of facts” paired with the 34-count indictment alleges that Trump discussed the scheme while he was in the Oval Office and made reimbursement payments to his lawyer for a year while in office. Trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 felony counts and has long denied any wrongdoing.

Newbon inquest rules suicide – but the right are targeting the one man who wasn’t even mentioned Right-wingers, including the ‘Labour’ right, have again joined with the media in harassing renowned Jewish author Michael Rosen for daring to complain about the racist bastardisation of his work, after Dr Peter Newbon, who published a disgusting image […]

By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost As a man of African American descent who has studied and learned the truth about American history— the real truth about the real history of this country—I have learned about the death penalty—how it was and continues to be used and misused on poor and Black people especially.  […]

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