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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 10:30
Last week, at the University of Georgia School of Law, super conservative Judge Michael Luttig said: With the former president’s and his Republican Party’s determined denial of January 6, their refusal to acknowledge that the former president lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square, and their promise that the 2024 election will not be “stolen” from them again as they maintain it was in 2020, America’s Democracy and the Rule of Law are in constitutional peril — still. And there is no end to the threat in sight…. We are a house divided and our poisonous politics is fast eating away at the fabric of our society…. The Republican Party has made its decision that the war against America’s Democracy and the Rule of Law it instigated on January 6 will go on, prosecuted to its catastrophic end. Charlie Sykes’ Bulwark podcast, with Judge Luttig is quite interesting.  You can listen to the whole thing here. Some highlights: “Treason-like” Charlie Sykes: Here you have the former president very openly saying we should terminate the Constitution in order to overturn this election.
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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 10:22

LJ HOOKER Coffs Harbour is set to become the oldest real estate brand operating on the NSW Mid North Coast, celebrating an incredible 50 years in business. And as part of their golden anniversary celebrations, six lucky local residents will win a trip of a lifetime to an international destination, via a randomly selected draw....

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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 09:54
Labour leader’s two faces on show again, including conduct that would get any left-winger expelled under purge The two-faces of Keir Starmer have been exposed again, this time by a sharp-eyed Twitter user who spotted that Starmer – when it suited him – ‘liked’ a tweet highlighting a Twitter thread that exposed the absolute scam […]
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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 09:54

PETER Wiseman, an accomplished watercolour artist, has won an Oscar-of-sorts in a challenge set by the President of the Coffs Harbour Creative Arts Group (CHCAG). Long-time tutor Peter accepted the challenge to teach student Sue Roberts the art of watercolour for the prize of an Oscar if he succeeded. Advertise with News of The Area...

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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 09:48

CHATS Productions brings the acclaimed musical comedy ‘Avenue Q’ to the Jetty Memorial Theatre for a short season opening Friday 31 March and running until Sunday April 9. ‘Avenue Q’ is a groundbreaking musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (both of whom collaborated on...

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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 09:00
“Some day, it’ll become time for [farmers] to leave this beautiful earth, and they’ll be able to leave their farm, without taxes, to their children. I got rid of the ‘death tax’ on farms so that when you do pass away, on the assumption that you love your children, you can leave it to them and they won’t have to pay tax.” “But if you don’t love your children so much and there are some people that don’t — and maybe deservedly so — it won’t matter, because, frankly, you don’t have to leave them anything. Thank you very much. Have fun.” There was a lot of speculation that he was talking about his own kids. Maybe he and Ivanka are on the outs? Eric made a bad deal somewhere? But as Philip Bump explained, he made that video after a stop in Iowa where he was bragging about his great accomplishments for farmers and he made a joke about not loving their kids and got a laugh from the crowd. He’s trying out new material.
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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 07:36

Andrea Mazzarino explores how so many of the American military personnel dispatched to fight it and the rest of the disastrous Global War on Terror have suffered until this very day, while this country largely turned its back, leaving them in the lurch.

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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 07:30
There is no bottom After reading a bunch of filthy transphobe garbage on twitter yesterday and already feeling queasy, I came across this. I need to take a shower and have a stiff drink. It is just so horrible: My 6-year-old boy died in January. We lost him after a household accident, one likely brought on by a rare cerebral-swelling condition. Paramedics got his heart beating, but it was too late to save his brain. I could hold his hand, look at the small birthmark on it, comb his hair, and call out for him, but if he could hear me or feel me, he gave no sign. He had been a child in perpetual motion, but now we couldn’t get him to wiggle a finger. My grief is profound, ragged, desperate. I cannot imagine how anything could feel worse. But vaccine opponents on the internet, who somehow assumed that a COVID shot was responsible for my son’s death, thought my family’s pain was funny. “Lol. Yay for the jab. Right? Right?” wrote one person on Twitter. “Your decision to vaccinate your son resulted in his death,” wrote another.
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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 07:18

Geopolitical Economy Hour #6 Posted to youtube 2023.03.25 RADHIKA DESAI: Hello everyone, and welcome to the sixth Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: As you know, the last time when we closed we were scheduled Continue Reading

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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 06:37

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost You might be Brazilian or Malian or Singaporean, it is remarkable the world over to watch the French explode into the streets of dozens of cities and towns to protest the imperial president residing in Élysée Palace. It is altogether singular to follow the demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron […]

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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 06:32

Even if we can change a memory, should we? It’s a profound question. It’s about the core of humanity. At times, science can reduce us to machines. Under the hood, we have the same parts, more or less. The neurochemicals that fuel the brain, including the creation and recall of memories, work pretty much the […]

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Fri, 31/03/2023 - 06:00
and DeSantis sinks The latest polls show that the Trump jump is real: Republican primary voters were read a list of 15 announced and potential candidates for the 2024 nomination. The survey, released Wednesday, finds Trump has doubled his lead since February and is up by 30 points over Ron DeSantis (54%-24%). Last month, he was up by 15 (43%-28%). No one else hits double digits. Mike Pence comes in third with 6%, Liz Cheney and Nikki Haley receive 3% each, and Greg Abbott comes in at 2%. All others receive 1% support or less, and just 3% are unsure. It’s fair to assume that the talk of his imminent indictment may have helped him with primary voters. They love to rally around the Trump flag. But Quinnipiac also has a new poll out which show this may not be such a great thing in the big picture: Americans 57 – 38 percent think criminal charges should disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for president again, if charges are filed against him as a result of multiple state and federal criminal investigations, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll released today.