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Is this the 11th coup by U.S.-trained troops in the region since 2008?

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Solving nature’s greatest Gordian knot.

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Russell T. Davies shared an emoji clue for the David Tennant & Catherine Tate-starring Doctor Who 60th Annv. Special Two: "Wild Blue Yonder."

The software was licensed as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s troubled Operation Lone Star border crackdown.

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Ron DeSantis’ implosion has been well documented here and elsewhere. It’s real and it’s spectacular. This is just frosting on the cake:  “Ron DeSantis fires staffer who retweeted video with Nazi imagery.” He’s also an up and coming Nazi but the NY Times and National Review don’t have a problem with that. Maybe they should have read the Tim Miller profile of this fine young man from last March: As Miller wrote: “Nate Hochman’s hiring sends a signal of what the Florida governor wants for his campaign.” He knew what he had. He liked it.

Whilst some incremental progress has been made following the 2022 change of Federal government, evidence confirms that both main political parties lack the imagination, courage and leadership to adequately address climate change. For decades, climate change policy in Australia has been a political football refereed by vested interests, notably the fossil fuel industry and other Continue reading »

“We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government, everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.” So said Marjorie Taylor Greene in a Continue reading »

Monetary policy operates with a lag. The pain from increased interest rates is only now starting to really bite. However, the substantial increase in interest rates is reducing demand and thus bringing inflation down. While on the other hand, further interest rate increases add to the risk of a recession. It is time therefore to Continue reading »

In Canberra, Friday is the traditional day for taking out the trash. It is thus not surprising that Aged Care Minister Anika Wells chose Friday 21 July as the day to release the capability review of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission. Despite having had the report on her desk since 31 March (16 Continue reading »

It is time for the Australian citizenry and First Nations to resume their rightful ownership and custodianship of the land’s eco-geology. The present inequity between the country’s wealthiest yet internally feuding family and the nation’s struggling working and homeless poor is obscene. As judged by the Gini coefficient, inequity is increasing in Australia and is Continue reading »

Those Australians watching the findings of the Robodebt Royal Commission might take comfort from the evidence it provides that our justice system has shown itself to have at least some capacity to hold unjust governments to account – eventually. But a justice system is only as good as the laws it has to work with. Continue reading »

If previous defence acquisitions are any guide, the enormous cost of nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy will almost certainly escalate well beyond the estimated but un-itemised initial price of $A368 billion. The record of corruption of the two US submarine builders suggests that the project will also probably suffer from mismanagement. The final Continue reading »

From Vilnius, Lithuania, NATO cast its eyes east to the Ukraine. For the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, there was a desire to look even further east beyond the Ukraine. He, some NATO members and invited guests, remain undeterred in their desire to bring NATO into Asia. Jens Stoltenberg supports the ambition noting that ‘‘This Continue reading »

“Say you’re in the back room of the campaign office, licking envelopes—someday you could get a job licking any number of things,” the Governor said.

In the fourth part of its three-year special investigation, Byline Times reveals how the GB News presenter and MailOnline columnist used News UK cash to pay male adult actors to secretly film themselves having sex with men he had targeted on Facebook

"If you are not providing your young teen with sex education then you’re relying on what they learn from porn or from chatting with other students."

New legislation from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse would end a tax writeoff for defamation settlements, following The Lever’s reporting.

An interesting segment with Andrew Weissman: Others have made the point but it’s important to remember: the people who testified about Trump’s efforts to overturn the election were some of his staunchest defenders. They went along with all his unethical behavior but finally drew the line at a coup. They will make good witnesses because of it.

Instead of addressing our multiple ecological disasters, those with power are attacking wildlife defenders. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th July 2023 Several grisly bloodsports, legal or otherwise, are enjoyed in the English countryside. But none is as popular as shooting the messenger. Rather than attend to our environmental crisis, politicians, lobbyists and […]

In emails obtained by The Intercept, the State Department made repeated assurances about Saeed Bakhouch’s “appropriate and humane treatment.”

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