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By Juan Cole / Informed Consent Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad reports that on top of the now nearly 30,000 known deaths in Turkey and Syria, millions people are estimated to have been made homeless. Not only are they without shelter, they now lack water and electricity, and often even food and the World Health Organization […]

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A series of disasters — including catastrophic flooding, political paralysis, exploding inflation, and a resurgent terror threat — risk sending the global player into full-blown crisis.

The post Pakistan on the Brink: What the Collapse of the Nuclear-Armed Regional Power Could Mean for the World appeared first on The Intercept.

By David Story / Labor Notes Unionism has seen a resurgence in popularity the past few years. The problem is, it’s very difficult to get our members organizing in their communities when they hate the way our leadership (I use that word loosely) is operating. Our unions shouldn’t be, and I’d argue weren’t meant to […]

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TST rejeita acordo e diz que empresa fornece serviços de transporte, não tecnologia. Uber fala em decisão 'ideológica'.

The post Decisão reconhece direitos trabalhistas de motorista da Uber e acusa a empresa de manipular jurisprudência a seu favor appeared first on The Intercept.

"[Healthcare] is a dysfunctional system that to my mind needs to be fundamentally changed to a Medicare for All system — but we ain’t gonna get it."

Last year, I wrote a couple of posts defending historical presentism, that is, the view that we should examine events and actors in history (at least in modern history) in the light of our current concerns, rather than treating them as exempt from any standards except those that prevailed (in the dominant class) at the […]

I have finally moved my blog and integrated in within my long-standing home page. The new blog address is – http://www.billmitchell.org/blog – although the old address will work forever. However, I do urge you to update your bookmarks to the new address. The blog is now running on a new Linux distribution with more secure…

The Big Four banks have been asked to halt any planned branch closures upon this week's announcement that the Federal Senate will hold the first parliamentary inquiry into regional bank closures in 19 years. read now...

Exclusive Omnisis poll finds public believes Richard Sharp should now quit over the loan scandal involving Boris Johnson, as a committee of MPs urge him to "reflect" on his position

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Even worse than we expected In case you missed the fireworks, here’s Dana Milbank on the “weaponization” committee: One thing is clear after Thursday’s first hearing of the new “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government”: The weaponization panel’s weapon of choice will be the blunderbuss. I don’t want to be conspiratorial about it, but House Republicans somehow turned Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Judiciary Committee hearing room, into the main ballroom of a QAnon convention. The witnesses — including world-class conspiracy purveyors Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Ivermectin) and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (I-Ukraine bioweapons labs) — might as well have been auditioning to guest-host “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” It is possible that, by random chance, one of the witnesses may have said something that is factually true, but any pellet of accuracy was lost amid all the errant slugs that ricocheted crazily out of their muzzles. They revisited the “Russian collusion hoax” perpetrated by the “fake dossier,” Fusion GPS, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

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One of the issues with seditious conspiracy charges against Trump is the matter of intent. Did he know that he had lost the election and went ahead with his plot anyway? Of course he did. And here is some external proof we haven’t seen before: Former president Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign commissioned an outside research firm in a bid to prove electoral fraud claims but never released the findings because the firm disputed many of his theories and could not offer any proof that he was the rightful winner of the election, according to four people familiar with the matter. The campaign paid researchers from Berkeley Research Group, the people said, to study 2020 election results in six states, looking for fraud and irregularities to highlight in public and in the courts. Among the areas examined werevoter machine malfunctions, instances of dead people voting and any evidence that could help Trump show he won, the people said. None of the findings were presented to the public or in court. About a dozen people at the firmworked on the report, including econometricians, who use statistics to model and predict outcomes, the people said.

The fight for justice for survivors of sexual abuse continues after George Pell's passing, writes Andrew Collins.  read now...

The fight for justice for survivors of sexual abuse continues after George Pell's passing, writes Andrew Collins.  read now...

THE Coffs Coast Science and Engineering Challenge (SEC) will take place in Woolgoolga on Tuesday 4 April 2023 and the organisers are seeking at least 30 volunteers to assist with a range of duties on the day. “The Woolgoolga Organising Committee is pleased to present the award-winning Science and Engineering Challenge in partnership with the...

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COFFS Harbour’s Tanya Johnson, the chair and co-founder of local charity Pink Silks Trust, has received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community through charitable organisations in the Australia Day Awards 2023. Pink Silks Trust (PST) was set up in 2006 after Tanya’s breast cancer diagnosis. Advertise with News...

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SALLY Townley has announced that she will contest the 2023 State Election as an Independent candidate for the seat of Coffs Harbour. She officially launched the campaign on Wednesday 8 February at the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us...

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WHEN Sawtell Catholic Care’s ‘The Link’ community gardens were named as the best in Australia at the Australian Institute of Horticulture’s (AIH) Awards Ceremony, held in Melbourne late last year, the local residents and Coffs Harbour community missed out on the experience of being there in person. So, the presentation is coming to Toormina with...

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A DISTINGUISHED group of ecologists, botanists and environmentalists, with potentially a combined 600 years of professional experience in the realms of the environment, has sent a letter to Regional Roads Minister Sam Farraway MLC and Environment Minister James Griffin regarding the proposed destruction of a 0.5 ha remnant of rare subtropical lowland rainforest that sits...

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Or sanctimonious right wing NY Times op-ed writers either This, from Eric Levitz in NY Magazine, is right on about Ron DeSantis: Ron DeSantis is the popular governor of a racially diverse state with a substantial Democratic population. He is also a reactionary. In the New York Times, Pamela Paul argues that liberals have a lot to learn from these two facts. The columnist implores her fellow Democrats to avoid writing DeSantis off as “another unelectable right-wing lunatic unfit for national office.” Rather than dismissing the Florida governor and his supporters as “racist, homophobic, transphobic, and xenophobic,” Paul advises liberals to reflect on his political strengths. She explains that, unlike Donald Trump, DeSantis was a star student at an Ivy League school. It’s therefore likely that he “knows what he’s doing” when he scandalizes progressives. He is a savvy political actor, if his approval rating is any guide. Democrats should therefore seek to learn from his example. It isn’t clear precisely what Paul believes we should learn.

GREENS Upper House member Cate Faehrmann was in Coffs Harbour last Monday to kick off the Greens campaign for the seat in the upcoming State election. She announced Tim Nott as the Greens candidate for Coffs Harbour, and also discussed koalas, pokies and John Barilaro. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

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FABULOUS FAKES, the first exhibition of 2023 at the Coffs Harbour Showground Gallery featuring the Coffs Harbour Creative Arts Group (CHCAG) members, opened on Sunday 5 February. Members and visitors enjoyed light refreshments and contemplated the variety of works and skills applied in the Fabulous Fakes artworks on display. Advertise with News of The Area...

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RECOGNISED with a Member of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Australia Day Awards, Coffs Harbour resident Elizabeth (Beth) Rogers’ exemplary work has been in service to refugee support services, specifically as a volunteer supporting Burundian refugee families, since 2006. Beth will travel to Sydney later in the year to receive her award at...

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