Yes, I am well aware that I just posted the Easter Brunch. This, however, is a different kind of brunch. A brunch for two. A private brunch. A bedroom brunch. I was inspired to bust out this brunch because of the inclusion of the Bloody Bullshot–a variation of the questionable beef-based libation called the Bullshot,Continue reading The Smirnoff Bedroom Brunch (1971)
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Jewish group targeted by Starmer and co speaks out for Britain’s first Black woman MP after Labour’s hierarchy of racism strikes again Left-wing Jewish group Jewish Voice for Labour knows what it is like to be targeted by the Labour right. Its leadership is hundreds of times more likely to be targeted by the party […]
I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 before I could say much more than “Mama” or “Dada,” in some strange fashion, I grew up at war. Living in New York City, I was near no conflict in those years or in any since. My dad, however, had volunteered for the Army Air Corps at age 35 on December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He fought in Burma, was painfully silent about his wartime experiences, and died on Pearl Harbor Day in 1983. He was the operations officer for the... Read more
Source: War, What Is It Good For? appeared first on TomDispatch.com.
With the Anzac Day public holiday scheduled for Tuesday, Australian employees who forgot to book in Monday as a day off have spent the weekend working on their best sick voice in preparation for their morning call to the boss.... Read More ›
The debt ceiling is as dangerous as that monster under your bed: it only has power if you believe in it. The nation needs to turn on the light and crouch down and have a quick look under the mattress—there’s nothing there.
A whopping two-thirds of Republican primary voters say they stand behind former President Donald Trump and dismiss concerns about his electability, despite his recent criminal arrest and the other legal investigations into his past conduct, a new national NBC News poll finds. That — along with his double-digit lead over his nearest potential GOP rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — makes Trump the clear frontrunner in the early race for the Republican presidential nomination. The Republican Party’s continued enthusiasm for Trump stands in contrast to an anxious nation’s displeasure with how the 2024 race is shaping up. Substantial majorities of all Americans don’t want Trump or President Joe Biden to run for president in 2024, setting up a potentially divisive and uninspiring general-election rematch between the two men, with Biden expected to launch his re-election bid in the coming days. We shouldn’t be surprised that a party of ignorant conspiracy theorists believe that every last one of Trump’s crimes and scandals are the work of a conspiracy to take him down.
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Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies offered Star Trek: Picard Showrunner Terry Matalas some serious "The Last Generation" love.
P&I Editorial: Conflicts of interest at the heart of AUKUS and the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) – including the principal author of the DSR benefitting from US State Department funding designed to build support for AUKUS and the US alliance – demand independent investigation. Australia’s independently-led Defence Strategic Review will shortly be released to the Continue reading »
David Miller joins Lowkey to reveal the covert tactics of the powerful Israel Lobby, the weaponization of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, and the insidious influence of the Center for Countering Disinformation in this thought-provoking episode of The Watchdog.
The post The Ukraine Kill List and Weaponizing Anti-Semitism, with David Miller appeared first on MintPress News.
Except for all the mountains and Mormons What a ridiculous thing to say: After a recent poll put him 13 points behind Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, Ron DeSantis decided to lick his wounds and head to Utah, a state where he might actually be more popular than the former president.
Despite all the determined, and well-funded, efforts of Greg Sheridan, his mates at ASPI and in the media to beat the war drums and the legal shenanigans around the role of the Governor General in declaring war, it is by no means inevitable that Australia will go to war against China. There is opposition at Continue reading »
Promising to double its “defence” expenditure over the coming five-year period and placing huge orders for US military equipment to help it to do so, the sometime “peace state” of Japan is moving into high gear on militarisation. The transformation is plainest in the case of its Southwestern islands that stretch over 1,300 kms from Continue reading »
The ALP seems intent on abandoning progressive policies and turning itself into a competent version of the Coalition. This is not good for them, our collective future, or democracy. It’s not hard to feel cynical about politics, especially the democratic variety. After all, expectations are rightly higher about a system that is considered uniquely capable Continue reading »
Lambert chats with two AIs about Covid's airborne transmission.
Last month’s New South Wales election ejected the final mainland Coalition state government from office. As the dust has settled, it isn’t just Chris Minns’ Labor Party which has emerged victorious; public ownership – particularly of Sydney Water – has been resoundingly endorsed by NSW voters. It is now safe to say: privatisation is politically Continue reading »
On any measure since the mid 1980’s successive governments both Federal and State have progressively destroyed public education systems. By adopting a neo-liberal ‘rational’ approach to providing education for all we have come to the place where we have: A two-tier education structure that is resulting in a residualised, under resourced public system Overwhelming evidence Continue reading »
Australia has several very viable options for not buying AUKUS nuclear submarines. All of them are much cheaper in the medium to short term and vastly cheaper and much less political in the long term. I have written before about alternatives to buying and operating nuclear submarines by Australia. The main disadvantages of nuclear submarines Continue reading »
Having worked in all developing countries in East Asia and several in South Asia (World Bank definition), I am very conscious of the value of soft power. Australia is a very small country in all aspects except size and my experience has been that soft power is the best way of expressing our good intentions. Continue reading »
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 23, 2023
by Tony Wikrent
Strategic Political Economy
The Democrats’ Appalling Failure to Confront the Rogue, Right-Wing Supreme Court
Simon Lazarus, April 21, 2023 [The New Republic]
They won’t accept anything but a national abortion ban Trump has no room to move on this one. None of them do: A major anti-abortion group blasted former President Donald Trump on the issue Thursday, saying his contention that abortion restrictions should be left up to individual states, not the federal government, is a “morally indefensible position for a self-proclaimed pro-life presidential candidate.” The Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America group was responding to a statement by Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung for a Washington Post story about division among the 2024 GOP presidential field on abortion-related issues. The group has said it would not support any White House candidate who did not at a minimum support a 15-week federal abortion ban. “The Supreme Court made clear in its decision that it was returning the issue to the people to decide through their elected representatives in the states and in Congress,” the group’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said in a news release.
🏝️ In May, I'll be on the Réunion island for signing sessions, conferences, and workshops!
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He was, as usual, a pig E. Jean Carroll’s rape lawsuit trial starts this week. Trump won’t show up for it apparently so I’m guessing that his deposition will be introduced as evidence. It’s not good. This article is from January: Questioned for a lawsuit, Trump, the former US president, angrily hurled insults and threatened to sue the columnist who accused him of raping her in the New York upscale department store Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s, according to excerpts of his videotaped testimony. The tapes were recorded last October and unsealed by a court on Friday. The New York court on Friday also rejected as “absurd” Trump’s attempt to have dismissed the two lawsuits against him by Carroll, alleging rape and libel. An April trial is planned. “She said that I did something to her that never took place. There was no anything. I know nothing about this nut job,” he said, according to the transcript of the October testimony.