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Solnit sees hope as central to the clmate change fight. Is that belief well founded?
If voters can't be scared by the threat of the 'woke left' devaluing their house – they might be scared by it devaluing their childhood, writes Graham Williamson
When the second and final series of Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights was released into 2002’s lucrative home DVD market, it became the fastest-selling British television DVD in the format’s history, outselling Ricky Gervais’ The Office by two to one. But where The Office lingered in popular memory through streaming, regular repeats, and an American remake, […]
Mainstream outlets are missing the real story of the times.
A science fiction magazine shuts down submissions.
The Voice to Parliament referendum is a historic milestone for Indigenous peoples, yet many Australians fail to understand its significance. read now...The RBA governor has consistently sought refuge in claims that wage pressures in Australia are building and justify the central bank rate hikes – 9 consecutive increases since May 2022. The RBA has chosen to seriously mislead the Australian public on this issue and when confronted with publicly-available data that justifies that conclusion they claim…
The Chinese balloon saga exposed blatant political opportunism by MAGA Republicans and ended in a farce with jet fighters shooting down party balloons. read now..."Every brazen money-making strategy should feel included"
Genaro García Luna was convicted on Tuesday of accepting millions in cartel bribes. But the information U.S. officials had went mostly unexplored.
The post Trial of Mexico’s Former Top Cop Neglected U.S. Role in War on Drugs appeared first on The Intercept.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided not to replace Queen Elizabeth II’s portrait on the Australian $5 note with the features of King Charles III. read now...The AP and the NY Times interviewed the Special Grand Jury forewoman in the Fulton County election interference case. She was surprisingly open, although she did say that she was following the guidelines laid out by the judge overseeing the case. Here are just a few tidbits from the AP article: During a lengthy recent interview, Kohrs complied with the judge’s instructions not to discuss details related to the jury’s deliberations. She also declined to talk about unpublished portions of the panel’s final report. But her general characterizations provided unusual insight into a process that is typically cloaked in secrecy. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was on the receiving end of Trump’s pressure campaign, was “a really geeky kind of funny,” she said. State House Speaker David Ralston, who died in November, was hilarious and had the room in stitches. And Gov. Brian Kemp, who succeeded in delaying his appearance until after his reelection in November, seemed unhappy to be there. Kohrs was fascinated by an explainer on Georgia’s voting machines offered by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive.
Amanda Carpenter on DeSantis’ craven Fox and Friends pandering on Ukraine. I guess he knows he doesn’t have to show any leadership or sophistication when it comes to foreign policy in order to win the GOP nomination. It’s going to be a long campaign: Gross things can happen when you convince yourself that, no matter what, you must position yourself in complete opposition to your political opponents. Just look at what Ron DeSantis is doing. Before pursuing elected office, DeSantis was a Yale undergrad-turned-Harvard legal scholar, a history teacher, and a military officer. So, one would think his first reaction to President Biden’s surprise visit to war-torn Kyiv to show solidarity with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky would be, at a bare minimum, to show some respect for the Ukrainian resistance and maybe hold off on the self-serving commentary for a few hours. That is not the choice DeSantis made. Instead, the Florida governor, who aspires to be president himself, decided to position himself in front of the cameras of Fox & Friends to . . . wait for it . . . blame Biden for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
Eric Anderson wrote an excellent post on how late-stage capitalism engenders mental illness. I thought I’d follow it up with a simple post on capitalism.
As the name implies, capitalism is the accumulation of capital. This doesn’t mean money, primarily, that’s not what the early theorists meant by capital: they meant the means of production: land, workers, resources and capital goods: machinery in particular.
Capital is the ability to make and grow items. Because of economy of scale, if you concentrate capital it is easy to increase how much you make: Adam Smith’s famous pin factory.
Highlights: What’s wrong with that? The speech was very strong and very dramatic. Good work, Joe. He gave a speech a year ago when everyone assumed that Russia would roll over Ukraine in a matter of weeks if not days, NATO could fall apart and everyone was far less optimistic. Today, he was able to say that NATO is actually stronger and the Ukrainians are fighting like hell to save themselves.
Last year I wrote a blog about gender equity and its significance in local government. It was a popular publication that generated significant interest, eliciting engaging discussions with community planners and gender equity officers...