It’s not that I failed to consider that most of us weren’t alive when Billy Joel released it as the fourth track off The Nylon Curtain in 1982. Nor did I neglect to perceive that comparing a group of guileless first graders who have gotten their asses absolutely handed to them in co-ed basketball for ten Saturdays in a row to a platoon of imaginary marines who survived (or did they?) the horrors of the Vietnam War might be considered, by some, to be tasteless. Nor was it lost on me that nothing about any of the other B-Ball Moms screams “Billy Joel aficionado.”
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We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th March 2025 I hate to sound like a prepper, but I feel bound to confess that over the past month I’ve been stockpiling food. I think, if you can, you should […]
The party is seeking overseas funding from those who are "unhappy with the amount of regulation and tax in the UK"
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Charity's claims come as councils across the UK cut budgets for VAMG services
Today (March 20, 2025), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for February 2025. The contraction in overall employment growth, the participation rate, and the employment-population ratio are all signs of a deteriorating situation. Unemployment always lags behind the employment dynamics because of the participation rate movements, which means…
Author Jack Lohmann on his new book about phosphorus
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In what some are calling a lover’s tiff, Opposition leader Peter Dutton, has angrily accused his biggest fans, the Australian media, of discriminating against his glass jaw. ”They know I’m sensitive to criticism, so what’s with all the questions,” whined... Read More ›
Firing experts in Antarctica couldn't come at a worse time
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One of the ways that Trump reminds me of Bush Jr. is that you never want him to do anything you agree with, because he’ll fuck it up and discredit it. Trump’s tariffs are the platonic essence of fucking up a good idea.
Let’s run thru this:
Companies and individuals need predictability. Everyone has pointed this out, but it’s still true. You can’t lay on new production if you don’t know if the tariffs are here to stay or not.
It takes time to increase production so tariffs should come in like a lamb. Personally I’d have most tariffs increase by 1% every month or two, depending on how long a specific type of production takes to increase, until it reached my target. Companies can’t just spawn in new production, this isn’t a video game.
The page went dark as Columbia caved to the Trump administration’s anti-Palestinian and anti-immigrant attacks.
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The recording to the UTS ACRI panel discussion can be accessed via this link: With a 20% tariff (this includes an additional 10%) imposed on Chinese imports by the Trump Administration, the Chinese Government has remained defiant and hit back by announcing that it would not shy away and concede any fight (trade or otherwise) Continue reading »
Czeslaw Milosz, lawyer, poet, acclaimed author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature 1980, and central figure in the Polish resistance during the Nazi occupation 1940-45, wrote this: ‘This book was written in 1951/2 in Paris when the majority of French intellectuals resented their country’s dependence on American help…Its subject is the vulnerability of the twentieth century Continue reading »
In our post-truth world, the art of messing with words has been perfected. When the Ramallah-based Ishtar Theatre issued a global call to creatives of all disciplines to join the cultural intifada in solidarity with the Palestinian people, I responded by writing a series of poems. Words under Occupation is an act of resistance and Continue reading »
Will the international community hold accountable those who financed and were complicit in Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody, state-sanctioned killing campaign?
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