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FOR the three weeks leading up to Christmas, all Jodie Nancarrow could hear from 7am-3pm, five days a week, was heavy machinery operating and trees crashing down within metres of her property boundary. Jodie lives adjacent to Bagawa State Forest, west of the Orara Way beyond Coramba, where Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) began logging...

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People are already criticised for turning up at GPs and A&E when they may not need to – a false accusation in many cases, used by politicians to excuse the interminable waits caused by intentional fragmentation, privatisation and underfunding. Now Keir Starmer wants to open the floodgates by allowing people to refer themselves to specialists […]

THREE interchanges on the plans for the Coffs Harbour bypass have been refined after plans went out to the community for feedback. “The community feedback was pretty clear,” NSW Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Sam Farraway told media in Coffs Harbour on Monday 9 January. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...

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Eizember spent his final days fighting the state over his right to have a spiritual adviser present in the death chamber.

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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Supernatural/Smallville, The Flash, Doctor Who, Yellowjackets, The Rookie, Justified, Night Court, and more!

UPDATE It is astonishing how many people are incapable of comprehending the following phrase from the article below: The account still exists and is visible online Yes, I know the account is still there. The problem is I am locked out from my account and bizarrely, when I try to recover it the process ends […]

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Before Russian intelligence cribbed his handle, Marcel Lehel Lazar hacked celebrities and Sidney Blumenthal. Now he's back home in Transylvania.

The post Guccifer, the Hacker Who Launched Clinton Email Flap, Speaks Out After Nearly a Decade Behind Bars appeared first on The Intercept.

Following complaints, Oregon’s Public Utility Commission is investigating NW Natural’s meter testing program and billing practices.

Two mates discuss the Dominic Perrottet revelations and the history of men behaving badly.  read now...

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English music legend Jeff Beck, one of the canniest axemen ever to strap on a guitar and play some rock ‘n roll, passed away following a brief and sudden battle with bacterial meningitis. He was 78. read now...

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General secretary hopes to take control of Unite NEC – but union fails to explain breaching of ‘Rule 6’ Unite is allowing at least one ineligible candidate to stand for election to the union’s ruling executive council (NEC) as long as they support general secretary Sharon Graham, according to members. The union’s rulebook mandates that […]

“Kevin’s a piece of shit,” Kinzinger exclaimed. “And let’s just be honest about this, because he will say whatever he needs to say to stay in power. I’m not even saying that gratuitously to be mean to him. It’s just a fact.” Kinzinger also took issue with McCarthy recently stripping several Democrats of committee assignments, which Republicans have justified as payback over Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) getting booted from committees during the last Congress. The ex-congressman pointed out that unlike McCarthy’s unilateral decision, the House votes to kick Green and Gosar off their assignments over violently extreme rhetoric were bipartisan—and McCarthy himself previously removed ex-Rep. Steve King (R-IA) from committees for expressing sympathy for white nationalism. In the end, Kinzinger said that McCarthy would continue to stand by Santos because the GOP’s House majority is so razor-thin that he needs every loyal member he can get. “Kevin needs his vote,” he proclaimed.

“They knew all they needed to know” ExxonMobil scientists predicted the climate crisis with astounding accuracy as early as 1977, a new Harvard study reveals. The new analysis on the precision of company scientists’ predictions could be powerful fuel for cities and states that are suing ExxonMobil, accusing the fossil-fuel corporation of violating consumer-protection statutes, lying to investors, or committing racketeering. “This analysis is a stick of dynamite in these cases,” Patrick Parenteau, professor and senior fellow of climate policy at Vermont Law School, told Insider in an email. “It is the kind of incriminating evidence that can really influence a jury.” Published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Thursday, the study compares early ExxonMobil climate models to those from other scientists at the time, and to the actual rise in global temperature that has occurred since then. According to the study, 63% to 83% of global warming projections from the company’s scientists have turned out to be accurate matches of real-life temperature rises in the decades since.

Lee Duffield provided an appraisal of the Ukraine war for IA on day one; updated it seven months into the fighting; and here looks at dangerous portends for the coming few months. read now...

It’s on the menu! Who says these House Republicans don’t have an agenda to benefit the American people? House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he’s willing to take a look at expunging an impeachment of former president Donald Trump by the Democratic-led House. Trump — now a 2024 candidate — was impeached twice during his four-year presidency: in 2019, for withholding military aid from Ukraine in exchange for political favors, and in 2021, for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In the previous Congress, groups of Republicans floated resolutions to expunge both impeachments. Supporters of the latter included Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), the Republican conference chairwoman. Asked at a news conference about the prospect of an expungement now that Republicans control the House, McCarthy said, “I would understand why members would want to bring that forward.” […] In the last Congress, Stefanik and then-Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) backed a resolution to expunge Trump’s impeachment over Jan. 6.