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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 06:57

THE Lions Club of Bellingen has launched one of its biggest fundraisers for the year; its popular Christmas cake stall and raffle. “We’ve got a goal of raising $100,000 to buy life-changing equipment for Bellingen hospital,” said Lions Club of Bellingen Treasurer Jim Forbes. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...

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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 05:20
“We live in an age which silence is not only criminal but suicidal”, wrote James Baldwin in his “Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis”. The year was 1970. I wonder if there has ever been a time when silence was neither criminal nor suicidal. I would like to live there and then, for […]
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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 05:00

MODERATOR: Welcome to our final presidential debate. Per the rules agreed upon by both candidates, President Trump is allowed to have Cyril, his African grey parrot, on his shoulder throughout the debate, but he may not receive advice or answers from him. Vice President Harris is allowed to have binoculars around her neck due to fall warbler migration. We will cut you off if you go beyond your allotted time or if Cyril starts shrieking. Let us begin…

THE ECONOMY

MODERATOR: Despite robust economic indicators, Americans are paying more for essential items at the grocery store and the pump. How will you address this?

TRUMP: I drove to Kearney, Nebraska, to see the sandhill crane migration, and gas was a hundred dollars a gallon, maybe more. Americans are having to choose between everyday necessities and the most spectacular bird migration in North America. It’s not right.

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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 04:58
How much longer are the world’s leaders going to stand by and watch children being shredded to bits, doctors and nurses killed, arrested, detained and tortured, hospitals destroyed and schools bombed, the environment destroyed, humanitarian aid denied and a genocide committed in Gaza? Do we have to remind our leaders again and again that this Continue reading »
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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 04:57
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has finally acknowledged that Israel is in gross breach of international law, and must not ignore the United Nations, as it continues its ruthless military attacks on the people of Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. In a statement this week rejecting the decision of the Israeli Parliament to ban Continue reading »
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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 04:56
A sustainable peace settlement in Gaza needs to meet the legitimate demands of the key parties, but given their inability to negotiate such an agreement themselves it will need to be proposed and implemented by the US and the major Arab nations under UN auspices. Yesterday,  Part 1 of this article discussed the history of Continue reading »
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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 04:54
So Bridget McKenzie thinks Lidia Thorpe’s protest against King Charles raises some “quite tricky constitutional questions”. Yes it does, but not the ones she thinks. When Australians go to the polls for each federal election it is not a top of mind consideration for most that anyone we elect will be prohibited from taking up Continue reading »
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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 04:53
No Gods, No Demons, No Superpowers

The era of the superpower is over. The new missile and drone technologies have made naval dominance impossible and ended the ability to devastate relatively advanced nations without them being able to shoot back. There is no power in the world that has the capabilities and might of the old USSR and the USA from 1945 to 2010 or so.

We have three great powers: China, the US and Russia.

There are regional powers: Brazil and Iran and the EU and Turkey and Japan and even India, which punches way below its population numbers.

But even a backwards, bombed to hell country like Yemen can defy America’s hold on the seas.

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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 04:52
It took less than a week for the reality to be exposed. Even Deputy PM Richard Marles must now acknowledge that the nation next door he praises for its moderation and democracy is now a military dictatorship and a serious threat. Proof absolute was presented on Friday, five days after his inauguration, when new Indonesian Continue reading »
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Thu, 31/10/2024 - 04:50
Decisions taken at last week’s BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, will have a significant impact on the Global South and on the Western world, as the movement towards “de-Westernisation” gathers momentum. The conclusion of the 16th BRICS summit held in Kazan from October 22-24 resulted in important decisions. It should be noted that BRICS (Brazil, Continue reading »