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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 15:06

FOR more than 23 years, the remarkable ladies associated with the former Inner Wheel Club of Coffs Harbour have created and donated more than 2000 cushions for breast cancer patients at the Mid North Coast Cancer Institute (MNCCI). Breast Care Nurse Jane Kelly said the kidney-shaped cushions, carefully designed to fit under the arm, provided...

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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 15:01

THE twelfth C.ex Group Coffs Harbour Running Festival took place at Coffs Harbour Showground on Sunday. Records were broken at this year’s event, with more than 1,400 entrants from across the state taking to the course through the shady Coffs Creek and Botanic Gardens. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...

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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 14:43

THE Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium of Music, affectionately known as “the Con”, is celebrating its 40th year. Dr Glen Hodges is its newly appointed Artistic Director and, like the Board, is proud of the Con’s rich history and remarkable achievements. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....

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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 13:43

HEALTHY North Coast’s (HNC) Community Wellbeing and Resilience (CWR) program has won the NSW Mental Health and Wellbeing category in the 2024 Resilient Australia Awards. Its entry was titled “Climate Ready North Coast: Elevating the community service sector” and showcased community-led, place-based initiatives to build health and wellbeing resilience in the face of increasing climate...

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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 11:55

Leaks expose a secret effort by retired National Endowment for Democracy leader Carl Gershman to consolidate war-hungry neoconservative control over Iran’s opposition, while channeling US government funds into his own pet regime change initiatives. Leaked documents and emails obtained by The Grayzone reveal a seemingly covert effort by American regime change operatives to impose radical leadership on the remnants of Iran’s protest movement against the mandatory hijab, in order to topple the government of Iran.  The initiative was spearheaded by […]

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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 09:42
Five minutes on X is all it takes to witness the realities of a world in turmoil and the horror that continues in Gaza. This is what we witnessed today. European Parliament member Rima Hassan demands EU sanctions on Israel @swilkinsonbc European Parliament member Rima Hassan delivers a speech in Brussels demanding sanctions against the Continue reading »
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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 09:30
Obviously, it would be very bad to get your hopes up. We’ve all learned our lesson over the past 8 years. But still, there is a bit of a case to be made that things could go very well on election day for Harris and the Democrats. I think it’s ok to fantasize a little bit about that, just for kicks. Here’s an article in Fortune about the possibility of a big win: In late 2020 and early 2021, this reporter wrote several stories focusing on the election predictions advanced by Thomas Miller, a data scientist at Northwestern University. I was intrigued by the highly original methodology Miller deployed in calling the trends, and outcomes, first in the presidential race, then for the two Georgia senatorial contests, where the surprise twin victories gave Democrats control of the upper chamber. […] In all three 2020 contests, Miller beat virtually every pollster, and modeler parsing multiple voter surveys. He missed the size of Biden’s win in the electoral college by just 12 votes, tagging every state for the correct column save Georgia. For the two senate runoffs, Miller refined his approach to sorting data on the Peach State, and scored again.
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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 08:00
The NY Times poll is out! Oh my god! Now we know the truth! Take a look at the list below from 538 which shows all the national polling results since September 11th. You may notice that there’s only one that shows Trump ahead. That’s the NY Times/Sienna poll. Maybe it’s right and all these other polls are wrong. It could happen. But I would think that the media would show a tiny bit of skepticism about that since every single poll other than this one shows Harris leading. And yes, these are all within the margin of error. And maybe it’s better psychologically for Democratic voters to believe they are losing but there’s a fine line between feeling motivated feeling despondent. I just hope the Democrats are able to keep up the energy that we’ve been seeing since Harris took over the ticket. I should point out that the good news is the NY Times poll (with the Philly Inquirer) found Harris ahead in Pennsylvania by 4 points. (They didn’t poll Wisconsin and Michigan or didn’t reveal it, if they did.) That’s actually better than some of the other polls from the same period and who knows what it really means.
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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 06:30
Now the Trump campaign is urging him to drop out because of this story on CNN: Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found. Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.” The comments, which Robinson denies making, predate his entry into politics and current stint as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. They were made under a username that CNN was able to identify as Robinson by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two. Many of Robinson’s comments were gratuitously sexual and lewd in nature. They were made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website that includes a message board.
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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 05:00
Cameron Stewart recently attempted to vaunt the virtues, so to speak, of the AUKUS nuclear submarines via an article in The Australian newspaper. In part, it’s threaded together with tufts of intellectual fluff from Kim Beazley, his one-time offsider, Paul Dibb, Peter Dean from the United States Study Centre in Sydney, Mike Pezzullo formerly of Continue reading »
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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 05:00
(If only the media would report it…) Media Matters with yet another of Trump’s insane comments: Major newspapers and newswires failed to report that at a September 17 campaign event in Michigan, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proposed reducing food imports in response to a question about how he’d reduce food costs, claiming that “our farmers are being decimated.” Several economists explained the obvious point that reducing the supply of food by restricting imports would actively increase food prices. During the town hall, an audience member asked Trump how he would “bring down the cost of food and groceries.” After Trump rambled about unrelated energy prices and Federal Reserve interest rates, he responded: “We gotta work with our farmers. Our farmers are being decimated right now. They’re being absolutely, absolutely decimated. And you know, one of the reasons is we allow a lot of farm product into our country. We’re gonna have to be a little bit like other countries.
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Fri, 20/09/2024 - 04:59
A unique court case has begun in Nevada this week. At stake is the future of the Murdoch empire. The case, which began on 17 September local time, is scheduled to run (in secret) for two weeks, and sometime after that the Reno Nevada County Probate Commissioner will make what will probably be the biggest Continue reading »