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THE STRAIGHTFORWARD TITLE: The Condiments Aisle 2

THE FOREBODING ROMAN TITLE: The Condiments Aisle, Part II

THE PUNNY TITLE: The Secondiments Aisle

THE PUNNY TITLE THAT’S OVERDOING IT: The Condiments Aisle 2: Come What Mayo

THE REDUNDANT TITLE: The Condiments Aisle 2: The Next Chapter

THE “ANGLING FOR AWARDS” TITLE: The Condiments Aisle 2: The Willow Weeps

As funerals were held for the dead and the wounded filled hospitals, social media and the international press buzzed with the alarming question: Could smartphones be next?

The draft programme for government, titled ‘Our Plan: Doing What Matters Most’ drops long-standing proposals to address poverty, transform health, and advance environmental protections.

For a lover of Soviet avant-garde art, In The Eye Of The Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930 is a tipping moment of a few realisations, that started around the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. The exciting and pioneering art coming out of Soviet Empire in the 1920s and 1930s has been Russified for a […]

New cross-party campaign aims to increase the number of MPs from working-class backgrounds, challenging the dominance of legal and lobbying professions in politics

Follow the ‘dumpster archeologist’ Lew Blink as he pieces together people’s stories from the objects they’ve left behind

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We all constantly filter a flood of details coming in. This process helps explain what gives some brains a creative edge

- by Madeleine Gross

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When Nietzsche used the tools of philology to explore the nature of morality, he became a ‘philosopher of the future’

- by Alexander Prescott-Couch

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So far, no one has been able to hold the notorious Israeli spyware firm accountable for complicity in human rights abuses.

The post These Human Rights Defenders Were Hacked by Pegasus. Now They Want Police to Charge the Spyware Maker. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Why is it that successive Australian Governments cannot bring themselves to call out Israel for what it is? A state that constantly ignores international law, most recently in the current Gaza conflict where there can be no doubt that war crimes have been, and are being committed against the Palestinian population. What Israel is perpetrating Continue reading »

How to create an appearance of progress while doing nothing. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  12th September 2024 Let’s talk about perceptionware. Perceptionware is technology whose main purpose is to create an impression of action. Whether it will ever work at scale is less important, in some cases entirely beside the point. If […]

Today (September 19, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for August 2024, which shows that the labour outlook might be about to change despite the on-going employment growth. Employment growth was biased towards part-time jobs as full-time employment fell. The unemployment rate was slightly lower (decimals) as…

This is from Col Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief-of-staff to the Secretary of State, on Judge Napolitano’s show:

The Jewish Council of Australia says it is deeply disappointed at Australia’s abstention from a critical United Nations General Assembly resolution calling on Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months. The resolution passed with 124 votes in favour, highlighting global frustration with Israel’s actions. In a statement, the JCA said Continue reading »

Joy Reid opened her MSNBC program tonight with a clip from one of my favorite episodes from the original Twilight Zone series, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, which she posited to be analogous not only with the recent demonizing of Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrant community by the Trump-Vance campaign, but American politics in general. She’s not wrong. I used that same Twilight Zone episode as the impetus for this piece from 2020. I was commentating on the sociopolitical climate of the early days of the pandemic, but I think many of the points I was making remain salient to this rather tempestuous election season; hence, a rerun. Picture if you will: (Originally posted on Hullabaloo on March 20, 2020) The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices…to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill…and suspicion can destroy…and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own – for the children and the children yet unborn.

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Go ahead. As Mitch McConnell said yesterday: Trump is making sure they will get the blame. He seems to think immigration is the magic bullet and that people will rush to his side if the Democrats refuse to pass this sill SAVE act which is an unnecessary, redundant bill. I really doubt that people will see it that way. Much more likely they’ll just see more Trumpian chaos and be reminded that the GOP majority is a clown show there will be even more of it if he’s elected president again. Speaker Johnson was kissing the ring at Mar-a-lago last weekend so we know where he’s going to wind up. He certainly isn’t going to defy Dear Leader. Stay tuned. This is going to get interesting.

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted in favour of a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year. The vote in the 193-member world body was 124-14, with Australia one of 43 members states to abstain. The United States voted against it. Australia’s Continue reading »

Greens poster boy, Max Chandler-Mather, has apologised to his colleagues after missing a party meeting due to being distracted by a mirror. ”The Albanese Government needs to stop doing whatever they are doing and focus on the big issues, like... Read More ›