An urgent inquiry has been called in to security at Canberra’s Parliament house after King Charles’ visit was marred by former PM, Tony Abbott, getting within knighting distance of his majesty. ”We nearly had a disaster on our hands what... Read More ›
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Yeah, I know he entertained his crowd over the weekend with talk about Arnold Palmer’s allegedly huge male member and then shut down a McDonalds so he could pretend to work there for 15 minutes to somehow prove that Kamala Harris is a liar. But I think this is yet another low point: I hope he didn’t mean that FEMA would do a better job if they knew that armed gunman would shoot them if they didn’t. But you never know. I think he meant that it was important that people tell them when they’re not doing their jobs but in reality he’s saying that they should be able to lie with impunity during a disaster for political purposes. It never ends… The chef’s kiss? The guy with the beard standing over Trump’s left shoulder is this guy: Even Republicans are getting fed up with MAGA’s hurricane conspiracy theories. Representative Chuck Edwards of North Carolina is one of them. In a press release put out on Tuesday, Edwards condemned the misinformation about Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene that has been circulated online by the likes of Donald Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Whoever owns the narrative owns the world – and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as US influence campaigns – or “perception management”. In a staggering increase in funding for propaganda and covert action the US House has passed the Countering the PRC (People’s Continue reading »
It may be that in his post-Public Service life Mr Mike Pezzullo has been watching lots of classic films. When asked about the recent stripping of his Order of Australia, the former Home Affairs supremo said that the matter wasn’t “worth a hill of beans in this crazy world.” They’re precisely the sentiments Humphrey Bogart Continue reading »
As Israel risks yet further charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in its siege of northern Gaza, its defense of the indefensible is built on a preposterous inversion of morality. That is, the portrayal of Israel as the West’s protector of its very civilization in a sea of evil. Continue reading »
It’s often said that faith moves mountains. This might be true for people who have faith in their mythical God. The faith I have is the unshakeable faith in, the courage, the heroism and the steadfastness of my people, the Palestinians. Western leaders, western journalists and western pundits would like you to believe that the Continue reading »
Albanese once said his purpose in life was to “fight Tories.” In government he has done little more than surrender to them. The menu for Anthony Albanese over the next few weeks provides good examples of Labor’s problems in controlling the agenda and sticking to the narrative over the lead-up to the next federal election. Continue reading »
Distinguished moral philosopher and public intellectual Raimond Gaita (FAHA), Professor, University College London, and Melbourne Law school, discusses his approach towards a moral understanding of the Israel Gaza war based on the ideas collected in the book ‘Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other writings’, (Edited by Scott Stephens), Melbourne University Publishing, Paperback edition October Continue reading »
The Australian Government has established 'Measuring What Matters', Australia’s first national wellbeing framework. It follows similar frameworks in SA, Victoria and the ACT, and one under development in NSW. Will these frameworks help to improve psychological wellbeing in Australia? Continue reading »
It is difficult to reconcile new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s expressions of concern for the security of his country with his advocation of an Asian version of NATO. The two ideas are contradictory to say the least. Even without mentioning China, it is clear that the alleged threat to Japan’s security emanates from China. Continue reading »
Emmy award-winning journalist Bisan Owda who continues to share what’s happening with the world, provides an overview of what’s happening in North Gaza, including maps to show the movement of the displaced people of Palestine and the Israeli army. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bisan Owda (@wizard_bisan1) Continue reading »
Jordana Cutler, Meta’s policy chief for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, repeatedly flagged for censorship posts by Students for Justice in Palestine.
The post Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts appeared first on The Intercept.
SEAN: Happy Monday, everyone. This is me, your boss, pretending that the beginning of your forty-hour work week is a good thing. It isn’t. I will now ask about everyone’s weekend and say, “Hope no one did anything I wouldn’t do.” This won’t make sense, as I’m the most boring person here. Now, I’m going to throw things over to our office manager, Kevin.
KEVIN: Let’s kick things off with this week’s calendar. As you can see, we’re up to our eyeballs with work, but I will ask everyone to stretch their bandwidth and reach goals so unachievable that they’ll strain each of our marriages.
STEPHANIE: I am in HR. I smile too much and have a strange energy about me. Once, when someone brought up roller coaster accidents, I said, “Once you see one, you never really forget it.”
The 2024 election is just a little over two weeks away now and most Democrats are down to their last nerve with worry. This is nothing new, of course. That’s just the way they roll. Republicans meanwhile are already cracking the champagne strutting around saying they have it in the bag no need to worry. That’s how they roll. Both of these phenomenons are indicative of a certain kind of temperament but they are also real political strategies and it’s worth taking a look at them. I’ve written before about the Republicans’ love of the bandwagon effect which really just holds that if you act like Donald Trump and pretend that you know you’ve got it won, some people will naturally follow because they want to go with the winner. They’ve actually been doing that long before Trump came along but nobody in politics has ever been more naturally adept at deploying it than he is.
Han kan beskrivas som det svenska inflationsmålets fader.Men i en ny dokumentär kallas 30 år av penningpolitik med fokus på 2-procentig inflation för ”en kyrka” av den före detta vice riksbankschefen.– Det var inte särskilt vetenskapligt underbyggt, säger Thomas Franzén i SVT:s ”Skuldfeber”. Hösten 1990 hade inflationen klättrat till mer än 10 procent och den […]
So Mike Johnson textd with is erstwhile friend Liz Cheney after her appearance on Meet the Press last week. He told Axios they “agreed to disagree.” Liz says, not so much: Cheney disputed Johnson’s characterization of the exchange, telling Axios that she and the speaker “used to be friends, but we did not ‘agree to disagree.'” Johnson said he had not spoken to Cheney in a “very long time,” but decided to text her after “she said some very uncharitable things.”“I do not have faith that Mike Johnson will fulfill his constitutional obligations,” Cheney told NBC on Oct. 13. Johnson told Axios he shared “how disappointed I was in that, to make things personal, because I’ve not done that.
The secret operation was allegedly conducted by former intelligence officials in order to "generate false information" about senior Democrats