Marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent under global warming and this is having a significant impact on species’ ability to recover. Since April, the world has seen record high ocean temperatures and that’s bad news for the plants and animals that call the ocean home. Longer and more frequent bouts of extreme temperatures can cause the exodus Continue reading »
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Collecting, sifting and presenting information on national security is not the toughest job in the world although it can be tricky. There are now oceanic quantities of the stuff available. Modern technology can serve it up more or less in “real time” in ways that would startle, and probably charm, Sir Francis Walsingham, one of Continue reading »
The announcement by ASIO Boss Mike Burgess that the National Terrorism Threat Level would be raised from ‘possible to probable’ has received massive mainstream publicity, a spike in talkback radio angst and widespread freelance interpretation about who presents the incipient threat. Never shy of an opportunity to name the culprit, News Ltd, led by The Continue reading »
There is no doubt that multimedia technology can tell stories dramatically. These stories particularly resonate with a generation raised on video games and social media, which are now an intrinsic part of their lives. The problems with this technology in relation to armed conflict, though, are whether it conveys reality or distorts it and what Continue reading »
What a difference a day (or a week) makes. What a difference the mere translation of a word makes. As the war against Japan in the Pacific began to close, the Potsdam Conference, which decided to call for Japan’s unconditional surrender, began on July 17, 1945. On the day before, July 16, the US test Continue reading »
Secretary-General António Guterres has limited his role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to that of a town crier, expressing “grave concern” from time to time regarding the terrible Hamas attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza every day since then and long before. To change his Continue reading »
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Israeli abuse of Palestinians at the military prison has been reported for months. The U.S. is asking the Israeli military to investigate itself.
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What is camp? Well, it’s a vision. It’s unmistakable. It’s sharing a bunk with seven other girls and having a rotating schedule of who the entire bunk has decided to hate this week. Camp is big. It’s brash. It’s more often than not “Hate Katie” week.
Camp is a way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. Camp is artifice. It is style. And by style, I mean cutting the sleeves off your T-shirts so they look like they got halfway caught in a shredder. Camp is those little boob cardigans that only cover one-eighth of your body. Camp is ironically wearing Crocs until one day you are unironically wearing Crocs.
Camp is a way of looking at things, a perspective. Like dropping your glasses in the lake and using a backup pair with an old prescription. It is seeing the world in bright, bold colors and vague, fuzzy shapes that give you a headache to look at.
Here are some things that are part of the canon of camp:
The Democratic ticket offers vagueness, corporate ties, and now laudable prairie populism. What will the agenda actually be?
Bad Wolf's Jane Tranter shared how she views the first season of BBC and Disney+'s Doctor Who deal and offers a brief production update.
The UK’s violent unrest has deeper roots than economic despair—Zionist interests, working through far-right leaders like Tommy Robinson, are stoking the fires of hatred.
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As sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, modern¹ Russian wars begin in a d
Your compromised freedoms are on the line in November People who don’t believe in democracy don’t believe in America. Nor in its founding principles. Nor in its founding documents. No amount of red, white, and blue garb, no number of oversized flags, decaled monster trucks, and boat parades can conceal that fact. If January 6th was not stark proof enough, where have you been? Vice President Kamala Harris is saying it without saying it. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● For The Win, 5th Edition is ready for download. Request a copy of my free countywide GOTV planning guide at ForTheWin.us.
On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world — surrounded the remote community of Tabaco. They then dragged residents out of their homes and bulldozed what remained of that town’s structures. There was, after all, coal under the town and the mine’s owner, Exxon Mobil Corporation, wanted to access it. Since that date, the displaced residents of Tabaco have been fighting for compensation and (as guaranteed by both Colombian and international law) the reconstruction of their community. So far, no such luck. Note that August 9th was then and is now the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, as... Read more
We’re not going back If Republicans expect to lead in the 21st century they might first try living in it. Donald Trump’s view of the world stopped developing along with his emotional maturity before he was a teen. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Republicans claimed Sir Ronald of Reagan had slain the Evil Empire and won the Cold War. Decades into the 21st century, they are still fighting it, invoking communists and Marxists and socialists (Oh, my!) as a slur against every political foe, always “to the left of [Fox News liberal bogeyman here].” President Harry Truman declared in 1952 that socialism is “a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.” Scare tactics are still their go-to. Over 70 years later, The Wall Street Journal this week inveighed against Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz (D) for moving his state “sharply to the left.” Among Walz’s sins: • Funding “the North Star Promise Program, which provides free college for students with a family income under $80,000,” including illegal immigrants.
Michael Kumhof and Mauricio Salgado-Moreno While ‘unconventional’ balance-sheet policies like quantitative easing (QE) and quantitative tightening (QT) appear to have been successful, it is difficult to separate their macroeconomic and financial stability implications from those of other polices. Hence, in a recent paper, we develop a theoretical framework, focusing on the central bank’s liabilities, that … Continue reading Central bank balance sheet policies and the market for reserves
Republicans continue to lob various attacks at Kamala Harris. Which of these accusations have they made, and which are still to come?
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As Arab tribes in Deir Ezzor mount an offensive against the SDF, the focus is on the US-controlled oil fields that have long provided Washington with leverage over Syria. The stakes for US influence have never been higher.
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On Lever Time, journalist Zack Beauchamp explains how an anti-democratic tradition that began in the U.S. has spread to right-wing governments around the world.
There is great fear among communities in the UK right now following the scenes of hate and violence witnessed in recent days. Those scenes were the product of racist agitation following the senseless deaths of three children in Southport last week, but the climate of discrimination and of scapegoating refugees and migrants in which they […]
Polls show the public would now vote to rejoin the EU, so why isn't the Prime Minister listening?
The Pacifist group Peace Pledge Union and its associated peace education charity argue that its advert was “in no way polemical”.
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