Medan Piketty ser det ekonomiska systemet som en ojämlikhetsskapande faktor ser Waldenström marknaden som lösningen … Piketty och Waldenström är eniga om politikens, demokratins och utbildningens viktiga roll för den utveckling som skett mot ökad jämlikhet. Den stora skillnaden ser vi i inställningen till presenterade fakta. Waldenström säger att Pikettys analys är ”bitvis ideologisk”, men […]
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Millionaire garbage and billionaire fools American politics look different with a little geographic perspective. 7News Melbourne has plenty of distance for it. I had to check to be sure this wasn’t an Australian version of SNL’s Weekend Update. Stuart Stevens says what we’ve all known about Donald Trump’s subcontracting the RNC’s GOTV operation to Elon Musk and PACs like America Pac, Turnout for America, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action and America First Works. The con man is being conned: One of the more amusing aspects of this campaign has been watching @elonmuskmake a fool of himself babbling on about a subject he is completely ignorant. The consultants he is paying to set up an “organization” are taking advantage of him like an 18 year old frat boy with $1,000 in a strip club. They tell him what he wants to hear, and he puts in more money. There is a view that Musk is not some genius, that he stumbled into making a fortune in PayPal (which was a stumble; read Peter Thiel’s biography, “The Contrarian”) and had a lot of ambition and passions and a high risk tolerance.
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People touched by the justice system worry about the plan’s call to scale up attacks on reform-minded prosecutors.
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This gold standard poll, which called the last two presidential election when everyone else had it wrong, in September had Trump 47 and Harris 43. This is all about women including independent women and women over 65 breaking hard for her in the last month. I wonder why? The analysis from most of the strategists say that this portends victory, at the very least, in the Blue Wall states and could indicated a massive shift from women, particularly white women (Iowa is almost all white), elsewhere. Let’s just say that Democrats are pretty stoked right now.
WOOLGOOLGA Rural Fire Brigade has notched up 75 years responding to bushfires, car accidents and general emergencies. Members, including the brigade’s founding captain Noel Bultitude OAM, were joined by surrounding brigades and other emergency services last Saturday to celebrate the anniversary. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message...
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WOOLGOOLGA Swimming Club members are frustrated about the poor state of their local swimming pool, the cost of lane hire and the limited opening times. It has also been unheated since the heat pump rusted out in 2021. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us...
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OAK Tree Retirement Village held its annual Spring Fashion Parade with all proceeds raised going to the Pink Silks Trust charity. A total of $2,621 was raised in a short few hours of fashion, fun and laughter, which has been presented to Tanya Johnson, the Chair and founder of Pink Silks. Advertise with News of...
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No amount of disinformation can hide the truth about why Putin wants to help Trump win again in 2024.
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Voices of dissent or reason are swatted away like annoying flies until the bs that is U.S. and Israeli propaganda dries in the sun and no longer stinks. Continue reading »
On October 11, I attended a vigil for Palestinians in Federation Square, Melbourne. The event did not attract politicians’ censure as it was sufficiently distanced in time from Jewish vigils on 7 October. In the week before 7 October, Labor and Coalition politicians criticised organisers of events to memorialise the slaughter of more than 42,000 Continue reading »
The 2024 Nobel Prize for economics has gone to two economists for work on why some poor nations prosper while others fail and remain poor. But it is their 540 page account that fails, by not mentioning the real causes that are foundational in the global economic system. The main statement of the case is Continue reading »
In 1962, a columnist with the Melbourne Herald noted that a 16th century sculpture of Madonna and Child would be on that year’s Christmas stamp. He went on to praise ‘Our Lady of the Aborigines’ as ’a real Australian Madonna and Child,’ before asking, ‘How about it for next year?’ The painting was by Karel Continue reading »
A few years ago Ken Haddock, a retired social worker, discovered that a legendary folk tale of Melbourne Catholicism was false. For decades Father Wally Silvester (1919-2005), a charismatic Pallottine priest, has been treated with awe as a former U-boat commander, and hailed as a war hero who defied Hitler by saving enemy Russian sailors. Continue reading »
The Conservative Party's new leader has the potential to do a lot of damage, whether or not she wins the next general election
Pregnant and bleeding? Don’t mess with Texas. Texas’ severe abortion laws notched another preventable death from a pregnancy gone wrong. ProPublica reported the death of Josseli Barnica, 28, in 2021 on Wednesday. She died days after the state’s S.B. 8 “heartbeat bill” took effect. Bloomberg Opinion asked: “Texas’ Abortion Ban Killed Josseli Barnica. Who Will Be Next?” Nevaeh Crain, it seems. On Friday, ProPublica told the story of her tragic death in MAGAstan after the Dobbs decision in June 2022 triggered an effective abortion ban in Texas. Crain was an early victim: Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before. The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps.
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Ferdia Lennon’s novel Glorious Exploits brings to life an episode from the Peloponnesian War, when seven thousand Athenian soldiers were captured and crowded into a quarry outside Syracuse after a failed attack on the city. As Fintan O’Toole suggests in his review in our November 7, 2024, issue, the book “makes us feel like its story is […]
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• Sedan 2020, då det här decenniet av allt större klyftor inleddes, har världens fem rikaste män mer än fördubblat sina förmögenheter medan nästan fem miljarder människor har fått se sina tillgångar minska. • Om de fem rikaste männen skulle göra av med varsin miljon USD om dagen skulle det ta 476 år att spendera […]
Automatic airfare refunds finally take off, the Feds slap a big fine on Apple Card, Lyft must stop lying, and tribes tackle orphaned wells.