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A transparency review by Sense about Science has found that three out of six policy measures failed to meet the test of whether a motivated citizen can see what evidence the Government has used or assessed in its decision-making
Newsmax host Todd Starnes wants Trump to make a run for the border: Here’s Trump sputtering today: Maybe his lawyers didn’t tell him that they had he ability to call witnesses too? The jury asked for Pecker testimony to be read back to them today. The consensus among the legal beagles is that the prosecution is likely happy about that since it means they are looking at corroboration of Cohen’s testimony. We don’t know but it’s likely that Trump isn’t going to sleep well tonight.
What we can learn from the history of maritime folk music.
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Media Matters looked at the media coverage of the Hillary Clinton “basket of deplorables” comment back in 2016 and Trump’s “vermin” comment this year. It shows that they only learned that they shouldn’t treat Trump as badly as they treated Clinton. Great. Trump benefits from the fact that he says so many disgusting, reprehensible things that the media no longer sees it as newsworthy. That is perverse.
Culture, identity, ethnicity, gender, and religiosity should never be accepted as a basis for intolerance in political and civic aspects. In a modern democratic society, people belonging to these different groups must be able to rely on society to protect them against the abuses of intolerance. All citizens must have the freedom and right to […]
Would breaking up the Live Nation monopoly really improve an inequitable music industry?
Low rating Sky News Australia host, Paul Murray, not to be confused with low rating Sky News Australia hosts, Chris Kenny or Andrew Bolt, has pledged to deliver personally a reach around to any voter who switches their vote from... Read More ›
Nate Cohn of the NY Times wrote a little piece for a NY Times newsletter today explaining that all isn’t actually lost for Joe Biden since the race is close in the northern swing states. Here’s the headline: Lol. That’s nice. He also mentions this down in the piece: Why is Mr. Biden competitive in the Northern battlegrounds? White voters and older voters. In Times/Siena polling this year, Mr. Biden is running only about a point behind how he fared among white voters in 2020. For good measure, he’s also faring a bit better than he did among voters over 65. Other polls tell a similar story. Mr. Biden’s resilience among white voters and older voters hasn’t gotten a lot of attention, but it’s very important. White voters will make up around 70 percent of the electorate in November, and their share will be even higher in the Northern battleground states that Mr. Biden will be counting on. And voters over 65 will outnumber those under 30. The piece is full of caveats and warnings so don’t expect the mainstream media to change their Biden Is Doomed narrative any time soon.
Emotional context helps memories stick.
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This has no relevance to the trial, which has now gone to the jury, but it’s relevant to anyone who has questions about whether it happened: The celebrity athlete, who spoke to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity, citing fear of harassment or retaliation, said he was close to Trump and Daniels while they socialized at the 2006 American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Though Trump sometimes referred to Daniels indirectly as a “porn star,” the athlete said, he emphasized that it was understood among the golfers who heard the boasts that Trump, at the time best known as the host of reality TV show The Apprentice, was saying he had slept with Daniels.
The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant US military base. Will the same happen to the 593 Australian residents on the Cocos Islands that lies south of Sumatra in the Indian ocean? The Australian Government has committed over $600 million to the military upgrade of the run-way and support Continue reading »
The Jewish Council of Australia renews our calls for the Albanese Government to use all possible diplomatic pressure to stop Israel committing the crime of genocide. Yesterday, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 45 people who were living in tents in the declared safe-zone of Rafah. The act is likely in breach of last week’s Continue reading »
Could the final act of the US’s Global War on Terror (GWOT) be the conviction of a US President for terrorism? Tantalising but implausible? Read on. The ICC request for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and others is only the beginning. Around the world evidence is being gathered and cases are being prepared, including against British, Continue reading »
Allan Behm, head of international and security at the Australia Institute, discusses foreign affairs, defence, AUKUS and security issues facing Australia. Behm poses the question: do we know who we are and what we stand for in attempting to secure our national interest? As we balance our relations with long time ally the United States Continue reading »
The recent report from the ACOSS and UNSW Sydney-led Poverty and Inequality Partnership, Inequality in Australia 2024: Who is affected and how featured analysis of wealth inequality by age. This is topical, with media reports highlighting the accumulated wealth of older people and lack of it among young people locked out of home ownership. There Continue reading »
In the unlikely event that Peter Dutton could manage the succession of problems with nuclear power stations – persistent massive cost overruns; State legislation banning nuclear; and NIMBY backlashes – he would still have a big problem – lack of staff to run the plants. Currently there is an international shortage of engineers and other Continue reading »
What is it going to take, asks climate activist Violet Coco, to stop the death machine, to save humanity and the living world? We first need to find the engine, the beating heart of this global materialist-consumerist-industrial civilisation. Jared Diamond observed, in Collapse, that some past civilisations’ greatest accomplishments came just as they began to Continue reading »
When it comes to the security of Israel, it is uncommon to publicly hear of any threat facing the country other than that which emanates from either its Arab neighbours or else Iran. But two highly experienced reporters from The New York Times recently filed an extremely detailed report outlining the threat that the country Continue reading »