The multi-billion dollar expenditure on nuclear powered submarines as part of the AUKUS pact has attracted some attention. Perhaps it helps to provide historical context if it is remembered that Australia’s first submarines were of limited use in the defence of our shorelines. My four times great grandfather William Eckford from North Ayrshire was a Continue reading »
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Responses to the report of the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (‘Holding up a Mirror to Cricket’) commissioned by the England and Wales Cricket Board, continue to reverberate months after its release in mid-2023. Based upon evidence given by thousands of cricketers, many of whom claimed to have experienced discrimination in the game, the Continue reading »
Several veterinary staff recently quit the notorious oceanarium in protest of an environment they say is unfit for animal care.
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That applies to clickbait polls like today’s NYT poll that has everyone spinning out. No, women are not suddenly voting for Trump. And this too:
THIRTY-PLUS members and guests of the Woolgoolga and Northern Beaches Chamber of Commerce (WNBCC) gathered last week for the organisation’s first soirée of 2024. The networking social on Thursday 22 February was hosted by La Hacienda 101 Mexican restaurant on the town’s Market Street, a Chamber member business. Advertise with News of The Area today....
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SET to test the problem solving skills and creativity of Coffs Coast students, the Science and Engineering Challenge (SEC) returns to Woolgoolga in April. The SEC is a nationwide science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) outreach program run by the University of Newcastle in partnership with communities, Rotary clubs and sponsors. Advertise with News of...
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COFFS Harbour Airport is set to welcome the new QantasLink Airbus A220 with flights set to commence from October. The new state of the art aircraft will operate between Coffs Harbour Airport and Melbourne, adding more seats between the two destinations. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message...
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FRESH new radio programs, hosted by local youth presenters, kick off early in March on 104.1 CHY FM. The independent not-for-profit radio station launches ‘The Cold Toast Breakfast Show’, hosted by Stirling, and ‘Exploring Ecospheres’, with Emelia. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us –...
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A NEW Marine Rescue vessel was commissioned this week, providing a significant water safety boost for the Woolgoolga community. NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Disaster Recovery Janelle Saffin welcomed the $862,930 vessel on Tuesday alongside Marine Rescue NSW Commissioner Alex Barrell. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....
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NSW LABOR has announced a new Branch in Woolgoolga, with the first official meeting held at Woolgoolga Diggers on Thursday 22 February. President elect Stephen Ottaway said the Branch’s focus would be on “helping the community to resolve local issues”. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....
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Yesterday, one of my economics students amused herself by asking a famous AI chatbot “Why not all economists like Lars Syll” and got this — I guess pretty accurate — response … Professor Lars Pålsson Syll is a vocal critic of mainstream economics and advocates for pluralism in economic thinking. Overall, Lars Syll is recognized […]
Punching back with style. Too bad it was behind closed doors. A Tweet (suck it, Musk) regarding the closed-door House questioning of Hunter Biden caught my attention in a big way. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) used his questioning time to punch back against the GOP’s phony Burisma inquiry. Enjoy, from the transcript: BRILLIANT! If you have not read Eric Swalwell’s questions to Hunter Biden during his hearing, you have to. SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel? BIDEN: No, he has never operated a hotel. SWALWELL: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office? BIDEN: No, he has not. SWALWELL: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office? BIDEN: My father has never employed any direct family members, to my knowledge. SWALWELL: While your father was President, did anyone in the family receive 41 trademarks from China? BIDEN: No.
THE famous Coffs Coast Pipe and Drums band is holding a monster garage sale on Sunday 3 March. Band members will set up the sale at the Band Hub at Coffs Harbour Showground, ready for business and banter from 9am until 1pm. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....
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Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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Plus, Oregon aims to limit corporate takeover of medical clinics, federal regulators investigate private use of corporate aircrafts, and more student debt relief is on the way.
A conversation from first principles “On the Continued Battle for the Soul of the Nation” was President Joe Biden’s topic on September 1, 2022 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” he warned, and warned again: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.
It took decades for BBC's Doctor Who to do right by Bonnie Langford's Melanie "Mel" Bush, one of the classic series' unappreciated companions.
In fact, no evidence of even a single rape.
I noted, repeatedly, that I doubted these rape claims and was correct, as usual.
Now if you believed them you need to think very carefully about why. Every war always includes reports of fake atrocities and this is especially true at the start of the war, in order to gin up support. My “favorite” is that when Iraq invaded Kuwait, we were told that Iraqi soldiers were bayoneting babies in incubators.
Never happened.
Note that the primary purveyor of the mass rape claims was the New York Times, who also were the primary purveyors of fake nuclear weapon scares in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
One of the most important tasks of social sciences is to explain the events, processes, and structures that take place and act in society. Explanations are important within science since the choice between different theories hinges in large part on their explanatory powers. The most reasonable explanation for one theory’s having greater explanatory power than […]
. In loving memory of Bengt Nilsson — a friend non plus ultra. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you