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COFFS Harbour Music Society has launched its program for 2025. “This year’s program will excite music lovers with its variety and quality of solo and chamber performers,” Coffs Harbour Music Society President Leigh Summer told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone...

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In the UK questions arise over the commentary of the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. In Australia, ECAJ Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin is demanding the Federal Government to declare a national emergency on antisemitism. In the US 100 Doctors stage a protest in Congress over the situation in Gaza. Jeffrey Sachs provides Piers Morgan Continue reading »
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Take him seriously, not literally. Don’t believe everything he says, but do believe the intention behind his words.

Take him literally, not figuratively. He’s not much of a reader, so if he’s using flowery language, it’s not to impress you. It’s because there’s oil under those flowers.

Take him figuratively, not metaphorically. When he says he wants to impose 25 percent tariffs on our two remaining allies, that’s a figure. He’s using math. But math isn’t a signifier for anything real. Then it would be a metaphor, which is for apes.

Take him metaphorically, not hyperbolically. When he invokes the phrase “manifest destiny,” he does want to expand our empire; he’s only talking about five or six wars. Don’t be overdramatic.

Take him hyperbolically, not parabolically. Twenty years ago, when he said, “You’re fired,” it was just to Gary Busey. Now when he says it, it’s to the whole federal government. It’s different. It may be extreme, but it’s not where he started.

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after waving around a chainsaw, Elon Musk is doing a talk at CPAC wearing sunglasses and a chain pic.twitter.com/kOi9YR2Ms7 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2025 He’s clearly high as a kite: listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now. pic.twitter.com/u9Su0gbKZN — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2025 Musk: "My mind is a storm" pic.twitter.com/ycoNu2ScJA — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2025 Oh God, this is just embarrassing: Legalize comedy pic.twitter.com/uKr6fiRI3K — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 20, 2025 Trump has delegated the domestic agenda to this freak while he golfs and cosplays Napoleon on the world stage. Here is the caliber of commentary from him when he’s not swinging a chainsaw around and babbling gibberish: It’s full blown idiocracy. I just didn’t realize it would be run by the richest man in the world who is demented. I should have known.
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Trump’s eager embrace of Vladimir Putin is still startling even though we were well warned in advance. He’s just such a sucker, so bizarrely needy, so insanely shallow and stupid. A reminder of what’s awaiting Ukraine if Trump’s iridiculous attempt at getting the Nobel Peace Prize actually comes to pass: Bucha, a suburb of 37,000 about 20 miles northwest of the capital, Kyiv, has become a notorious symbol of Russian brutality. The Russians took it over within days of invading in February 2022, and in the month that followed, they killed more than 400 civilians, Ukrainian officials say, leading to global accusations of war crimes. Images from that time ricocheted around the world: The priest left dead in a garage, his mouth open. The church choir singer and his family, their limbs cut off, their bodies burned. The woman shot dead pushing her bicycle home on Yablunska Street. On Wednesday, many in Bucha seemed to be struggling to take in Mr. Trump’s comments. When the Biden administration was in power, the United States was Ukraine’s most powerful ally. Now they had many questions: Was Mr. Trump just speaking off the cuff?
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The Washington Post/Ipsos poll is not good news for Trumpmusk: President Donald Trump has opened his second term with a flurry of actions designed to radically disrupt and shrink the federal bureaucracy, but reviews from Americans are mixed to negative on many of his specific initiatives, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll. Overall, 43 percent of Americans say they support what the president has done during his first month in office, with 48 percent saying they oppose. Those who strongly oppose outnumber those who strongly support by 37 percent to 27 percent. This is important: Americans also are clear what the president should do if a federal court rules that he has done something illegal. More than 8 in 10 say he should follow the court ruling. That includes more than 9 in 10 Democrats along with roughly 8 in 10 Republicans and independents. They are working overtime to propagandize their base, which is all they care about, into believing that the president is a king and there is no institution, law or norm, including the U.S. Constitution, that can tell him what to do.