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Asteroids, boxing, and hallucinations, in the editor’s note from Print Issue 54.
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Union members in social and community services in Melbourne took up to four hours of unprotected strike action for Palestine on Friday 22 February.
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Dan Pfeiffer on the Supremes’ decision to help Trump’s delaying tactics: Thanks to the shenanigans of Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump appointed three justices to the Supreme Court. Yesterday, the MAGA justices thanked Trump by giving him a massive, possibly campaign-altering gift. On Wednesday afternoon, the Supreme Court agreed to take on Trump’s claim that former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for acts that occurred while they were in office. The icing on the cake is that the Supreme Court scheduled the hearing on an “expedited basis” for April 22nd, further delaying Trump’s trial. Thanks to a corrupt Supreme Court, the most important of Trump’s four (yes, four!) criminal trials may not be finished before Americans cast their ballots in November. There is no reason for the court to wait six weeks before holding the hearings. On a matter this urgent, they could have moved much faster. Every day of delay helps Trump avoid accountability. If Trump wins in November, he could preemptively pardon himself or have his Department of Justice drop the charges.
The first observation of humpback whale copulation reveals a surprise.
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That’s pretty subtle… and funny.
Advance Australia, an ultra right-wing lobby group run by a collective of billionaires, has made the startling claim that Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was the actual killer of former US President JFK. ”We have conclusive proof that Albo shot JFK,”... Read More ›
Stephen Moore, formerly of the Club For Growth, is on board Project 2025. That’s not good news. The Guardian reports: Stephen Moore, a conservative economist whose controversial remarks about women cost him a seat on the Federal Reserve board in 2019, is now co-author of a plan to radically reform the US treasury as part of Project 2025, a vast rightwing effort to advance radical policy proposals for Donald Trump’s possible White House return. “Project 2025 is all about forcing a far-right agenda on to everyday Americans,” said Tony Carrk, the executive director of the progressive watchdog Accountable.US, which produced an extensive report on Moore’s views and positions. “So it’s no wonder they tapped a notorious social security opponent like Stephen Moore to help write their policy schemes.” Moore, Carrk said, had “dedicated his career to slashing social security benefits and taxes for billionaires”. Trump always says he will protect SS and medicare but it’s just a campaign promise.
IDENTIFIED by their car and box-trailer number plates, a man and a woman will be issued a fine by City of Coffs Harbour (CoCH) for dumping household rubbish on Battery Road in Nana Glen on Monday 19 February. Reported by Nana Glen resident Catriona Slade, who witnessed the dumping and took photographs, the pair emptied...
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TRIBUTE was paid to the exemplary dedication and service of Louise Rawson-Harris and Mark Willis for their tireless contributions to the Bellingen Memorial Hall for over two decades. In a small ceremony held by Bellingen Shire Council at the hall, a plaque was unveiled in the foyer, immortalising their invaluable efforts. Advertise with News of...
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BELLINGEN Shire Council has concluded its community engagement on master plans for the region’s CBD areas, which involved workshops and surveys aimed at shaping the future of Bellingen, Dorrigo, and Urunga. The community engagement initiative, facilitated in collaboration with consultant companies Cobalt Engagement and McGregor Coxall, included a series of workshops held in each township,...
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BLUE is the colour as Coffs Harbour’s famous Big Banana lights up on Wednesday 6 March during Lymphoedema Awareness Month. The ‘Shine a Light on Lymphoedema’ campaign is run by the Lymphoedema Association Australia (LAA), a charity aiming to ensure people with the condition can access the information, treatment and support they need to live...
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Doctor Who: Russell T. Davies announced that Genesis Lysea (Shadow & Bone) and Gwïon Morris Jones (The Winter King) have joined the cast.
It’s been a nightmare and it just got worse. Today’s horror, in which starving Palestinians rushed a rare humanitarian aid station, trampling each other out of desperation when IDF soldiers fired into the crowd resulting in over a hundred dead and 800 injured is one of the worst yet. There can’t be any more vivid example of just how out of control the war has become or a greater necessity for Israel to put an end to this nightmare right now. They are not going to “eliminate Hamas” through attrition and creating a more and more desperate population is only going to radicalize even more of them. They have more than made their point and have, in the process, revealed themselves to be ruthless and brutal, giving up much of whatever moral authority they had left. This is indefensible, even in light of the terrorist attack on October 7th. The Biden administration said they had been on the verge of a ceasefire agreement and this may have thrown a monkey wrench into it.
Leaving aside the issue of whether ASIO’s announcement that there is a ‘traitor in our midst’ is simply a ploy to get more funds in this year’s Federal Budget (something you can never rule out) why hasn’t ASIO and other security and law enforcement agencies in this country pursued the two greatest practitioners of so Continue reading »
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear. ― George Orwell (Eric Blair) Later this year it’s unlikely you’ll be reading columns like this unless keyboarded outside Indonesia. Ex-pat writers will fear deportation for lese majeste aka ‘subversion’ and ‘against our culture’ while local journalists Continue reading »
Aaron Bushnell enacted the ultimate sacrifice in the face of atrocities the likes of which have never been seen before and the grotesque, ugly western leadership enabling it to continue. His act captures our anxiety, distress and helplessness. He is all of us. To learn more about Aaron Bushnell and his life, listen to interviews Continue reading »