Grabier than “Gollum reaching for the One Ring” Filing for the 2024 elections in North Carolina opens in four weeks: at noon on Monday, Dec. 4. Democrats are already in court fighting the usual tricksy maneuvers from the Republican legislature. State Republicans roll their eyes and complain bitterly that Democrats filing lawsuits is more of the same tiresome resistance to their gerrymandered majorities. Naturally, Democrats would not be expending campaign resources on court so often if the GOP was not so routinely engaged in voter disenfranchisement and power grabs. Their latest is a doozy. After Democrat Roy Cooper defeated incumbent Pat McCrory (of HB2 “bathroom bill” fame) in the 2016 election for governor, Republicans called a lame-duck session ostensibly to address hurricane relief. What they really had in mind was changing the composition of election boards and stripping the incoming governor of appointment powers before he could take office.
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 5, 2023
by Tony Wikrent
Strategic Political Economy
Rana Foroohar, October 29, 2023 [Washington Monthly, via Naked Capitalism Water Cooler 10-31-2023]
There can be no doubt now that an epochal shift is underway in how the economy—in America and across the globe—is governed. The mystery is how a moderate, conventional politician like Joe Biden engineered it….
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Not the greatest of photographs, but I thought I’d continue with a bird. When I was looking at this one I was approached by some French retirees who asked me if there was anything interesting to see. Not knowing the French for egret, I said “Il y a un héron”, only to get the slightly […]
AN initiative to have the voices of young people inform the strategic direction of the services funded to provide support to them commenced in Bellingen Shire in October 2022. Ellie Tree, the Project Manager for The YOUth Speak Project said it was driven largely by the youth services and community sector in the Bellingen Shire...
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WIIGULGA Sports Complex has gained another accolade, this time for its excellent architecture. The popular City of Coffs Harbour facility, on Solitary Islands Way, Woolgoolga, has received a commendation in the Public Architecture category of the NSW Country Division Architecture Awards run by the Australia Institute of Architects (AIA). Advertise with News of The Area...
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ROTARY Club of Sawtell presented its annual Pride Of Workmanship Awards at Sawtell RSL with around 40 guests attending on Monday 23 October. The two local resident recipients are Kate Drum and Roland Sciortino. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882....
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SAPPHIRE Beach locals Ari Herson and Shane Newton have just completed the RSPCA’s Rescue Run fundraiser to support the increasing number of animals rescued from cruelty, neglect and abandonment. Rescue Run stipulated participants could run, walk or roll 56km for the 56,000 animal cruelty complaints received by the RSPCA nationally each year. Advertise with News...
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THE REMEMBRANCE Day service in Woolgoolga on Saturday 11 November 2023 will mark the 105th Commemoration of the Armistice that ended the Great War, the 70th year following the Korean War armistice and the 50th after the conclusion of Australian combat operations in Vietnam. The number of Australian Service Members killed in action or died...
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THE Pink Silks Trust (PST) has put the call out to the Coffs Harbour community for beneficiaries as the charitable group plans its fundraisers for 2024. “As the committee starts to organise our two major fundraising events in January 2024 we are asking any local organisations to apply to be a PST beneficiary,” Pink Silks...
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THE NOVEMBER Reign mural festival returns to the walls of Coffs Harbour this month. The city’s original mural festival, this out-and-about-art event is run by the team at Open Studio, who have been the driving force of street art in Coffs since their establishment in 2008. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...
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“THE newspaper’s not big enough to cover everything I’ve done in my life,” Peg Mavin told News Of The Area when chatting about the planned celebrations for her 90th birthday. Peg will be blowing out the candles and having a good old reminisce and laugh amongst her family at a birthday bash at Wiigulga Multipurpose...
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AN exciting way for men to connect over a meal and express themselves in a confidential setting is happening again in Coffs Harbour. The first ‘Men’s Entree’ took place in April, which led to the formation of the first local Men’s Table. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....
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“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five All play the gameExistence to the endOf the beginningOf the beginning -The Beatles, “Tomorrow Never Knows” I read the news today-oh boy. Well …technically, I read this news several days ago: The last Beatles song featuring the voice of late member John Lennon and developed using artificial intelligence [was] released on Thursday at 1400 GMT alongside the band’s first track, record label Universal Music said. Called “Now and Then”, the song – billed as the last Beatles song – will be released in a double A-side single which pairs the track with the band’s 1962 debut UK single “Love Me Do”, Universal Music Group (UMG.AS) said in a statement. The Beatles’ YouTube channel premiered late on Wednesday the short film “Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song” ahead of the release of the track.
It’s not good This guy is nuts and he’s leading a small army of nuts. We just have to hope that if he gets on the ballot that more right wing nuts than left wing nuts vote for him: At an anti-vaccine conference in Georgia on Friday, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed his commitment to the cause and spoke to his base about how he, as president, would serve the movement he built. “I feel like I’ve come home today,” he said to a standing ovation, crediting the assembled audience with his candidacy. He then laid out his vision for a Kennedy presidency, which would include telling the National Institutes of Health to take “a break” from studying infectious diseases, like Covid-19 and measles, and pivoting the agency to the study of chronic diseases, like diabetes and obesity. Kennedy has suggested without evidence that researchers and pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit to neglect such chronic conditions and invest in ineffective and even harmful treatments; he includes vaccines among them. “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said.
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But this looks promising Simon Rosenberg, who called the red trickle in 2022, wrote this on twitter: As folks ready their election takes for Tuesday night, it’s important to check in on the big advantages Congressional Dems have opened up in recent months. Perhaps most important polling data out there right now. Tuesday is off-year election day and because the Virginia Governor’s race overly excites the beltway press we’ll all be watching to see how the Great Whitebread hope Glenn Youngkin does. His race doesn’t really mean anything nationally but they will say it is a bellweather despite their huge miss in 2022. And whether or not this discontent with the GOP congress transaltes to other races is unknown. But it’s not good for them. And with MAGA MIke in charge it’s probably going to get worse.
He knows how to fail When Mike Johnson tried to start a law school it didn’t go well: In February 2012, Mike Johnson sent an aide on an urgent mission at the college where he had been working to open a law school: Locate a study that he believed would provethe project was financially possible. For more than a year, Johnson — the dean of the not-yet-opened law school — had been telling donors and the public that the institution, which would focus on training Christian attorneys in northwest Louisiana, was not only achievable, but inevitable. “From a pure feasibility standpoint,” Johnson, then 38, told the local Town Talk newspaper in 2010 after becoming dean, “I’m not sure how this can fail because … it looks like the perfect storm for our law school.” But he had still not actually seen a feasibility study commissioned by the parent school, Louisiana College,a private Southern Baptist college in Pineville, La., now known as Louisiana Christian University. The aide soon returned with disturbing news: The study had been buried in a filing cabinet. And it was all but useless.
Bill Hayden rescued and resuscitated the Labor Party as a national force as certainly as I am standing before you today. We may see the likes of Bill Hayden again, but I doubt it. At Bill’s initiative, in 1983 he put into place a review of ANZUS, suggesting that Australia presenting as a sycophant or Continue reading »
Israel created Hamas – Now THEY’RE DROPPING BOMBS ON A CONCENTRATION CAMP FULL OF CHILDREN. Not in the past. Right now. They’re still doing it. They show no signs of stopping. No part of opposing this should be remotely controversial. They’re dropping bombs on a concentration camp full of kids. Even shitlibs and pseudo-leftists who Continue reading »