Below is another excellent guest post from MB reader Erin Rolandsen, CEO of Angelassist: Cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer once said: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” If that is true, what, then, do we make of Australia’s systems? Everywhere we look, the systems designed to solve problems instead perpetuate them. We have
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. During these eight decades, much has been accomplished that calls for celebration. Yet, there is no denying that the United Nations is facing perhaps the greatest crisis of its 80-year history.
Decoupling India from Russia will be a challenge for the European Union (EU) even as it seeks to build an economic partnership with the South Asian country, High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has no intention of ending the hostilities with Russia, while ordinary people pay the price, Verkhovna Rada MP Georgy Mazurashu has said.
Mazurashu said Zelensky outlined his position at a meeting with members of his Servant of the People party on Tuesday, a stance the MP claimed is widely shared by the Ukrainian leader’s inner circle.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the official population and immigration data for the March quarter of 2025. The ABS showed that Australia’s population grew by 144,300 in Q1 2025, which was down from 156,800 in Q1 2024. However, the Q1 2025 increase was still stronger than any quarter of population increase in Australia’s
The Murdoch media, or Newscorpse as it is sometimes called, is notorious for lying to its readers and listeners, as I have demonstrated many times. Some examples are given in the sources below of bald-faced lies, lies by omission, complete inventions, spin and assorted other drivel1-30.
The organisation also is about denialism. It denies climate change31-39, Covid-1940-44,
Not counting Co2: “We know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”
Newlyn, Victoria AUD/USD EUR/USD GBP/USD USD/JPY Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225
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I hate clogging up people’s inboxes with junk email, which is why I post 99% of my nonsense directly to the web.
Apologies then for that last email about my Story Bible process for the World War series. Most people don’t care how the sausage gets made, they just wanna eat it.
In my defence, I had done a lunchtime workout and eaten a very large chicken curry and I was quite sleepy when I hit send, instead of publish.
