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Your Democracy
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 04:19
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Former prime minister Tony Abbott has been nominated to the board of directors of Fox Corporation, a day after Rupert Murdoch announced he was stepping down and his son Lachlan Murdoch would become the sole chairman. |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 15:22
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As the now former Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales discovered recently, no means no. Kissing someone on the lips without consent has consequences – and rightly so. There were various arguments put up why the non-consensual action was permissible before the reality hit that the action was completely inappropriate and even if Rubiales… The post No means no appeared first on The AIM Network. |
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Renew Economy
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 14:55
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New Politics
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 13:26
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 13:24
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It was a short stint, involving a six-member delegation of Australian parliamentarians lobbying members of the US Congress and various relevant officials on one issue: the release of Julian Assange. If extradited to the US from the United Kingdom to face 18 charges, 17 framed with reference to the oppressive, extinguishing Espionage Act of 1917,… The post Mission to Free Assange: Australian Parliamentarians in Washington appeared first on The AIM Network. |
THE BLOT REPORT
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 10:38
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I have written about this sort of thing before, most notably in the context of the ludicrous ‘Keith Murdoch Oration’ given by the chief executive of News Corp, Robert Thomson1 some time ago, in which the lies were queued up like beads on a necklace2. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 08:31
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The wilder conspiracy theorists will tell you that the British Royal Family are actually lizards and the financial centre of the City of London, greatly inferior to Wall Street in turnover, apparently still rules the world. Let us lay aside such simplistic theories and look at some facts.
thanks to Batiushka, writer |
Your Democracy
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 06:06
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CNN — Pope Francis formally began his 8,000-kilometer trip to Mongolia on Saturday, a country sandwiched between Russia and China that has a tiny Catholic population. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 04:10
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“Lowell is a small town where the only reasonable response for a talented man like Kerouac is to clear off. We were only there for a night, but for me a night without a woman is like Gerry Conlon’s prison sentence — long and completely unjust. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 04:09
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Western politicians are so obsessed with the idea of delivering a “strategic defeat” to Russia that they put themselves and their own nations in danger, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN General Assembly on Saturday. The prolonged feeling of impunity has made the West blind to the risks to its own survival, he added. |
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Cheeseburger Gothic
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 19:16
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It’s been a while since Manning Pope punched the Big Red Button that tore a honking great hole in the fabric of spacetime and dropped a massively overpowered aircraft carrier battle group from the future back into the Second World War. Long enough that that imagined future is now in our actual past. Weapons of Choice, released in 2004, begins in January 2021, when a multinational naval force from a vaguely dystopian future was conveniently Magyvered back in time to kick Hitler’s ass. Of course, our for-real-2021 turned out to be way more literally dystopian than I imagined back in 04, so that’s on me. |
THE BLOT REPORT
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 12:15
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 11:39
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One particularly bad habit the news is afflicted by is a tendency to fall into discussions about itself. Its members, some of them at least, used to call it the “Fourth Estate,” an unelected chamber of scribblers supposedly meant to keep an eye on the other three, yet finding itself at times distracted, gossip-driven, and… The post The Angertainer Steps Down: Rupert Murdoch’s Non-Retirement appeared first on The AIM Network. |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 06:00
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There’s a myth created by the Coalition as far back as I care to remember and perpetuated for many years since which is nothing more or nothing less a tale. A born to rule one. The myth is that the Conservative parties are better at managing the economy and the nation. I shot the money… The post The ALP is best prepared to take us into the future appeared first on The AIM Network. |
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Your Democracy
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 06:00
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In Asian media this week: Canada, India tensions have sorry history. Plus: BRI shows most countries shun ‘decoupling’; Myanmar rebels ‘will never give up’; China to dominate green car market; Putin and Kim lead ‘axis of outcasts’; China decline the fashionable chatter in Washington.
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Your Democracy
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 05:35
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The ‘disinformation’ (read: lies and bullshit) being propagated about the indigenous Voice to Parliament by the Murdoch media, among others, harms our society. It promotes division, celebrates and cultivates ignorance and bigotry, oppresses a minority and diminishes us all. Why do we tolerate such behaviour?
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Your Democracy
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 05:22
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EU chief warns of Russian ‘nuclear threat’ Ursula von der Leyen appeared to suggest that Moscow was responsible for the bombing of Hiroshima European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has appeared to imply that Russia, rather than the US, dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II. |
Cheeseburger Gothic
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 20:16
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We’re on our way to Turin for the next week. I has been meaning to write a column on the train but the train was canceled by a landslide. We booked a couple of bus tickets - the best we could get. Currently standing in the aisle on an overbooked shit box run by Bulgaria’s second worst bus line The back half of the bus seems to be a mobile home for some sort of extended Turkish crime family |
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Your Democracy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 19:14
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Prosper Australia
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 17:32
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Victoria's new Housing Partnership shows a lot of promise. The devil will be in the detail. Prosper Australia unpacks the issues. |
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Your Democracy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 17:22
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 15:07
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 14:13
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 12:41
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 12:35
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By Anthony Haritos Yes, we were cheap. And we were very nasty. Yes, we did fuck your mind over. Yes, it’s true; we did twist your moral compass completely out of shape so that you’d never ever remember you ever ever had one. Because – and this is a tad difficult since I feel we’re… The post On the day of Murdoch’s retirement… appeared first on The AIM Network. |
Renew Economy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 12:00
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 11:40
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 11:35
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John Quiggin
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 11:07
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I just got an email from Matt Yglesias saying that he is leaving his Slow Boring Substack to take up a job at DecisionHQ. So, it’s time for me to have my final say on a dispute that has been going at a fairly slow pace. A couple of weeks ago, Matt put up a post (really a Substack newsletter, but I still think in blog terms), headlined Polarization is a choice with the subtitle, “Political elites justify polarizing decisions with self-fulfilling prophesies” |
Your Democracy
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 10:40
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The three-day trip began with the King and Queen touching down at Orly airport, near Paris. They were greeted by the French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, before driving to a ceremonial welcome at the Arc De Triomphe in Paris. |
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