I write about Aboriginal Australians. When my articles are shared on Facebook or Twitter they can bring out the ugly types who spew their hateful, racist, spiteful threats.
Not here, though. You people are tops.
According to the World Food Organisation $15 will feed one child for one month in Africa.
So if any of the world’s richest people have a spare $1B they don’t need, they could feed 5.5M children for one year.
Just sayin’.
When much is too much: Elon Musk’s compensation package.
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"Shit Life Syndrome": the criminalisation of poverty
By Bert Hetebry In the book Pathogenesis, the author Jonathan Kennedy refers to the phrase ‘Shit Life Syndrome’ being coined by local doctors in Blackpool, one of the poorest areas in the UK. the health conditions they see most frequently are the cause of destitution and hopelessness. The cause for ..
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The Mystery of why Scott Morrison is still in Parliament
On May 21 2022, Scott Morrison and his corrupt bunch of cronies were thrown out of office. Most Prime Ministers who have lost their hold on power take the quickest possible exit, get another job with a salary equal to or better than their current one and remark on things they ought to leave be.&hell..
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Cancelling the Journalist: The ABC’s Coverage of the Israel-Gaza War
What a cowardly act it was. A national broadcaster, dedicated to what should be fearless reporting, cowed by the intemperate bellyaching of a lobby concerned about coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. The investigation by The Age newspaper was revealing in showing that the dismissal of broadcaster Antoi..
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The OBGYN Justices
By James Moore Anyone who has practiced or studied the dark art of politics, eventually arrives at the conclusion that nothing ever happens by accident in that practice. All occurrences are the product of planning, which might succeed with a positive outcome, or fail with unintended consequences. No..
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Marxists, Liberals, Socialists And Education Are A Poor Mix...
Is a Marxist, a socialist? And If the Nazis were the National Socialists does that mean that they were left wing because they had the word “socialist” in their name? And if the Nazis are socialists, does that mean that US Republicans should despise the Liberal Party because of the word &..
It’s their sixth sense.
Every year - as soon as the Christmas tree goes up - she sits next to it staring out the window, waiting for Santa to come.
Australia now wears that toxic crown.
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Brownsville, We Have a Problem
By James Moore I have never bought into the hype and general BS of Elon Musk. His visions for his businesses and the future of humanity and technology, while often engaging, strike me as without basis in reality. There is, in fact, a bit of language that reveals much about Musk and his various endea..
Would be perfect for anyone called Michael Taylor.
Meet the pūteketeke: voted New Zealand’s Bird of the Century.
And as is the norm these days, cries of “rigged election” are being grumbled.
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Rigging Avian Ballots: New Zealand’s Bird of the Century Competition
They can be a serious lot in New Zealand. They got upset at – forgive this author such reference – the use of a rule in cricket back in February 1981 which led to expressions of misty anger from the Prime Minister of the day, Robert Muldoon. While permissible within the laws of cricket, sides&hellip..
Remembering that tragic day, almost sixty years ago.
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The Day Democracy Died
By James Moore The 60th Anniversary of the Slaying of John Fitzgerald Kennedy “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams I remember that the day was typical for a Michigan Novem..
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Highlights from the Refugee Walk For A Fair Go
Fifteen Tamil and Iranian refugee women walked 300 kms from Sydney to Canberra to raise awareness of the plight of 10,000+ refugees held in limbo for over 10 years. We are a group of refugees who were processed through the flawed Fast Track process introduced by the previous government. We were very..
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"Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up": Texas Anti-Immigration Laws
By James Moore The U.S. Constitution is under attack. Christo-fascists are trying to turn a secular document into a religious proclamation. They want their Jesus back in public schools, prayer before classes, and the Ten Commandments plastered on all four walls with End Times nonsense whispered into..
State Power and the Left today
The other day I saw another post by a Conservative trashing Marxism and arguing that Marxism had never succeeded in practice. In response I argued that it depends on how you measure success. There may never have been a communist government of the sort Marx envisaged. Some regimes were a macabre paro..
It’s hard to express how sad this story is.
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The Boys of Praha
By James Moore (It is Veterans Day Weekend [here in the USA], and as is my personal tradition, I am sharing again my story on “The Boys of Praha.” I wrote this original narrative about twenty years ago for the “American Legion Magazine,” when I came across the history of this little Texas parish. I&..
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Who is this guy?
1 Who but a devotee of Trump would say such a thing?: “I have just called President Trump to say this: “Stay strong and keep fighting, sir! The nation is depending upon your resolve. We must exhaust every available legal remedy to restore Americans’ trust in the fairness of our ele..
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The Second Casualty
By James Moore “In war, truth is the first casualty.” – Aeschylus, Greek Dramatist One morning in the spring of my twentieth year, I awoke in a tent on the east bank of the Potomac River. The sun had not yet transited the horizon but there was enough light for people to begin moving and&..
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Rishi Sunak’s AI Pitch: The Bletchley Declaration
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks as much a deep fake projection as a thin, superficial representation of reality. His robotic, risible awkwardness makes a previous occupant of his office, Theresa May, look soppily human in comparison. But at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, the nervou..
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Climate change deniers, theocrats and neoliberals meet in London for the scariest Halloween Party
It was helpful of Greg Sheridan to advertise in The Australian (27/10) the new ultraconservative conference that he is attending in London. While his column is no doubt intended to recruit, it is useful in shining a spotlight on a traditionally shadowy architecture of influence. Apparently 1,500 cit..
But I just can’t think of any.
Pub View: Snowy Hydro
By Allan Richardson So Snowy 2.0 is going to be over budget? That puts it in the classification of ‘Project’. It’s time to put everything in perspective. When drilling, or attempting to drill 27 kilometres of tunnels, it should come as no surprise that the geology is not necessaril..
