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AUKUS: Flawed And Sinking - Announced in September 2021 as “an enhanced trilateral security partnership”, AUKUS has hobb...
13/01/2025

AUKUS: Flawed And Sinking - Announced in September 2021 as “an enhanced trilateral security partnership”, AUKUS has hobbled and stuttered its way into 2025. Commentary from the pompom holders for war at such outlets as The Economist continue with such mild remarks as “ambitious ...

Announced in September 2021 as “an enhanced trilateral security partnership”, AUKUS has hobbled and stuttered its way into 2025. Commentary from the pompom holders for war at such outlets as The Economist continue with such mild remarks as “ambitious ...

On The History Of Doo W*p Music - The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music...
12/01/2025

On The History Of Doo W*p Music - The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo w*p, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo w*p, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘For Generations To Come’ And The World Stayed Silent - The worst-case scenario has actualized in ...
12/01/2025

Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘For Generations To Come’ And The World Stayed Silent - The worst-case scenario has actualized in a way that even the most pessimistic estimates by Palestinian, Arab, or international groups could not have foreseen. Not only is Gaza now beyond "uninhabitable", but, according to Greenpeace, it will be "uninhabitable ...

The worst-case scenario has actualized in a way that even the most pessimistic estimates by Palestinian, Arab, or international groups could not have foreseen. Not only is Gaza now beyond 'uninhabitable', but, according to Greenpeace, it will be 'uninhabitable ...

Wellington.Scoop: 80% increase in 5 years - by Karl Tiefenbacher The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly...
11/01/2025

Wellington.Scoop: 80% increase in 5 years - by Karl Tiefenbacher The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly under-qualified many of our councillors are. An amendment proposed by Councillor Calvert to try and keep the rates increase below 10% vs. the proposed “attempt” to get it down to below 12.8% (neither acceptable levels in my opinion) was voted down. It seems […]

The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly under-qualified many of our councillors are. An amendment proposed by Councillor Calvert to try and keep the rates increase below 10% vs. t...

Detained Without Charge: Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo - They are reminders about what the German jurist and N**i enth...
10/01/2025

Detained Without Charge: Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo - They are reminders about what the German jurist and N**i enthusiast Carl Schmitt called a state of exception, a rather sinister way of saying that states, and leaders, can behave abominably if their position enables them to do so.

They are reminders about what the German jurist and N**i enthusiast Carl Schmitt called a state of exception, a rather sinister way of saying that states, and leaders, can behave abominably if their position enables them to do so.

The War Criminal 'Victim': Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate - Netanyahu understands this well and seems to have concluded tha...
09/01/2025

The War Criminal 'Victim': Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate - Netanyahu understands this well and seems to have concluded that his only path to political survival is the continuation of the Gaza war and the expansion of the conflict to engage multiple parties.

Netanyahu understands this well and seems to have concluded that his only path to political survival is the continuation of the Gaza war and the expansion of the conflict to engage multiple parties.

Wellington.Scoop: It’s sold. What next? - by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema co...
09/01/2025

Wellington.Scoop: It’s sold. What next? - by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”. Prime Property has just secured the bargain […]

by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fi...

From Symbolic Consciousness To Insight Consciousness - No computer, however complex it may become in a simulacrum of sen...
09/01/2025

From Symbolic Consciousness To Insight Consciousness - No computer, however complex it may become in a simulacrum of sentience, will ever be able to approach the state of silence and insight, and communion with death and love that is the birthright of the human being.

No computer, however complex it may become in a simulacrum of sentience, will ever be able to approach the state of silence and insight, and communion with death and love that is the birthright of the human being.

Arresting And Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests - In wealthier states, the climate change protester ma...
08/01/2025

Arresting And Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests - In wealthier states, the climate change protester may be safer, but hardly immune from state violence. Arrests of protestors in both Australia and the UK are above the international average: 20% and 17% respectively.

In wealthier states, the climate change protester may be safer, but hardly immune from state violence. Arrests of protestors in both Australia and the UK are above the international average: 20% and 17% respectively.

Welcome Puberty Blockers Report But Beware Derailing Transphobia - Ian Powell discusses the Health Ministry’s position s...
07/01/2025

Welcome Puberty Blockers Report But Beware Derailing Transphobia - Ian Powell discusses the Health Ministry’s position statement on puberty blocker prescribing in the context of an NZ Medical Journal article, guidelines based on the Hippocratic Oath and the risk of transphobic derailment.

Ian Powell discusses the Health Ministry’s position statement on puberty blocker prescribing in the context of an NZ Medical Journal article, guidelines based on the Hippocratic Oath and the risk of transphobic derailment.

Take Your Money And Shove It: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, And Russia’s Economic Trauma - While historical forces, ...
07/01/2025

Take Your Money And Shove It: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, And Russia’s Economic Trauma - While historical forces, local conditions and cultural idiosyncrasies will always guide the development of any state and community, there is something to be said that post-Cold War Russia might have taken something of a different path had Merry’s ...

While historical forces, local conditions and cultural idiosyncrasies will always guide the development of any state and community, there is something to be said that post-Cold War Russia might have taken something of a different path had Merry’s ...

On Justin Trudeau’s Demise, In A Global Context - Canadians can take a while to get angry – but when they finally do, w...
06/01/2025

On Justin Trudeau’s Demise, In A Global Context - Canadians can take a while to get angry – but when they finally do, watch out. Canada has been falling out of love with Justin Trudeau for years, and his exit has to be the least surprising news event of the New Year. On recent polling, Trudeau’s ...

Canadians can take a while to get angry – but when they finally do, watch out. Canada has been falling out of love with Justin Trudeau for years, and his exit has to be the least surprising news event of the New Year. On recent polling, Trudeau’s ...

Join The Army; Travel To Exotic, Distant Lands; And Radicalise - Those with such records were also abundantly linked to ...
06/01/2025

Join The Army; Travel To Exotic, Distant Lands; And Radicalise - Those with such records were also abundantly linked to far-right domestic extremist groups and movements (73.5%), while 15%, or 24 offenders, “were inspired by or connected to foreign Islamist extremist groups” such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic ...

Those with such records were also abundantly linked to far-right domestic extremist groups and movements (73.5%), while 15%, or 24 offenders, “were inspired by or connected to foreign Islamist extremist groups” such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic ...

Letters from Gaza – ‘Alhamdulillah. We Are Not Okay’ - It may seem strange that none of those who communicated with me t...
05/01/2025

Letters from Gaza – ‘Alhamdulillah. We Are Not Okay’ - It may seem strange that none of those who communicated with me throughout the war have ever questioned their faith, and have often, if not always, begun their messages by checking on me, and my children.

It may seem strange that none of those who communicated with me throughout the war have ever questioned their faith, and have often, if not always, begun their messages by checking on me, and my children.

Imperialism, Chagos Islanders And The Fight To Return - Ian Powell discusses the long determined fight of evicted Chagos...
05/01/2025

Imperialism, Chagos Islanders And The Fight To Return - Ian Powell discusses the long determined fight of evicted Chagos Islanders to return home in the context of imperialism.

Ian Powell discusses the long determined fight of evicted Chagos Islanders to return home in the context of imperialism.

Frail Egos And Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, The United States And Invading Iraq - What makes Australia’s own involvem...
04/01/2025

Frail Egos And Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, The United States And Invading Iraq - What makes Australia’s own involvement even worse, was that the reason to go to war lay less in an international security threat than a weak ego and reputational yearning: to be cringingly worthy to Washington.

What makes Australia’s own involvement even worse, was that the reason to go to war lay less in an international security threat than a weak ego and reputational yearning: to be cringingly worthy to Washington.

Ignoring A Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria And Courting Dictators - In an echo of history, the current UK government has ...
03/01/2025

Ignoring A Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria And Courting Dictators - In an echo of history, the current UK government has found a new man of transactional worth in Damascus. The great usurper, Jolani, has taken Bashar’s place. His Al Qaeda and Islamic State past is being strategically sanitised, the revolutionary ...

In an echo of history, the current UK government has found a new man of transactional worth in Damascus. The great usurper, Jolani, has taken Bashar’s place. His Al Qaeda and Islamic State past is being strategically sanitised, the revolutionary ...

Neuroscience’s Misleading Half-Truths - Diversity arises from wholeness, not from particularity. The notion that life ca...
02/01/2025

Neuroscience’s Misleading Half-Truths - Diversity arises from wholeness, not from particularity. The notion that life can be reduced to its “basic building blocks” is a fundamental philosophical mistake of many scientists, who project the basic premise of thought—separation—onto ...

Diversity arises from wholeness, not from particularity. The notion that life can be reduced to its “basic building blocks” is a fundamental philosophical mistake of many scientists, who project the basic premise of thought—separation—onto ...

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