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Wednesday, 19 July
Tuesday, 18 July
23:18
Post-pandemic Principle #5: Understanding your most valuable asset of all "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Post-pandemic principles
In this short blog post and video, I look at the 5th post-pandemic principle, as the next part in this mini-series.
Tune in here (or click on the image below):
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Reuters reported today that LendLease is looking to shed 10 per cent of its 7,800-strong global workforce, as part of a plan to 'rightsize' its workforce and focus on lower-risk projects.
Bond yields took a turn lower through the day.
17:21
Monday Message Board (running late) "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
Im now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, Ill post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.
13:10
Borrow, Print, Repeat "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Previously, weve looked too at what the feds have to push with carrots and sticks and the way the two political parties have come together to get more of them.
But the carrots are running out. The US has added US$27 trillion to its debt so far this centuryUS$1 trillion in the last five weeks. Thats money it spentbut didnt have.
And now the Fed is trapped between inflate or die. It must now continue to inflate its economyor its bubble economy will die.
But waitthe headlines tell us that inflation is beaten.
CNN: Inflation fever is finally breaking. The Feds soft landing may be in sight:
If Fed Chair Jerome Powell were any less buttoned up, hed be well within his rights to call a press conference, stride up to the lectern in a t-shirt and board shorts and say three words soft landing, jerks! before dropping the mic and walking out.
For context, a year ago the CPI peaked at 9.1% the worst inflation in more than 40 years. [Now, its half that level.]
That is, to be clear, fan-freakin-tastic.
(For the record, the Fed has a 2% target for inflation. And while the CPI gets more headlines, central bank officials favour a different inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index. The most recent core PCE index reading was 4.6% in May.)
For the record, in other words, it isnt so fan-freakin-tastic after all.
Up, up and away
Inflation is 130% above the Feds target. Prices are far higher than they were two years agoand theyre still going up.
Inflation is always and everywhere a political phenomenon. And if the Feds continue to spend trillions of dollars more than they receive in taxesthey will have to get the money somewhere. Either borrowing or printing. Borrowing pushes up interest rates and crimps the economy leading to lower tax receipts and the need to borrow even more. That leaves only two real choicescutting back on spending or inflating the currency.
But budget cuts run into the brick wall of the US late, degenerate political system. Everybody wants more. Nobody wants less. Republicans no longer oppose the carrots. Democrats no longer abhor the sticks. Instead, the elite of both parties want more of both.
So, inflation is not going away. The Feds will print. And the money will lose value almost as fast as it is created. That is the lesson from countless experiments with overspending and printing press money. There is no reason to expect a different outcome this time.
The road to ruin
But its not just the money. There are two major ways to destroy a great nation inflation and war. Thats where the sticks become deadly. And last week, the US showed up in Vilnius with...
13:10
First the Crescendo, Then the Collapse "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
BusinessWeeks cover story in August 1979, wasThe Death of EquitiesHow Inflation is destroying the stock market.
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With hindsight, we can have a little chuckle at the premature reading of the markets last rites. However, the cover story is a simple, but highly effective example of social mood.
Most people dont realise that by August 1979, the US market (S&P 500) had gone nowhere for more than a decade.
Investors had been ground down and could see no end in sight to this misery.
And, as the chart shows, after August 1979, investor despair continued for another three yearsfinally bottoming out in 1982
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02:59
Growth in Australian construction costs lowest since 2020 "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Monday, 17 July
22:00
This will change the fabric of society "IndyWatch Feed National"
PRIVACY: The unseen war
See video:
20:39
This weeks nuclear news, but climate is a bigger story "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Some bits of good news: Positive tipping points could save the climate this man is showing us how. Deforestation rates plummeted in Brazil.
Last week it was a watershed week. And it seems that this one is also, though for a largely different reason. The Ukraine-NATO thing is a mess. The Western media continues to religiously recite the story of Ukraines successful counter-offensive. But theres whisper of dissension in NATO, and even some whispered criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky .
But really the big watershed thing is global heating. At last, the media seems to be abandoning the pretense that global heating effects happen to hit one country, then another sort of separately. It is becoming obvious that global heating is a global event at least now enveloping the Northern part of the globe. (We in the cooler South are still comfortably preoccupied with sport, as the major event)
Climate. Temperatures above average almost every day this year. UK to see biggest increase in uncomfortably hot days in the world as climate change bites. More than 113 million Americans under extreme heat alerts as relentless temperatures continue. The US says it will not under any circumstances pay reparations to developing countries hit by climate change-fuelled disasters. Greenpeace: Asset managers are ignoring climate impact of bitcoin.
Christina notes. As long as it takes ...
18:16
Starmer must confront the reality more spending will be required but taxes will probably also have to be higher "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
The question is when is a Labour Party a Labour Party? The answer is: When it is a Labour Party! Which means when it defends workers interests against capital and when it defends families against pernicious neoliberal cuts or constraints on welfare. Which means, in turn, that the British Labour Party is a Labour Party
18:09
National Australia Bank joins crypto exchange boycott, cites scams "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
National Australia Bank is the latest bank to announce blocks on certain cryptocurrency exchanges, citing the high risk of scams.
17:58
NATOs talk of further Asian engagement should be feared by Australia "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Independent Australia, By Binoy Kampmark | 13 July 2023
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has undermined its mission to foster stability, becoming a vessel of U.S. power. Where NATO goes, war is most likely Australia should take note, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.
SINCE THE end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become, almost shamelessly, the vessel and handmaiden of U.S. power, while its burgeoning expansion eastwards has done wonders to upend the applecart of stability. ...
17:56
The War on Journalism: the Case of Julian Assange "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Real Change Is Impossible While Our World Is Shrouded In Secrecy, Caitlin Johnstone, 15 Jul 23
I saw a video clip of Julian Assange speaking in London in 2010 where he made an important observation while explaining the philosophy behind his work with WikiLeaks. He said that all our political theories are to some extent bankrupt in our current situation, because our institutions are so shrouded in secrecy that we cant even know whats really going on in the world.
We can all write about our political issues, we can all push for particular things we believe in, we can all have particular brands of politics, but I say actually its all bankrupt, Assange said. And the reason its all bankrupt, and all current political theories are bankrupt and particular lines of political thought, is because actually we dont know what the hell is going on. And until we know the basic structures of our institutions how they operate in practice, these titanic organizations, how they behave inside, not just through stories but through vast amounts of internal documentations until we know that, how can we possibly make a diagnosis? How can we set the direction to go until we know where we are? We dont even have a map of where we are. So our first task is to build up a sort of intellectual heritage that describes where we are. And once we know where we are, then we have a hope of setting course for a different direction. Until then, I think all political theories to greater and lesser extents of course are bankrupt.
.The fact that all the most important aspects of our civilizations operation are hidden, manipulated and obfuscated by the powerful makes a joke of the very idea of democracy, because how can people know what government policies to vote for if they can...
17:55
Reserve Banks loses leverage "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Spare a thought for the new Governor of the Reserve Bank, Michelle Bullock. In the past few days many have reflected on the mistakes of out-going Governor Philip Lowe, sometimes comparing him to earlier Governors who seemed to use the interest-rate lever with more finesse.
But the more likely explanation is not that Lowe made mistakes by holding rates too high for too long to meet a non-existent wage spiral; holding rates too low for too long fearing an economic crash that did not happen; and then jacking them up too high too quickly.
Rather it is that Lowes governorship coincided with changes in the Australian economy that made the interest-rate lever a much less predictable tool. And it will not be any different for Bullock.
Treasurer and later Prime Minister Paul Keating frequently referred to the economic levers. Pull or push a lever and the train would speed or slow. You could hand the train over to an independent Reserve Bank to push or pull that lever so the train would not derail but stay on the track.
But the Australian economy is now much less like a train on a fairly predictable track and more like, say, an aircraft requiring a lot more levers controlling not just speed but also sideways and vertical motion.
It is a more complex and different economy. You cannot, as in the past, just increase interest rates and expect household demand to tighten and for firms to respond by decreasing prices to continue to attract custom with a concomitant reduction in inflation.
Several big differences between the 2020s and earlier decades come to mind: Covid; different corporate behaviour; new household sources of money; different consumer responses; and employment arrangements.
Covid taught households to stock up; to save for rainy days; to spend more wisely. But only up to a point, and in erratic and unpredictable ways. The corporate response to Covid was to take advantage of the panic engendered by the fear of not having the full array of goods available immediately. Demand was inelastic: we must have toilet paper; we must have our 4WD; or whatever goods we need and we will pay whatever is necessary.
So, prices did not fall in a depressed market, dampening inflation. Rather, savings and other assets...
17:55
An Unholy Alliance: billionaire technocrats delight in planning Artificial Intelligence to run nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons! "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
AI to run nuclear reactors?
AI to run weapons?
What could possibly go wrong?
Imagine! if artificial intelligence had run the Soviet Unions missile system on September 26 1983, all-out nuclear war would have erupted. It took the imaginative thinking of Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov to prevent that.
With AI in charge, we will not have a Stanislav Petrov to save us.
New Startup Looks To Blend AI And Nuclear Energy, Oil Price, By Haley Zaremba Jul 15, 2023
- AIs increasing role in the energy sector is challenged by its own high energy demands.
- Sam Altman proposes a symbiotic relationship between AI and nuclear energy to address this issue.
The future of the global energy sector is in the hands of Artificial Intelligence. ..
..But the relationship between AI and energy goes two ways. AI doesnt just present opportunities to the energy sector; it also presents significant challenges one of which is the huge amount of energy that AI itself needs for operational purposes. In some cases, the energy footprints of singular AI training models have equaled that of 125 New York-Beijing round-trip flights, or the lifetime carbon footprint of five cars.
Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI the now (in)famous firm behind ChatGPT thinks that nuclear energy will play a key role in keeping AIs carbon footprint in check. The AI systems of the future will need tremendous amounts of energy and this fission and fusion can help deliver them, Altman was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal. Altman also expressed that he thinks that AI will have some positive implications for nuclear-system designs as well, creating a kind of symbiotic AI-nuclear relationship. This is not a new idea for years now, researchers have been looking into the various ways that AI and machine learning can be integrated into nuclear power prod...
17:54
Cuba condemns US deployment of nuclear submarine in its waters "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/cuba-condemns-us-deployment-nuclear-submarine-its-waters
BEN CHACKO, SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2023
CUBA protested at the weekend over the US deployment of a nuclear-armed submarine to its waters.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry said a nuclear submarine equipped with Trident II ballistic missiles had entered waters around Guantanamo Bay, the illegal US military base imposed on occupied Cuban territory from 1903, at the start of July.
The presence of a nuclear submarine forces one to question the military reason for its presence in this peaceful region of the world, against what objective it is directed, and what strategic purpose it is pursuing.
The submarines presence in its waters for at least a week constitutes a provocative escalation by the United States, whose political or strategic motives are unknown, it added.
But US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller retorted that the United States will continue to fly and sail as well as move its military forces where it deems appropriate.
All 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean had signed the declaration of the region as a zone of peace in Havana in 2014, Cuba pointed out: but despite this the United States has established more than 70 military bases in the region.
The US has nine military bases in Panama, 12 in Puerto Rico, nine in Colombia and eight in Peru.
The countrys Congress which overthrew elected socialist president Pedro Castillo in December and has waged a crackdown that has killed scores of democracy protesters since authorised the entry of naval units and foreign military personnel with weapons of war in January. Earlier this month, US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced an amendment to the countrys military budget seeking to suspend funds for operations in Peru given their potential role in helping suppress the democracy movement.
The US claims to lease Guantanamo Bay from Cuba for a token rent of $4,085 (3,120) a year, but Cuba has rejected the agreement since the revolution of 1959 and does not cash the cheques, which are still made out to the pre-revolutionary, now nonexistent post of treasurer-general of the republic. Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro once showed journalists a desk in his office stuffed with the uncashed cheques.
17:53
Kenya has restated its commitment to ensuring nuclear energy and nuclear weapons are not used in the continent. "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Kenya reiterates stand on nuclear weapons during exhibition
Ogola noted that Kenya recently enacted the Nuclear Regulatory Act 29 of 2019.
Star 16 July 23
In Summary
- The Treaty of Pelindaba is the international agreement that establishes Africa as a zone free of nuclear weapons.
- Hence contributing to peace and security in Africa.
Kenya has restated its commitment to ensuring nuclear energy and nuclear weapons are not used in the continent.
This was when stakeholders in the Energy sector convened on Saturday to commemorate the 14th Anniversary of the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone treaty.
The treaty is called the Treaty of Pelindaba.
The Treaty of Pelindaba is the international agreement that establishes Africa as a zone free of nuclear weapons, hence contributing to peace and security in Africa.
The event took place at the Trademark Hotel in Nairobi under the auspices of the Kenyan government.
Former Prisons Commissioner Wycliffe Ogola, while speaking on behalf of Energy CS Davis Chirchir, reiterated Kenyas stand against possession of nuclear weapons adding that Kenya recognises the pivotal role the treaty plays in protecting civilians against nuclear weapons.
Ogola noted that Kenya recently enacted the Nuclear Regulatory Act 29 of 2019.
The Act has committed the country to exclusively exclude uses of nuclear technology, recognising the need to meet Kenyas obligation under various international considerations and criminalised access to nuclear material and radiation sources, Ogola said.
He called for more forums to allow for the exchange of ideas on how to ensure nuclear weapons and technology are not used in Africa. . more https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/realtime/2023-07-16-kenya-reiterates-stand-on-nuclear-weapons-during-exhibition/
17:51
How much water do French nuclear plants use? "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Figures showing that the cooling of reactors could capture 30% of water resources have been removed from the site of the Ministry of Environment.
How much do nuclear power plants contribute to total water consumption in France? This simple question no longer seems to have a clear answer. At the root of the confusion lies the Ministry of Environmental Transitions removal of a background paper on the resourcing and use of water in France on around March 10. According to this fact sheet from the statistical service, power plant cooling represented the second most water-consuming activity in the country (31%), behind agriculture (45%) and ahead of drinking water (21%) and industrial use (4%). The annual volume of water consumed in mainland France, over the period 2008-2018, was estimated at 5.3 billion cubic meters.
In the midst of the review of the parliamentary bill to accelerate the construction of new reactors, the figure of 31% was being used by opponents of atomic energy to demonstrate that this energy source was not adapted to climate change. Once and for all, lets say it, simply and firmly: at this rate, there will soon not be enough water in our rivers to cool the nuclear power plants!, stated Marine Tondelier the national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV, Greens) on March 7, based on this data.
Three days later, the Ministry of Environmental Transition.(subscribers only)
16:00
News Corps blurring of news and views damaging society "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Failing to distinguish journalism from commentary and opinion is making News Corp a danger to our society, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.
IN NOVEMBER 2020, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull berated The Australians editor-at-large, Paul Kelly, for the newspapers record of promoting climate denial.
Despite Rupert Murdoch having previously denied his news outlets deny climate science and action, Kelly implied his newspaper did hold an opinion on climate change when he responded:
We have many publications that are dedicated to promoting the cause of climate change and radical action on climate change, so that's okay, is it? It's okay to be a propagandist for one side, but if one is a critic or sceptic about some of these issues, that's not okay.
Kelly admitted that News Corp presents news about issues like climate change in a style that more closely resembles commentary and opinion rather than factual analysis.
When journalists become commentators and commentators call themselves journalists, the public loses trust in the authority of real journalists to tell it what is happening in the world. News Corps melding of facts with opinion is not only degrading the cultural authority and strength of the news media industry but is also degrading Australian democracy.
The medias differentiation between facts and opinion used to be like a wall between church and state. Printed newspapers made clear where the news pages ended and where the opinion pages began so that readers knew when...
14:32
ACT Bill to Raise the Age falls short for 12 and 13 year olds "IndyWatch Feed National"
Australias first jurisdiction set to pass legislation to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 will fall short of its obligations to protect the human rights of children.
A report from ACT parliaments Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety, tabled on Friday, failed to recommend necessary changes to proposed legislation to raise the age. Advocates have been unequivocal in calling for the Barr Government to raise the age to at least 14 with no carve-outs.
The Committees report ignored advice from medical experts and Aboriginal, legal and human right advocates by failing to recommend the removal of carve outs for children aged 12 and 13, who will remain criminally responsible for some behaviour, from the Bill.
Medical evidence is abundantly clear that children under the age of 14 do not have the capacity for criminal responsibility. Instead the ACT government will continue to criminalise behaviours that are best understood as responses to trauma.
Despite hearing evidence on the significant harm and trauma children in prisons are subjected to, the Committee failed to make recommendations that could stop children aged 12 and 13 from being locked away in the coming years, opting to support the governments decision to delay raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14 until 2025.
Recommendations for stronger oversight of intensive therapy places under the Optional Protocol on the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) are welcomed, as well as the inclusion of Elders on the therapeutic support panel for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities.
Quotes Attributed to Maggie Munn, National Director, Change the Record:
While we commend the ACT government for raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14 it is disappointing that this will be delayed until 2025 and will include carve outs for 12 and 13 year olds.
"The government seems set on incarcerating children who don't understand the gravity of their behaviour, and then wondering why that behaviour doesn't change. Children belong in schools and playgrounds and need to be supported to learn from their mistakes, not locked in cages."
Quotes Attributed to Amala Ramarathinam, Acting Managing Lawyer, Human Rights Law Centre:
The Committees report represents a missed opportunity to recommend crucial changes to the Bill. Children will continue to experience significant harm and trauma while the ACT Government delays raising the age to 14 and continues to criminalise 12 and 13 year olds for certain behaviours.
Police should not have the power to arrest and lock up children under the age of criminal responsibility. 10 year olds still have their baby teeth and 12 year olds are still in primary school. The Bill must be urgently amende...
13:18
The government of doing nothing "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Last week, Labour chickenshitted out on a wealth tax, with Prime Minister (for now) Chris Hipkins ruling it out as long as he holds office (which sortof suggests a solution, doesn't it?) But taxing wealth to build a more equal Aotearoa wasn't the only thing they chickenshitted out on - they also refused to break up the rapacious supermarket duopoly which is robbing us blind. Why? Largely it seems because they'd get the blame if it went wrong, and so they'd rather let Foodstuffs and Progressive keep screwing us than do anything about it. And today, there's the icing on the cake: a consultants report advising that the government's current half-measures are ineffective and will condemn us to another 20 years of supermarket robbery:
The Governments much-touted reforms of the supermarket industry are unlikely to result in a material improvement in competition, according to its own advisers.Crushing the supermarket duopoly and limiting its excess profits is something that would have a huge effect on the cost of living, and on poverty. But Labour just won't do it, because they're chickenshits afraid of upsetting the status quo. "In it for you"? You be the judge...Instead, without additional action, consumers can expect little to change for the better over the next 20 years, with a risk that the variety of products stocked by the supermarkets will continue to reduce and that supermarkets gross profit margins will continue to rise, ministers have been told.
12:37
The long and the short of it: Jens Craig Wall "IndyWatch Feed National"
What happens in Wall is activity at the level of language, its rhythms and repetitions, rather than through the mechanism of plot. You can see the considerable effort of making the page, as a unit, operate well enough on its own, even though it is offered in service to this long and singular utterance.
The post The long and the short of it: Jens Craig Wall appeared first on Overland literary journal.
12:29
Hindutva Goes to Washington: Narendra Modis US Visit "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Again, he was at it, that charming show on two legs, playful and coy. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been burning the charismatic fuel of late, making the necessary emissions in visiting friendly countries. Each time, he seems to be getting away with more and more, currying (pun intended) favour with his hosts and
The post Hindutva Goes to Washington: Narendra Modis US Visit appeared first on The AIM Network.
12:26
Ukraine Can Only End in Attrition, Tears and More Deaths "IndyWatch Feed National"
by Dee McLachlan
In tribute to the late James ONeill, I will add this post about Ukraine. I can just imagine what he might write about our Australian PM, Albo, providing 120 Bushmasters to Zelensky. He wrote this about the Australian government in 2017:
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Australia-EU FTA talks stalled over agricultural exports and GIs, may resume in August "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
July 17, 2023: Trade Minister Farrell and Prime minster Albanese announced last week that EU concessions in negotiating the Australia-EU FTA were not good enough and that Australia would not sign a deal unless it had real commercial benefits for Australia.
Australia wants more access for Australian lamb, beef and other agricultural exports and rejects the EUs refusal to allow Australian producers to use names like prosecco and feta cheese (Geographical Indications).
EUs market of over 400 million people gives it greater bargaining power, but the EU also wants access to Australias critical mineral deposits, which are needed for production of batteries and other products for the transition to clean energy. EU representatives have also said more work was required to address these key outstanding issues. Minister Farrell commented that there was possibility of further talks next month.
The DFAT website reports that talks have concluded on other key areas of concern to AFTINET. We do not yet know if earlier EU proposals for longer monopolies on medicines have been removed, and whether the commitments on labour rights and environmental standards, including commitments on reduction of carbon emissions, are fully enforceable in the same way as other commitments in the agreement.
However, the details of these commitments will not be revealed until after the deal is concluded. The EU has a policy of releasing and publishing independent evaluations of the texts of trade agreements after they are concluded but before they are signed. The Albanese Labor government has a policy for a more open process, including independent evaluation of agreements before they are signed. The EU agreement will be their first chance to put this policy into practice.
12:00
Institutional cruelty exposed by three royal commissions "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Recent inquiries have brought to light the lack of accountability from government institutions engaging in cruelty and human rights abuses, writes Max Costello.
TWO PRESIDING officers Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy in the case of Mostafa Moz Azimitabar, and Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes recently said damning things about the ethics of major Australian institutions and their senior office holders. Similar words were said in 2018 by Banking Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne and in 2017 by Justice Peter McClellan, chair of the Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission.
So, how to prevent, punish (and thus deter) such embedded cruelty in the behaviour of both government and non-government institutions? In pub test terms, it seems amazing that no institutions have been prosecuted and no senior officers gaoled.
On Thursday 6 July, Justice Murphy found against a civil claim, lodged by Kurdish refugee Moz, that his detention in two hotel APODs (alternative places of detention) was unlawful. Yes, it was lawful, Murphy decided. But, he added in post-decision remarks, that did not imply his approval of Mozs treatment by the Government.
Murphy said:
I can only wonder of the lack of thought, indeed the lack of care and humanity, in detaining a person with psychiatric and psychological problems in the hotels [for] 14 months.
Last Friday, the report of Robodebt Royal Commissioner Hol...
11:56
Disentanglement, Part 3: We Are a Group (with a Word about Vax) "IndyWatch Feed National"
by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
We humans are a group animal. We cant survive without each other. This is true for at least two reasons. First, we all need to eat, and the current demographic picture, with millions of us in cities, means that someone has to deliver food to us. Even if you are very wealthy, you still depend on others to fulfill your...
11:30
Japanese Sickle: Review "IndyWatch Feed National"
The Japanese sickle is an affordable, lightweight, and essential piece of kit for any gardener who is harvesting, chopping down plants for composting, mulching or cover crops.
08:55
A Traded-off Life. "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
A traded-off life.
Would it be wiser to act the fool,
And be graced with effusive public bravos!,
Than to be a keeper of inherent knowledge,
And be shunned, scorned in the shadows?
For what benefits an actor who diligently practices his lines,
To be upstaged by a pretentious mummer ad-libbing atrocious strine?
The same for the exacting pedant, research wise,
Entangled by a buffoon practised in compromise.
And why mock the woman, choosing to stay in the home,
Seeking no confected career, but as mother to her bairns,
More than the unskilled female, labouring ,
Wasting her life in dreary, low-paid slaving,
To prove a point of managed social-equality in the making?
Or the young person choosing a skilled trade,
Over facile delusion of E-Commerce; a beggar-man made?
Perhaps we all have been taken for a ride,
By some low-brow, middle-class philosophic pap,
With that promise of healthy, wealthy and happy,
When all the while turning us into parasited patsies,
Thrown onto THEIR dole when they close THEIR factories.
Perhaps there IS only one final solution,
That is to enact a Chairman Mao-style cultural revolution,
Expel from governance all middle-class non-producing schemers,
To be replaced with skilled-trades educated workers,
And be rid of those opportunist, entrepreneurial fools,
To recreate a life full-lived by more equitable social rules!
08:48
New kiwi blog "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
An old-style post-title for an old-style post! Che Tibby returns to blogging with The Apocrypha of Noah - which so far, seems to be looking at climate change.
08:19
THE WRX PROBLEM "IndyWatch Feed National"
THE SUBARU WRX IS A GREAT CAR, BUT THIS NOT ABOUT THIS CAR
First of all, this is not a review of the Subaru WRX; it is a review of the We aRe eXpendible problem that we now face as a nation.
This posting URL: https://wp.me/p1n8TZ-3mD
BEYOND THE ROBODEBT INQUIRY
08:00
Capitalism a death knell for democracy "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Neoliberalism and corporate greed are destroying the idea of a fair and equal society, dividing classes into 'us versus them', writes Dermot Daley.
ECONOMISTS SUCH AS Reserve Bank (RBA) governor Philip Lowe think that economics is almost a science, but in effect, there is no more correlation between economics and science than there is between astrology and astronomy.
The following is an opinion and as such, it carries no more weight than any other opinion. Although it probably has greater validity than when Lowe opined that interest rates would not change for several years and then progressively increased the rate to address inflation without evidence that his actions were having the desired effect.
Mr Lowe has since moved on. One might hope that the new governor of the RBA will more closely examine the inflationary effects of unearned benefits, such as executive salaries and middle-class welfare, on the markets compulsion to gouge the cost of household goods and services.
Modern economists believe that their career path was founded by Adam Smith in his seminal work, The Wealth of Nations; however, Smith was a sociologist before the word economist was coined and his thinking referred to the need for sound fiscal management to nurture the whole of society. He was, after all, living in the Age of Reason.
By the third quarter of the 20th Century, socialism and democracy, the two prevailing ideologies, had lost their way. Socialism linked itself to communism (whereby some are more equal than others, which proved dysfunctional except where practised in arcane religious orders). Simultaneously, democracy, with its sibling free enterprise, had been hijacked by capitalism.
The death of democracy was sea...
07:52
In which the pond offers up a Killer Kombination of Killer and Katerist, with bonus Major Mitchell musings ... "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
The pond has noted before, and no doubt will note again at some point, the way that talk of climate, or even the weather, or the climate and weather together, has been disappeared, or shunned in best Amish style, by the reptiles of the lizard Oz...
While real world events go on unheeded or ignored, climate science denialism still flourishes, and none is more versed in the art than the quarry waters whisperer himself, regularly on hand on a Monday to do what he can to prevent any meaningful action being taken...
But that's to expected of the Graudian. Must we also regularly expect serves of the Caterist? Indeedy do ...
07:33
Super charged weather is warning that much more climate action is necessary "IndyWatch Feed National"
Contributed by Joe Montero
Once again, the world is being warned by nature of the disaster climate warming is causing. This year has seen record heatwaves in Europe and devastating floods in other parts of the world. The planet is now paused on the eve of an El Nio on a scale never seen before.
These sort of weather events are not new. Records have been breaking year after year. Ice cap melts, raising sea levels, and a slowing down of the Atlantic conveyor are major causes of worsening weather patterns. 3 July saw the hottest day for the planet ever recorded. The evidence is indisputable.
Massive cyclone activity in the Indian Ocean, sinkholes appearing in California, unbearable heat in Spain, the spread of bushfires in Canada, record ocean water temperatures, are the reality. Records are being smashed. Species eh]extinction is accelerating, and ultimately, our own extinction is a real possibility.
Yet many governments, including that of Australia, dont seem to notice. They remain in a denial zone, too busy pleasing their big money backers to bother. This is a new wakeup call. We must call out our governments or their failure to act. We must not just get angry. Its important to divert our anger into constructive action.
What does this mean? It means becoming active in our communities, joining pour organisations, being loud, and taking our demand for change to those who hold the power. Our survival depends on winning this war. And it is a war. Those who stand in the way of the necessary climate action must be vanquished.
Its just as important to move beyond protest, towards being pro-active in building the future, by being involved in projects that cut emissions. When governments dont do it, its communities that must act. There is some of this already. But there must be...
Sunday, 16 July
23:25
INTERVIEW: Arnaud Develay Another NATO Fail: Cluster Bombs to Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Why are the US government and NATO are sending banned cluster bomb munitions to Ukraine?
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on July 7, 2023, Patrick talks with Arnaud Develay, an international human rights lawyer, who explains the legal problems facing the US government and NATO with their latest announcement of sending banned cluster bomb munitions to Ukraine. Similar problems are posed by depleted uranium munitions sent by the US and UK which are now contaminating the environment across Ukraine and Russian-held areas. All this and more. Listen:
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23:14
What to look for an familiarize oneself with? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
I will be up in Cairns in November and doing a lot of camping and hiking. Coming from a place where foxes and nettles are most dangerous I don't have any basic knowledge I'm wondeirng:
How can one familiarize oneself with dangerous plants and wildlife native to north Queensland in advance to going there?
Cheers for any advice!
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20:32
Kangaroo Burgers? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Good day everyone, was just wondering if any one had any insight on any restaurants that serve kangaroo burger? TIA!
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20:05
19:13
Gym with spa and sauna? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Hey guys, just wondering if anyone knows of a gym in cairns or south cairns region (kinda between endmonton and cairns) that has a spa and sauna?
I live close to town and work in Edmonton, so would appreciate a spot within 15 minutes drive of either (Redlynch, edgehill area would be fine too).
Thanks in advance! :)
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19:09
Australia joins the Climate Club but PM evades question of Fossil fuel expansion and export "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Guardian Cartoon by Fiona KatsaukasOn Tuesday 11 July Prime Minister Anthony Albanese committed Australia to joining the 'Climate Club' while visiting Germany. While this sounds like a positive action there are no detailed commitments or changes required in Australia's climate policy direction, according to Prime Minister Albanese. Many people think this is more rhetoric rather than climate
18:11
A counter-seasonal surge in listings "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
17:44
Anti-hooning roadside cameras have a much bigger role "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Roadside cameras capture facial shots of motorists Queensland Labor is gathering motorists facial images matched with car registration to be entered into their massive data base held in Roma Street police headquarters and in various Department of Main Roads computers. Initially dubbed as anti-hooning cameras by Police Minister Mark Ryan it was soon discovered the []
17:38
Fadden Live: Who Gets The Swing? "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Summary
Fadden (LNP 10.6%), vacancy for resignation of Stuart Robert
CALLED (7:26 pm) Cameron Caldwell (LNP) retain
Small 2PP swing to LNP (c. 2.5%), slightly above average for contested opposition vacancy
Poor result for Greens, One Nation and obscure independents, strong result for Legalise Cannabis
Live Comments (scrolls to top)
5:40 Minor changes; Democrats now last by four.
4:15 I've added One Nation to the loser list in the summary above even though they have a small primary vote swing to them. The reason for this is they should have done much better in the absence of the UAP, but seem to have been unable to compete with a Dutton-led LNP (which could spell trouble for Malcolm Roberts' Senate seat in 2025 if Dutton is still leader then). The UAP and One Nation fish to a large degree in the same pond and this was something that was especially striking in the 2022 results nationwide. Compared to the 2022 four-candidate-preferred result, One Nation's by-election primary is down 6%, the Greens are down 6.7, Labor are down 2.8 and the LNP are up 1.6. Some of the votes One Nation has "lost" here will be to Legalise Cannabis and others and will come back to them at the 4CP stage if the Greens manage to make the final four (which is doubtful), but it looks a lot like there has been a swing on the four-candidate vote from One Nation to LNP, which is masked by the UAP not running. Votes coming from UAP at this stage (not all theirs) split 63.6% to One Nation but only 15.1% to the LNP, so all else being equal One Nation would have a bigger primary swing and LNP a smaller one.
PS Federation Party now last by one vote.
2:40 Another 2000-ish postals added and the swing is now 2.5% while the Federation Party is back in last by 3 votes (Citizens only 14 off last now).
Here is a graph of Opposition swings in Opposition vacancy by-elections relative to their polling (compared to the previous election) at the time. Fadden comes out as an above-average result for the Coalition by this standard, and similar to the by-elections in Bob Hawke's first term. Aston by comparison was a shocker.
17:35
Robert Bigelow was looking for a second sponsor for the BAASS/AAWSAP "IndyWatch Feed National"
<p style="text-align:
center;"><b>Introduction</b></p>
<p>Long-term readers of this blog will be aware that most of
my blog articles are based on what interests me, rather than what
is currently popular on Twitter, YouTube or other social media
platforms. Like most UAP researchers and commentators, I have been
following with great interest, the David Grusch story and the
efforts of the US Congress.</p> <p>However, you can
read about these topics on multiple media outlets, including,
increasingly, mainstream media. So, I don't feel a need to report
them here too. Having said that, I continue to mine small pieces of
information, from Jacques Vallee's book <i>"Forbidden
Science: Volume 5."</i> Today, I learnt about the involvement
of a Canadian engineer in the AAWSAP. I was surprised to learn of
his role, as I have never read or heard anything about his work for
AAWSAP. A second surprise item was that Bigelow was looking for
another sponsor for BAASS/AAWSAP above and beyond the Defense
Intelligence Agency. Who was that potential co-sponsor? Here are
the relevant extracts from FS5.</p> <p style="text-align:
center;"><b>30 September 2008</b></p> <p
style="text-align: center;"></p> <table align="center"
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"https://www.hathawayresearch.com/">Scientific Research &
Development Laboratory by Toronto Int. Airport
(hathawayresearch.com)
Speaking of Robert Bigelow's BAASS/AAWSAP, Vallee wrote: </p> <blockquote>"I do hope to find out more from George Hathaway what the prospects are for a more consistent plan when I meet him in Toronto on Monday."</blockquote> <p><b>Comment: </b></p> <p>I wrote a blog article about Canadian engineer George Hathaway, his work and research findings, <a href= "https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/12/george-d-hathaway-his-work-and-research.html"> back in 2018. </a> At one stage, in...
17:00
WATCH: How (and When and Why) to Cite Your Sources #SolutionsWatch "IndyWatch Feed National"
Today on #SolutionsWatch, James Corbett goes into further detail about the theory and practice of source citation. In addition to the hows and whys of citing sources, James also addresses the weaponization of the Whats your source? question and how people can use citations to improve communication, not interfere with it. Sources, shownotes and links
16:45
Meet The RBM Crew Dr Lana Leslie "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
There are so many interesting people involved at Radio Blue Mountains both behind the mic and behind the scenes, that we thought wed share their stories here on the RBM website.
Meet Dr Lana Leslie, host of Burrulaa Yugal, Mondays 10am 12pm.
Q: Hi Lana, thanks very much for taking the time to speak with us.
A: Youre most welcome.
Q: Lets get straight into it Lana. Youre a Kamilaroi woman with ancestral ties to Coonabarabran and Moree, NSW. Tell us a bit about where you grew up and your family background?
A: On my Dads side, my Grandmother was born in Terry Hie Hie outside of Moree and my Grandfather Forked Mountain, Coonabarabran. I also have mob from Gunnedah and Western Sydney. I grew up off Country in Warren and Bathurst.
Q: Since 2015 you have lived on Dharug and Gundungurra Country in the Blue Mountains. What was it that drew you to the Mountains?
A: Ive always loved Dharug and Gundungurra Country and have visited many times prior to moving here. How could you not love it? Healing Country, beautiful nature, not to mention the easy-going lifestyle.
Q: Youre the founder and Managing Director of Gunnedah Hill, an Aboriginal Management Consultancy based in the Blue Mountains.
Where does the name come from? What or where is Gunnedah Hill?
A: Gunnedah Hill is a real place outside of Coonabarabran. This is where my Dad grew up with many other Aboriginal families. Picture shacks with dirt floors with no electricity and a well to cart water.
Q: Your full title is Dr Lana Leslie. Is that from a doc...
16:18
Budgerigar (1), Little Woodswallow (10) at Barolin Nature Reserve, Mon Repos reported by Simon and Judy Smith on 16-07-2023 "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Birds have been reported recently by other birders, but today (9am) were present at the same location, at a minor creek crossing maybe 650m along the walking track to Mon Repos from the northern end of Davidson St, Bargara. The Budgerigar was actively foraging with Chestnut-breasted Mannikins, and its behaviour did not suggest it was an escaped cage bird.
16:10
Best Reef Trip For 2 Year Old "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Hey team, we are travelling to Port Douglas and Palm Cove from Auckland next month for 9 nights. We have a 2 year old boy and would love him to experience some of the Great Barrier Reef. My wife and I would just be snorkelling and assuming a half day trip would be the best with the little man. Any advice on the best provider/trip to go with. Appreciate any help or recommendations.
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15:08
Israel Folau Performance vs Australia A 2023 "IndyWatch Feed National"
Australia Rugby cursed since they treated Israel so bad and still confused like Egyptians were in days of old.
15:00
Shopping local in Ocean Grove "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Voice photographer Ivan Kemp ventured to The Terrace in Ocean Grove this week to see if anyone was doing some mid-winter shopping.
The post Shopping local in Ocean Grove appeared first on Ocean Grove Voice.
14:40
Angkor Wat: Unveiling the Majestic Hindu Temple of Cambodia "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Angkor Wat is an awe-inspiring Hindu temple complex located in Cambodia. Steeped in history and surrounded by lush greenery, it stands as a testament to the grandeur and architectural brilliance of the Khmer Empire. Built in the 12th century by King Suryavarman II, Angkor Wat is not only a significant religious site but also a ... Read more...
14:31
How do you plan to reduce population Kamala? "IndyWatch Feed National"
KAMALA HARRIS: When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breath clean air and drink clean water. pic.twitter.com/MbMiDx9Xoc RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 14, 2023
14:06
Is the recent rain normal for this time of year? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Long time Cairns locals, is this heavy frequent rain typical for the middle months? When I've visited Cairns in the past at this time of year, it's been dry as a bone.
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14:00
Australian Dollar and Bitcoin "IndyWatch Feed National"
1.00 AUD = 0.00002 BTC
0.00010 BTC = 4.40 AUD
Converter
13:52
Domestic Violence Blitz Raises Questions Regarding Lawfulness of Arrests "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
The New South Wales Police Force is boasting about the arrest of nearly 600 people during this weeks four-day operation targeting domestic violence offences. And as usual, the mainstream media is right behind them, labelling those arrested as predators and...
The post Domestic Violence Blitz Raises Questions Regarding Lawfulness of Arrests appeared first on Sydney Criminal Lawyers.
12:30
Captain Moonlite, the queer bushranger musical "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Cant get enough of gay bushranger Captain Moonlite aka Andrew George Scott? Then this is for you. The NSW premiere of the queer bushranger musical: Captain Moonlite A New Australian Musical. Captain Moonlite Andrew George Scott One of Australias most notorious bushrangers, Captain Moonlite, otherwise Andrew George Scott, arrived in Australia intending to ...
The post Captain Moonlite, the queer bushranger musical appeared first on QNews.
12:00
Fox host whose network mentioned Hunter Bidens name over 300 times this month asks: Why is Hunter Biden always in our face? "IndyWatch Feed National"
During an extended rant this Thursday, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro asked a question that she should know the answer to. Why is Hunter Biden always in our face? she asked. We shouldnt have to deal with him constantly in our face, she said after bringing up Hunters struggles with addition. Thanks to a Mediaite analysis []
11:50
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Robbery While Armed with a Dangerous Weapon in NSW "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
A man has been charged with a string of offences over a spate of alleged armed robberies in Northern New South Wales. According to police, one of the incidents over which 41-year old John Cole was charged involved him breaking...
The post The Law, Defences and Penalties for Robbery While Armed with a Dangerous Weapon in NSW appeared first on Sydney Criminal Lawyers.
11:00
Search for robins proves successful "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Winter is well and truly in full swing, but there have been some sunny days that have been perfect for being out and about, although its rather soggy underfoot.
I was fortunate to conduct a winter birds on farms survey in Wallington. I was particularly interested in seeing robins, as these birds move from mountainous areas to warmer coastal areas in the winter months, and they have not been seen in as big numbers over the past few years around the Bellarine.
I did not see any robins until the end of the survey, and in the end, there were eight flame robins hanging around a newly ploughed paddock.
There was also the usual small flock of weebills in the yellow gum habitats. Weebills are tiny birds of around 8cm to 9cm in length and are not commonly seen around the Bellarine Peninsula, so its always lovely to spot them.
There were also a few honeyeater species on the farm, as the yellow gums were flowering. The red wattlebirds and New Holland honeyeaters are always present in the area, in all seasons.
I saw a few yellow-faced honeyeaters, which are migratory and make movements to and from south-eastern Australia, mostly flying north in autumn and south in spring. These birds can be seen in large flocks when migrating and in smaller groups when feeding.
I also spotted a few white-naped honeyeaters that are also partially migratory. This species breeds in mountainous areas in the summer months and in autumn some birds migrate north and east in flocks with yellow-faced honeyeaters.
One day on my way to work I called in to the Geelong Botanic Gardens, also on the lookout for robins.
I didnt see any robins but did spot a small flock of eastern spinebills that are also another honeyeater that has seasonal movements from high altitudes to lower regions in autumn and winter.
There was also a flock of silvereyes in a garden near the Botanic Gardens and these birds looked like the Tasmanian subspecies of these birds, as they had grey throats, chestnut flanks and yellow on the undertail. Silvereyes are also highly migratory and move north in the autumn months, returning to breed in southern regions in late winter.
On the way to the Botanic Gardens I drove through Leopold and had the closest encounter with a pair of brown falcons that I have ever had. They were perched in a tree and I drove past, and then did a safe u-turn and said hello. One of the falcons flew away but the other hung around for a photo and a chat.
I could have reached out and shook its wing, I was so close, and the bird was so lovely.
I received a message from Doug, who was walking early in the morning on the beach in Ocean Grove when he spotted an eastern barn owl sitting on top of a sign pole near the steps to the beach.
There are occasional sightings of barn owls on the Bellarine Peninsula, and its always wonderful to know that they are around.
The post...
10:16
Little Kingfisher - small wonder, big favourite "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
All birds are special but some more so than others. In Australia the second smallest kingfisher in the world looms large for many. Small wonder as it is indeed a small wonder. Wonderful to watch in action. Wonderful to watch at rest. So, lots of my latest session (yesterday, 15/07/23) with a Little Kingfisher. A few do it some justice, others less so. Enjoy them all anyone. Little wonders don't come along every day, even in my happy place, the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park.
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09:58
Once again, Peter Van Idiots analysis off with the fairies. "IndyWatch Feed National"
What are the chances? The Liberals have a significant swing to them them in a by-election on the very day Peter Van Imbecile was lecturing them on how badly they were faring with the public. The Australian, surely by accident, put the two together on their front page. Swing to...
09:52
Str8 Spider Man fans gutted by Tom Holland backshots "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Anguished screams continue to ring out over metropolitan areas worldwide as str8 Spider-Man fans react to a Tom Holland TV character taking backshots in The Crowded Room. Scroll down for vids. Dont bother telling the homophobes Its called acting. The dumb fcks just dont get it. Backshots: otherwise doggy style or rear entry. top enters ...
The post Str8 Spider Man fans gutted by Tom Holland backshots appeared first on QNews.
09:30
Thousands protest Victor Orbans bigotry at Budapest Pride "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Despite scorching heat, about 10,000 Hungarians marched in Budapest Pride yesterday, protesting against Prime Minister Victor Orbans extreme anti-LGBT agenda. Budapest mayor Gergely Karcsony told the crowd that Victor Orbans government employs hatred to hide the countrys real problems. Keep Budapest free and in solidarity! Love Budapest, because Budapest loves you too! Orbans 2021 ban ...
The post Thousands protest Victor Orbans bigotry at Budapest Pride appeared first on QNews.
09:24
Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, July 15, 2023, #414 "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Record
deluge, record heat and record drought catastrophes are causing
chaos and devastation from the US to China, Brazil,
Australia and everywhere in between. We are still officially
told that global climate engineering operations are only a
dangerous proposal though those that take the time to look up are
finally beginning to ask questions. From farms to
09:00
Trek crosses into familiar territory "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Havent we met somewhere before? sprung to mind on my first encounter with the Subaru Crosstrek, for there is a lot in common here with the companys XV sport utility vehicle.
In fact, says Subaru, the newly named compact is the latest iteration of the popular XV, including two petrol / electric hybrid models, aimed at anyone who wants a versatile, reliable, and stylish small SUV.
Priced from $34,990, the all-wheel drive Crosstrek comes in five variants AWD 2.0L, AWD 2.0R, AWD 2.0S, AWD Hybrid L and AWD Hybrid S offering those with an active lifestyle a versatile, reliable, and stylish small SUV.
However, there is a major point of difference between the Crosstrek and its antecedent. The Crosstrek has benefitted greatly from a visit to the doctor a whole team of medics, in fact. Subaru collaborated with a medical school to study the structure of the human body and what causes driver discomfort, fatigue and lower back pain behind the wheel.
Results found ride comfort is not solely affected by the vibration of the vehicle, but also by sounds and changes in visual information because of jerking and head swaying during driving.
Hence seats have been redesigned to reduce shaking of the head and roof damping has been improved to help reduce sound pressure fluctuations in the cabin.
Meanwhile, vehicle health is in the hands of Subarus standard five-year / unlimited kilometre warranty and 12 months complimentary Subaru Roadside Assistance.
The mid-range Crosstrek AWD 2.0R, selling for $38,490, plus on-road costs, was the test vehicle for a week and confidently took on widely varied road and weather conditions well during that time.
STYLING
Once the domain of predominantly white or silver exteriors, or in this case Subaru blue, these days, subtle shades of colour are taking to streets around the world. Take for example the test Crosstrek with its Magnetite Grey Metallic paint job and dark machine finished 18-inch wheels. Who would have thought dull could look so classy?
While the all-round appearance of the Crosstrek is generally a carry-over from the XV, the bonnet and radiator grille come in for a complete redesign, the latter maintaining the signature hexagonal shape, but in a larger more aggressively styled honeycomb.
Use of lightweight aluminium enables a newly designed bonnet to contribute to improved pedestrian protection with a softer head impact zone and a saving of two kilograms in front fenders optimises weight distribution all round.
LED headlamps, plus cornering lights, improve visibility at night and add to power savings, while LED rear combination lamps feature a sharp 3-D C-shape. Rear-view mirrors are smaller, improving aerodynamics and presenting a less obstructive view.
INTERIOR
The doctors orders seats, clothed in premium material, provide exceptional comfort during longer drives (try 200-plus kilo...
08:41
On Ya Bike for a 60-kilometre round trip "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
We invite you to join Newstead Walks and Wheels at 10 am on July 30 for our longest group ride yet an approximately 60-kilometre round trip starting and finishing at Newstead. We will start at the Newstead Park, diagonally opposite the IGA in Lyons St. If the full distance is too daunting then there []
08:01
Q&A with Indigo Aurora on Climate Action "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Republished from the Bass Coast Post*
On Tuesday, local students took time off school to protest at the NABs financing of the coal industry. The Bass Coast Post asked Indigo Aurora why she attended.
Post: Why did you get involved with School Strike for Climate (SS4C)?
Indigo: I only got properly involved with SS4C this year, but Ive been passionate about fighting for climate justice for years. When I joined Newhaven College at the start of 2023, my amazing friend and activist Joey Thompson introduced me to a local climate action group, and Ive been helping to organise and attend local actions ever since. It makes me feel so empowered to get out there and fight for our environment, alongside other passionate individuals. Although we live rurally, its important that we join this national movement, as we can still achieve great things that will make an impact.
Post: Climate change makes me feel
Indigo: Trapped, like my generations future is hopeless. Its sometimes hard to maintain a positive mental attitude when it feels like the world is slowly crumbling around us.
Post: Do you talk to your friends and family about climate change and climate action?
Indigo: I talk about climate change with my friends and family very frequently, as its on my mind so often. My family are more than supportive of me, and my friends seem to care when I discuss it with them.
Post: Is this your first climate action or have you been involved in direct action before?
Indigo: This is not my first direct action, I have attended over five in total, and helped to organise three.
Post: You should be in class! Whats your response?
Indigo: The SS4C movement is not at all disregarding the importance of our education, its simply asserting that it is so crucial to fight for our dying climate, that we will sacrifice an important part of our lives for it. Students and young people often get treated like we have no power, so we use one of the only things we do have the ability to strike from school and disrupt the daily order of things, to force the government and other people in power to take the climate crisis seriously.
Post: Do you expect the June 20 rally to influence the banks? Or do you see other benefits to the rally?
Indigo: Of course our main goal is to influence th...
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07:30
1943: Walford Dunbar accidentally lands on dick "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
According to his sworn testimony, Walford Dunbar took down his pants to relieve himself in a Rockhampton churchyard, stumbled, and landed on a dick. Another snippet of queercentric news from Australian media history. To be clear, it is not funny that men faced persecution and prosecution for consenting adult sex acts. And it is sad ...
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06:50
Bruce Lehrmann / Brittany Higgins missing video on the night of the alleged rape in Parliament House is set to be exposed in the Federal Court "IndyWatch Feed National"
The Australian Parliament House, on the 7th of July
2023, refused to give video of the night of the alleged rape of
Brittany Higgins to the Federal Court, which put the Australian
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05:47
Tree by tree and hollow by hollow, regional coastal villages are being made over into the almost sterile landscapes of distant metropolises "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
All up and down the NSW coastal zone local residents are involved in conversations like this and, as in this case, local government staff are well aware of what is happening.
Concerning DA 2022/0100 - tree removal and erection of a shed - at 35 and 37 Riverview St, Iluka, at the mouth of the Clarence River estuary:
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03:35
Kennedy accuses Biden of preparing for war with Russia "IndyWatch Feed National"
RT | July 15, 2023
By ordering the deployment of 3,000 more reservists to Europe, US President Joe Biden is preparing to fight Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said.
Biden has lost his way, Kennedy tweeted on Friday, arguing that the president should focus on Americas domestic problems instead of trying to achieve global military dominance.
I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. Its about preparing for a ground war with Russia, he said.
The idea of defeating Moscow in its conflict with Kiev is a futile geopolitical fantasy of the Biden administration, the Democratic presidential candidate added.
Thousands of Ukrainians have already lost their lives because Americas foreign policy establishment manipulated their country into war Now, rather than acknowledge failure, Biden admin prepares to sacrifice American lives too, Kennedy said.
On Thursday, Biden signed an executive order mobilizing 3,000 members of the US militarys Selected Reserve to boost the ranks of Operation Atlantic Resolve, which Washington launched in Europe in 2014 after Crimea rejoined Russia following the Western-backed coup in Kiev.
According to Army Lieutenant General Douglas Sims, the Joint Staff director of operations, the move reaffirms the unwavering [US] support and commitment to defend NATOs eastern flank in the wake of Russias military operation in Ukraine.
The US European Command (EUCOM) spokesman, Navy Captain Bill Speaks, said the deployment of reservists will not change current force-posture levels in Europe.
The leading Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, also had some harsh words to say about Bidens decision to send more American troops to Europe. The reckless escalation in Ukraine pursued by the White House is straining the US military to the point of disaster, he said.
Joe Biden cant even walk up the steps of Air Force One without tripping. The last thing this incompetent administration should be doing is pushing us further toward World War III.
Trump reiterated his earlier claim that if he becomes president again, he would end the conflict in Ukraine in 24 hours. Not one American mother or father wants to send their child to die in Eastern Europe. We must have peace.
Another Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, said it is downright disturbing that the US media is largely ignoring the presidents order in its reporting. What is the justification now [for sending reservists to Europe]? What are the operations? Where will they go? What will they do? We need answers, not sweeping this under the rug as Biden would prefer, Ramaswamy said in...
02:59
Henningsen: Is Zelenskys Star Fading? "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Understanding the cult of Zelensky in the West, and whats next for Washingtons marionette government in Kiev.
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on July 7, 2023, Patrick discusses the complete detachment from reality which European politicians have on the issue of Ukraine, the Cult of Zelensky in Brussels, and the increasing insanity of EU and NATO policy in propping-up what is clearly a losing proxy war in Ukraine. Is it too late for Europe to cut its losses, and salvage its flailing economy and reputation? Listen:
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02:56
INTERVIEW: Iain Davis BBC Verify & The New Ministry of Truth "IndyWatch Feed National"
Revealed: how the BBC is on a mission to attack and silence alternative and anti-establishment opinions and views.
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on July 11, 2023, Patrick talks with independent journalist Iain Davis talks about the new push for total information censorship in the UK, led by the notorious BBC and their supposed disinformation Tzar Marianna Spring, on a mission to attack and silence alternative and anti-establishment opinions and views all under the specious guise of preventing online harms. All this and more. Listen:
Read Iains latest article on the UK censorship
complex:
here
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01:02
Weaponised Antisemitism Crushed the Political Left: Now its the Cultural Lefts Turn "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
What does it mean to be antisemitic in modern Britain? The answer seems ever more confusing.
We have reached the seemingly absurd point that a political leader famed for his anti-racism, a rock star whose most celebrated work focuses on the dangers of racism and fascism, and a renowned film maker committed to socially progressive causes are all now characterised as antisemites.
And in a further irony, those behind the accusations do not appear to have made a priority of anti-racism themselves not, at least, until it proved an effective means of defeating their political enemies.
And yet, the list of those supposedly exposed as antisemites often only by association keeps widening to include ever more unlikely targets.
That is especially true in the Labour Party, where even the vaguest ties with any of the three iconic left-wing figures noted above Jeremy Corbyn, Roger Waters and Ken Loach can be grounds for disciplinary action.
One of the Labour Partys most successful politicians, Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne mayor, was barred last month from standing for re-election after he shared a platform with Loach to talk about the Norths place in the directors films.
Not coincidentally, Driscoll has been described as the UKs most powerful Corbynista or supporter of Corbyns left-wing policies. The nadir in this process may have been reached at the Glastonbury Festival.
Back in 2017, Corbyn, then-Labour leader, was given top billing as he set out a new, inspirational vision for Britain. Six years on and organisers cancelled the screening of a film, Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie, highlighting the sustained campaign to smear Corbyn as an antisemite and snuff out his left-wing agenda.
The decision was taken after pro-Israel pressure groups launched a campaign to smear the film as antisemitic. The festival decided showing it would cause division.
So what is going on?
To understand how we arrived at this dark moment, one in which seemingly anyone or anything can be cancelled as antisemitic, it is necessary to grapple with the terms constantly mutating meaning and the political uses this confusion is...
Saturday, 15 July
23:50
Even a cult leaders death does not kill the cult "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Two years ago I wrote about a particularly bizarre cult surrounding John F. Kennedy Jr. that believes that he faked his own death and would be returning as serial sex abuser Donald Trumps (SSAT) running mate for 2024. A large crowd of believers of this cult congregated at Dealey Plaza (where JFK was assassinated) in November 2021 on the 58th anniversary of his death thinking that both father and son would appear there. Spoiler alert: They did not appear.
The leader of this particular QAnon subcult was
someone named Michael Protzman who also went by the label
Negative48.
Protzman seems to believe that JFK and Jackie Kennedy were the second physical incarnations of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and direct descendants in a genealogy so bizarre not even Dan Brown would touch it, with JFK Jr. as the Archangel Michael and Donald Trump as the Holy Spirit.
The Negative48 cult is tearing families apart, as Vices David Gilbert recently reported. Katy Garner, a nurse from Arkansas, told Gilbert that she had essentially lost her sister to Protzmans cult in the months since the November 2020 election.
She left her children for this and doesnt even care. She is missing birthdays and holidays for this. She truly believes this is all real and we are the crazy ones for trying to get her to come home. But she wont, Garner said. I dont believe she will ever come back from this. We are in mourning.
Garner said that, under Protzmans direction, her sister now is required to drink a hydrogen peroxide solution and take bio pellets to ward off COVID-19, and her phone calls are monitored. She also has handed over about $200,000 to the cult.
Protzman had told his followers that they should become comfortable with dying because only then will they know the truth, evoking ominous comparisons to the Jim Jones cult. He himself may now know the truth because he died on June 30th after he lost control of his dirt bike on a motorcross track. But that seems to have only strengthened the beliefs of his supporters.
After his accident two weeks ago, details about Protzmans condition were tightly controlled by his inner circle of half a dozen followers. While they initially told followers in an online chat that Protzman had a potential brain injury and told them to pray for him, the inner circle has refused to answer any follow up questions about his condition.
Shelly Mullinax, who was one of Protzmans earliest...
23:29
Ken Ham is a disingenuous fraud on climate change "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Im sorry, I feel stupider for having read this: its Ken Ham talking about climate change. He reports the headlines:
Shortly after the Fourth of July weekend here in the US, headlines proclaimed: For the third day in a row, Earths average temperature breaks record highs. Last week on July 5, 2023, the average global temperature (according to one universitys Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the worlds condition) was a record 62.8 degrees Fahrenheit (or 17.18 C), beating the record set on Monday. But is this really a record?
Yes.
But Ol Ken questions it.
was last week really a record? Well, it might have beenbut we dont really know! Humans have only been recording climate data since the 1880s, and weve only had robust data since satellite data collection began in the 1970s. So we have no idea how warm the warmest day on earth was in all of the earths history! (But we do know, based on the fossil record, that the earths climate was much warmer before the flood!)
You idiot. We have over a century of robust climate records, and this was the highest temperature on record, therefore, yes, it was a record high temperature. Words mean things, you know. They werent saying this was the hottest the planet had ever been that probably occurred about 4 billion years ago, when the planet was a molten ball of rock but the hottest since we humans have been carefully tracking the climate. OK, you fucking stupid charlatan?
But he goes on to top that disingenuous word game. He claims that he believes in climate change.
Not only do I believe in climate change, but Im a climate change alarmist, and I do believe humans have caused climate change!
Exceptjust not the way scientists do, with their measurements and data and records. No, he believes in a coming Biblical catastrophe.
Well, Im not referring to a supposed slight global temperature increase allegedly caused by humans burning fossil fuels. Im referring to the ultimate catastrophic climate change everyone should be aware of when one day in the future, Jesus will return, and the earth (and the whole universe) will be judged with fire, and God will make a new heavens and earth.
He then goes on to say that...
19:51
Fadden federal by-election, Saturday 15 July 2023 - vote count begins at approx. 6:30pm "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Australian Electoral Commission vote count in the Fadden by-election in Queensland begins after close of polls at 6pm, Saturday 15 July 2023.
The rolling ballot count should be available at:
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19:00
TIDBITS: THIS WEEKS HONOURABLE MENTIONS "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Again our thanks to all of you who search and share articles. This week's honourable mentions shout outs go to V.T., S.D., T.M., K.M., W.M.,
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18:50
18:36
005 Artificial Intelligence, Thought and Thinking "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
This episode is on Cartesian Theatre, Socrates Elenchus, GAN and tokens, alcohol and the Divine Masculine. Bit of a ramble really.
How artificial intelligence And human intelligence converge. Or
do not. I wanted to start to tackle artificial intelligence,
thought and thinking. We humans are not convinced we understand how
we think and have spent philosophical lifetimes debating and
cogitating. (Rene Descartes Cogito ergo sum, or Dennetts draft mode
or quantum consciousness?)
While AI may one day move from a sequential process to a concurrent
one, the Divine Masculine will lurch toward a prompt-output
approach while the Divine Feminine swims in deep waters. Both
exist, both can be right.
GAN (adversarial networks) are similar to Socrates Elenchus only by
debating what we know and understand do we truly KNOW. The GAN
approach will try and fool the AI into thinking the image is not AI
generated. It will build muscle by going back to the drawing board
and trying again. A Pros and Cons list.
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Camus and Baudelaire,
Aldous Huxley, Carlos Castaneda and others took the view that
Bacchanalia, Dionysian that alcohol can clarify thinking. Or at
least mean a good time while philosophising!
Resources on my website laurelpapworth.com/alchemy as well as my AI
Is My CoPilot course (in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and
Virtual) please go to the Australian Institute of Management
website if interested
This is a stream of consciousness recording. It has errors as my
brain attempts to compete with generative AI and suffers
catastrophic failures (not enough tokens) and hallucinations
(outside of ingested dataset) Hey ho.
Cover art by Dall-e for a change. (steampunk clock).
Transcript of artificial intelligence and human intelligence:
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2023 07 14 Alchemy of Innovation. So Ive been thinking about the
nature of thinking. And because you jump down a rabbit hole when
you start to think about thinking, we end up in all sorts of
problems, well, I did. So Im going to take you through my process.
Were going to go on a journey together and see what we think about
thinking. Oh, yes. And chatGPT will come along as our
companion.
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So one of the questions I have, and I have many, because questions
are tho...
18:12
TODAY. As long as it takes WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
it takes cluster bombs (to cause later mutilations and deaths, especially children)
it takes depleted uranium weapons, (to cause widespread, long-lasting radioactive pollution, cancers in soldiers and citizens of both sides)
it takes -by December 31 the Ukrainian army will lose between 75,000 and 100,000 dead, and up to 300,000 wounded and out of combat. Russian soldiers killed so far in Ukraine: around 47,000.
it takes continued destruction and environmental pollution, the wreckage of the country
it takes By May 2023, the U.S. had provided Ukraine nearly $37 billion in military aid . Total with EU funding $46.6 billion and more to come
it takes behind-the-scenes wrangling, as European and other leaders try hold it together with U...
18:10
Taiwan solution is diplomacy rather than nuclear hell "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Pearls and Irritations, By Bob CarrJul 15, 2023
I have yet to meet an Australian voter willing to go to war over Taiwan. Further, I havent heard of any Australian military leader with a clear idea of Australias role in a showdown between China and the US.
Earlier this year, NASAs survey satellite discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable zone of a distant star. If it hosts life, its creatures may be listening to our conversations. They are likely amazed that earthlings seem to be sleepwalking towards their first war between nuclear powers.
At the heart of the conflict is the political system that prevails on an island of 23.5 million people because of sovereignty issues left over from two Sino-Japanese wars. These far-off observers might be even more curious if they knew about the availability of a tested formula that for 50 years kept peace in one part of the small blue planet.
I have yet to meet an Australian voter willing to go to war over Taiwan. Further, I havent heard of any Australian military leader with a clear idea of Australias role in a showdown between China and the US. On the contrary, Im told their consensus is that our naval assets would be unprotected against ocean-hugging hypersonic missiles.
One former Defence Department official told me if we sent submarines, wed better make sure that our submariners had their wills made out. Im told one now-deceased former general was fond of saying about our role in the Taiwan Strait: Wed last three minutes.
..The loose war talk over Taiwan led the former US secretary of state , Henry Kissinger to make a solemn warning back in May that we are facing great-power conflict like that which preceded World War I. He used the noun catastrophe.
Kissinger had negotiated the 1972 Shanghai Communique, which offers the diplomatic formula that preserved the peace and can go on preserving it until overtaken by any new political and economic reality 100 years off. The communique allows the world to acknowledge the Chinese claim that Taiwan is its province without endorsing the Chinese claim. And, quickly following, is the principle that reunification would not involve an act of war.
For its part, Taiwan steers away from a declaration of independence. Only 13 of the worlds nations see Taiwan as independent. But it has enjoyed self-government with a contestable political system and a prosperous economy. This strategic ambiguity has served us.
A Taiwan that resembles Hong Kong is not desirable. I said in my recent interview with Mark Bouris, it would be p...
18:08
Merri-bek City Council is a Nuclear-Free Zone "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Council stands against the use of nuclear power and weapons and has declared Merri-bek as a Nuclear-Free Zone. Nuclear weapons pose a significant threat to our world. This decision reflects our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of our community, and our support for global peace and security.
As part of our Nuclear-Free Zone declaration:
- We oppose the storage and transportation of uranium, nuclear waste, or any other materials connected to the nuclear industry in Merri-bek, including nuclear submarines. This excludes the use of radio-isotopes in hospitals.
- We oppose the establishment of nuclear facilities or nuclear submarine repair facilities in Merri-bek.
- We will display signage at the entrances to our municipality declaring our nuclear-free position.
In addition to this declaration, Merri-bek is one of 43 Australian councils that support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and call on the Australian Government to take this action.
Merri-bek has also joined the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Cities Appeal. The Cities Appeal includes cities and towns across the world in support of the treaty.
Our nuclear-free stance aligns with Councils Human Rights Policy 2016-2026. The danger presented by nuclear weapons impacts on human...
17:54
Embrace a Slower Pace Crystalbrook Byron "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Winter in Byron Bay at Crystalbrook Byron
In a world that often moves at a frenetic pace, taking things slow has become a precious luxury. Slow travel allows us to truly immerse ourselves in the essence of a destination, to savour each moment and connect with its unique rhythms. And theres no better place to embrace the art of slow travel than Byron Bay.
This laid-back coastal haven invites you to unwind, recharge, and discover the beauty of a simpler, more mindful way of life. From the breathtaking beaches to the lush hinterland, every corner of Byron Bay offers an invitation to slow down, indulge in the present, and engage with the local culture.
Whether its exploring the vibrant markets, indulging in farm-to-table culinary delights, or simply basking in the tranquility of nature, a slow journey through Byron Bay promises to awaken your senses and leave an indelible mark on your soul.
Experience the magic of winter in Byron Bay from $285 per suite
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17:50
Scarlet Robins establishing territories "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Birds were scarce during a visit to the Rise and Shine mid-week.
Spotted Pardalotes, Weebills and White-naped Honeyeaters could be heard calling, along with a pair of Scarlet Robins sweet notes piercing the cool air.
At this time of year they are establishing territories, so if you find a pair in late winter there is a fair chance theyll remain in the same area to breed as soon as the spring warmth arrives.
Scarlet Robins are mostly perch and pounce foragers, often alighting sideways on a tree trunk as they scan the woodland floor for insects. Their calls can vary in volume, in this case the male was singing softly, uttering an occasional single note contact call between snatches of song.
Scarlet Robin (adult male), Rise and Shine Bushland Reserve, 12th July 2023
17:00
Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on Earth? "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
These four U.S. nuclear plants will start producing clean hydrogen "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
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16:00
Notorious hacker group is gay furry collective "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Notorious hacker group SiegedSec behind recent attacks on US state government websites is a gay furry collective. SiegedSec emerged about the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Analysts say the group initially appeared to target victims indiscriminately. They said the group did not make ransom demands of its targets and did not seem ...
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16:00
Commonwealth Bank: Shifting goalposts and shutting doors "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Banks are closing, despite an assurance given to the Senate Inquiry by the Commonwealth Bank that it would not close regional branches until the Inquiry concludes at the end of the year. Dale Webster reports.
THE COMMONWEALTH BANK is at it again.
While to be congratulated on its decision to put a three-year moratorium on regional branch closures in place, the Commonwealth Bank has dragged its co-publisher of the quarterly Regional Movers Index report into an embarrassing situation again by refusing to count its top destinations for regional migration as regional.
The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) uses Commonwealth Bank data to compile the report, which has listed the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Geelong as some of its most popular destinations for people choosing to leave city life behind in preference for a regional location.
But the Commonwealth Bank confirmed that when it comes to branch closures, it is choosing to follow a Bureau of Statistics classification that conflicts with the classification it uses with the RAI in the Regional Movers Index.
The decision leaves Australias three biggest regional cities Geelong, Wollongong and Newcastle as well as the Gold and Sunshine coasts and places such as Bateau Bay, Gosford, Maitland, Murwillumbah, Raymond Terrace, Katoomba, Bacchus Marsh and Mandurah, still vulnerable to the loss of their Commonwealth banks until 2026.
They are among 490 branches the Commonwealth Bank could choose to close at any time (see map below)
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15:15
Spice Girls reunion for Glastonbury in 2024? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
English papers report that the Spice Girls reunion will finally happen with the group in talks to headline Glastonbury next year for their 30th anniversary. The Sun quotes a source who says Glastonbury would suit Victoria Beckhams cool aesthetic. (Whatever the fck that is.) For the past few years, the Spice Girls have still been ...
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15:00
Loathsome Amiability: Why Watching Utopia Hurts "IndyWatch Feed National"
Lets be frank: watching Utopia hurts. It involves stinging your eyeballs, tearing your hair, and taking yourself to the ledge of a skyscraper to call the whole thing off. The fact that the characters are meant to be faux pleasing is no excuse not to loathe them.
This Australian satire on bureaucracy, specifically featuring the bureaucracy of infrastructure development, displays buffoonery, stupidity, and workplace retardation of hideous scale. It is a micro snapshot of the public service and its poisonous symbiosis with the political class, an insight into virtually any modern organisation in retreat from its principles. In it, we see the same recipe repeated across government departments, corporations, the modern failed university, and its managers.
From 2014, Utopia had two focal points: infrastructure projects of the National Building Authority, and the employees who, in various ways, advance, retreat, and then diminish the allocated task. Ideas struggle to be born. In their infancy, smothering is a must. If such ideas eventually develop legs, they will be shackled and bound.
How this is manifested varies. It could come in the form of a feasibility study. The outcome of that feasibility study is bound to lead to other studies, and so forth, suggesting a law of false productivity. If changes do take place, they never progress beyond tinkering with fences or redesigning logos. The rest is just enactment and illusion. The projects that do eventually get realised in all their horror are the cockups, the bungles, the budget nightmares.
The office dimension is salient in Utopia, a universe where kindly failure is celebrated. It is the site of constipated endeavours, where the only possible momentum takes place via catering choices and the watercooler. Where work is not actually done (there is a preference for work about work), and progress painfully slow, distractions in language and communications offer solace and salvation. Human Resource freaks take centre stage and parade; legal advisors intervene and meddle in priestly instruction. There is a focus on professional development, a spotlight on diet, protocols of behaviour.
There is, however, a conscious departure in the series from brute workplace aggression and manic bullying in the manner of The Thick of It. It is precisely this recipe that gives Utopia its self-harming appeal. You are meant to find the characters amiable, even mildly likable. Banish the thought.
Rob Sitch, the director of the series who also plays the frustrated Tony Woodford, head of the NBA, puts it like this: Utopia came along at a time when the idea of someone yelling at people in the workplace went out years ago. So, it is all these quiet, passive-a...
15:00
Funding helps marine care group "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Queenscliffs Southern Ocean Environmental Link (SOEL) will share more than $350,000 in state government funding from the Coastcare Community Grants Program.
SOEL founder James (Murph) Murphy said it was fantastic to receive the funding for a Marine Coastal Citizen Science Program and Plastic Recycling Workshop.
Were really excited to be able to offer this, he said.
Were looking to bring people into the environment to showcase the world of volunteering through the amazing biodiversity and the impacts that our regions are facing.
Its a big thanks to Coastcare for backing us because its confirmation for us that were on the right track and the work weve been doing is absolutely worth it.
Mr Murphy said the coastal citizen program looked to engage the young, disadvantaged, indigenous, elderly and local groups to get them interested in volunteering.
They are going to get the opportunity to go through, collect, sort, and learn about the different types of plastics, he said.
The volunteers will also learn how plastics can be recycled and then turn some of the waste collected here in the Bellarine back into usable products.
Mr Murphy said the group was always looking for more volunteers to look after the surrounding oceans marine health and encouraged anyone interested in helping to reach out to SOEL.
Were all in this together, he said.
Ive been incredibly proud of the team and really pleased with where its going, I think were on step four of a massive staircase.
The goal is to help improve the health of our ocean, and I think if we can come and put our minds together, then theres a good shot of leaving the place better for our kids.
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14:06
Noble Scientist says Climate Change is a Hoax "IndyWatch Feed National"
Dr. John Clauser, the co-winner of the 2022 Nobel Physics prize has come out and said the whole nonsense of Climate Change caused exclusively by CO2 is an absolute HOAX. Anyone who has ever studied physics cannot possibly conclude otherwise. There is absolutely NOTHING that can ever be reduced to a single cause and effect in anything. It is always a complex dynamic.
Here is Bill Gates who I would not trust to walk my dog admitting that blaming CO2 is not without dispute. There is just nothing, even in market movements, that can be reduced to a single cause and effect PERIOD! Perhaps he should have paid attention in physics class, assuming he took it.
One of our clients was one of the top 5 Australian mining companies. Their CFO lost more than $50 million in the currency. They ordered him to meet with me. He knew my track record and said perhaps it was just a coincidence. Finally, I asked him what his background was. He hesitated and said physics. I said GREAT! Now look at the market through the Second Law of Thermodynamics. His jaw dropped and said OMG, there has to be a cycle. I said you got it.
Heat always moves from hotter objects to colder objects (or downhill), unless energy in some form is supplied to reverse the direct...
13:50
International Cycling Union bans transgender athletes "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
The International Cycling Union (UCI) yesterday banned female transgender athletes who transitioned after male puberty from competing in womens races. International Cycling Union statement The UCI said in a statement that the rule change will take effect from Monday. The ruling prohibits female transgender athletes who transitioned after puberty from participating in womens events on ...
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13:40
POW highlights threat to climate data "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Anyone who is paying attention to the state of our winters knows that they are getting more erratic. Often they start later (its now a rare thing to ski on natural snow on opening weekend) and winter snow is subject to more rain events, with big impacts on snow pack. While our climatic patterns go through natural wetter and drier cycles, climate science tells us that these patterns will become more extreme, with less overall snow and shorter seasons over time.
While all resorts track snowfall, the benchmark of snowfall in Australia over time comes from Spencers Creek, at a site at 1,800 metres above sea level, in the Main Range of the Snowy Mountains.
The area is midway between Perisher Valley and Thredbo, and has been visited by weather observers every week during winter since the mid-1950s, when the Snowy Hydro scheme was being constructed. The information collected by Snowy Hydro provides our best snapshot of snow pack over time. Sadly the data shows that snowpack has been in decline since 1957.
Now Protect our Winters (POW) has discovered that the frequency of data collection at Spencers Creek has decreased in recent years.
They say:
Data collected in 2022 was sparse in comparison to previous years, with only four records collected from 1st of May to 31st of July. This is a reduction of over 60% compared to the average of the previous decade (2012-2021).
Snowy Hydro explained their reduction in data collection in 2021 as a means to avoid sending staff to remote locations in poor weather conditions.
However, this poses a pressing challenge. Snowy Hydros data is the longest running and most consistent, and without it, tracking and comparing the impact of climate change on our winters becomes increasingly difficult.
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13:00
Small Business Fest inspires "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Every year I am inspired by the people I meet and speak to at the Geelong Small Business Festival.
This wonderful event is now in its 13th year, and it has served as a great reminder of the amazing work being done in our community by people who are often competing with major corporate organisations and larger entities.
This year the City of Greater Geelong has announced a new partnership with the Geelong Chamber of Commerce for the Geelong Small Business Festival.
The partnership will see the Chamber take the lead in delivering the event which runs throughout all of August and will help support the continued growth and evolution of the festival.
This years program has more than 70 low-cost and free events on offer for community members looking to start, grow or improve their small business.
The local small business community makes up around 97 per cent of all businesses in the region.
Whether you are coming from a place of experience or are in the early stages of developing your business, the festival offers plenty of valuable opportunities to hear from industry experts, make new connections and learn new skills.
It covers every stage of the small business world for existing business owners, budding entrepreneurs or those unsure about how to get started.
You can learn business essentials such as accounting and finance, and leading and managing your team.
Modern principles of health and wellbeing, social media marketing, digital technology, and sustainability and social responsibility are also covered.
The Geelong Small Business Festival will be launched at a special Gala Dinner sponsored by The Gordon on Thursday 3 August at GMHBA Stadium.
Those interested in attending this dinner, or any of the workshops, presentations and networking opportunities designed to support and empower small businesses throughout the month-long festival, can visit www.gsbf.com.au.
I encourage you all to get along and see why this is such a popular event among our local business community.
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12:59
The street view on the Lord Mayors CBD-Style Development Plan. "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Not everyone wanted to talk, but a surprising number of shoppers and sightseers in South Brisbanes Fish Lane and West Village in West End were happy to offer their view []
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12:00
Taylor Swift fans filled with Tay Tay ticket heartbreak "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Four million people signed up to get Australia's half a million available Taylor Swift tickets. There was bound to be heartbreak... This and more from IA's music man David Kowalski.
BIG FUSS and unprecedented fervour surrounded the purchasing of tickets to Taylor Swifts "Eras tour" this week. So much so that we even saw respected Australian psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg giving advice on how to soothe children who missed out!
If not directly experienced, most of us have heard stories about hours of precious time sucked away while waiting on the Ticketmaster app to try and score concert tickets.
That said, the number of people who have said to me, Whats so special about Taylor Swift, anyway? As though this hysteria is a new phenomenon.
11:23
QNews launches NSW magazine full of fresh content "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
New South Wales, Australia. The highly anticipated launch of QNews New South Wales Magazine took place at Sydneys Stonewall Hotel on July 12, marking the expansion of the popular publication into the state. Andrew Potts interviewed Richard Bakker during the QNews NSW Launch to shed light on the motivations behind the expansion. Also discussed were ...
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11:00
Autumn comp champs crowned "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
The Autumn Tennis Geelong Triples Night Competition season closed with four tightly contested grand finals.
Moolap Two Phones Chol won their fourth straight Premiership in Section 1, defeating Grovedale 5-1, 33-18. Moolaps singles lineup was far too strong, losing only six games in three sets.
Moolaps Callum Davey won all three of his sets, including a 6-1 singles win. Shaun Grigg won his last two sets, 6-2 in singles and 6-1 in doubles.
Its always a great feeling to win a premiership, and to do it with these boys is special, captain Lachy Edgar said.
They threw it at us tonight, and we knew that we had to bring our best.
In Section 2, All Saints came to Grovedale having just lost in the last regular season round to Groveys Bogsy and the New Blokes. They were not to be denied, winning 5-1 31-20.
All Saints started off the match on the right note, with number one player Riley Warren and captain Zane Garbellini winning the first doubles rubber 6-0. They followed by winning all three singles sets in close matches, proving the difference.
St Marys Table 29 Tennis Association finished top of the ladder and came into a home grand final against Hightons Out of Towners. The teams split the two season matches, and the decider turned out to be worthy of a grand final.
The teams split the first two sets, but Highton asserted themselves winning the third and fourth sets 6-2 6-4 to go up 3-1 and by eight games. Needing to win
the last two sets convincingly, St Marys captain Thomas Crosbie won 6-1 in singles to give his team a chance.
However, it was not meant to be as Hightons Corey Hird and Guillermo Andy won 6-3 in the last doubles to seal a 4-2 30-24 victory.
Grovedales Hall of Framers were looking for their first ever flag, getting a home grand final against the Highton Flyers in Section 4. The first two sets looked like the match would be a battle, with a 6-5 doubles result going to Highton and a 6-3 singles going to Grovedale.
Grovedale took command with a 6-0 doubles set going the way of Rodney Driessen and captain Jeff Andrews.
Grovedales Jay Jackson also won 6-4 in singles, setting up a commanding lead going into the last two sets. The last two sets were split 6-5 for each team, with Grovedale walking away a 4-2 34-24 winner on the night.
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10:23
Marina Abramovic "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Conical, pointy hatsthe kind that witches might wearabound in Energy Clothes, Marina Abramovics solo exhibition curated by Sydney Fishman. Fashioned from canary-yellow or cherry-red silk, these
09:10
Marine ecosystems are struggling, and mining is set to make it worse. "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
I was poking around the internet, looking for something to write about, when I came across two research headlines that I think form a depressingly good microcosm of what were doing to the planet (and ourselves) as a whole. The first is grim, if unsurprising news; a catchy headline reading, Multiple ecosystems in hot water. The study was a 10-year review of Californias Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), which concluded that because of global warming, they arent actually helping much. MPAs are, as the name suggests, protected from fishing, industrial activity, tourism, and other activities, depending on the relevant laws. These dont just protect habitat from destruction, they also serve as a sort of bio-reservoir that can help replenish fish stocks depleted by industrial fishing. The problem is that the absolutely staggering amount of heat that the oceans have been absorbing equivalent to seven Hiroshima-sized nuclear explosions per second in 2021 has been making it hard for protected areas to replenish themselves, let alone other nearby habitats.
As MPA managers around the world face increasing climate shocks, the extent to which MPAs can buffer the worst of these events has become an important question. The working group scientists asked how the ecological communities in Californias protected areas fared after such a severe and prolonged heatwave: Would the communities shift and if so, how? Would they bounce back when the marine heatwave subsided? Could the marine protected areas protect sensitive populations or facilitate recovery?
To find answers to their questions, they synthesized over a decade of data collected from 13 no-take MPAs located in a variety of ecosystems along the Central Coast: rocky intertidal zones, kelp forests, shallow and deep rocky reefs. The team looked at fish, invertebrates and seaweed populations inside and outside these areas, using data from before, during and after the heatwave.
They also focused on two of these habitats, rocky intertidal and kelp forests, at 28 MPAs across the full statewide network to gauge whether these locations promoted one particular form of climate resilience maintaining both population and community structure.
We used no-take MPAs as a type of comparison to see whether the protected ecological communities fared better to the marine heatwave than places where fishing occurred, said Smith, now an Ocean Conservation Research Fellow at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The results are somewhat sobe...
09:01
Jez says no to gambling "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Geelong Cats star and new dad Jeremy Cameron this week reaffirmed his commitment as an ambassador for the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundations Love the Game program.
As part of the program, Bellarine Peninsula residents are encouraged to participate in a challenge to show they love the game, not the odds by finding ways to talk about sport without referring to the betting odds and starting a conversation about the risks associated with gambling.
Fatherhood has given me an even greater awareness of the importance of ensuring children grow up in safe, positive environments, Cameron said.
Gambling ads are everywhere these days and Im concerned about the message theyre sending to young people about the value of playing and watching sport.
I have never considered the odds of winning a match or how my performance might be pivotal to the outcome of a multi, and I dont want my daughter to grow up in an environment where betting on sport is accepted as normal.
More than 700 clubs, including Ocean Grove, Ocean Grove Cobras and Barwon Heads, are Love the Game partners, including Victorias 10 AFL clubs.
They reject sponsorships from gambling providers, raise community awareness about the risks associated with gambling and teach kids to think critically about their choices.
Im fortunate to be part of such a family friendly club where teaching kids to love the game, not the odds, is a priority, Cameron said.
Im also proud Geelong says no to gambling sponsorships and that there are no sports betting ads at the Cattery during home games.
Anyone negatively affected by their own or someone elses gambling can access free and confidential advice, support and referral by calling the 24/7 Gamblers Help line on 1800 858 858.
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07:39
The Road To War - a documentary by David Bradbury "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
07:36
1) 12 regions in Papua identified as prone to be election conflict hotspots "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
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1) 12 regions in Papua identified as prone to be election conflict hotspots
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Jayapura, Jubi The Papua Police has published a vulnerability index for the General Election, indicating that 12 out of 29 regencies and cities in ...
07:30
1980: Danny La Rue Down Under "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Everything old is new again. Surely yes. Because in 1980, the most famous drag queen in the world starred in the TV show Danny La Rue Down Under. Made in New Zealand. Yep, 4 decades before RPDRDU! Whats that you say? Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Another snippet ...
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06:04
Former FBI Agent: Wray Evasive Under Scrutiny Because Bureau Has Become Ministry of Truth "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
By Fantine Gardinier Sputnik 14.07.2023
FBI Director Christopher Wray was grilled by lawmakers at a Thursday hearing called by the House Judiciary Committee that demanded answers about the bureaus coordination with social media companies, its alleged abuse of a secret intelligence court, and use of informants during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol Building.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has been blasted by US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for weaponization of the government against the American people, which he said had eroded public confidence in the integrity of the FBI, on Thursday.
Jordan and other GOP lawmakers spent several hours interrogating the federal law enforcement chief about a number of incidents they said proved the FBI was being used as a political bludgeon against conservatives, including the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to spy on Donald Trumps presidential campaign during the 2016 election, a now-withdrawn memo from the FBIs office in Richmond, Virginia, that suggested spying on Catholic anti-abortion groups over domestic terrorism fears, and news that some people involved in the breaching of the US Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, were paid FBI informants who acted as provocateurs.
In response, Wray pointed to the fact that he is a registered Republican Party member, telling lawmakers that the idea that Im biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background.
He also rejected the GOP lawmakers assertions that the FBI used agent provocateurs to encourage people to commit crimes on January 6 or that the agency was protecting the Biden family by sitting on potentially incriminating information or suppressing a news story about the contents of Hunter Bidens abandoned laptop computer. However, he acknowledged the FBIs failings in properly using the FISC, in line with previous findings by special counsel John Durham and a DoJ Inspector Generals report.
Coleen Rowley, a retired FBI agent and whistleblower over the bureaus failure to stop the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said Wray was evasive and had to resort to euphemistic bromides to defend the FBIs reputation, because of the demands placed on the bureau by US policies.
Noting that Wray had adopted a 9/11 changed everything mindset, Rowley pointed out that its one of the few things they dont lie about: 9/11 did change everything. Between the Vietnam War and the so-called War on Terror, that now has morphed into a war on rival economic nuclear superpowers has created all of this polarization...
06:01
Two Women Arrested For Selling Dead Fowls To Unsuspecting Customers In Sapele Main Market "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
LAGOS JULY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In a shocking development, two women have been apprehended by vigilantes and handed over to the police in Sapele for attempting to sell lifeless fowls to unsuspecting consumers.
The culprits, who are yet to be identified, were taken into custody on Tuesday morning at the bustling Sapele Main Market, sending shockwaves through the local community.
Eyewitnesses reported that the duo displayed the merchandise, luring innocent buyers with bags brimming with deceased fowls.
Alarming reports revealed that several individuals had already succumbed to their devious ploy, unwittingly purchasing the fowl before authorities intervened.
The Sapele Local Government Council Health Officers, alerted to this potential health hazard, acted swiftly by calling the police to the spectacle that had unfolded in the heart of the market.
Responding to the distress call, law enforcement officers promptly descended upon the scene, apprehending the two women and confiscating their merchandise.
In the wake of this disturbing incident, concerned citizens anxiously await answers while the motive behind this act remains a mystery, leaving the community in disarray.
As public outrage mounts, the Chairman of the Sapele Local Government Council, Hon. Eugene Inoaghan, has assured residents that their safety and well-being remained paramount.
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05:51
Hungarian PM Orban: US could stop Ukraine conflict instantly "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
The US wants the conflict in Ukraine to continue and has failed to explain its reasons to NATO allies, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. Orban told national broadcaster Kossuth Radio that if Washington wished, it could stop the fighting at a moment's notice, as Kiev is fully dependent on the West in the fight against Russia. The Hungarian leader was speaking on Friday morning, after returning from the NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. During the event, the US-led military bloc declined to extend to Kiev a roadmap for membership. Hungary has stood out among members of the alliance by consistently criticizing Western policies on the Ukraine crisis. "If the Americans wanted it, peace would come the next morning. Why Americans don't want that is a question that puzzles the entire world," Orban said. "We didn't get an answer at the NATO summit."
04:38
The big question Elon Musk hopes to answer with xAI: Where the hell are the aliens? "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
The billionaire founder said his new AI company would deal with questions about dark matter, the nature of gravity, and extraterrestrials.
In a live audio conversation on Twitter on Friday, Elon Musk shed some new light on his newly announced AI company, xAI.
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04:17
BEST OF THE WEB: As NATO looks for answers to the Ukraine conflict, Poland seeks the nuclear option "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
The ambitions of individual NATO members only bring the world closer to a nuclear catastrophe The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has wrapped up its two-day summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. While issues of NATO expansion (Turkey's unexpected about-face which opened the door to increased NATO membership) and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine dominated the headlines, when it came to the one topic with inherent existential consequences - the request by Poland that it enter a nuclear-arms-sharing arrangement with the US that would see Washington's B61 nuclear bombs deployed on Polish soil - NATO remained silent. According to the request from the government of Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki, these weapons would be turned over to specially trained Polish air-force crews for use in any future NATO conflict with Russia. Left unsaid is the reality that any conflict which had Poland delivering nuclear weapons against a Russian target would almost immediately escalate into a general...
04:11
Womens World Cup Players Launch Biggest Climate Campaign in Soccer History "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Soccer (football) players competing in the Womens World Cup have organized to take climate action over flying to and from the tournament locations in Australia and New Zealand. The campaign is the biggest of its kind in the history of the sport.
The climate action is led by Sofie Junge Pedersen, a player for Denmark, and includes 44 players and counting who plan to offset their flight emissions as well as donate to other climate initiatives. The participants hope to have at least 50 campaigners by the start of the World Cup on July 20.
For about five years I have paid for carbon offsetting or compensated for flying, because unfortunately it is difficult to avoid in my job, Pedersen wrote in The Guardian. I have always felt bad because I know how much pollution a flight causes. I have felt it was something I wanted to do and something that is good for the planet, although we realise it is not the solution.
Pedersen performed a climate change presentation to teammates in Denmark and Juventus Football Club last year, which led to the idea of offsetting flights to the World Cup. The teams were supportive, so they took the idea to Common Goal, a collective football movement for equality and sustainability, and the nonprofit Football for Future.
From there, players Jessie Fleming, a midfielder for Canada, and Elena Linari, a defender for Italy, inspired other soccer players to take on the initiative and create a global campaign.
This is a topic I feel passionate about, and I hope this action my teammates and I are taking accelerates the climate conversation and sets a precedent for what athletes can do to push for more environmental policies in football, Fleming told The Guardian.
The players are starting their campaign by donating to climate resiliency, carbon offsetting and climate adaptation actions as a short-term solution. Participants use scientific methodology to calculate the carbon emission tonnage of their Wo...
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US could stop Ukraine conflict instantly Hungary "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the NATO summit in Lithuania Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty Images
RT | July 14, 2023
The US wants the conflict in Ukraine to continue and has failed to explain its reasons to NATO allies, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.
Orban told national broadcaster Kossuth Radio that if Washington wished, it could stop the fighting at a moments notice, as Kiev is fully dependent on the West in the fight against Russia.
The Hungarian leader was speaking on Friday morning, after returning from the NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. During the event, the US-led military bloc declined to extend to Kiev a roadmap for membership. Hungary has stood out among members of the alliance by consistently criticizing Western policies on the Ukraine crisis.
If the Americans wanted it, peace would come the next morning. Why Americans dont want that is a question that puzzles the entire world, Orban said. We didnt get an answer at the NATO summit.
At this point, Ukraine has lost any real sovereignty, Orban claimed, citing Kievs devastated economy, and heavy depende...
01:17
INTERVIEW: Matthew Lee US Court Free Speech Ruling + J6 Kangaroo Court "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on July 7, 2023, Patrick talks with Matthew Russell Lee from Inner City Press and author of, Maximum Maxwell: The Narrow Prosecution From UN Collusion to Five Guilty Verdicts, Impunity on Trial, about some big cases in the US courts, including Louisianas recent ruling against the Biden White House which curtails the Administrations ability to censor free speech on social media, also the Stalinist show trials of the alleged January 6th insurrectionists, a well as the latest sordid UN scandal, a new low, as if thats even possible. All this and more. Listen:
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00:15
Tweet of the Week "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
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21:59
DOJ Spied On Devin Nunes Staff During Russia Hoax, Subpoenas Show "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
On
Thursday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to FBI
Director Christopher Wray demanding answers.
19:00
BING AI CHATBOT SAYS ITS TIRED OF BEING A CHATBOT "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
I began this week with a blog about the relationship of the geometry of the brain to thought, so I thought I'd end this
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17:44
Written Answers Parliament England "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
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