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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, September 9, 2024 - 05:14 Source

By Roger Chao Digital Serfs In the glow of the screen, where pixels dance and flicker bright, We trade our days for data streams, surrendering the night. Our minds once clear, but now cluttered, hum with endless scrolling, In the depths of cyberspace, we’ve bartered hearts for trolling. The morning sun, obscured behind the blinding,…

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Your Democracy Monday, September 9, 2024 - 04:44 Source

The global order is under threat from a number of state actors, the heads of the American and British foreign intelligence agencies – the CIA and MI6 – claimed in a joint op-ed published by the Financial Times on Saturday.

In the piece, Bill Burns and Richard Moore pledged that Washington and London would work in lockstep to retain the status quo in a world where technology has considerably accelerated geo-political trends.

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 9, 2024 - 00:10 Source

Treasurer Jim Chalmers was busy claiming that record federal spending has kept the economy out of recession. “I’m old enough to remember when government’s budgets helping to avoid recession was seen as a good thing”, Chalmers said. “We’re going for a soft landing in the economy. Our political opponents really want to see a hard

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 20:44 Source

By Bert Hetebry Politically the world seems to be moving very much to the right, and with it there is an attack on thinking, especially critical thinking where an issue is questioned, analysed, interpreted and evaluated to make a judgement about the issue. Critical thinking is a dangerous activity, and should be banned. It has…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 19:03 Source

By James Moore   Time to tip a hat to America. We’ve only had 45 school shootings this year and what happened in Georgia is (only) the deadliest incident since the March 2023 massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville, which is where (only) six people died. The number of mass shootings in all venues is…

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The Tally Room Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 12:00 Source

We’re now less than two months out from the Queensland state election, and the ACT election. So it seemed about the right time to unlock those election guides for everyone to read.

But while that means two less exclusive benefits for Patreon donors, I’m launching something else that I think Patreon members will appreciate.

Discord is a chat app which is used by the communities of quite a few podcasts, amongst other uses. I’ve now launched a Discord for the Tally Room, as an exclusive benefit for people who donate $5 or more per month.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 10:09 Source

As I said the other day, it’s easy to make predictions; getting them right is the hard bit. So, I approach any future event with the supreme confidence that – barring something unforeseen – I’ll be 100% correct. If I happen to be wrong, well, that was because of something that I didn’t predict, but…

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 07:14 Source

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 06:45 Source

Before the last election in 2022, the Labor opposition promised to establish an integrity commission that would have a broad jurisdiction and strong investigative powers including the capacity to hold public hearings when it was in the public interest to do so.

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 06:08 Source

In his first public statements since his arrest by France on Aug. 24 at Paris’ Le Bourget airport, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blasted French authorities for detaining and charging him, but also admitted that Telegram is not perfect and that he’ll work to clean up instances of criminals abusing the platform.

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 05:30 Source

On September 22 and 23, the United Nations member states will gather in New York City at the UN headquarters for the historic Summit of the Future with the intention to sign the Pact for the Future. This document is expected to radically accelerate the push towards the completion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Agenda 2030.

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 20:57 Source

War in Ukraine must end ‘this fall’ – Zelensky

Kiev has asked its Western helpers to redouble their pressure on Moscow

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 14:06 Source

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJVmPObidE&list=TLPQMDcwOTIwMjRdi35KC8MsbA&index=2

INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Briefing Wrap Up

 

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 12:58 Source

By Roger Chao Plastic Apocalypse Where the tide leaves in sorrow, where the oceans weep beneath the sky’s wide and endless dome, Lies a silent affliction, a slow creeping bane that shrouds the earth in synthetic foam.   It slithers through rivers, it clings to the trees, a cursed creation of humanity’s lore, An eternal…

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