Australian politics is full of mise en abyme, the endless regress of self-referentiality into a meaningless abyss. Nobody better exemplifies this than Treasurer Jim “chicken” Chalmers who is so inept and cowardly that he has to lie about being so, the reasons for it, and then lie about those lies as well! Take today: Speaking
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Voters in ten NSW local councils won’t just be electing councillors this month, but will also be voting on questions put on the ballot by their council. In eight councils, they’ll be considering binding referendums that would change the council’s constitution. In two other councils there will be non-binding polls (or plebiscites) on policy issues. There are 14 distinct questions across those ten councils.
As a follow-up to my 2021 blog post, I am going to run through each of these questions.
THE ELIMINATION SERIES FOR THE AMERICA’S CUP— THE OLDEST SPORTING TROPHY IN THE WORLD APART FROM TRYING TO PULL KING ARTHUR'S SWORD EMBEDDED IN A STONE — IS IN “FULL SWING”… THIS EVENT LIKE ALL SPORTS EVENT IS A HIVE OF SPONSORS WHO WANT SOME BANG FOR THEIR BUCKS…
I was just chatting with Jason, and he mentioned he was off to enjoy a delicious burrito for dinner. By weird coincidence, I’d just finished a delicious burrito for breakfast.
This bad boy from Doc Brown in West End.
The late start to the trading week as US markets reopened is one most would like to restart again as risk aversion due to possible slower growth across China and the US from their respective PMI prints sent everything down overnight. Commodities led the way as USD shored up against the majors, with Wall Street
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SHFE and SGX were both hammered yesterday. The jaws are closed: Dalian is at the cliff: Coking coal is over it: Big miners crashed 5% apiece in New York: Scuttlebutt is informative: China’s manufacturing activity sank to a six-month low in August, an official survey showed, pressuring policymakers to press on with plans to direct
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CoreLogic’s latest dwelling value results showed that the major capital city markets are two-speed, with Sydney and Melbourne recording slow or negative growth. By contrast, Perth, Adelaide, and Brisbane continue to boom: The growing supply of homes for sale in Melbourne and Sydney has contributed to the slowing of dwelling values. The following table from
Editing a book about the media and the war in Ukraine taught me first-hand lessons about censorship. It also confirmed that the Western media’s pro-elite bias is as strong as ever. At an academic conference in Europe in the summer of 2023, I witnessed how several audience members shouted at one of the speakers. That’s not how such meetings are supposed to go. They should be much less eventful.
Macron called a dissolution of the Assembly and emergency elections on the eve of summer, hoping that this would allow him to finish his term by governing with the RN. The plan did not go as planned, and for the past two months, he has been doing everything he can to erase his failure and stay in power.
DXY is up and away! AUD turned to mush: If JPY rises much more, things could get ugly: Oil gapped into madness: Metals melt-up once again turns metals meltdown: Miners crashed: EM is your mumma: Junk gave us a reason to worry: Yields bidly: Stocks not: The trigger for the hard reversal was a weak
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FOR MANY YEARS ON THIS SITE, WE HAVE EXPOSED THE “AMERICAN DREAM” CON WHICH IS LEADING TO A COMPLETE DYSTOPIA, THAT IS ADVERTISED TO US AS A FANTASTIC UTOPIA...:
A new book and two new exhibitions explore the concept of the American Dream – and how it came to represent both a utopia and a dystopia.
On Friday, Statistics Canada released data showing that the nation’s real GDP expanded at an annualised rate of 2.1% in Q2 2024, beating the consensus estimate of a 1.8% increase. The previous quarter’s result was also revised up from 1.7% to 1.8%. On the surface, Canada’s economy is growing at a solid pace. However, pulling
Russia won WWII, not the West – Roger WatersThe Pink Floyd co-founder has recognized the USSR’s role in defeating Adolf Hitler
The world owes the Soviet people a debt of gratitude for defeating the Third Reich, musician Roger Waters has told RT in an exclusive interview.