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Full Scale Derision: Australian Prime Minister Accepts Global Citizen Award
Anthony Albanese’s decision to collect the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award in New York this week is a masterclass in tone-deaf vanity. While Labor’s primary vote slumps to 27 per cent and his net approval sits worse than Scott Morrison’s, the Prime Minister...
Australia’s Digital Duty of Care an Astro Turfed Fake Movement: You Are Being Lied To
Institute of Public Affairs “#FixOurFeeds, the campaign widely credited with pushing the federal government toadopt a digital duty of care model has received millions of dollars from the federalgovernment. The Prime Minister claims the digital duty of care is a...
Australia’s EV Fiasco
Australia’s unfortunate EV drivers are reporting headaches with EV chargers across outback and far west New South Wales. Recent accounts mention the NRMA units in places like Wilcannia, Bourke, Walgett, and Cobar regularly failing or running at reduced speeds. Plus...
It’s Good To Bully Celebrities About Palestine
Video reading by Tim Foley: I strongly disagree with the idea that it’s unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more. We tend to underestimate the consequences of the fact that all the most
The Real Danger Of AI Is That It Is Run By Evil Warmongers
Video reading by Tim Foley: The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflicting the same evils and abuses as usual upon
Some Words About This Whole Caitlin Johnstone Project
Video reading by Tim Foley: Every so often I like to write out an explanation of who I am and what I’m trying to do here, for the benefit of new followers and for my own mental clarity. The Caitlin Johnstone project is actually run
MY 95TH BIRTHDAY WALK OF 11 KILOMETRES AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS ONLY DAYS AWAY. PLEASE SPONSOR ME RIGHT NOW. HUGE THANKS.
I intend to raise at least 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a small charity I founded 15 years ago that makes direct financial grants into bank accounts of people in crisis situations anywhere in Australia. Last year we made 63 grants of $1000 each. Will be great if...
PLEASE JOIN MY FAMILY OF DONORS IN MY QUEST TO RAISE $100,000 FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’ ON MY 95th BIRTHDAY ON 5 OCTOBER AT ULURU.
The portrait of me was painted by a good friend for my 90th birthday when I raised $35000 for DorcasACTS which is the caring and sharing community service of my local church, the Aspley Uniting Church. On my 95th I intend to treble that figure so that DorcasACTS can...
TRACKS TO SOMEWHERE
I am in the 95th year of my life. I enjoy my memories as well as my thoughts on how I could have handled them better. One of them is my meeting with John Howard in 1996 when he gave me approval to begin planning a freight railway from Melbourne to Darwin via New South...
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Governments ignored scientists warning that climate scare was based on implausible scenarios
The United Nations has been regularly releasing apocalyptic reports for decades in an attempt to justify extreme cuts to our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and a major overhaul to our modern way of life. Yet the most cited future forecast, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5), is fundamentally flawed. This
Reconstituting the United Nations for collective security – we need a popular campaign!
I became interested in this question a couple of years ago and subsequently had two letters on the subject published in the mainstream press. It struck me then – and still does – as an urgently needed reform, namely: limitation or abolition of the veto power of the ‘Permanent Five’
Counterfeit righteousness: Anthropic, AI and the pacing fallacy
It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob Coxon on those artificial intelligence firms so keen on imposing their jaundiced visions upon humanity in the name of a utopia that is just another word for self-enrichment. In resigning from Anthropic,
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ASIO claims it stopped 16 terror threats. What about the big one it missed?
Sixteen potential terrorist threats in just nine months sounds absolutely terrifying. But coming from AISO, these extraordinary claims should invite a healthy level of cynicism. And what is meant by a potential threat? A terrorist threat is either real, or it’s not, and for these claims to come from a
From Israel to immigration, Labor is losing its political nerve
The problem for the Albanese government isn’t just about Australia moving too slowly against illegal Israeli settlements – it walked up to the negotiating table but then decided that it was all too much and just walked away.Australia was a part of these negotiations with Britain, France, Canada and European
Labor is becoming what it once condemned
The Labor government came to office promising higher standards of integrity, transparency and accountability after almost a decade of Coalition government corruption. Four years later, those promises are becoming harder to reconcile with the way Labor is actually governing.A $560 million infrastructure program that directed roughly three-quarters of its funding