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At the end of July US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin returned to Asia to resolve one of the key foreign policy challenges facing all the US administrations of the last 10 years – the continuous growth of China’s influence, both in the region and globally.
It is possible that the joint presence in the region of the heads of foreign policy and defense may be a concrete sign of what President Biden (as well as his predecessors) has referred to as the principle of providing “military support” for US foreign policy.
working with animals...
Canberra researchers are tickling rats in a bid to boost their emotional wellbeing and improve their interactions with humans.
marginal success...
Scott Morrison has defended his government’s controversial car park grants program, saying the minister was authorised to make the decisions. But the Prime Minister did not deny his office had worked on a list of marginal seats to focus on for funding during the 2019 election campaign.
bow your head to the new god: the smartphone...
In a striking passage near the beginning of his contribution to the Penguin History of the Church, R.W. Southern writes:
covida miranda...
We are living simultaneously in two COVID worlds. On one hand, we're talking about how life will be when 70 per cent or 80 per cent of eligible people are fully vaccinated.
biden's brutal shit-show...
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope
“The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It’s important not to confuse the goal and the method.” —Julian Assange
another paver in hell...
The former Australian SAS soldier is suing three newspapers who have accused him of various atrocities during his tour of duty. Whether the allegations are true or not, what has become clear is the conflict was a huge mistake.
The sensational Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial resumed in Sydney this week, after a month- long delay caused by a serious Covid-19 outbreak that forced the city, together with large parts of Australia, into lockdown.
shifting the narrative...
Barbie maker Mattel has created a doll of the scientist who designed the Oxford coronavirus vaccine, Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert.
Dame Sarah said she found the creation "very strange" at first - but she hoped it would inspire children.
"My wish is that my doll will show children careers they may not be aware of, like a vaccinologist," she said.
Her Barbie is one of five to honour women working in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem).
nothing learnt...
Australian of the Year Grace Tame has launched a withering attack on the Morrison government’s decision to return Christian Porter as leader of the House of Representatives. Mr Porter, who was leader of the house until outing himself as the subject of historic rape allegations in March, has stepped back into the role temporarily this week. He was replaced as leader of the house by Peter Dutton. But Mr Dutton is in mandatory quarantine in Queensland for a fortnight, due to his sons’ exposure to the coronavirus, and cannot attend Parliament.
senseless religious census...
For the past 100 years Australians have been asked to identify their religion in the census. Yet the seemingly simple question - what is the person’s religion? - is increasingly contentious. Researchers know some respondents will answer based on their religious beliefs (or lack thereof), while others will answer based on cultural identity.
going into battle...
Actress Scarlett Johansson on Thursday sued the Walt Disney Co. over its streaming of the Marvel superhero movie Black Widow at the same time it played in movie theaters. Her lawyers allege that this breached her contract and deprived her of potential earnings.
I spy with my little pegasus...Pegasus: A terrifying weapon of total surveillance
“Human rights violations, mass surveillance, espionage, and the geopolitical crisis. The Pegasus case is therefore far from just another "spy case". It is a real democratic scandal at all levels, which poses major questions about the place of civil society in our democracies and the role that we accept to give to new technologies in our lives. “
Les crises: https://www.les-crises.fr/pegasus-une-arme-terrifiante-de-surveillance-totale/
America’s top 50 richest families doubled their combined total wealth in just one year...
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