boris

The UK Government’s new “action plan” to protect journalists will do little to burnish the credentials of a would-be champion of media freedom that continues to imprison the world’s most famous dissident journalist.

 

 

gladys

Gladys Berejiklian was careful in picking a word to describe how she’s dealt with a series of personal and broader political crises over the past six months.

news

Last Wednesday, I broke the news to Heather Cox Richardson that she was the most successful individual author of a paid publication on the breakout newsletter platform Substack.

 

science

 

  One day in the 1960s, a priest walked into an operating room in Cleveland to find a dead dog lying on the table. The transplant surgeon Robert White had drained its blood and cooled its brain to 50 degrees. The priest then looked on, aghast, as White spread a picnic cloth on the table and began munching on a sandwich.

 

 

 

Halfway through his meal, White asked the priest if he thought the dog really was dead. The priest said yes — right? With a merry twinkle, White set to work, recirculating blood and rewarming the brain. However groggy, the dog eventually lurched to life and began staggering around. At this, White winked at the priest. “Maybe like Christ,” he teased. “Dead and revived.”

 

 

press

Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists

 

This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent.

 

By Glenn Greenwald

 

pilot

Senior ministers are defending the federal government’s $1.2 billion airline bailout plan amid a barrage of criticism from all corners.

Tourism Minister Dan Tehan said a “team Australia” approach to the package, which offers half-price flights between a host of destinations, would help boost the ailing domestic travel industry.

“If we had … really, a team Australia approach, everyone being positive, I can tell you people will be going across Australia like we have never seen before – and that is wonderful for our tourism sector,” he said on the Gold Coast on Friday.

kamala

At the same time, Kamala is vice president. This is incredible. This is extraordinary. Dr. Jill Biden continued working in community colleges.

So, you know, it was here in my household. My daughter, you know, who I was just like, “Aren’t you emotional?” And she was like — and she very much active in electoral politics for the first time ever in her life at 22. But she just kept on saying, “I don’t want people to just walk away now. I don’t want people to just think it’s all good.” And so, the work continues. La luta continúa.

batrobin

Even by Scott Morrison’s standards, it has been an extraordinary performance.

His “I don’t hold an inquiry, mate” is making his “I don’t hold a hose, mate” look good.

koalas

In this episode of Good Weekend Talks, award-winning feature writer Stephanie Wood chats with Stuart Blanch, a conservation scientist with WWF-Australia, about the plight of our cuddly national icon: the koala.

 

DT

The daily Telegraph cover today (11/03/2021) is amazingly jam-packed...

 

If you have missed the important bits of news because you're not paying attention, let me help you:

 

trapThe parents are furious. They send their kids to a prestigious New York school, Harvard-Westlake, thinking their little flowers would learn the art of making money. It cost them a little money, around $40,000 per year, out of their petty bourgeois fortunes.

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sparkle

The Queen has broken her silence over Prince Harry and Meghan's tell-all interview, saying allegations of racism were "concerning" and they would be handled by the royal family "privately".

 

arselaw

"The law is an arse" said the ass (donkey) of the fable. “An ASS!” said Diogenes… 

fishThe influence of religion in politics just got a shot in the arm with the election of Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, the Catholic, as the 46th President of the United States of America. Unlike his Catholic predecessor, JFK, he won’t be assassinated by the secret service.