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of taxes and revolutions...
you say hack, we say christmas carols....Hackers have breached computer systems used by US federal agencies including the Treasury and Commerce departments, US Government officials say.
fleecing the rich to save the planet from insanity?...![]()
bell's theorem about an incomplete story...
the world democratic process was led by the USA...![]()
in any democratic ideals, our decisions have to include nature...The climate conference next year will determine cause for any serious, immediate optimism, Attenborough says.
the marketing of scomo's howzat...While Stephen Smith was Australia’s foreign minister during the Rudd government from 2007 to 2010 he instructed his department to banish the phrase “punching above our weight” from speech notes and official correspondence.
flying in the porkie skies...
testing the vaccines in the pub...A billion-dollar deal for the Morrison government to buy more than 50 million doses of the University of Queensland’s potential coronavirus vaccine has been abruptly terminated after several trial participants returned false positive HIV test results.
vale the mungo who laughed...![]()
solving the climate crisis...Pacific leaders have condemned Australia’s Paris climate target as “one of the weakest”, urging Canberra to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and abandon its Kyoto carryover credits.
nature's assassins...At first I though this was a spider attacking a caterpillar. But I counted the legs. This fellow catching a caterpillar is definitively an Assassin bug: 6 legs and two long antennas. The caterpillar skin is toxic, mostly on the top. The Assassin bug turned the prey around and pierced to the juicy bits on the belly. The caterpillar fought back by wriggling violently. Embraced in a tussle, they lost their footing and fell into the litter below where the fight continued. This is nature...
covid-19 versus mass shootings...
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