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Maurice J. White
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BA(Hons), MAHist(Hons), BTheol, GCertSocRes, GDipProfW, CertInfoTech. Australian Football (Newtown AFC 1983-86).

- Understanding history for hope.
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“You’re going to lose the House, you’re going to lose the Senate, you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”

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Cruz reportedly says Trump yelled and cursed over warning of midterm election ‘bloodbath’
US senator warned that Republicans would lose elections if prices continue to rise, prompting president to respond ‘fuck you, Ted’
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January 26, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Syrian prognosis ...
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The Guardian view on Syria’s crisis: Islamic State fighters are not the only concern | Editorial
Editorial: As a lightning government offensive leaves the Kurdish-dominated SDF reeling, the political horizon needs attention as well as security
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January 23, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Mark Carney's historic DAVOS address ... x.com/i/status/201...
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For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like. Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not. 🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/BExGV2YIDq https://t.co/QTef90Ceo4
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January 21, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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:Unless the Iranian state begins giving way to meaningful, fundamental changes, what one can see awaiting Iran is repetitive recursion of social unrest on the one side, and shows of force by the state on the other."

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I am in Iran watching the protests and desperate for change. But I don’t believe the regime will fall | Anonymous
I wish I were wrong, but all I see is a paranoid state digging in, says our anonymous author
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January 20, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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"The next generation of solar panels would be designed with tandem cells, ... in which two or more solar cells were stacked on top of one another."
The top cell in partnership with a traditional silicon cell, could be antimony chalcogenide.

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Stacking solar cells could deliver cheaper power
A material touted as a candidate for next-generation solar technology is showing more promise, with Australian scientists behind...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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"Water bankruptcy".
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Climate change, pollution and decades of overuse have pushed the world into a state of “water bankruptcy,” leaving essential sources of fresh water irreparably damaged and billions of people without enough water to meet their basic needs, U.N. experts said.
The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy,’ U.N. report says
Researchers say this is not merely a temporary crisis, but a permanent failure that requires rethinking the world’s approach to water scarcity.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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An interesting and amusing article by Science Fiction writer Corey Doctorow explaining why the A.I. Bubble is a bubble.

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
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January 20, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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US President Donald Trump said he may impose tariffs on countries that don't go along his plan to control Greenland reut.rs/49EWKCV

No, not tariffs! Oh well, if you must insist on handicapping your own economy.
US lawmakers in Denmark seek to 'lower temperature' after Trump's Greenland threats
A bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers met the leaders of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen on Friday, seeking to "lower the temperature" with assurances of congressional support after President ...
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January 18, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Syrian army attempting takeover of Kurdish north. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Syrian army surges into Kurdish-held towns in ‘betrayal’ shattering prospects of accord
Government extends grip on north after stalled efforts under Ahmed al-Sharaa to reach accommodation with Kurds and fold their forces into national army
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January 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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A continued low rate could prolong the stock market bubble and also crash the U.S. dollar and eventually the economy, considerably advantaging the already privileged. Out of this consequent chaos, Trump could possibly declare a national emergency ...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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January 12, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Thomas Picketty, 'Project 2025, from Nightmare to Reality' thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
Project 2025, from nightmare to reality
The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as never before since 1945. To …
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Netanyahu's disgraceful opportunistic attack on the Australian government ignores the facts that Australian security services discovered that Iran was responsible for recent anti-semitic attacks here, the government subsequently expelled the Iranian ambassador, ...
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The hero who disarmed one of the Bondi shooters has been named - Ahmed al Ahmed. Ahmed is being hailed as a hero across the world. Incredible bravery to tackle someone with a gun, particularly when the other shooter still had his!
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'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Eleven people were killed in the shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach, as crowds attended an event to celebrate Hanukkah.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Figure 3. Wealth has grown much more for the already extremely wealthy(1995 to 2025); wir2026.wid.world/share/0/exec...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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"Trump & Co might at first applaud a cheaper dollar, which would likely translate into a smaller US trade deficit. The cheers, however, are unlikely to last. This would come, for the US, at an exorbitant cost."

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Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’
Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stability
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November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Bushland at the back of Black Mountain, Canberra, Early Spring 2025.
September 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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"Spears and Geruso argue that future people who live alongside only a couple of billion others will have significantly worse lives than we have today. Stabilisation, not depopulation, they argue, is the right path for humanity."

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After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso review – the truth about population
We shouldn’t celebrate a falling population, according to this persuasive debunking of demographic myths
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July 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Trump alienates India. Meanwhile, "New Delhi has largely concluded that it should respond to creeping Chinese influence by focusing its pressures on its nearest neighbours and not on China."
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Trump's renewed interest in Pakistan has India recalibrating China ties
Donald Trump's lunch meeting with Pakistan's military chief and other tensions in the U.S.-India relationship, after decades of flourishing ties, have cast a shadow in trade negotiations.
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July 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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"Trading partners must earn dollars through exports or debt in order to interact with the global economy, while the US absorbs the benefits of infinite liquidity."

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Trust in the US is eroding. Now the question isn’t if the dollar will lose supremacy: it’s when | Kenneth Mohammed
De-dollarisation is not a threat to global stability. Countries are simply questioning the rules of a game long rigged in Washington’s favour
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July 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Got damn
July 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Jamaica's petition asks "whether the forced transport of Africans to Jamaica was lawful, if it constituted a crime against humanity, and whether Britain was under obligation to provide a remedy to Jamaica for slavery and its enduring consequences."

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Caribbean leaders back Jamaica petition to King Charles for slavery reparations
Caricom summit gives ‘broad support’ for request to Charles as region steps up campaign for justice
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July 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Pakistan Army Chief Munir, who said Trump should be considered for Nobel Prize for ending clash with India, welcomed to U.S. , but India’s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, insists no third-party mediation took place.

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Thawing of relations between Pakistan and US raises eyebrows in India
Army chief’s effusive welcome in Washington hints at strategic recalibration amid Middle East turmoil
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June 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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"A nuclear weapon will only become more desirable. And a tinderbox region that is already the most unstable in the world will become more dangerous still."

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Netanyahu attacked Iran to avert an ‘existential threat’. He may have made it worse | Jonathan Freedland
Israel has eliminated many of the brains behind Tehran’s nuclear programme. But don’t expect the regime to back down, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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June 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

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There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM