For many of us, COVID has become just a bad memory, despite its lasting and mixed legacies. While the media have largely lost interest in COVID, and people are now rather blase about it, the disease is still taking a toll.
The designation is particularly ridiculous considering it was the US that ran a campaign of terrorism against Cuba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mongoose
This would do the opposite of calming tensions...
Just put archive.is/ in front of the URL, e.g. archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-unimpressed-with-ukraines-victory-plan-ahead-of-biden-zelensky-meeting-23e87bff
The headline on the article page is (currently) "Boy, 16, fatally stabbed at shopping centre in Melbourne's west", so I don't know why the share-preview headline has 'allegedly'
While parts of Australia's east coast are forecast for warm weather, a cold polar air mass is expected to bring rain and temperature declines of up to 20 degrees Celsius across the continent's south-east before the end of the week.
Unlike GURPS though, they probably didn’t have their offices raided by the FBI because the jackbooted thugs were too stupid to understand the difference between fiction and real life.
lol, I'd never heard about this: https://www.sjgames.com/gurps/Roleplayer/Roleplayer19/Raid.html
The agents who raided our office grumbled loudly in my presence about the "manual for computer crime" that we were publishing, but (aside from holding our hardware and text files) they have taken no further action against the book.
A cooperative is one way to start on that: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-10/supermarket-alternative-co-ops-save-money/104078660
Profits have increased as a percentage of revenue (i.e. profit margins have increased).
The ACCC is suing the supermarket giants, alleging their promotions and discounts weren’t really what they seemed.
> “We also allege that in many cases both Woolworths and Coles had already planned to later place the products on a “prices dropped” or “down down” promotion before the price spike, and implemented the temporary price spike for the purpose of establishing a higher “was” price.
From donning ‘pie-proof’ bike helmets to conversing with the songbirds, the key to avoiding avian conflict might be learning to speak their language, experts say
Trade workers are threatening three days of strikes after walking off the job in Melbourne and Sydney to protest against the federal government's decision to force the CFMEU's construction arm into administration.
> In short: > > Tens of thousands of workers have attended rallies in Sydney and Melbourne to protest the forced administration of the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU). > > A senior Victorian union figure has threatened an additional 72 hours of strikes. > > What's next? > > The federal government is planning a meeting next month between unions, government and businesses, in a bid to reset in the wake of the CFMEU scandal.
Four people were injured Sunday afternoon at a Brooklyn subway stop in what started as officers’ attempts to apprehend a man accused of skipping the station turnstile.
Members of the public have overpowered a man after he allegedly fired a shot following a car crash in Melbourne's north-east.
> A photographer who provides images for pro-Palestinian groups has lost part of his ear and perforated an eardrum after being shot by police with a rubber bullet during a violent protest against a Melbourne military expo. > > The 33-year-old photographer, who provides images for Free Palestine Melbourne and Free Palestine Coalition Naarm, was wounded at about 10am on Wednesday and says he is waiting to find out whether he will suffer permanent hearing loss.
Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/protest-photographer-loses-part-of-ear-after-being-shot-by-rubber-bullet-at-rally-20240913-p5kaex.html
You can find the sizzle in your area here: https://democracysausage.org/nsw_local_government_elections_2024/m/
Australia's Defense Minister Richard Marles says several serving and former military commanders have been stripped of medals over allegations of war crimes committed during the Afghanistan war.
a liquid irritant, some of which has been identified as acid
'Acid' hardly narrows it down... Often the cops will say it's 'acid' when people throw rancid butter bottles, which obviously are designed to stink, not maim. They're trying to bullshit the public into believing that protestors are trying to give cops chemical burns. Meanwhile, the cops are using capsicum spray, tear gas and rubber bullets.
> In short: > > There have been clashes between police and a large group of protesters outside the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre where a major defence and weapons expo is being held. > > Hundreds of officers have been called in for what Victoria Police say is their biggest operation since the S11 protests outside the World Economic Forum in Melbourne 24 years ago. > > What's next? > > Police and protesters are expected to remain on scene in large numbers throughout the conference.
Live updates here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/live-blog-land-forces-protest-melbourne-israel-gaza/104333922
> Capsicum spray, rubber bullets and tear gas have been used on parts of the crowd.
Locals who saw the door from a small plane plummet towards a Far South Coast beach, landing just metres from a fisherman, say it was "a crazy situation to witness".
> In short: > > Surfers say they feared they were about to "witness something pretty horrible" as the door from a plane fell towards South Broulee Beach last week. > > The door landed in coastal scrub 20 metres from a fisherman, with the pilot telling airport staff its "latch was not secured properly". > > What's next? > > The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says it will not conduct an investigation as it would be "unlikely to yield any new safety lessons".
Archive link for those who don't want to give Murdoch the clicks: https://web.archive.org/web/20240906110110/https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/bollards-installed-in-melbourne-cbd-as-tens-of-thousands-antiwar-protesters-plan-blockade/news-story/6f0e9636a9d0d9f1f18369431f8ecf2c
He has a neurological condition, spasmodic dysphonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia)
While the government has said there will be a question on sexual orientation, it has not reversed the decision to cancel work on the other questions which would give a baseline on the number of trans, gender diverse and people with variations of sex characteristics.
I hadn't realised this. It was reported everywhere just as the decision to cut questions having been reversed, not partially reversed.
If they’re found to have fired 300 officials with no just cause then thats such an own goal.
I honestly don't think that's even in dispute at this point. The administrator didn't conduct (and couldn't have had time to conduct) any official investigation and no finding has been made against any individual.
The only thing at issue in this legal challenge is whether the Aus Fed Govt has the authority to seize control of a member organisation and terminate its employees without just cause.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said on Wednesday, “we don’t want to open up a divisive debate in relation to this issue”.
'Instead we're just going to pretend you don't exist.'
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I'm thinking it's probably just that the Privacy Commission is under-resourced, so they figured they may as well let regulators in other countries do some of the work for now.