Looming ( but as yet, undeclared) election, extra 8 billion dollars for X over the next 4 years,opposition matches dollar for dollar + a little bit ex...
Blood Lines" by Nelson DeMille et al. Apart from spellcheck not keeping up with the DeMille name, good thriller writing with consistently simple sente...
@"Vera Mont", Sorry to appear to join the negative pile-on, but the first reaction/thought was of everyone being the servant of those that surround th...
Anybody tasted lasagna made with thickened cream and rat bait (well matured cheddar) cheese? No? Not surprising! To have eaten it in your youth, you n...
Any visible opposition to DJT from these areas will be spun to give DJT the "Proof" of the "Deeeep State". At least in the current environment. The pr...
So, in your opinion, there is no legal or de facto barriers to stop Trump from declaring himself El Presidente for life with unlimited executive power...
Of course, where does that leave the USA's ex allies, now Enemies? Time to get thinking and doing with the short, medium and long term implications at...
You don't think that there's enough wanna-bes (power hungry) in the Congress to slow the Trump march down? Or don't they have the political/constituti...
Reckon it will happen under this cast of actors? Or might it take more productions of this play to be actualized? In other words, how resilient is the...
Critical awareness is useful to predicate and justify the actions needed to remove the "megalomaniacs". Critical awareness will not, by itself, elimin...
You get that feeling too. The book referred to should have been posted in your Lounge OP. Alas, that OP was only just discovered. Good luck. cheery sm...
@"Mikie", It's not about Climate Change Skepticism, but about Climate Change Amelioration Skepticism, according to the author's radio interview's find...
Must be the usual suspects' day off. Pretty quiet on the western front (of Shoutbox). No one going over the top, no arti. barrages. Not even an active...
Messing with constitutional rights always results in a veil of legal tears, it would appear to the non US audience. As does the greater societal divis...
Are there any "legal" ways or circumstances that the USA can be manipulated (by its own president and /or Congress) into stalling/ deferring/ overridi...
A skeptic may "praise"/ inquire into the positive value of/use misology in certain circumstances e.g. where reasoning against a knowledge claim will t...
Could the state of play (position being taken by the contributors), so far, be summed up in the following way? Objectivity only exists if a subject ex...
@"Banno", ACOSS has timed its revelations well to be "overwhelmed" by the more important news of the RBA's decision today. Guess its Melbourne Cup rul...
@"Banno", Does who did the "new polling" have an influence or was it an ABC News poll? Which doesn't imply that the ABC is entirely free of bias, of c...
Ok, bite, bite. As in 78% is close to 100%, or that !9% is so close to 100%, in regards to what the two percentages each refer? Too much overthinking ...
@"Banno", Thanks. It's a shame that political parties etc. don't adhere to the same attempt at financial source transparency. Might give politics a mo...
@"Banno" et al, Any thoughts on how or whether the German elections might influence the timing of and/or the run up shenanigans to Aus'. coming Fed el...
Don't expect considered and informed economic policies out of the US for the next 3.7 years. Lowy Institute's article didn't inform much new broadly b...
Plenty of meat on the bone of what is "not evident" to chew on. No dog in this fight, but it's not an exhausted subject if philosophers get cranked up...
And not milking an animal on time and separated from its live offspring has its own ethical and emotional issues. To milk or not to milk, depends on ....
Immediate thoughts as that concept has never occurred. "Collective" suggests an "othering" component...rather than an awareness by the "members" of th...
Unfortunately, nationalism finds traction more easily when people feel ( or are encouraged to feel) insecure in all nations/communities. Aus. is a pri...
Thanks. Any approval offered, however intended, will be cherished for various extents of time. But not for "forever", who or what ever that is. If you...
So far, Donny hasn't "forecast" much change to the International Money Market in which the US plays a key role. Is he wary of China's possible reactio...
Cutting external (to the US) aid funding of all the forms( e.g. health, military, development etc.) that Donny can think of, could allow for lower tax...
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