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2/ More importantly, from the perspective of Victoria's militant, left-wing unions like the ETU & BCF (🇦🇺's No.1 boating, camping & fishing store), is his view on the Outdoor Recreation VIC Bill 2026: 'Does Premier Carroll recognise the critical importance of duck-hunting to struggling workers?'
Oliver Twist 1948: "I want some more."ALT: Oliver Twist 1948: "I want some more."static.klipy.com'... his priorities: restoring integrity via a royal commission into the construction sector, eliminating wasteful spending of public money, rebuilding the relationship with the business community and making people feel safe.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The Labor right is back in power in Victoria. Where will its new ‘Kmart Keating’ premier take the state?Ben Carroll’s ascendance marks the first time the conservative faction has led the party since the Bracks – Brumby erawww.theguardian.com
An 8 employee hedge fund that was up hundreds of percent and used aggressive leverage is asking investors for more cash to meet margin calls. The tropes in this particular bull market couldn’t get any lazier. www.ft.com/content/2803...
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness seeks to raise capital after AI routHedge fund has held talks with existing investors and lenders in recent dayswww.ft.com
Here's my interview with CNBC on how Zuckerberg's vacuous talking points about AGI and open source exist to distract from how Meta burned $180bn in capex (and more off-balance-sheet) to make also-ran LLMs that don't deliver an iota of the promise of "personal superintelligence."
Surely we can all sleep safely in our beds now...
Defend Our JuriesBritain today: An elderly woman in a wheelchair is escorted away by the police and risks up to 14 years in prison for supporting terrorism since the Home Secretary proscribed a protest group in 2025. Her crime? She said: "I support Palestine Action and I encourage you to join".
Not that well. I do remember him getting dissed in the pages of the 'Cienfuegos Press Review' as a Stalinist hack but. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Harvard University PressThe first truly global biography of a revolutionary thinker. How well do you know Eric Hobsbawm? Discover our conversation with biographer and historian Emile Chabal: bit.ly/3RZrUjK Coming August 18.
‘Intrepid sea-going women dressed as men and uncloaked themselves only after they had already established their authority as seafarers and fighters. Some were discovered during flogging.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on women at sea, past and present. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Laleh Khalili · Canton Kitty: SeafaringSeafaring is a bundle of contradictions. It is highly skilled labour, yet mostly invisible. Lower ratings of seafarers...www.lrb.co.ukAn obituary for Raoul. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Mort de Raoul Vaneigem, philosophe libertaire et inspirateur de Mai 68Le penseur belge, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», in...www.liberation.frYouse can tell they're old skool b/c 'Bonapartist machine' is invoked. 🫡 '... the Labor leadership provided modest reforms to its trade union base in return for them not challenging the govt on foreign policy or pushing hard on taxing capital, gas exports.' labortribune.net.au/left-unions-...
Left unions abandon Husic on Palestine - Labor TribuneEd Husic took a moral stand at National Conference on the Israeli genocide against Gaza only to have the rug pulled from under him.labortribune.net.au
