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5 votes
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Canada's digital news subscription tax credit
13 votes -
Dozens injured after opponents of the Eritrean government stormed a festival, Festival Eritrea Scandinavia, in the Swedish capital organised by regime supporters
10 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 31
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
14 votes -
Exposed: The Sunday World’s lucrative partnership with South Africa's National Lotteries Commission
4 votes -
Federal jury acquits Louisiana trooper caught on camera pummeling Black motorist
30 votes -
Michigan prosecutors charge Donald Trump allies with felonies involving voting machines and illegal 'testing'
40 votes -
Niger has suspended the export of gold and uranium to France this Sunday with immediate effect
36 votes -
Widely circulated video of women attacked and raped in Manipur breaks silence on systematic gang rapes that had been covered up in that region of India
39 votes -
US President Joe Biden signs historic order moving prosecution of US military sexual assault outside chain of command
133 votes -
Power impasse continues in Niger, forty-eight hours after coup against Bazoum
18 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 24
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
13 votes -
Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are considering joining the US National Guard's security partnership program, in a further expansion of American military ties across Europe
19 votes -
Colombian president's son arrested in money-laundering inquiry
17 votes -
US District Judge orders compassionate release of three of Newburgh Four - sharply criticizes FBI's role in radicalizing the defendants
18 votes -
Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 27
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
14 votes -
Italy needs immigration, admits Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as she softens her stance
13 votes -
Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 20
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
22 votes -
China removes foreign minister Qin Gang after unexplained absence
13 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 17
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
16 votes -
Chinese man convicted for building bridge for village ignites public debate over judicial power
26 votes -
Michigan charges sixteen in false elector scheme to overturn former US President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss
58 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump faces possible indictment in Jan 6th investigation
81 votes -
Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 13
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
29 votes -
The 'Voice to Parliament' referendum pamphlets for Yes and No camps have been published by the Australian Electoral Commission
ABC news article: Voice to Parliament referendum pamphlets for Yes and No camps published by AEC On the Australian Electoral Commission's website: The case for voting Yes The case for voting No...
ABC news article: Voice to Parliament referendum pamphlets for Yes and No camps published by AEC
On the Australian Electoral Commission's website:
The Sydney Morning Herald / The Age newspapers have provided annotated versions of each pamphlet:
As has been observed in those annotation pages, there is no legal requirement for either of these pamphlets to be truthful or factual, and there is no obligation for the AEC to fact-check them (in fact, the AEC is legally restrained from commenting on those pamphlets in any way - its role is restricted to disseminating those pamphlets, because it must stay neutral).
12 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 10
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
19 votes -
Twitter's dying. Time to drop the news paywalls.
56 votes -
Guatemala's Attorney-General suspends second-placed Seed Movement party, ahead of run-off election for president
11 votes -
Nonprofit trust buying Press Herald, other Maine newspapers in landmark deal
22 votes -
Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 6
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
28 votes -
Germany's far-right AfD sees poll numbers surging to nearly 20% nationwide
37 votes -
Turkey agrees to support Sweden’s NATO application
34 votes -
Prime Minister Mark Rutte hands in resignation as Dutch government collapses over asylum row
19 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 3
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
19 votes -
I’ve reported on gun violence in the US for more than a year and I just can’t get used to it
41 votes -
Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement
42 votes -
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen arrested in Washington DC protesting Julian Assange prosecution
25 votes -
Australia's Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has released its report. It describes the Scheme as "an illconceived, embryonic idea and rushed to Cabinet".
Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Tabled_Documents/2743 Some summary quotes: From the Preface: It is remarkable how little interest there...
Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Tabled_Documents/2743
Some summary quotes:
From the Preface:
It is remarkable how little interest there seems to have been in ensuring the Scheme’s legality, how rushed its implementation was, how little thought was given to how it would affect welfare recipients and the lengths to which public servants were prepared to go to oblige ministers on a quest for savings. Truly dismaying was the revelation of dishonesty and collusion to prevent the Scheme’s lack of legal foundation coming to light. Equally disheartening was the ineffectiveness of what one might consider institutional checks and balances – the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s Office, the Office of Legal Services Coordination, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal – in presenting any hindrance to the Scheme’s continuance.
From the Conclusion:
The report paints a picture of how the Robodebt Scheme (the Scheme) was put together on an illconceived, embryonic idea and rushed to Cabinet. If ever there were a case of giving an unproportion’d thought his act, this was it.
The application of [public interest] immunity has also limited the Commission’s ability to reveal the entirety of the documentation concerning how the original proposal which became Robodebt, was passed and what was put to Cabinet thereafter. The salient points have been able to be made, but large parts of the relevant ministerial briefs, materials put before Cabinet and Cabinet minutes themselves have not been able to be revealed.
One of the questions in the Terms of Reference is when the Australian Government knew or ought to have known that debts were not, or may not have been, validly raised. [...] Some DHS senior executives always had that knowledge; some DSS senior executives must have suspected it, at least by 2016. As to members of the Government, one Minister, Mr Morrison, took the proposal to Cabinet, knowing that it involved income averaging and that his own Department had indicated that it would require legislative change, but on the basis of the contrary indication in the NPP checklist, proceeded without enquiring as to how the change had come about.
And... this ticking time-bomb from the covering letter:
I have provided to you an additional chapter of the report which has not been included in the bound report and is sealed. It recommends the referral of individuals for civil action or criminal prosecution. I recommend that this additional chapter remain sealed and not be tabled with the rest of the report so as not to prejudice the conduct of any future civil action or criminal prosecution.
Some news articles:
20 votes -
Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - June 29
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
14 votes -
Exclusive: CNN obtains the tape of former US President Donald Trump’s 2021 conversation about classified documents
99 votes -
The head of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, is to stay on for another year after his contract was extended again
21 votes -
Israeli forces launch biggest military operation in West Bank’s Jenin since 2002
22 votes -
Austria's 'Wiener Zeitung' newspaper goes to print one last time
11 votes -
Drug cartel violence flares in western Mexico after vigilante leader’s killing
14 votes -
Proud Boys fined over $1 Million for destroying property of a Black church
40 votes -
Which newspapers/magazines do you read and why?
I recently obtained a access to a TON of different magazines and papers from Europe, US, UK and a few from Australia and New Zealand but I have no clue about the quality of stuff outside my native...
I recently obtained a access to a TON of different magazines and papers from Europe, US, UK and a few from Australia and New Zealand but I have no clue about the quality of stuff outside my native country so I would like to hear some suggestions.
Which ones do you read and would recommend to others and why?
13 votes -
Mourners bury slain teen in France as 45,000 police are deployed to quell fifth night of riots
20 votes -
600 arrested and 200 police officers hurt on France’s third night of protests over teen’s killing
35 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 26
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
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33 votes -
Finland's new economy minister has resigned after just ten days in office over remarks he made at a far-right event four years ago
21 votes