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 Today’s Post-Real World posted by janice, 2018-02-17 22:10:17
Since acclaimed literary critic, theorist and analyst Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, back in 1977, he knowingly and to an extent, unknowingly, predicted/pre-empted the post-reality/postmodern world we live in today, which I would name as the ‘Post-Real’ world in which reality is determined by the reader or interpreter of cultural signs, (language) symbols, images, including phenomenological material signs and symbols, like buildings, vehicles, cats, dogs, etc, etc, as cultural discourse, because all these artefacts SPEAK to us as language which must be interpreted. (full story)
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Treasure posted by sadh, 2018-02-16 19:56:37
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  “Inept” -- Deputy Oz PM Joyce Attacks PM Turnbull posted by james, 2018-02-15 19:27:53
Well, as predicted the scandal assailed deputy PM Barnaby Joyce certainly didn’t need any help destroying what was left of his career -- his reputation and social standing is already shattered beyond repair. Joyce is now in full self-destruct mode and any support he may have had would wither as a result of his latest incredibly idiotic open attack on the PM, though I would add, his accusation is entirely correct, as the PM should have stepped in IMMEDIATELY and forced Joyce to stand aside or resign for the good of the coalition and government. PM Turnbull is clearly the leader you have when you’re not having a leader. (full story)
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A Dangerous Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy posted by Conn Hallinan via julie, 2018-02-14 23:05:38
The Trump administration’s new National Defense Strategy is being touted as a sea change in U.S. foreign policy, a shift from the “war on terrorism” to “great power competition,” a line that would not be out of place in the years leading up to World War I. But is the shift really a major course change, or a re-statement of policies followed by the last four administrations? (full story)
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American Culture Indicted -- Yet Another Tragic School Shooting posted by shiela, 2018-02-14 19:55:26
America specialises in the killing of INNOCENT civilians world wide -- tens of millions to date -- it is a cultural mindset that has plagued the nation since its war of independence and early genocides of native Americans. Today America exports this poisonous mentality to the wider world, America can infamously boast of approximately 12 million innocent souls murdered in pursuit of PROFIT since the Vietnam war, which, the manic pursuit of profit, was also the main reason for the slaughter of native Americans -- they were simply in the way of ‘progress’ and the interests of the elite few. And so, is the world surprised by the latest school shooting in Florida? Not really. (full story)
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 Barnaby Joyce “Comes out Swinging” according to The Australian Newspaper posted by jane, 2018-02-13 23:32:49
Really, one could only wonder what Joyce is swinging besides the shit he is drowning in? (full story)
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 Assange’s Hopes of Freedom Trampled posted by justin, 2018-02-13 22:16:42
A UK judge trampled all over Assange’s legal team’s arguments that it was not in the “public interest” to enforce an arrest warrant for Assange for skipping bail. Assange’s completely inept, divorced from REALITY, legal team, argued that his self-incarceration at the Ecuadorian Embassy was punishment enough for skipping bail and that further enforcement of the warrant was a “disproportionate punishment,” which ‘defence’ Judge Emma Arbuthnot stomped all over by stating that Assange was FREE to leave the embassy at any time and face charges in UK courts, which outcomes he could appeal if he chose. (full story)
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True Confessions of a Poet posted by saph, 2018-02-13 06:09:26
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The FBI and President Trump posted by James Petras via gail, 2018-02-13 02:25:11
Few government organizations have been engaged in violation of the US citizens’ constitutional rights for as long a time and against as many individuals as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Seldom has there been greater collusion in the perpetration of crimes against civil liberties, electoral freedom and free and lawful expression as what has taken place between the FBI and the US Justice Department. (full story)
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 Barnaby Joyce, the flaming powder keg in the Liberal Ship posted by cyd, 2018-02-12 20:05:57
Barnaby Joyce’s position is untenable regardless of which perspective you take, he MUST resign otherwise the entire party is doomed. However, in view of this searing reality, Turnbull, forever the short-term thinker and political opportunist, cannot let Joyce go as the government would lose its majority. And there lies the hapless conservatives, between a rock and a hard place, damned if they do and damned if they don’t. What better predicament for the lying, elite serving, unrepresentative conservatives to face. (full story)
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 Trump takes from the Poor and gives to the Rich posted by jaxie, 2018-02-12 19:03:02
Is there any American that now doubts Trump’s true character? He is an elitist through and through who doesn’t give a damn for the suckers that voted for him, his budget spells it out in no uncertain terms. (full story)
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Things posted by jude, 2018-02-12 06:09:49
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The Biggest Threat to US Elections are Facebook and Google's Youtube -- NOT Russia! posted by Steven Rosenfeld via jane, 2018-02-11 18:45:14
Silicon Valley algorithms while suppressing alternative news sites help spread conspiracy theories peddled by questionable American sources. (full story)
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The Big Unraveling posted by justin, 2018-02-11 18:02:50
Israel has effectively declared war on Syria with intrusions into its sovereign air space and the bombing of Syrian ground targets the Israelis seem to think threaten its existence as a stolen State. So bombs away and to hell with international LAW, which is the point the complicit, corporate western mass media is very careful to AVOID. (full story)
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 Major Sexual Scandal Hits Oz Politician -- the deputy Prime Minister no less! posted by jaxie, 2018-02-10 21:15:45
I have to hand it to my fellow Australians, when they throw mud it’s REAL mud that sticks, not the fabricated innuendos currently typical of Washington. (full story)
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