US weekly COVID update: 165,705 new cases and sadly 1,555 new deaths. "This is the 4th week in a row with more than 1,000 new COVID deaths in the U.S." #COVID19US#COVIDisNotOver#COVIDisAirbornex.com/BNOFeed/stat...

Legend Dawn Fraser’s remarkable Covid reveal on Aussie swimmers. "Swimming legend Dawn Fraser made the stunning claim up to “half” of the squad may have battled Covid during the Games." www.foxsports.com.au/olympics/leg...

Legend Dawn Fraser’s remarkable Covid reveal on Aussie swimmers, including five-medal hero

Legend’s remarkable Covid claim about Aussie swimmers, including five-medal hero

How a census question became a political challenge for the Albanese government. Parker McKenzie. Aug 29, 2024 www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

How a census question became a political challenge for Labor

The Albanese government's decision to drop questions regarding gender and sexual identity from the census has resulted in criticism.

BHP warns of ‘uneven recovery’ in China https://www.ft.com/content/a3fed889-5517-4b5f-acee-283e6f03ba3c

BHP warns of ‘uneven recovery’ in China

Australian miner says steel production has plateaued in world’s second-largest economy

More vengeful policy from this new government www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Country Liberals to lower criminal age to 10 years old in NT as Finocchiaro talks tough on law and order

Country Liberal party chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro, says parents of children who commit crimes may also have their government benefits cut

The graft is the point www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/o...

Opinion | Republican Donors, Do You Know Where Your Money Goes?

We know the rules on political giving are broken, but so are the rules on spending.

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/b...

Why Were Justice Dept. Officials Scared to Talk to This Book’s Author?

In “Where Tyranny Begins,” the journalist David Rohde reveals how former President Donald Trump tried to use the federal law enforcement agency to help himself and punish his foes.

Flight attendants, deemed essential workers, are sleeping in their cars and working gig jobs to supplement their $20k/year salary, while airline execs make 1000 times that. It's truly shocking how much we have normalized extreme income inequality.

‘Barely surviving’: Some flight attendants are facing homelessness and hunger

Working “on reserve” with hours of unpaid labor makes it difficult for new flight attendants to turn the job into a career.

Trump cannot win on Character. This headline is absurd beyond belief

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NYTimes again scraping the bottom of the barrel to publish someone, anyone, with a pro-Trump argument, no matter how absurd the argument is, no matter how little credibility the author has, or whether the author already has their own billionaire-subsidized platform.

As China moves into gaming with Monkey & the astonishing beauty of Black Myth Wukong, Albo's AUKUS takes us back to the ugly Menzies warmongering orientalist racist mindset of commie bashing in the 1950s Korean & Vietnam Wars to kill/maim our youth & waste our treasure to prop up a broken US & UK 2