As Trump leaves office the only president to have not started a new war since WWII—and Joe Biden, who supported so many of America’s wars, including (vice-) presiding over the second and third Iraq Wars, heads into office—the talk is again what should be the most terrifying words anyone outside the U.S. could hear: More American Leadership.

The G.E. machines will have a generating capacity that would have been almost unimaginable a decade ago. A single one will be able to turn out 13 megawatts of power, enough to light up a town of roughly 12,000 homes.

The turbine, which is capable of producing as much thrust as the four engines of a Boeing 747 jet, according to G.E., will be deployed at sea, where developers have learned that they can plant larger and more numerous turbines than on land to capture breezes that are stronger and more reliable.

Janet does not like the woke (The Australian, October 24-25 2020). “Diversity and inclusion is a new religion” she, Janet Albrechtsen, says... After years, I mean centuries, of oppression of minorities — blacks, gays, Jews, Martians — we’re now letting them take over our gentile life… Or are we? Even with presenting episodic examples of woke intrusion in our bourgeois-lined shoeboxes, she is not convincing anyone about her views of the general crappus.

Through fire, coronavirus and Scott Morrison promotional shoots, the curse lives on: one Pascoe of each generation fated to play New Year’s Eve stenographer for the contents of a Satanic sea chest, the result of a Cornish pirate captain’s pact with the devil as the tide rose above him on a Caribbean sandbar.

Announcing the decision to send the USS Nimitz home, Miller made no mention of Iran.

ASSANGE SHOULD BE FREED but pardon him if you must, Mr Biden…

If Biden does not drop charges against Julian Assange, he will show that he is an arsehole, possibly worse than Donald Trump. Gus Leonisky.

 

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   Britain’s trawlermen have been governed by the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy since 1973. But the Brexit trade deal agreed last week has changed all that, but how will it work?

The central, befuddling economic reality of the United States at the close of 2020 is that everything is terrible in the world, while everything is wonderful in the financial markets.

I decided to make a cartoon to wish you a happy new year via my friend, Jules, who in his inimitable way summed up the politics of the season in an email. “May your fields of noodles be as productive as ours…”.

 

 

 

Happy new year 2022... I did not see 2021...

In his article "The most outrageous pardon of all time” the moustachioed religious genius, Michael Brown, goes exactly where I though he was going to… 

John Robert Hewson AM (born 28 October, 1946) is a former Australian politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Coalition to defeat at the 1993 unloosable federal election. Hewson has a doctorate in economics from Johns Hopkins University. He is a global warming warrior against the awful sceptics and denialists… A good man.

Sydney Fireworks… Fireworks are an art form bordering on the art of warfare. Peacefully blowing up phosphorus and other chemicals. Fireworks tell us we are ephemeral. Transient. We’re there, shimmering beautiful lights in the night sky and soon we become cinders. Some people think we should give them up, forever.

 

There is no justification for having New Year’s Eve fireworks, none. Not this year, not any year.

UN rapporteur on Assange: 'The US is trying to criminalize investigative journalism'

A London court will decide on January 4 on the US extradition request for Julian Assange. For Nils Melzer, UN special rapporteur on torture, it's a political process and a travesty of justice.

DW: After four weeks of hearing evidence in the extradition trial against Julian Assange, Judge Vanessa Baraitser is going to deliver her verdict on January 4. You have followed the case of Julian Assange closely. What's your take on the proceedings?