Suspected LulzSec hacker arrested in Australia Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday. More
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Drug-resistant pandemic flu warning Australian experts are concerned about the threat of a new type of drug-resistant pandemic flu that is circulating in the population at large. The swine flu strain has learned how to dodge the antiviral Tamiflu and, though rare, is emerging outside of hospitals. More
Australian cops seize half-ton of meth Australian police say they have made their biggest ever seizure of methamphetamine -- as much as $450 million worth of the destructive drug. More
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Australia to Boost Defense Spending Amid U.S.-China Tensions Australia is boosting its defense budget and rethinking its defense plans as strategic competition between the U.S. and China heats up in the Indo-Pacific region. 04/16/2024 - 4:34 pm | View Link
Credit ratings and 'well-intended' banking reforms mean older Australians can be easily denied credit cards When Jacqui Bauer applied for a credit card she discovered she had no credit rating, due to only having a joint bank account with her former husband, and was therefore deemed "high risk" by the banks ... 04/16/2024 - 12:14 pm | View Link
'Draw a line in the sand': Labor MP speaks on welfare payment allocation issues Labor MP Marion Scrymgour says some families “should not be allowed” to receive welfare payments if the money is being used on “grog and other activities”. 04/8/2024 - 3:31 pm | View Link
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Sad state of debate and nuance on key matters Ross Butler, Rodd Point Agreement on difficult topics may not be possible, but working towards agreement, of honest and open discussion, can be important.Credit: Illustration: Jim Pavlidis Kelly ... 04/7/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
If there's one thing that Republicans know about, it's voter fraud. They're just not very good at it though, as they keep getting caught.
Source: Arizona Mirror
Republican state Rep. Austin Smith has dropped his reelection bid after being accused of personally forging more than 100 petition signatures to get on the 2024 ballot.
And he’s facing a possible criminal investigation into his signatures after state elections officials forwarded his petition signatures to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
Smith is first-term representative from Surprise, a member of Arizona’s far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus and a top official at Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the far-right Turning Point USA, which is aimed at young Republicans and run by Charlie Kirk.
Ironically, Smith is also a member of the House’s Municipal Oversight and Elections Committee, where he decried unproven election fraud in Maricopa County, and has even made jokes accusing county officials of mail-in ballot signature fraud on social media.
“Signature verification in Maricopa County is a joke,” Smith wrote on Twitter in May 2023.
The comparison between the GOP's Project 2025 and "The Handmaid's Tale" may seem far-fetched, but it's not. Project 2025 is a terrifying 800 page blueprint for Donald Trump's second administration. Even former GOP Rep. Liz Chaney warns that America is "sleepwalking into a dictatorship," due to the Republican party's anti-democratic extremism.
Please watch and share this video about Project 2025 from The Courier about the blueprint for a Christian Nationalist America in a second Trump Administration.
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.