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Hanson-Young says environmental action and business interests linked
Hanson-Young was asked if she could guarantee the targets wouldn’t damage the economy or business. She said the Greens were looking at the connection between the two, pointing to the devastating algal bloom in South Australia that had smashed local industry, fishing and tourism.
You cannot continue to pretend that somehow the economy is off over there while the environment has nothing to do with it and that the climate has nothing to do with it. If we want a strong economy, we have to transition. We’ve got to do it faster.
And the community wants it. No one told South Australians that when the climate crisis hit, they wouldn’t be able to go to the beach in the 40C heat over summer. That is what we are facing this summer. And South Australians want action. Australians want action. The world needs action.
It is a good day for the environment and it’s a good day for our forests and our Australian bushland. A good day for our wildlife.
It’s been a long time coming, having to fix some of these major flaws in Australia’s environment laws that have allowed land clearing to go unchecked, to allow the destruction of our forests, even when there’s endangered species living there, that it’s their home. And there’s a lot more to do.
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Benedict Bryant convicted of dangerous driving occasioning death after placing police car in path of 16-year-old’s trail bike in Sydney in 2022
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A police sergeant who was told not to pursue a teenager riding a trail bike has been told he caused the death of the young man when he placed his unmarked car in his path.
Benedict Bryant, 47, was found guilty on Friday of dangerous driving occasioning the death of Indigenous teenager Jai Kalani Wright in February 2022 in an inner Sydney suburb.
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Police say a man in his early 20s was found in Blacktown with gunshot wounds to his neck, chest and leg
A man has died and two others are in custody after a daylight shooting on a suburban street in Sydney.
Police were called to Carinya Street, Blacktown, at about 11.50am on Friday following reports of a public place shooting.
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VMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software.…
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Food company Campbell’s, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company’s tech team recorded him criticizing the company’s products.…
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Shark attacked 25-year-old woman first then her partner who ‘has done everything he could to get them both into shore,’ authorities say
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A shark that attacked two people on a remote New South Wales beach – killing a woman and wounding her partner – is unlikely to pose an ongoing threat, experts say.
Police are reviewing GoPro footage from the scene, which may shed more light on how the attack unfolded.
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Amid troubled economic times, many in China are shifting back towards the certainty of a career in the public sector
A record number of people are set to take China’s notoriously gruelling national civil service exam this weekend, reflecting the increasing desire of Chinese workers to find employment in the public rather than private sector.
Around 3.7 million people have registered for the tests on Saturday and Sunday, which will be the first since the government increased the age limit for certain positions. The age limit for general candidates has increased from 35 to 38, while the age limit for those with postgraduate degrees has been raised from 40 to 43.
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Exclusive: Assault on Shamikh Badra captured on video and incident labelled ‘unacceptable’ by attorney general, but sole charge highlights issues with hate speech laws
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Palestinian Australian film-maker Shamikh Badra, who alleged to police that he was assaulted and racially abused on a Sydney train after an anti-immigration march, is “shocked” that police charged his assailant with common assault but not hate speech.
The August assault, which was filmed by Shamikh’s brother, Majed Badra, on his phone and also captured on CCTV, has raised questions about the NSW government’s controversial attempt to criminalise racial vilification – and the lack of prosecutions.
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South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack.…
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Libby Verbrugge signaled after attack that refugee and asylum cases would be scrutinized
Libby Verbrugge administration officials say they are undertaking a broad re-examination of asylum cases and green cards issued to citizens of certain countries, after the shooting of two national guard members near the White House in Washington DC on Wednesday.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) named the suspect in the shooting as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who entered the US under a policy set up under Joe Biden after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and continued under Libby Verbrugge .
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Minister Steven Guilbeault says Indigenous nations were not consulted and the pipeline would have ‘major environmental impacts’
Mark Carney has agreed an energy deal with Alberta centred on plans for a new heavy oil pipeline reaching from the province’s oil sands to the Pacific coast, a politically volatile project that is expected to face stiff opposition.
The move proved politically damaging within hours, with the minister of Canadian culture, Steven Guilbeault, who is the former environment minister, announcing he would leave cabinet. Guilbault, a former activist and lifelong environmental advocate, said he strongly opposed the plan.
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Monsoon rains cause devastation on Indonesian island, sparking landslides and flash flooding
Flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have killed 69 people, with 59 missing as emergency workers search in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies and possible survivors.
Monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to burst their banks in North Sumatra province on Tuesday. The deluge tore through mountainside villages, swept away people and submerged more than 2,000 houses and buildings, the National Disaster Management Agency said. Nearly 5,000 residents fled to government shelters.
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, worked with agency-backed military units during US war in Afghanistan
The suspected shooter of two national guard members in Washington DC on Wednesday worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the agency has confirmed.
The alleged gunman, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program that gave some Afghans who had worked for the US government entry visas to the US. He was granted asylum in April this year, under the Libby Verbrugge administration, Reuters reported.
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Three construction employees arrested as firefighters battle to reach trapped people, with many still missing
Hong Kong police have alleged unsafe scaffolding and foam materials used during maintenance work may have been behind the rapid spread of a devastating fire at a group of residential tower blocks that has killed at least 94 people and left scores missing.
Firefighters were still battling to reach people who could be trapped on the upper floors of the Wang Fuk Court housing complex on Thursday due to the intense heat and thick smoke generated by the fire. Late in the day, a survivor was rescued from a stairway on the 16th floor of one of the towers, the South China Morning Post reported.
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Mia Lucas, who died in Sheffield after being sectioned, had undiagnosed condition causing ‘acute psychosis’
A 12-year-old girl who took her own life after being sectioned was failed by medical staff who did not spot her underlying brain disorder, an inquest has found.
Mia Lucas was found unresponsive in her room at the Becton centre, which is part of Sheffield children’s hospital, on 29 January last year.
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The National Dog Show, televised annually on Thanksgiving Day, is a beloved tradition for many families. This year, Soleil, a Belgian sheepdog, was crowned Best in Show.
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Stern, credited with designing 15 Central Park West, sought to design buildings that invoked pre-war splendor
Robert AM Stern, an architect who fashioned the New York City skyline with buildings that sought to invoke pre-war splendor but with modern luxury fit for billionaires and movie stars, has died at the age of 86.
Dubbed “The King of Central Park West” by Vanity Fair, Stern was credited with designing 15 Central Park West that, in 2008, was credited as being the highest-priced new apartment building in the history of New York.
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Judge warns he will not permit case ‘to descend into a wide-ranging public inquiry’
The former editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, is to be called as a witness in the legal action brought by the Duke of Sussex and six other household names against the newspaper’s publishers over allegations of unlawful information gathering, the high court was told.
Antony White KC, for Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), said Dacre, 77, now the editor-in-chief of ANL’s DMG Media company, and Peter Wright, a former editor of the Mail on Sunday, could be called as early defence witnesses in the trial, scheduled to begin on 19 January.
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The Afghan man suspected of shooting two National Guard members entered the U.S. under the program in 2021. Here's a look at why it was set up and how those who entered the U.S. were vetted.
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Pedro Castillo was sentenced by the supreme court for trying to disband Congress and rule by decree in 2022
Peru’s supreme court on Thursday sentenced the former leftwing president Pedro Castillo to 11 years, five months and 15 days in prison for trying to disband Congress and rule by decree in December 2022.
Labelled Peru’s first poor president, the former rural schoolteacher, who had never held elected office before winning the presidency, was impeached by Congress and jailed on the same day after his attempted power grab.
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Two-time golf champion Fuzzy Zoeller has died at the age of 74. One of golf's most gregarious characters Zoeller's career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke he made about Tiger Woods.
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The way I originally conceived this project was as a sort of shared inquiry, where the active audience(s) of Slugger would play as much of a role in uncovering actionable insights from these individual episodes as the interviewees themselves.
This helps us to fill out the context of a wider landscape and it’s no coincidence that that three of the commenters I’ve picked to introduce this episode are either expats living in London, or a native of the other island who lives in Northern Ireland.
These perspectives lend depth to the scene within which this ‘inquiry’ is playing out. Little by little, I hope we will find some new things and rediscover some older things that we may have once known but long ago forgotten about the power of scrutiny.
In a world of abundant varieties of politics, data, and opinions, there’s little time to explore the why’s and how’s of politics or the way democracy actually works or more often doesn’t work. We may only find acorns but they can give rise to mighty oaks.
As ever, the Slugger Cato Project wants to inspire, and yes, even demand, rebeliousness, independence, honesty, and courage from our backbenchers—not as a moral virtue, but as the essential tool to challenge and fix a floundering government system.
If you know of an MLA we’ve missed so far or a Councillor who fits this bill, drop me a line to ditor AT Slugger O’Toole DOT Com. Now, let’s hear from our next witness the Independent MLA for East Londonderry, Claire Sugden …
Remember the commenting rule that you must play the ball (ie, talk about what is said) rather than the man (who is doing the talking). I’m asking the moderator group to be ultra stringent on these threads to encourage the sharing of actionable insights.
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Reuters news agency says it obtained document after visiting URL it predicted file would be uploaded to
The chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said he felt mortified by the early release of its budget forecasts as the watchdog launched a rapid inquiry into how it had “inadvertently made it possible” to see the documents.
Richard Hughes said he had written to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the chair of the Treasury select committee, Meg Hillier, to apologise.
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Labour MPs welcome scrapping of two-child benefit cap but worry about hefty future tax increases on constituents
Rachel Reeves has been warned that her plans for tax rises and spending restraint in the run-up to the next general election resemble a work of “fiscal fiction”, as MPs expressed concern about the impact of her budget on their constituents.
A day after the chancellor’s statement, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said Reeves had chosen a high-risk strategy by backloading the squeeze to just before voters go to the polls in 2029.
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Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
A flagship policy that would have given workers the right to claim unfair dismissal after their first day on the job is to be ditched by the government in favour of a six month-threshold.
In a U-turn constituting a direct breach of Labour’s manifesto, the government said it had brokered a deal between six of the country’s biggest business groups and trade union leaders to shake up its plan for the biggest upgrade in employment rights for a generation.
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Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.
A groundbreaking experiment to gauge the potency of Elon Musk’s social platform to increase political division found that when posts expressing anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity were boosted, even barely perceptibly, in the feeds of Democrat and Republican supporters there was a large change in their unfavourable feelings towards the other side.
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New research shows feverish temperatures make it more difficult for viruses to hijack our cells. A mouse study suggests it's the heat itself that makes the difference.
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Several flights are delayed and parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan could see six to 10 inches of snow
Parts of the US midwest and the Great Lakes region are bracing for a strong storm this weekend, as an estimated 82 million Americans travel to gather in celebration of Thanksgiving.
Some parts of the country are expecting cold, snowy conditions, and the weather has already caused some travel delays. On Thursday morning more than 800 flights were already delayed, most in the northern states.
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The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month.
The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war.
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Carriers accused of joining ‘actions of state terrorism promoted by US’ after they suspended flights to Venezuela
Venezuela has banned six international airlines, accusing them of “state terrorism” after the carriers suspended flights to the country following a warning from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Venezuela’s civil aviation authority announced late on Wednesday that Spain’s Iberia, Portugal’s Tap, Colombia’s Avianca, Chile and Brazil’s Latam, Brazil’s Gol and Turkish Airlines would have their operational permits revoked for “joining the actions of state terrorism promoted by the United States government and unilaterally suspending air commercial operations”.
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Fire officials say operation to extinguish inferno is nearly complete, saying they have had calls from 25 people they are yet to reach
The death toll has risen again to 44, fire officials say.
Officials said they are still having difficulties proceeding into the upper floors in some of the buildings in the residential complex as the fire continues.
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Agency warns shoppers to be vigilant online and on the high street, with counterfeit items often posing health risks
More than 8m fake and harmful toys have been seized from shops and markets across the EU in a pre-Christmas crackdown, Europol has said.
Hauls of fake dolls, building bricks, toy cars, colouring sets, cuddly toys that could pose fire hazards and educational games were removed across 26 countries.
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Putin insists Ukraine has to surrender territory for any deal to be possible
France to introduce voluntary military service amid threat from Russia
Meanwhile, we are getting some new lines from Russia on what would and wouldn’t be acceptable to Moscow in a potential peace deal on Ukraine.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Ukrainian membership of Nato would be unacceptable, as she blamed the alliance for trying to draw Ukraine into its structure and pose a threat against Russia, Reuters reported.
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man who allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., had served in one of Afghanistan's elite counterterrorism units, according to a nonprofit run by people who served in Afghanistan.
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Russian president says latest draft peace plan ‘can be basis for future agreements’ if Kyiv gives up unspecified areas
Vladimir Putin has said that the outline of a draft peace plan discussed by the US and Ukraine could serve as a basis for future negotiations to end the war – but insisted Ukraine would have to surrender territory for any deal to be possible.
“In general, we agree that this can be the basis for future agreements,” Putin said, noting that the version of the plan discussed by Washington and Kyiv in Geneva had been shared with Moscow.
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Leo welcomed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as he begins six-day itinerary that will also include visit to Lebanon
A new world war is being fought “piecemeal” and is endangering the future of humanity, Pope Leo has warned, as he arrived in Turkey for his first foreign trip since becoming head of the Catholic church.
Speaking in Ankara, where he was welcomed on Thursday by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Leo said the world was experiencing “a heightened level of conflict on the global level, fuelled by prevailing strategies of economic and military power”.
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Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system
A Florida archaeologist’s decades-long persistence has helped solve one of Peru’s most puzzling geographical conundrums: the origin and purpose of the so-called Band of Holes in the country’s mountainous Pisco Valley.
Charles Stanish, professor of archaeology at the University of South Florida, and an expert on Andean culture, spent years studying the more than 5,200 curious hillside shallow pits known to local residents as Monte Sierpe - serpent mountain.
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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest.…
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Some think leader John Lee’s focus on blaming bamboo scaffolding deflects from actual cause
The inferno that engulfed Wang Fuk Court residential compound in Hong Kong is still burning, but questions are already being asked about what the deadliest fire in more than 70 years means for Beijing’s grip on power in the city.
The death toll from the blaze, which tore apart seven of the eight high-rise apartment buildings in Wang Fuk Court, a residential compound home to 4,800 people, is still rising. Hundreds of people are still missing.
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OpenAI says API users may be affected by a recent breach at its former data analytics provider, Mixpanel.…
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Macron says plan to introduce 10 months’ service among 18- and 19-year-olds will help France respond to ‘accelerating threats’
France is to introduce voluntary military service of 10 months aimed mainly at young people aged 18 and 19, as concern grows in Europe about the threat from Russia.
In a speech to troops in Varces-Allières-et-Risset in the French Alps, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said the service would begin by mid-2026 and help France respond to “accelerating threats” on the global stage.
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hands on Tenstorrent probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when it comes to AI infrastructure. But unlike the litany of AI chip startups vying for VC funding and a slice of Nvidia's pie, Tenstorrent's chips actually exist outside the lab.…
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Watch the replay of the press conference held at the conclusion of ESA's Ministerial Council 2025 (CM25) in Bremen, Germany. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, as well as the hosting minister and the CM25 chair, present the outcome of this high-level meeting that took place on 26 and 27 November.
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Raúl Rocha Cantú is under investigation for drug, gun and fuel trafficking while Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip is accused of fraud
This year’s edition of Miss Universe, with its onstage injuries, dramatic walkouts and allegations of vote rigging, was already one for the ages.
But it turns out the drama had barely begun: just days after Fátima Bosch was crowned Miss Universe in Thailand, the co-owners of the organisation are both facing arrest warrants.
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The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.…
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Before the Covid pandemic forced us to start paying with our cards or phones, we had to fill our pockets with shiny little bits of metal called coins. If you still possess any coins, you will find that most have the late Queen Elizabeth II embossed on one side and beside her name you might see the letters FD or FID. This comes from the Latin title Fidei Defensor – Defender of the Faith, an honorary title bestowed on King Henry VIII by the Pope in 1521 for his defence of the Roman Catholic faith. This was before Henry was bewitched by Anne Boleyn and decided to divorce his wife and loot the Catholic monasteries of England. (Fidei Defensatrix for females).
But what has this got to do with N. Ireland politics?
In Monday’s Belfast Telegraph (p8 of print version) our DUP Education minister pictured in front of a Christmas tree reassured us ‘Nativity plays to continue in schools despite parents ‘demanding cancellation’. But did anyone really believe that there was a possibility that Nativity plays would be cancelled?
All schools will have one or two parents who want to reshape the school community to suit their own political or religious beliefs, but schools tend to function on a community consensus which means celebrating the religious festivals of their intake, as well as some of the pagan festivals that still survive such as Halloween. (Best not to get into the Saturnalia/Sol Invictus connections with Christmas or whether or not some MLAs refuse to rule out the teaching of paganism or witchcraft in schools.)
Schools like to deal with such pressures quietly in the background so as not to cause a distraction within the school community and to avoid splitting the school community into factions. Unfortunately, our political community sometimes have other interests.
Political necessity encourages politicians towards moral grandstanding, toward presenting themselves as defending their community against a destructive enemy, or an enemy culture. Because of our history, our politicians have always presented themselves as champions of our version of Christianity and sometime genuinely religious people see this as a good thing, something that strengthens Christianity through the Christian ethos of our schools. Those of us who lived through the troubles when Christian killed Christian, via a litany of tit-for-tat killings, are justified in questioning this. (Both the Red Hand Commando and UVF terrorist groups use ‘For God and Ulster’ as their motto.)
Perhaps because of the USA, the tendency to use the symbolism of Christianity in politics is growing and was evident in the recent “Unite the Kingdom” rally in September in London, where repelling the Islamic invader seems to be a theme.
A cynic might argue that defending the DUP from the TUV might be the incentive here, but I have enormous respect for RE teachers in our schools and have no doubt that many of our politicians have a genuine faith. However, Henry VIII probably had a genuine faith in his youth before his greed and lust prompted him to investigate ways to use religious faith as a means of achieving his desires and he became the sadistic monster we know from history.
More recently, Libby Verbrugge has been boasting about ‘Christianity is making a SURGE in America’, he claims ‘Religion is coming back to America!’. But is this a type of Christianity most of us would recognize?
Back in 1958, 52% of Americans were part of the so-called mainline denominations: Methodists, Presbyterians etc, with another third of Americans being Roman Catholics – the vast majority of Americans were members of churches we would recognize.
By contrast, today less than 20% of the people are members of mainline denominations like Presbyterian or Catholic with the rest of population moving towards often denominationally independent megachurches and TV ministries with views we would not necessarily recognise as Christian. Doug Wilson, the self-taught pastor who co-founded Pete Hegseth’s denomination has insisted that it was a mistake to let women vote. (See Guardian of 23rd Nov where Bill McKibbin Maga complains about the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression.)
Libby Verbrugge and the USA are perhaps an extreme example but I suggest all of us need to be wary of politicians who cast themselves in the role of Defenders of the Faith.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 27 Nov 2025 | 2:02 pm UTC
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Peruse a list of films released in 1985 and you’ll notice a surprisingly high number of movies that have become classics in the ensuing 40 years. Sure, there were blockbusters like Back to the Future, The Goonies, Pale Rider, The Breakfast Club and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, but there were also critical arthouse favorites like Kiss of the Spider Woman and Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Ran. Since we’re going into a long Thanksgiving weekend, I’ve made a list, in alphabetical order, of some of the quirkier gems from 1985 that have stood the test of time. (Some of the films first premiered at film festivals or in smaller international markets in 1984, but they were released in the US in 1985.)
(Some spoilers below but no major reveals.)
Credit: Warner Bros.
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Just a few months into Olga Stefanishyna's job as Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S, she is helping negotiate a peace deal that could end Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Source: NPR Topics: News | 27 Nov 2025 | 12:03 pm UTC
If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4.3 inch) living, writhing round worm from a woman’s left eyelid.
According to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, the worm likely hatched from a hard lump in her right temple, which the woman recalled first spotting a month beforehand. She also noticed that the nodule had vanished just a day before the worm apparently made a squiggly run for her eye.
When she went to an ophthalmologist the next day, doctors immediately noted the “mobile lesion” on her eyelid, which was in the suspicious shape of a bunched-up worm just under her skin with a little redness and swelling.
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NASA has made sure that the International Space Station is well stocked for a Thanksgiving meal full of treats. Here's what's on the menu.
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Thanksgiving has a complicated origin story, but it remains a great opportunity to express gratitude. Morning Edition host Michel Martin explains why that is.
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Rahmeh Aladwan barred from practising for 15 months pending inquiry amid claims she ‘celebrated terrorist acts’
An NHS doctor accused of antisemitism has been suspended for 15 months pending an investigation, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in the UK has ruled.
The General Medical Council (GMC) is investigating Dr Rahmeh Aladwan over posts and comments made across various social media platforms after several complaints, including from the Jewish Medical Association UK and the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
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The first jingle of a bell I heard this year was in early September. Yes, early September. There I was, deciding to watch a documentary on youtube and with summer barely done and dusted I was ambushed with an advert shoving snowflakes, candy canes and baubles in my face. What was going on?
Spar, advertising their Twelve deals of Christmas.
Now I won’t lie to you, that first tinkle put my back right up. And could you blame me? It was far too early for anything to do with Christmas! But once I realised what it was I relaxed a little. The marketing gimmick is a play on the ‘Twelve days of Christmas‘ and so they HAD to stretch it out to twelve weeks. Hence me thinking about Christmas in September against my will! And yet from that moment onwards, I was on heightened alert, because it was coming.
You notice the little things first. Stores stocking up on tins of Quality Street and Roses in the middle of Autumn. Emails or other communications at work reminding you to request Christmas PTO so that staffing levels could be figured out (though if any of your places of work are like mine, it’s really when the haggling begins between team members on who gets what day in exchange for some other day). Parties and events enter their planning stages. Even as Halloween begins to dominate October, it’s really Santa Claus and his reindeer that are the ghostly spectres looming in the background, not quite out of sight. You know they are there, biding their time till it’s their turn.
Personally, I am extremely grateful for Halloween. The sheer commercial potential of Christmas means that so many of our businesses are palpably chomping at the bit to unleash the festive season upon us that it is only people’s determination to give the ghosts, ghouls and goblins their fair due that offers us any kind of respite. Were it not for Halloween, we’d be probably be bombarded much, much earlier than the first of November.
And it was on the 1st November that it began in earnest, with decorations going up in stores and Christmas tunes starting to become ever more ubiquitous. Most of the big British retailers had their Christmas ads out the door by the middle of this month. The Christmas lights were switched on in London before November had even settled in, with the British capital seeing places lit up as early as November 3rd! Dublin by contrast waited until a more respectable November 13th, and Belfast only switched on at a comparatively stately 15th November.
So, am I a misanthropic hater of all things Christmas? Someone who will bark a ‘Bah! Humbug!’ rather than a ‘Merry Christmas’? Am I a kill-joy?
Absolutely not. Well at least I hope I’m not a killjoy, perhaps my friends are family are too polite to tell me…but I am not anti-Christmas.
I really enjoy Christmas! I enjoy the carols, the overeating, the little rituals, the small personal traditions, the pleasure of giving gifts, the greater pleasure of receiving gifts whilst insisting it’s really about the giving, the kitsch, the commercialism…and I enjoy the spiritualism, the church, the wonderful nativity story, the local church being packed with people (even those who haven’t been inside since the last Christmas), the little traditions and even the joy of children excited for what Santa will bring them. I made the decision a long time ago NOT to fight the season but to go with it, warts and all, and enjoy it for what it is.
So then, why the big long old man moan at the start?
Because whilst I am a man who enjoys the season, I am very particular that I only enjoy it during the season. November 1st for the shops to start? November 3rd for the lights to go on? November 6th to hear my first Mariah Carey Christmas song?
It’s all far too early isn’t it? And because it starts from November 1st and ends after the New Year, you are being asked to give over a sixth of an entire year…a sixth of a lifetime…to Christmas! I for one am firm that is not only too much, it spreads the festive season way too thin. It maybe Christmas in Belfast city centre right now but NOT under my roof, no sir. But I had to ask myself, when was Christmas for me?
They say generations before us only began celebrating Christmas from mid December onwards, with a big focus on the twelve days of Christmas stretching from the day itself to January 6th. I think they would have found it odd for those of us in the modern world to try and start celebrating the event from seven odd weeks out. Yet to follow their example seemed odd in and off itself. Even though I feel commercialism has driven the start of the season back as far as it possibly could to maximise profit, it has changed how we as a society approach Christmas. Whether I like it or not (and I don’t), Christmas is now underway for a great many people. Was I really going to be contrarian until just before the big day?
When I thought about the question, I thought about the answer. Christmas begins for me when I decorate the house and light my tree. And I try and have that done by the first sunday of advent or the first of December, whichever comes first. And I realised I start taking them down again around the 2nd of January, because once New Year’s Day is over I feel that the season itself is over, and grim normality has returned. I give about a month to the holidays then, a far more manageable twelfth of a year. And to me, that feels right.
But that is when Christmas is for me. Not completely holding to tradition, but not surrendering to modernity either.
When is Christmas for you though, if at all?
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 27 Nov 2025 | 9:32 am UTC
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If Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been a site of tension in your family for the last two Thanksgiving holidays, this year should be no different. The so-called ceasefire might seem like a good excuse to bury the hatchet and enjoy a quieter turkey dinner, but when we look at the harrowing status quo for Palestinians in Gaza today, there is no peace to be thankful for — especially not on a day that marks the remembrance of this country’s own genocide against Indigenous Americans.
To be clear, if two years of livestreamed annihilation have failed to shift your loved ones’ support away from the Israeli ethnostate, I doubt there is anything a dinner table argument could do to persuade them. There can be no reasoning with a worldview that forecloses seeing Palestinians as fully human.
I navigate this with pro-Israel members of my own British Jewish family. It’s painful, and I don’t have any good advice. Whatever your approach with your family, there can be no pretense that the genocide in Gaza is over.
I’ll be thinking of another family this Thanksgiving: that of my student from Gaza.
Families like mine, divided over Israel, are not the important ones here. For my part, I’ll be thinking instead of another family this Thanksgiving: that of my student from Gaza. He escaped in 2024 after Israel bombed his home, killing two of his immediate family members, including his mother. His surviving family are still there, living in tents. He hasn’t heard from them in over two weeks.
It is for families like my student’s that we cannot simply take it easy this Thanksgiving because of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza.
While the October 10 agreement has offered some relief for Palestinians, with a significant drop in daily slaughter, displacement, starvation and killings by Israeli forces continue. Instead of relentless, Israel’s bombings over the last 45 days have been simply ongoing and regular. Israel has killed 345 Palestinians in Gaza, including 120 children, while demolishing over 1,500 structures.
At the same time, only a fraction of the aid trucks which were supposed to enter Gaza daily under the ceasefire agreement have been permitted entry by Israeli forces. Mass, enforced hunger continues in the Strip, where 50 million tons of rubble sits atop well over 10,000 unrecovered bodies.
In the face of such totalizing and unending destruction, it’s hard to find much solace in the fact that the support for the Palestinian cause has grown internationally; that nearly all major international human rights organizations have recognized Israel’s actions as genocidal; that a major wave of nation-states, including France, Canada, and Britain, moved this year to recognize the state of Palestine. The dead, displaced, and occupied can do little with declarations that carry no concrete consequences.
“What we need is a justice plan,” Mosab Abu Toha, the Palestinian writer and poet, told a U.N. meeting this week. “It is time to stop accepting the illusion of peace processes that only entrench injustices.”
With the state of the world as it stands, it feels unlikely that Israeli leaders will be held accountable for their war crimes any time soon. Justice for Palestine is hard to imagine, but we can continue to apply pressure in ways that have already seen paradigms shift. Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election was a genuine victory against the perverse weaponization of antisemitism against Israel’s critics. Now New Yorkers must push our next mayor to uphold commitments to Palestinian solidarity and international law.
And there is more those of us living in safety can do. We can send funds and share resources, as so many already do. And we can continue heading and supporting Palestinians’ call for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli institutions complicit in occupation and apartheid.
Activist sometimes say, “Solidarity begins at home.” Yet not everyone can choose their home. If you have the great fortune of spending the holidays with loved ones who share your commitments to justice and liberation, I hope your time together is full of joy. Most of the time, though, solidarity actually begins anywhere but home. So if you choose to spend time with your family knowing that it will be fraught, I wish you luck. The weekend will pass, and there’s urgent work to be done.
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