Tag: The warning

Warning

Remember Brexit? Australians will regret voting No on the Indigenous Voice – Pearls and Irritations

The Australian and Australian Aboriginal flags.

No Celebration will come from voting No

Australians have been able to witness the voter remorse that can arise when a nation votes on a specific question of policy in a referendum that has the potential to set their country on a new course. Referendum questions with that level of significance don’t come along very often for democratic nations but when they do the cost of getting them wrong can be far bigger than we might expect.

Source: Remember Brexit? Australians will regret voting No on the Indigenous Voice – Pearls and Irritations

Climate Change

The west is ignoring Pakistan’s super-floods. Heed this warning: tomorrow it will be you | Fatima Bhutto | The Guardian

people trudge through water with belongings

Today, Pakistan, the world’s fifth-most-populous country, is fighting for its survival. This summer, erratic monsoon rains battered the country from north to south – Sindh, the southernmost province, received 464% more rain over the last few weeks than the 30-year average for the period.

Source: The west is ignoring Pakistan’s super-floods. Heed this warning: tomorrow it will be you | Fatima Bhutto | The Guardian

Defense

Gravy train: Corporate Profiteering on National Defense | The Smirking Chimp

As President Eisenhower warned long ago, excessive military spending is “a theft” from the people: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

Source: Gravy train: Corporate Profiteering on National Defense | The Smirking Chimp

Education

The Great Silencing | The Smirking Chimp

That’s how terrorism works and how the silence grows wherever the forces of zealotry and fanaticism dominate a culture. It’s beginning to seem a bit Brown Shirt-y in this country, verging on Third Reichian, a place where neighbors fear neighbors and teachers teach warily, succumbing to fear as the great silencing settles over us.

Source: The Great Silencing | The Smirking Chimp