Campaign week aims to tackle falling swift numbers A campaign week is taking place in a bid to help halt the decline of swifts. The migratory bird is a summer visitor to the UK after wintering 3,400 miles south in Africa. The birds mate in the UK, but ... 06/25/2024 - 6:05 pm | View Link
Australia politics live: politicians and staffers warned against taking advantage of Qantas compensation payments There is no mandated consequence [to crossing the floor]. The caucus has agency over how it manages this and every issue, and we’re going to manage this in a way which which lives what we’re ... 06/25/2024 - 12:34 pm | View Link
3 major hurdles in marketing campaign planning Using a common taxonomy is necessary for marketers (and their tech stacks) to connect the dots between spend, campaign plans, and results. There will be far less headaches and hours of time saved with ... 06/23/2024 - 10:43 pm | View Link
A Fundamental Shift Higher In Valuations From current valuation levels, investors’ expected rate of return over the next decade will be lower than it was over the past decade. 06/22/2024 - 4:57 pm | View Link
FTSE 100 Live: Bank of England holds interest rates, shares higher, YouGov plummets, S&P tops 5500 Dealmaking action and the Bank of England interest rates decision provide much of today’s City interest.NatWest has picked up Sainsbury’s Bank while Tate & Lyle is buying a US firm for £1.4 ... 06/19/2024 - 11:31 pm | View Link
“A contingent of progressive Democrats and White House allies are privately urging President Joe Biden’s team to use Thursday’s debate to recast his candidacy as an attack on the billionaires and big businesses that Donald Trump has increasingly embraced,” Politico reports.
“These Democrats have pleaded with Biden’s advisers to adopt a more bluntly populist message as a response to two problems: that Trump is still winning over more voters on the issue of the economy, according to polls, and that many Americans remain unaware of Biden’s record of taking on powerful mega-corporations.”
“A Biden administration push to curtail worsening border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is running into major headwinds because of the difficulty the U. S. faces in arranging a cease-fire in Gaza,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The connections between the two fronts underscore the diplomatic conundrum facing the White House as it seeks to prevent a full-scale war that could draw in Iran and broaden the fighting well beyond Gaza.”
“House Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation that would slash funding for the Department of Justice and U. S. attorneys’ offices across the country, the latest attempt by the GOP to punish federal law enforcement agencies that they claim have been weaponized against conservatives, especially former President Donald Trump,” the New York Times reports.
“The spending bill, approved along party lines by a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, would cut funding for salaries and other expenses at the Justice Department by 20 percent, and for U.
“Last year, the five self-proclaimed ‘Sister Senators’ from South Carolina were awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award after they joined together across party lines to block the legislature from passing a near-total abortion ban,” the New York Times reports.
“But a prize from the nation’s most storied Democratic family may not be the best calling card in Republican primaries in the red-state South.”
“All three of the Republican women in the group of five — the others were a Democrat and an independent — faced primary challenges, and all three have now lost.”
Can a person acquire an immunity to propaganda? I’ve been wondering.
It was Julia Ioffe who got me started. She wrote last week of the dwindling effectiveness of the Russian disinformation industry.
She reports that the bot-farms that caused all the mischief in 2016 are now a shadow of their former selves.