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Read more about the article The new cold war gets warmer, again

The new cold war gets warmer, again

The big guns are out, and they are aiming towards Asia and the Pacific. Sure, the current hot proxy war between the US Empire and Russia happens to be in Europe but the big target is China, and the cold war to prevent its rise is warming by degrees with every day that passes. For Australia – America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” and its “deputy sheriff” in the Pacific Region – the signs are all very ominous. The commandant of the US Marine Corps, General David Berger, was in Australia this week, urging the government to ramp…

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Read more about the article Time to break free from the robber state

Time to break free from the robber state

Opinion by Greg Ray The biggest mistake Newcastle ever made was in 1967 when its voters helped kill the idea of Northern NSW seceding from the Sydney-dominated south. After decades of agitation and a huge push, the so-called “Northern Separation Movement” had managed to force a formal referendum on the issue. People in the north of the state had brought the issue up repeatedly from the time that Queensland split from NSW. Their complaint was and has always been the same: that the Sydney-based government extracts far more from regional areas than it puts back, that…

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Read more about the article Loud and clear: ham radio’s calling cards

Loud and clear: ham radio’s calling cards

Rummaging around collections of old photographs and postcards I have often wondered about these peculiar cards, emblazoned with strange letters and numbers, that sometimes turn up, usually in groups of several. I could guess they were connected with amateur, or "ham" radio operators, but their purpose remained a mystery until recently, after I found a few more, when I decided to find out about them. It didn't take long to discover that they are known as "QSL" cards and that radio operators use them to let one another know when they have received each other's signals.…

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