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Category: American-Australian Relational History
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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man
Inspired by Sebastian Smee’s article in The Washington Post. Sebastian Smee, The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread, The Washington Post, 18 April 2025 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Smee writes, “Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ speaks more…
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The “Fundamental” Characteristic in the American-Australian Connection of Trumpism
Dear folks Here is an example Quora Answer. My point in sharing it is not the language or the argument itself, but a warning in the scholarship of the American-Australian relational histories and sociology, for those scholars who think that the current historiography and sociology is ‘business as usual’: What…
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Own old problems with old solutions in ‘new wineskins’
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) MICE Philosopher Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA Dr Neil Peach MICE Philosopher Management Institute for Contributory Economy PO Box 3898 South Brisbane, Q 4101 QLD 4101 AUSTRALIA 17 April 2025 Dear Neil, Following our…
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Socio-Political-Culture Mass Attitudes
But it is also a tragedy that the Cybertruck has become the most partisan car in existence—more so than the Prius, or the Hummer, or any kind of Subaru. The Cybertruck, an instantly meme-able and very weird car, could have helped America fall in love with EVs. Instead, it is doing the opposite. The revolt against…
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The Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 March 2025 Re: Public Statement of What is the Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics: Political Players Impoverishing the Public Associations and Persons Therein Dear friends, Provided here is a free reading of an article: Carolyn Y.…
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US-Australia Relations, Power, and Education
This week, the Trump American administration announced that it would be laying off more than 1,300 employees at the U.S. Department of Education, which administers billions of dollars in federal funding for thousands of school districts, as part of a campaign to eventually eliminate the department in its entirety. The move came…
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The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors
The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors Trump’s Pressures on US Universities: Lessons for Australia 14 March 2025 The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors PDF copy. Introduction (Review of Task) The facilitator of this report prompted the…
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The scramble after the storm…
The War against North-East United States Education. From The Chronicle of Higher Education (Daily Briefing: Columbia’s crises contagion, email, 11 March 2025, 20:30). Australians be warn, this could come our way without intellectual and socio-political vigilance. The Trump administration pushed long-simmering crises to a head at an Ivy League institution last…
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Trumpianism is an attack on global and humanistic education.
“The Trump administration said Friday it was cutting off about $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University, saying the school has failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus.” (The Washington Post, Updated March 7, 2025 at 2:03 p.m. EST today at 2:03 p.m. EST). ‘Columbia’ is the American…