Americans did not routinely do things that way, and since 1865, we had rather prided ourselves on that record of relatively peaceful turnover between parties. Not that assassination of various notable American politicians hasn’t happened – but most usually at the hands of the freelance nutters...
Americans can look forward to months of lockdown in the year to come if they have any chance of defeating the scourge. There will be no international travel without mandatory quarantine. No holidays, no business trips. As an Australian, I have no desire to reinfect my country with a preven...
enslaved and brought to the New World. When they arrived, they were intentionally stripped of their culture and separated from their families. Over the course of many generations, millions of African Americans were forced to live in a state of deadly inequality for around...
Poorest Americans. Beeb gimp zone can only look on and drool. link to fortune.com Trump’s Tax Cuts Are the Biggest Wealth Grab in Modern History link to latimes.com 0 Reply heedtracker 6 years ago Just another day at the Stinky olde The Graun tory office, as they pile in to...
The next day we crossed the Iwokrama River on a very dodgy ferry and started the long drive north to Georgetown. Just over the other side we stopped at a site where we found some Grey-winged Trumpeters. There are three species of Trumpeter in the world, but this is the only one I’...
Do you NEED a huge desk, piles of papers and a dodgy haircut? Writing a book used to be a simple, but longwinded thing. You took some paper and a pen, and you wrote. When you got something wrong, you crossed it out and wrote it again. Then along came the typewriter and that mad...
there aren't so many aussies living over here, we are so far outnumbered by the americans, it aint funny (no offence intended). i can definately recommend coming over here to work. it's the most awesome experience, you will love it! i wanted to come over for years, but couldn't du...
The surest way for aworking middle-class Americans to become a millionaireis to create an emergency fund, eradicate high-interest debt, invest simply in tax-advantaged ways and allocate a small slice of money to riskier plays with potentially high payoffs. It’s a formula, you might say, ...