US Politics – Page 4 – THE BLOT REPORT

Funding the future

By adminAustralian Politics, Science, US Politics2 Comments

So, what is Australia doing for the future? Cutting funding to science, that’s what. Since the beginning of 2024, 800 staff have been cut from Australia’s leading scientific research agency,…

December 1, 2025

You used to be called antisemitic if you denied a holocaust, now you are called antisemitic if you don’t support one in Palestine.

Blot Report

November 29, 2025

Civil propaganda

By adminAustralian Politics, Society, US Politics3 Comments

I bumped into a quote by Frank Zappa on Sunday. It was: “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point…

November 19, 2025

The great overtaking

By adminEconomics, US PoliticsNo Comments

China has a population of just over 1.4 billion people with a density of 151 people per square kilometre, while the United States has a population of just over 347…

November 14, 2025

I think I’m beginning to get it. If it’s a policy that benefits the rich, then it doesn’t have to be paid for, should last forever and is good for America. But if it benefits the poor, we can’t afford it, we should end it as soon as possible and it will destroy our nation from within.

Jon Stewart

November 9, 2025

AEC envy

By adminAustralian Politics, US PoliticsNo Comments

As conservative commentator David Frum said several years ago: “If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy”1. This, in the…

November 7, 2025

Unremembered

By adminAustralian Politics, Media, US Politics2 Comments

In my palaeontological peregrinations, I occasionally refer to papers that may be everything from months to nearly two centuries old. For instance, one of the seminal papers in the early…

October 22, 2025

Surf’s up

By adminEnvironment, US Politics4 Comments

Back in late 2017, less than a year after I started this blog, I wrote an item about how climate change deniers lied about sea level rise1. Later, in October…

October 18, 2025

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0167]

Thomas Jefferson

October 17, 2025

Another ghost

By adminAustralian Politics, Technology, UK Politics, US Politics2 Comments

I wrote a rant a while ago about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has developed into a very different war with drones of various types forming a huge part…

October 16, 2025