Professor of Marketing Science & Director @EhrenbergBass Institute, @UniversitySA. Tweets marketing, science, sceptical thinking.
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Few poems describe a gentleman's character better than Kipling's "If—," and few men read it better than Sir Michael Caine.
Have a great Friday.
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This has gone viral in France.
The wonderful black woman is a credit to France.
The smug, haute-bourgeois blonde an embarrassment.
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Australia’s first Australian-born Governor-General was a Jewish Melburnian: Sir Isaac Isaacs
Born in 1855 to Jewish immigrant parents, Isaacs rose from modest beginnings to help shape the nation’s democratic & legal institutions
His contribution to Australia was remarkable:
• Federation: Represented Victoria at the 1897–98 Constitutional Convention & campaigned for the Constitution
• Parliament: Elected to Australia’s first federal Parliament in 1901 & later served as Commonwealth Attorney-General
• Law: Served almost 25 years on the High Court, becoming Chief Justice in 1930
• National leadership: Became Australia’s first Australian-born Governor-General in 1931, serving until 1936
During the Great Depression, he voluntarily gave up a quarter of his Governor-General’s salary & his High Court pension - a tangible expression of public service during national hardship
As a Jewish Australian, I take pride in his contribution to modern Australia
Sir Isaac Isaacs helped build Australia. His legacy deserves to be widely known & celebrated
#AustralianHistory #JewishAustralians #PublicService
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Something people don't mention enough is that JK Rowling is a domestic violence survivor. She didn't have a victim mentality. She survived by writing the best-selling children's books of a generation. With that said, she's still a DV survivor, and she inherently understands coercive control and abuse dynamics, and she identifies them in the trans activist movement. It amazes me that she has exercised so much restraint in discussing the depths of the effects of her own witch-hunt in an age where few resist doing so, but she doesn't because she doesn't have a victim complex, and that is why they hate her so much.
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Britain once threatened war with its oldest friend. 🇬🇧
A friendship sealed at Windsor in 1386. Still in force today. 🤝
In 1839 Britain told Portugal: stop shipping human beings. Or the Royal Navy will stop you. ⚓
Off East Africa, HMS Modeste chased a slave ship for nearly nine hours. 695 people stepped onto a jetty at Cape Town. Never sold. 🕊️
They teach you the ships that carried people. Not the ones that stopped them.
Watch the full story. 🎥
As wise/informed as it is funny/entertaining. @billmaher is a credit to civil society.
This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."
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This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."
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Until 1979, Sweden classified homosexuality as a mental illness. That year, activists took the classification as an illness to its logical extent - Swedes called in too gay to go to work.
While Iran in the 1970s was not (by Western standards) a democracy, this account is true. Socialists and Islamists combined to create a revolution. Then the Islamists imprisoned or killed the socialists.
Excellente vidéo de #kavehsamaei ( sur Instagram ) Les Iraniens répètent, inlassablement, le même message d’alerte à l’Occident qui reste sourd et aveugle, alors que le danger est déjà sur notre sol. À partager sans modération !
Ecoutez et regardez svp !
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Excellente vidéo de #kavehsamaei ( sur Instagram ) Les Iraniens répètent, inlassablement, le même message d’alerte à l’Occident qui reste sourd et aveugle, alors que le danger est déjà sur notre sol. À partager sans modération !
Ecoutez et regardez svp !
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My attempt at discussing what has driven violent riots & wanton destruction in France (not without interruption). I was also reacting to unhelpfully labelling Kemi Badenoch's mention of challenges of migration y'day, as a Trump-like dog whistle #PoliticsLive
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Look at how the dictators of Russia, Cuba, and Iran stand together, united in oppression.
Now look at us. Women who have stood up to their dictatorships, united in resistance.
we are wounded but unbowed to our oppressors. 💔✌️
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Keepers at Monarto Safari Park are working hard to prepare baby chimp Cassie for her grand introduction to the South Aussie troop.
UN leader was (sadly) prescient
