August 4, 2018 — A National Disaster is declared in California as wildfires rage
The 2018 wildfire season was one of the worst in California history. The Mendocino Complex Fire, which started in July...
March 1, 2012
Politics & War
August 24, 2018 — Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister of Australia
Malcolm Turnbull had been looking shaky as Prime Minister for some time when Peter Dutton decided to challenge him for...
February 27, 2012
February 21, 2019 — Julie Bishop announces her retirement from Parliament
It was only a matter of time. Once Julie Bishop moved to the back bench in 2018, the clock was...
February 22, 2012
October 2, 2020 — Trump gets Covid
As President, Donald Trump can reasonably be said not to have handled to covid epidemic well. He failed to take...
January 26, 2012
October 20, 2022 — Liz Truss steps down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The odds were always against Liz Truss as Prime Minister. She was the fourth Conservative Prime Minister in a row,...
December 10, 2011
April 30, 2024 — Police “restore order” at Cal Poly Humboldt
Cal Poly Humboldt was only one of the many, many universities across the world that saw students protest the Israeli...
August 24, 2011
December 21, 2024 — Donald Trump announces his intention to reclaim the Panama Canal for the USA
On 21 December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced that the United States should retake control of the Panama Canal from...
June 5, 2011
December 22, 2024 — Donald Trump announces his plan to annex Greenland
While the idea of the USA taking over Greenland is hardly a new one – the earliest records of it...
April 5, 2011
December 25, 2024 — Donald Trump announces his plan to annex Canada
At first it seemed like he was joking. Not that it was funny, but then, the remarks Trump usually claimed...
April 4, 2011
January 20, 2025 — Donald Trump renames the Gulf of Mexico
President Trump issued Executive Order 14172 on January 20, 2025. The order directed the interior secretary to adopt the name...
September 5, 2010
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