In just over two weeks the world will remember the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing and I’ve become nostalgic for my home away from home, my true home’s sister city.
Tagged: Boston, Boston Marathon Bombing, Tenth Anniversary
It’s quite easy to gauge the world’s failed response to the Covid pandemic in terms of enlightenment versus religion, science versus dogma, or medicine versus influence. The irony is that when you break these arguments down, they sow a similar theme.
Labor prime minister Anthony Albanese ran great guns for his party in 2022’s Australian federal election. He campaigned on Covid-19 promising a focal change from the incumbent government’s mismanagement putting the safety of Australians first.
Tagged: Anthony Albanese, Covid-19, Indigenous Australians, Referendum, Voice
Russia’s military disaster 300 days into its invasion of Ukraine came at the hands of its strategic vision eroding on the failure of Belarus to open a northern axis into Kyiv at the commencement of hostilities and any time since.
Tagged: Belarus, Kaliningrad, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lukashenko, NATO, Putin, Ukraine
New beta social media platform Post.News became even more attractive today after Aussies woke to learn that Twitter Blue Mk3 released, having suffered a series of infamous false starts, with an increase in price from $11 AUD per month to $13 AUD.
Tagged: Elon Musk, Social Media, Twitter, Twitter Blue
A few days ago, Australia’s second-most populous state Victoria re-elected the Labor government of Daniel Andrews, giving the socialist-faction leader a third term in office.
Tagged: Daniel Andrews, Leadership, Politics, Victoria
It’s 2022, we’re in the third year of the global Covid-19 Pandemic and Ebola has broken out in Uganda. Eight years ago in 2014, I wrote about the last wide-spread Ebola outbreak as it then unfolded. I spoke of Western racism and pandemic unpreparedness. I spoke of grave danger and existential health risk. What I didn’t realise until finding it in my archives the other day, was that it predicted the debacle that’s been the West’s response to Covid-19.
Tagged: Covid-19, Living With Covid, Masks, Racism, Scandinavia, White Supremacy
The death of Queen Elizabeth at 96 today, still came as a surprise to many. In a world of monotheism and of man-made religions of The One God, “royalty”—the concept of a monarch called by God and coronated by God—tells us that humans still believe they determine their destiny.
Tagged: Death, Elizabeth II, King Charles III, Monarchy, Queen Elizabeth, United Kingdom
The AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground guided missile was built to kill tanks. On July 31, 2022, two of them, launched from a United States Air Force unmanned drone over Afghanistan, killed Ayman al-Zawahiri instead. Al Zawahiri had been leader of al Qaeda since the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. In bin Laden’s time he was the organisation’s operational brain.
Tagged: al Qaeda, al Zawahiri, Bojinka, Global War on Terror, MH370
I stumbled across the meaning of life tonight and I was only looking for some home decoration tips. I’d typed “interior design trends” into YouTube. A video called “NCS Colour Trends 2023+” popped up. The channel had over a hundred thousand subscribers. In the 43-minute video essay that followed I got more than a glimpse into the future of colour combinations.
Tagged: Covid-19, Gen Z, KidultZ, NCS Colour, Re-Nual
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