We travelled to Sydney to visit family and friends and stayed in a motel in the suburb of Brookvale. We were surprised to find a pod coffee machine in the…
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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large system of ocean currents that carry warm water from the tropics northwards into the North Atlantic, and colder water in the deeper…
As anyone knows who reads the news carefully, the Trump regime is clearly kleptocratic in the accumulation of wealth while the Mango Paedo is in office. On top of this,…
Just about everybody has heard of El Niño, which has been known to affect weather systems in Australian, and tends to cause droughts and increased fire risk. As of 10…
Antisemitism is hostility, prejudice or discrimination against Jews because they are Jews. Try as hard as they can to convince everyone that criticism of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza…
The Yazidis are a religious and ethnic minority indigenous to northern Iraq who were systematically targeted by the Islamic State (ISIS) from August 2014 onwards. Thousands of Yazidi men and…
As anyone who reads or watches the news known, there has been a rise in right-wing populism in the US, UK and Australia. There have been many reasons put forward…
I have always had an interest the World War 2 in the Pacific given that my father and a couple of my uncles were involved in it. Among the numerous…
A few days ago, I happened upon a video by one Wes O’Donnell (again) in which he referred to a cardboard drone made in Australia and shipped to Ukraine1. The SYPAQ…
On Tuesday, I was talking to an American friend on Zoom at 6:30 am Canberra time. He couldn’t stop laughing when I told him that it was rare for me…
The Murdoch media’s slavering support of the Liberal Party and other far right causes, has led them to extremely stupid and hypocritical campaigns against EVs. This even got to the…
The US was termed the ‘arsenal of democracy’ by then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a radio broadcast on December 29, 19401. Early in the speech he referred to the…
There has been a bit of activity among a small fleet of superyachts recently. One, Scheherazade, was impounded by Italian authorities in May 2022 under suspicion that it was owned by…
There could be no more treacherous terrain into which to send American troops to fight than the inside of Donald Trump’s brain. It is a place where ego and pride drive decisions rather than rationality, where delusions have replaced any sense of reality, in which ignorance rules and from which facts are banished, in which base impulses and spasmodic misfires have crushed any role reason or decency might have played.
We got back from Sydney and the next day, woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus. Incessant coughing, feeling there was a small furry animal trapped…
We drove up to Sydney in our EV again1. This time it was to do a bit of ‘babysitting’ for some of the last few days of school holidays. We…
What lies behind the Peace Prize awarded in Washington, on December 5, 2025, to Donald Trump by the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino? More than seven months after the Mango…
Being an old soccer player from way back, I have of course been watching the men’s World Cup which is being played in Canada, the US and Mexico. This time…
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