Month: June 2024

OMG Biden Is Too Old!!!

by SpeakTruth

30 June 2024 2 mths

How old is too old to be the President of the United States? 81? 82? 83? 84? It seems in the land of the free you can never be too old to lead the world’s most powerful nation. The recent televised debate told us a different story, however. This contest of words, where no teleprompters were allowed, dropped Joe Biden in the deep end of a pool of shit. Up against the world’s greatest liar in Donald Trump – a man who spent 14 years on TV being trained to perform in this medium. OMG Biden is too old!!! The worldwide audience exclaimed in panic.

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by SpeakTruth

22 June 2024 3 mths

Fiction Over Facts: Political Narrative’s Meat In The Sandwich

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by SpeakTruth

4 September 2024 4 dys

How The Black Death Shaped Humanity

I have been reading some interesting stuff about how the Black Death shaped humanity. Plague has been with humankind at least 5, 000 years and has been one of our most efficient killers.

“Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. It is transmitted between animals through fleas.”

(https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/plague#:~:text=Plague%20is%20an%20infectious%20disease,transmitted%20between%20animals%20through%20fleas.)

Yersinia pestis is the official name of this malevolent bacteria, which has a predilection for human victims. It manifests in bubonic and pneumonic ways to spread death and disease. It has been found in ancient DNA by scientists and looks to have originated on the steppes of Eurasia.

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by SpeakTruth

31 August 2024 1 week

Albanese Government Need To Lift Their Game

Let me make one thing clear at the outset of this post, the ALP federal government may be lukewarm in my opinion but the Opposition is no alternative. The Albanese government need to lift their game, as the timidity and treading water approach are beginning to smell of self-preservation. We do not want a government, which is more interested in not offending folk than getting anything progressive done. The Voice rejection was a very disappointing failure for Australia but it is no excuse for ducking the difficult issues facing the nation. Anthony Albanese needs to go watch some footage of former PM Paul Keating and find some backbone real fast.

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by SpeakTruth

12 August 2024 4 weeks

Is Anglo Racism The Worst Kind?

By this I mean the racism expressed by some members of the British ethnic identity toward those they define as ‘not truly of their kind’. The Anglo identity has colonised dominions including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, parts of southern Africa, and smaller territories here and there. So, when asking, Is Anglo racism the worst kind? I am including these nations and places in the examination of the evidence. The argument against this questionable assertion is that every ethnic identity displays at times in part what we now call racism toward those people it so defines as ‘other’ or ‘not like themselves’.

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6 Sep

Successive governments have overseen the concentration of ownership in nearly all of our business sectors. Duopolies have replaced any real competition

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Midas Word @midasword ·

4 Sep

Plagues have been plaguing humanity for more than
5, 000 years and their death tolls have shaped our civilisation in many ways.

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31 Aug

Anthony Albanese needs to go watch some footage of former PM Paul Keating and find some backbone real fast.

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26 Aug

Australians, despite being compelled to vote have disengaged from the political and democratic debates that matter. This has been encouraged by some politicians who feed the punters cultural enragers like stuff about transgender folk

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Episode 12: The Politics of Grievance - Robert Sudha Hamilton's Podcast

America is the great democratic experiment. Although, this is getting on for some 250 years now. This nation is in the grip of the politics of grievance. Partisan politics in America is more about hating the other side than particularly loving the side you are voting for. Americans have been encouraged to focus their attention upon their grievances via decades of negative campaigning and attack ads. Demonizing ‘the other’ is the favoured political pastime in the 21C. Identity politics and social values are the main game these days. Economic issues are now seen through this ideological filter.Murdoch, Fox & Stirring Grievance In AmericaRupert Murdoch and his Fox News are merchants of toxic polarization. This network is spewing out lies and fake news 24/7. Every presentation is top heavy in anti-woke content and a right wing bias. Regular viewers are sucked into a spin cycle of libertarian anti-government GOP grievance stoking. Old white men upset at their changing worlds, where heaven forbid minorities are now getting a say. OMG the sky is going to fall in. In this partisan realm complaints about there being too many coloured faces on TV and LGBTQIA folk making too much noise are legion. Uppity women talking about sexual harassment and such like make their viewer’s blood boil – which is the whole idea for Fox. Getting their audience riled up keeps eyeballs on them and advertising rates going up for their revenue.Popularizing Poisonous Issues For Political GainThe politics of grievance is all about popularizing these causes for the benefit of candidates and the party. The party promoting these grievances doesn’t need positive policies. They just bang on about how the other side is to blame for the problem.

The history of one of the world's staples is to be safely stored in this Wagga Wagga vault 7 September 2024
Among the thousands of seeds secured in the George Hulbert Seed Vault are historic sushi rices from Japan, rice from the mountain regions of South Korea, and varieties that are no longer grown in Australia.
Jess Scully
Nicole Kidman reveals mother's death in Venice Film Festival acceptance speech 7 September 2024
The Australian actress leaves the film festival after learning the news her mother had died aged 84.
Georgie Hewson
Pickleball and lawn bowls are having a moment, so why is croquet struggling to survive? 7 September 2024
They're all sports that rely on strategy and skill, but two of these pastimes are enjoying growing popularity, while the other struggles to draw younger members.
Tim Wong-See and Julia André
Hobart shopkeeper's frustration at ongoing abuse and property damage by youths 7 September 2024
A store owner in Hobart's northern suburbs says he has dealt with 15 to 20 antisocial behaviour and crime-related incidents at his store since June, ranging from staff intimidation and racist abuse to shop damage.
Madeleine Rojahn
'Dili was on fire': A humanitarian crisis unfolded on Darwin's doorstep 25 years ago 7 September 2024
It’s been 25 years since Timor Leste’s referendum to end Indonesian occupation sparked brutal violence from the withdrawing forces.
Lillian Rangiah
There's no high-stakes glitz and glam at the Birdsville Races, but that's why people love it 7 September 2024
Thousands of punters have turned out for another epic weekend of horse racing on the edge of the Simpson Desert.
Hannah Walsh and Peter Quattrocelli
'I was literally praying': Aryna Sabalenka left 'speechless' after surviving tense US Open final 7 September 2024
Aryna Sabalenka was forced to dig deep in both sets of a straight-sets win over America's Jessica Pegula to win her third career grand slam title.
Chris De Silva
'I've had enough': Wanda parks illegally when taking her mum to the Canberra Hospital 7 September 2024
Finding a parking sport at Canberra Hospital is an ongoing challenge for some regular visitors, and with a new emergency department opening last month patients are concerned the parking situation will worsen.
Jostina Basta
Canberra man identified by fingerprints on stolen car's steering wheel freed 7 September 2024
Jessie Gould pleaded guilty to more than 30 charges in the ACT Magistrates court related to a string of thefts in Canberra's north, after being caught by police hiding in a wardrobe following his failure to turn up to court.
Elizabeth Byrne
Aboriginal people have long called for self-determination in Australia. Here's what that means 7 September 2024
Many Indigenous Australians have long up-held self-determination as the key to overcoming disadvantages that have flowed from colonisation. But what does that phrase mean?
Nate Woodall and Kate Ashton
'An amazing human being': Sam Docherty's remarkable return brings Michael Voss to tears 7 September 2024
Carlton's 2024 season comes to an end after a disappointing loss to Brisbane, but there is one silver lining — Sam Docherty defying the odds once again.
Hunter Valley bus crash driver to come face to face with devastated loved ones of those killed 7 September 2024
Ten people died when the bus Brett Andrew Button was driving crashed on the way home from a wedding. This week he is expected to receive a jail term, but not before hearing from dozens of the victims' family and friends and those who survived the crash.
Giselle Wakatama and Lucy Thackray
Rob super, end tax breaks: Australia's verdict on fixing housing policy 7 September 2024
Most Australians are happy for the value of their homes to fall to make housing more affordable, a new Q+A/YouGov poll finds, with voters giving their verdict on policy solutions.
Jason Whittaker
Drug use rumours, public brawls, hospital visits: The bizarre three-year run crippling Melbourne's premiership hopes 7 September 2024
Melbourne looked poised to be the AFL's next dynasty when it claimed the 2021 premiership. It has followed that triumph with a three-year run where almost everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong.
Chris De Silva
Here are the medal standings after day 10 of the Paralympic Games 7 September 2024
Keep up with how many medals Aussie athletes won overnight — and where Australia sits on the leaderboard.
Queensland's rural debt increases by 8.2 per cent, but economists say it's a good thing 7 September 2024
Rural debt in Queensland has increased by more than 8 per cent in three years, with the beef industry seeing the biggest increase.
Megan Hughes and Maddelin McCosker
Why we may never know what happened to William Tyrrell 7 September 2024
A decade after the boy in the Spider-Man suit vanished from his foster grandmother's home on the NSW Mid North Coast, police are no closer to finding him.
Lia Harris
'Doing it for the families': Overdue honour for WWI diggers lost in unmarked graves 7 September 2024
For years, 94-year-old Jack Hanna did not know where his father was buried. Now he's finally able to honour Private Richard Norman Hanna at his place of rest thanks to volunteers digging into history to give soldiers overdue recognition.
Emma Masters
It was once a haven for people priced out of Brisbane. Now house prices have almost doubled 7 September 2024
Ipswich was once the affordable alternative to Brisbane, but with house prices soaring by more than 80 per cent it has left many asking where else they can go to get on the property ladder.
Victoria Pengilley
What lives on our dishwashing tools and when we should change them 7 September 2024
Bacteria, and even viruses, can live on the tools we use to wash dishes — whether that's a sponge, brush, or cloth. So how often should you change them?
Kellie Scott