2019.10.15 Iffily
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. - Alexei Leonov
Update your browser or Flash plugin
Download this show
Comment on this episode (below the show notes)Show Notes
Quote
"It is this fragility [of facts] that makes deception so easy up to a point, and so tempting. It never comes into a conflict with reason, because things could indeed have been as the liar maintains they were; lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear. He has prepared his story for public consumption with a careful eye to making it credible, whereas reality has the disconcerting habit of confronting us with the unexpected for which we were not prepared." - Hannah Arendt
"The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space." - Alexei Leonov
Happy Birthday: Hannah Arendt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience on Violence, Thoughts on Politics, and Revolution https://www.tramuntalegria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lying-in-Politics-Reflections-on-The-Pentagon-Papers-by-Hannah-Arendt-The-New-York-Review-of-Books.pdf
RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Leonov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tracey_(judge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_into_Aged_Care_Quality_and_Safety
'Long illness' ... is this code for not a 'heart attack'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Bushmin
This nasty bit of work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Huckle One of the horrid turds picked up while the police were running Shannon McCoole's child abuse internet site. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50042406 Killed by a lifer who already had a reputation for 'fixing' child murderers ... a murderer with nothing to lose ...
F.U.
Israel: Got govt?
Poland https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50037654
Ecuador
Bolivia
Uruguay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica
Cincinnatus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus
Syria
Mozambique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Mozambican_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method
Colombia
Tanzania
ALP helping find the holes in the cashless welfare card because they can't help themselves https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/15/cashless-welfare-card-loophole-allows-use-of-credit-cards-without-detection
Democracy Sausage
China
Momenti di Trascurabile Felicita https://www.italianfilmfestival.com.au/films/ordinary-happiness
Things
Ethiopia and the Nobel Peace Prize for PM Abiy Ahmed https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/oct/11/nobel-peace-prize-greta-thunberg-abiy-ahmed-jacinda-ardern-among-those-tipped-win-live-news
Catalonia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/15/new-catalan-vote-on-independence-is-inevitable-says-jailed-leader https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/14/spain-imprisonment-catalan-leaders-supreme-cout-jailed-nine
China wants Himalayan water? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-15/china-what-xi-jinping-is-up-to-in-nepal/11601544
Stacks
Refusal to fact check Trump https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/tech/facebook-false-trump-ads-analysis/index.html
Elizabeth Warren's ad https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/12/elizabeth-warrens-facebook-ad-proves-social-media-giant-still-has-politics-problem/
Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-congress-idUSKCN1J11TY
Games (specifically excluding Chess)
So many aholes in Bulgaria. OTOH, AFL could learn a thing or two, eh? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/14/six-minutes-added-time-racism-england-bulgaria-euro-2020
Heaven's game https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup/rwc-2019-japan/116550994/rugby-world-cup-how-the-quarterfinals-line-out https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/
Bullet trains https://www.businessinsider.sg/typhoon-hagibis-destroys-bullet-trains-worth-300-million-in-japan-2019-10/
"The Telstra chairman, John Mullen, has taken a swipe at critics of executive pay by saying that while teenage Fortnite players can earn millions, someone who is well rewarded for devoting their life to a career in business is derided as "morally wrong"." https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/15/telstra-chairman-defends-executive-pay-saying-kids-are-earning-5m-playing-fortnite
Esports suck up to the Middle Kingdom ... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3032849/nba-games-return-china-screens-houston-rockets-not-included https://www.scmp.com/sport/basketball/article/3032993/nba-china-crisis-lebron-james-uneducated-daryl-morey-stance-and
Cricket parents https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/cricket-australia-introduces-12-months-paid-parental-leave-for-female-players/
fin
