2021.05.11 The Podcast for National Resilience
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire
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Show Notes
RIP and Infected
Teenager https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/garbage-truck-death-port-lincoln/100130540 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/11/aboriginal-boy-13-dies-after-bin-he-was-sleeping-in-emptied-into-garbage-truck-in-south-australia
Her Majesty Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu, Regent of the Zulu Nation https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56934753
Idriss Deby https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/20/chad-president-idriss-deby-dies-military-says https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/rebels-vow-to-take-capital-after-chadian-president-killed-1.5394294
Chad https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/29/grief-and-anger-in-chad-over-armys-deadly-protest-crackdown
Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Six since March Four in NSW https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-28/indigenous-death-in-custody-at-cessnock-jail-national-emergency/100100102
Frontier war stories Boe Spearim https://boespearim.podbean.com/
1851 first inquiry
Domestic Violence
11 Australian women murdered so far this year https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Public-Service/Counting-Dead-Women-Australia-111647810713234/ https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/horrific-map-exposes-impact-of-domestic-violence-in-australia/news-story/15dba3219b8333ee460b07ba064b99be https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/06/queensland-police-blocked-research-into-domestic-violence-cases-and-attitudes-of-officers
Palestine
20 Palestinians including 9 kids https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/israel-hamas-rocket-fire-palestine-jerusalem-gaza-deaths/100129940
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/10/israeli-forces-raid-al-aqsa-compound-live
COVID-19
- FSA: 596,179
- Worldwide: 3,319,579
- India: 250,025
- Brazil: 423,436
India https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/covid-india-who-bodies-wash-up-on-banks-of-ganges-river/100130032 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/28/crime-against-humanity-arundhati-roy-india-covid-catastrophe
Backlash against Modi?
Amputations
Bert Newton's leg
P.S.P.O.F.
Streets of India becoming makeshift cremation grounds
Follow Up
The Neverending Shit that is the Federal Government
The Budget https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/06/scott-morrison-accidentally-endorses-beijing-policy-for-taiwan-in-foreign-policy-blunder https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-diverted-cash-from-31m-safer-communities-grants-to-ineligible-projects-20210503-p57oem.html
Jobs in Australia
Ongoing Centrelink and employment agency catastrophe
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-10/chef-shortage-queensland-borders-skilled-migrants/100122150
Gas-fired recovery or gas-fired everything? https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7242121/gas-fired-recovery-gets-586m-in-budget/
Charles Christian Porter
Defamation and politicians
Who is paying for the attack on the ABC?
Dutton
Talking up war with China
Defamation case against Shane Nuzzi
Things
Israel
Bibi
Orthodoxicans
Palestinians
al Aqsa
Us and them
Othering
Narcissism of minor differences
Bennu https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/10/nasa-spacecraft-asteroid-bennu-space-rock-samples
Stacks
Apple v Epic
Facebook and the Australian Government https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/02/facebook-got-everything-it-wanted-out-of-australia-by-being-willing-to-do-what-the-other-guy-wouldnt/
Insurrection! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/full-facebook-stop-the-steal-internal-report https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-29/facebook-whistleblower-sophie-zhang-government-manipulation/100103408
No Union for Amazonians!
But have some Deliveroo... https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deliveroo-pandemic-amazon
Games (specifically excluding Chess)
Rioli and the Riolis https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/west-coasts-afl-willie-rioli-drug-charges/100130106 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-07/rioli-family-afl-premiership-dynasty-from-pirlangimpi/10346380
Stuart MacGill and his brother-in-law https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/05/former-australian-cricketer-stuart-macgill-allegedly-kidnapped-and-threatened-at-gunpoint
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