Australian players stand with SCG crowd to thank firefighters
In any other Sydney Test match the most sustained and powerful period of applause will tend to be for a century or another milestone. This year it happened before a ball was bowled.
NSW fires likened to 'atomic bomb', Sydney records hottest day on record
Authorities say at least 15 homes have been destroyed during a horror day — in which a new temperature record for the Sydney Basin was set — with fears of further "damage and destruction" before the night is over.
DAVID SOLOMON. Morrison mis-fires. Leadership or Photo Opportunities!
Since Scott Morrison declared, back in November, that this was not the time to be talking about climate change, people have been talking about nothing else but the fires, and climate change, and Scott Morrison’s attempts to pretend (or pray) them out of existence. But in the past week or so its all gone wrong for him, through his own deeds and his own words. With just a little help from his political allies. Continue reading
'Inexcusable': Emergency services minister says sorry for European holiday
David Elliott has issued an apology for failing to put his "RFS family first" in the midst of a disastrous fire season.
EVAN JONES.- Fires. Are they Australia’s Potemkin Moment?
The French economist and social critic Frédéric Lordon recently penned an article on his blog at Le Monde Diplomatique titled “The Potemkin Moment”. Continue reading
“Lamentable”, “reckless”, “a regrettable lack of leadership from Prime Minister Scott Morrison”. Australia is in trouble; and that’s the way it’s seen even in Syria, Venezuela, Somalia and Bolivia. The world is looking on with dismay as Australia burns. Alan Austin reports on the global response to the devastating bushfires.
Syria News has just reported that three more bushfire deaths this week bring the toll to twelve. “New fires erupt almost daily”, the report stated. “The fires that broke out months ago have destroyed more than ten million acres.”
It was bound to happen …
Amazon and Ring Hit With Lawsuit After Camera Hacks Confirm Worst Fears of Privacy Advocates Common Dreams
Soleimani’s killing will be seen as a declaration of war
- by Shahram Akbarzadeh
Mallacoota Escapes Obliteration, but Australia’s Terrifying Bushfire Season Rolls On Weather Underground
It’s 2020 and you’re in the future - Wait But Why – “It’s finally the 2020s. After 20 years of not being able to refer to the decade we’re in, we’re all finally free—in the clear for the next 80 years until 2100, at which point I assume AGI will have figured out what to call the two decades between 2100 and 2120. We now live in the 20s! It’s exciting. “The twenties” is super legit-sounding, and it’s so old school. The 40s are old. The 30s even more so. But nothing is older school than the Roaring 20s. We’re now in charge of making this a cool decade so when people 100 years from now are thinking about how incredibly old-timey the 2020s were, it’s old-timey in a cool appealing way and not a boring shitty way. It’s also weird that to us, the 2020s sounds like such a rad futuristic decade—and that’s how the 1920s seemed to people 100 years ago today. They were all used to the 19-teens, and suddenly they were like, “whoa cool we’re in the twenties!” Then they got upset thinking about how much farther along in life their 1910 self thought they’d be by 1920. In any case, it’s a perfect time for one of those “shit we’re old” posts. So here are some New Years 2020 time facts…”
