2021.05.11 The Podcast for National Resilience

The Harsh Couch

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

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/tree-catches-fire-outside-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-no-damage-mosque-2021-05-10/

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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