Eastern Europe

Ms Wong goes to New York.

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2023/09/ms-wong-goes-to-new-york.html
Created
Mon, 25/09/2023 - 04:01

God, I admire Penny Wong. I honestly do.


If you have heard her speaking before the UN General Assembly recently you know why. If you haven’t, just look at her. Listen to her.

The climate threat … Kiribati, Tuvalu and Marshall Islands are only a few metres above sea level … Many developing countries are rightly frustrated … Approaching climate tipping points … We must demand more from permanent members [of the UN’s Security Council], including constraints on the use of the veto …

Powerful words.

Bits and Pieces: The Missing Average and Suppressed Memories.

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/06/bits-and-pieces-missing-average-and.ht…
Created
Thu, 09/06/2022 - 03:36

As I struggle with some newly discovered health problems, my attention tends to drift to different things. These are two.

The Missing Average and the two Australias.

This is a recent temperature anomaly map produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, reproduced today by the ABC, with Kate Doyle’s customarily excellent comments:

Quotable Quotes.

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/07/quotable-quotes.html
Created
Sat, 02/07/2022 - 07:26


“I don’t know how they want to get undressed, above or below the waist, but I think it would be a disgusting sight in any case”, Volodya Pew-teen, as quoted by AP.

I’m just a low-income, sort-of white, ageing, male, semi-educated Aussie worker: a pleb. To rub shoulders with such VIPs is not one of my many privileges, so I have no direct, personal knowledge on those matters and it’s impossible for me to say either way.

Thank goodness!

What I can say with absolute certainty is that this is how people imagined the previous White House tenant:
Eastern Europe