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AI: Why Do We Give Our Power Away?

28 July 202428 July 2024

We are in the midst of a hype driven mania for all things AI at this time. This is not entirely unusual, as humanity has done this before. There...

WTF Is America? Who Is The USA?

22 July 202422 July 2024

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America, Biden, cultural identity

A nation in the grip of Trumpism sees the demise of President Joe Biden for future re-election. No matter the irksome words emerging from Republican...

Dumb Americans & Trump

8 July 20248 July 2024

democracy, featured

America, Trump

If you talk to most Australians about America and Trump the general consensus is that America’s love affair with Donald Trump puts them in the ‘too...

Bite & Smile PDF Version by Robert Sudha Hamilton

Bite & Smile: Delving into Dental Care for an Informed Choice PDF version by Robert Sudha Hamilton. A Midas Word Publication. 350 pages of oral care gold. Easy to read and full of fun facts.

Bite & Smile: Delving into Dental Care for an Informed Choice is written to provide information and relevant content related to dentistry. It is hoped that you will find within its pages useful stuff, so that you can decide on the right course of action. Sometimes, when you are suffering from tooth ache it is not the best time to make those calls you know nothing about. Your dentist might say to you in the chair, “well, what’s it to be extraction or root canal? “ At the time, you are in agony, on your way to a numb cheek and lips, and might be playing with limited resources. Therefore, your decision weighs a lot and do you really have all the necessary data at hand?

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America Matters PDF version

Get the America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump PDF ebook. By Robert Sudha Hamilton.

If you read one book this year make it this one. Knowledge is power & time is running out folks. Every page is filled with insight and truthful accounts of what drives America now and in its past. Great reading for a world on the brink of massive changes – which way will the pendulum tip? Can the greatest nation on earth pull itself out of a tail spin? More than 250 pages of truth serum.

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Episode 12: The Politics of Grievance - Robert Sudha Hamilton's Podcast

America is the great democratic experiment. Although, this is getting on for some 250 years now. This nation is in the grip of the politics of grievance. Partisan politics in America is more about hating the other side than particularly loving the side you are voting for. Americans have been encouraged to focus their attention upon their grievances via decades of negative campaigning and attack ads. Demonizing ‘the other’ is the favoured political pastime in the 21C. Identity politics and social values are the main game these days. Economic issues are now seen through this ideological filter.Murdoch, Fox & Stirring Grievance In AmericaRupert Murdoch and his Fox News are merchants of toxic polarization. This network is spewing out lies and fake news 24/7. Every presentation is top heavy in anti-woke content and a right wing bias. Regular viewers are sucked into a spin cycle of libertarian anti-government GOP grievance stoking. Old white men upset at their changing worlds, where heaven forbid minorities are now getting a say. OMG the sky is going to fall in. In this partisan realm complaints about there being too many coloured faces on TV and LGBTQIA folk making too much noise are legion. Uppity women talking about sexual harassment and such like make their viewer’s blood boil – which is the whole idea for Fox. Getting their audience riled up keeps eyeballs on them and advertising rates going up for their revenue.Popularizing Poisonous Issues For Political GainThe politics of grievance is all about popularizing these causes for the benefit of candidates and the party. The party promoting these grievances doesn’t need positive policies. They just bang on about how the other side is to blame for the problem.

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Matthew Doran
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Newly released safety statistics show side-by-side vehicles were involved in 14 deaths on Australian farms in 2024 despite being fitted with seatbelts and rollover protection cages.
Laurissa Smith and Meg Powell
Who, or what, is Rum'un, Tasmania's new AFL mascot? 19 March 2025
He's a little ugly and rough as guts. Perfectly imperfect, laughed at and misunderstood by those across the strait. And what could be more Tasmanian than that? Meet Rum'un, the Devils' new mascot.
Chris Rowbottom
Both sides of politics are playing it safe as the spectre of increasing uncertainty looms 19 March 2025
If two ongoing wars weren't enough uncertainty into which to deliver a federal budget, there's the precariousness of the Trump administration's trade agenda.
David Speers
British teen who murdered mother, brother and sister jailed for 49 years 19 March 2025
The court heard that Nicholas Prosper had withdrawn into an online world and illegally bought a firearm as he plotted to carry out an attack on a primary school north of London.
Trump, Zelenskyy have 'very good' first call since White House blow-up 19 March 2025
Donald Trump says he's had a "very good" phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy — their first conversation since the US president publicly scolded his Ukrainian counterpart and ordered him out of the White House three weeks ago.
Riley Stuart and Brad Ryan
Israeli strikes kill at least 10, including one UN worker in Gaza 19 March 2025
Airstrikes have resumed after nearly two months of calm between Hamas and Israel as they accuse each other of breaking the truce.
Main rival to Türkiye's Erdogan arrested just before presidential run 19 March 2025
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China sentences ex-engineer to death for alleged spying 19 March 2025
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PBS medication to cost no more than $25 under Labor re-election pitch 19 March 2025
As US big pharma comes for Australia's PBS, Labor is promising even cheaper medicines.
Stephanie Dalzell
How a 'doorbell' is helping migrating fish in the Netherlands 19 March 2025
Without the help, native freshwater fish like bream, pike and bass can become backed up behind the lock and form easy prey for predators in the spring, when the lock is rarely opened for passing boats.
Perth mother jailed for Wheatbelt crash that killed her twin daughters 19 March 2025
In emotional scenes in Northam, Rachel Van Oyen has been jailed for two months for the 2024 crash that killed her seven-year-old girls.
Eliza Bidstrup
Private school music teacher to face historic child sex allegations 19 March 2025
A Queensland music teacher will face a NSW court on three counts of aggravated sexual assault alleged to have occurred in the 1990s.
Lottie Twyford
Growing up, Wanda got old dresses for Xmas. Her book about it just won $125k 19 March 2025
The winners of this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards have been announced, with the list dominated by independent presses and First Nations writers.
Hannah Story
Man avoids jail for anti-Semitic graffiti across several Perth suburbs 19 March 2025
A man who spray painted swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti across several Perth suburbs is given a suspended jail sentence.
Ruby Littler
Mother stabbed to death after teens hatched national takeover plan, court told 19 March 2025
Armed with knives and a cricket bat, two "delusional" teenagers with plans to take over Australia killed a defenceless mother in a frenzied rage, a Victorian court has been told.
Alexandra Alvaro and Kristian Silva
Is the Democratic Republic of the Congo next for Trump? 19 March 2025
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, battles are taking place for territory and rare earth minerals such as cobalt. Donald Trump is about to enter the race.
Norman Hermant
US pharmaceutical giants urge Trump to put further tariffs on Australia 19 March 2025
American medical giants want tariffs imposed on Australia as punishment for its Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which sees the government negotiate cheaper prices for medicines for Australians
Stephanie Dalzell, Stephen Dziedzic, and Tom Crowley
Administrators take control over most of national childcare chain's centres 19 March 2025
Administrators have taken control of the majority of childcare centres run by teetering empire Genius.
Ben Butler and Jade Toomey
SA farmers take 'gut-wrenchingly hard' drought battle to parliament 19 March 2025
Farmers pushed to the brink by drought have joined the state opposition on the steps of Adelaide's Parliament House calling for more government action.
Will Hunter and Selina Green