Sayed is a fellow driver who answered a job request in Brighton on a Wednesday night at 2am. He was forced from his car at knifepoint, badly beaten, then left to die on the road. His car and phone were stolen. There was nothing he could do to stop this violence or save his belongings. Continue Reading →
The oil from sunken tanker Sanchi is heading for Korean and Japanese fisheries according to the British National Oceanography Centre. The tanker sank two weeks after crashing with a cargo ship in the East China Sea on January 6th. Registered in Panama and owned by Iranian interests the Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tonnes (960,000 barrels) Continue Reading →
The figures are in. 38 climate denying senators have received three quarters of a million dollars each from fossil fuel interests with the price of a member of Congress denying the science being about one third that. In total fossil, fuel interests have directly spent over 97 million dollars paying the currently sitting US Senators Continue Reading →
In 2017 alone, sixteen $1 billion-plus weather- and climate-related events killed some 362 people in the US and cost the national economy $306 billion. This is a record for natual disasters and appears to be the shape of things to come. This represents 1.6% of the total US economy at a time when the economy Continue Reading →
Get off that bike young (and not so young) man. Don’t you know it’s got a broken wheel? Last week I picked up two young women from a party in Surrey Hills around sunset. One of them was furious. When she got in the car she was literally spluttering with anger at privileged private school Continue Reading →
Passengers use Uber ratings to mandate beliefs. My Uber rating went down 3 points last night because why? Because whenever passengers got in the car and said “Happy Australia Day”, I said “It’s not Australia Day”. Thereupon most responded like I was introducing an unwanted “political conversation” and reported me for unprofessionalism. In fact empathy Continue Reading →