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It looks like Meghan may be test-driving yet another narrative to handle the criticism about her failure to royal: it's all Harry's fault.

This started last week when reporters and journalists were speculating whether the Sussexes, had they stayed in, would have been able to help KP squash all the noise about Kate's condition and help BP squash the nosie about the royal family's bench strength by stepping up royal work. Hugo Vickers more or less said "no, because the Sussexes are only in it for themselves. Meghan wouldn't step up unless she personally benefited. She would have seen nothing in it for herself and would refuse to work."

So cue Esther Krakue, who appeared on Sky News Australia today. She agrees with Vickers that the Sussexes wouldn't have stepped up, but says it's because of Harry. Not Meghan. And the way she lays the blame squarely on Harry, she plays to both sides of the royal fence:

For the squaddies, she says "it's Harry's fault Meghan was a terrible royal because he made her start working before she was ready and willing."

For the rest of us, she says "Meghan lacked the temperament to be a proper royal because she wanted to be in charge and it's Harry's fault because he should have prepared her better."

That she speaks to both sides is making it a little harder to see whether this is Meghan setting up for a divorce narrative or whether this is an olive branch PR.

A quick disclaimer. I've no idea where Krakue falls in the royal reporting spectrum (is she a Sussex mouthpiece? Is she a straight-shooting royalist? Or does she go where the paycheck is?)

For me, I come down on "well, this feels like pre-emptive divorce narrative." Mainly because Meghan has been laying groundwork since 2017 for a domestic violence-based divorce narrative and "Harry forced Meghan to work" not only plays into that, it also implies he threatened Meghan.

Anyway. Here's the story.

And by the way, did you know this is the 11th time Meghan has tried to rewrite the story of her royal career? Let's review them!

#1. While they were dating/pre-engaged (2016 - late 2017): I’ll be the bestest duchess to duchess, better than Kate.

#2. While they were engaged (late 2017 - mid-2018): I’m going to hit the ground running and everyone will be so impressed The Queen will make me her heir.

#3. While “in” for 72 days (mid-2018 - late 2019): I’m only supporting my preferred charities and best friends, how dare you *coat flick*

#4. While Megxiting (late 2019 - March 2020): I don’t need the royals to do good work. They’re old-fashioned anyway. Watch me hit the ground running and being the bestest duchess to duchess.

#5. During the pandemic (March 2020 - March 2021): I’m not bound by the code of ethics the royals are so I can volunteer and support my most passionate causes, politics and political issues.

#6. While sobbing to Oprah (March 2020 - late 2021): I can’t do anything because Waity Katie gets all the help, attention, and money. I’m just a young black mother.

Next, Meghan loses control of the narrative as everyone shows up for the BRF after the Oprah interview, and even more so after Philip passes away. This collective effort establishes the narrative of Meghan's royal career as actually scornful "I should be getting paid for this" contempt (as summed up by Bower in 2021's Revenge). Meghan tries some things to backtrack over this but she just digs herself in deeper and deeper, leading to three competing narratives over Meghan's work--

a) “No one from the palace helped us, we had to do it all on our own because William and Kate were jealous and refused to let anyone help us.” (Sussexes)

b) “It’s your own fault. Harry should have better prepared you for the realities of royal life and actually, HERE ARE THE RECEIPTS, WE DID TRY TO HELP but you wanted your LA teams to do it instead.” (BRF and Royal Rota)

c) “She never wanted to work, she just wanted the fame and fortune, come on you people, it's so [bleeping] obvious." (The public and most royal watchers)

This lasts until the end of 2021 when Sunshine Sachs/Netflix/Spotify finally dig Meghan out through a few rounds of Olive Branch PR and Jubilee and Hollywood manifestations, leading to...

#8. While finally launching her Megxit career (end of 2021 to September 2022, The Queen’s passing): I’m finally doing the work I was promised I could do by the royal family. Look at what you could've had.

#9. After The Queen’s passing (October 2022 to end of 2022): I just wanted to work but they wouldn't let me do anything because they're jealous.

#10. During the Charles era (2023): I couldn’t do anything because the royals are racist.

And now, #11. Royal Health Crisis (January 2024): I never wanted to be a working royal, Harry made me and he didn’t prepare me appropriately.

#brf #sussexes #divorce watch #pr shenanigans #rumors #theories

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Where It’s Most Dangerous to Be Black in America

Black Americans made up 13.6% of the US population in 2022 and 54.1% of the victims of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, aka homicide. That works out, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, to a homicide rate of 29.8 per 100,000 Black Americans and four per 100,000 of everybody else.(1)

A homicide rate of four per 100,000 is still quite high by wealthy-nation standards. The most up-to-date statistics available from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show a homicide of rate one per 100,000 in Canada as of 2019, 0.8 in Australia (2021), 0.4 in France (2017) and Germany (2020), 0.3 in the UK (2020) and 0.2 in Japan (2020).

But 29.8 per 100,000 is appalling, similar to or higher than the homicide rates of notoriously dangerous Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. It also represents a sharp increase from the early and mid-2010s, when the Black homicide rate in the US hit new (post-1968) lows and so did the gap between it and the rate for everybody else. When the homicide rate goes up, Black Americans suffer disproportionately. When it falls, as it did last year and appears to be doing again this year, it is mostly Black lives that are saved.

As hinted in the chart, racial definitions have changed a bit lately; the US Census Bureau and other government statistics agencies have become more open to classifying Americans as multiracial. The statistics cited in the first paragraph of this column are for those counted as Black or African American only. An additional 1.4% of the US population was Black and one or more other race in 2022, according to the Census Bureau, but the CDC Wonder (for “Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research”) databases from which most of the statistics in this column are drawn don’t provide population estimates or calculate mortality rates for this group. My estimate is that its homicide rate in 2022 was about six per 100,000.

A more detailed breakdown by race, ethnicity and gender reveals that Asian Americans had by far the lowest homicide rate in 2022, 1.6, which didn’t rise during the pandemic, that Hispanic Americans had similar homicide rates to the nation as a whole and that men were more than four times likelier than women to die by homicide in 2022. The biggest standout remained the homicide rate for Black Americans. 

Black people are also more likely to be victims of other violent crime, although the differential is smaller than with homicides. In the 2021 National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (the 2022 edition will be out soon), the rate of violent crime victimization was 18.5 per 1,000 Black Americans, 16.1 for Whites, 15.9 for Hispanics and 9.9 for Asians, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Understandably, Black Americans are more concerned about crime than others, with 81% telling Pew Research Center pollsters before the 2022 midterm elections that violent crime was a “very important” issue, compared with 65% of Hispanics and 56% of Whites.

These disparities mainly involve communities caught in cycles of violence, not external predators. Of the killers of Black Americans in 2020 whose race was known, 89.4% were Black, according to the FBI. That doesn’t make those deaths any less of a tragedy or public health emergency. Homicide is seventh on the CDC’s list of the 15 leading causes of death among Black Americans, while for other Americans it’s nowhere near the top 15. For Black men ages 15 to 39, the highest-risk group, it’s usually No. 1, although in 2022 the rise in accidental drug overdoses appears to have pushed accidents just past it. For other young men, it’s a distant third behind accidents and suicides.

To be clear, I do not have a solution for this awful problem, or even much of an explanation. But the CDC statistics make clear that sky-high Black homicide rates are not inevitable. They were much lower just a few years ago, for one thing, and they’re far lower in some parts of the US than in others. Here are the overall 2022 homicide rates for the country’s 30 most populous metropolitan areas.

Metropolitan areas are agglomerations of counties by which economic and demographic data are frequently reported, but seldom crime statistics because the patchwork of different law enforcement agencies in each metro area makes it so hard. Even the CDC, which gets its mortality data from state health departments, doesn’t make it easy, which is why I stopped at 30 metro areas.(2)

Sorting the data this way does obscure one key fact about homicide rates: They tend to be much higher in the main city of a metro area than in the surrounding suburbs.

But looking at homicides by metro area allows for more informative comparisons across regions than city crime statistics do, given that cities vary in how much territory they cover and how well they reflect an area’s demographic makeup. Because the CDC suppresses mortality data for privacy reasons whenever there are fewer than 10 deaths to report, large metro areas are good vehicles for looking at racial disparities. Here are the 30 largest metro areas, ranked by the gap between the homicide rates for Black residents and for everybody else.

The biggest gap by far is in metropolitan St. Louis, which also has the highest overall homicide rate. The smallest gaps are in metropolitan San Diego, New York and Boston, which have the lowest homicide rates. Homicide rates are higher for everybody in metro St. Louis than in metro New York, but for Black residents they’re six times higher while for everyone else they’re just less than twice as high.

There do seem to be some regional patterns to this mayhem. The metro areas with the biggest racial gaps are (with the glaring exception of Portland, Oregon) mostly in the Rust Belt, those with the smallest are mostly (with the glaring exceptions of Boston and New York) in the Sun Belt. Look at a map of Black homicide rates by state, and the highest are clustered along the Mississippi River and its major tributaries. Southern states outside of that zone and Western states occupy roughly the same middle ground, while the Northeast and a few middle-of-the-country states with small Black populations are the safest for their Black inhabitants.(3)

Metropolitan areas in the Rust Belt and parts of the South stand out for the isolation of their Black residents, according to a 2021 study of Census data from Brown University’s Diversity and Disparities Project, with the average Black person living in a neighborhood that is 60% or more Black in the Detroit; Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis; Chicago; Cleveland and Milwaukee metro areas in 2020 (in metro St. Louis the percentage was 57.6%). Then again, metro New York and Boston score near the top on another of the project’s measures of residential segregation, which tracks the percentage of a minority group’s members who live in neighborhoods where they are over-concentrated compared with White residents, so segregation clearly doesn’t explain everything.

Looking at changes over time in homicide rates may explain more. Here’s the long view for Black residents of the three biggest metro areas. Again, racial definitions have changed recently. This time I’ve used the new, narrower definition of Black or African American for 2018 onward, and given estimates in a footnote of how much it biases the rates upward compared with the old definition.

All three metro areas had very high Black homicide rates in the 1970s and 1980s, and all three experienced big declines in the 1990s and 2000s. But metro Chicago’s stayed relatively high in the early 2010s then began a rebound in mid-decade that as of 2021 had brought the homicide rate for its Black residents to a record high, even factoring in the boost to the rate from the definitional change.

What happened in Chicago? One answer may lie in the growing body of research documenting what some have called the “Ferguson effect,” in which incidents of police violence that go viral and beget widespread protests are followed by local increases in violent crime, most likely because police pull back on enforcement. Ferguson is the St. Louis suburb where a 2014 killing by police that local prosecutors and the US Justice Department later deemed to have been in self-defense led to widespread protests that were followed by big increases in St. Louis-area homicide rates. Baltimore had a similar viral death in police custody and homicide-rate increase in 2015. In Chicago, it was the October 2014 shooting death of a teenager, and more specifically the release a year later of a video that contradicted police accounts of the incident, leading eventually to the conviction of a police officer for second-degree murder.

It’s not that police killings themselves are a leading cause of death among Black Americans. The Mapping Police Violence database lists 285 killings of Black victims by police in 2022, and the CDC reports 209 Black victims of “legal intervention,” compared with 13,435 Black homicide victims. And while Black Americans are killed by police at a higher rate relative to population than White Americans, this disparity — 2.9 to 1 since 2013, according to Mapping Police Violence — is much less than the 7.5-to-1 ratio for homicides overall in 2022. It’s the loss of trust between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve that seems to be disproportionately deadly for Black residents of those communities.

The May 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer was the most viral such incident yet, leading to protests nationwide and even abroad, as well as an abortive local attempt to disband and replace the police department. The Minneapolis area subsequently experienced large increases in homicides and especially homicides of Black residents. But nine other large metro areas experienced even bigger increases in the Black homicide rate from 2019 to 2022.

A lot of other things happened between 2019 and 2022 besides the Floyd protests, of course, and I certainly wouldn’t ascribe all or most of the pandemic homicide-rate increase to the Ferguson effect. It is interesting, though, that the St. Louis area experienced one of the smallest percentage increases in the Black homicide rate during this period, and it decreased in metro Baltimore.

Also interesting is that the metro areas experiencing the biggest percentage increases in Black residents’ homicide rates were all in the West (if your definition of West is expansive enough to include San Antonio). If this were confined to affluent areas such as Portland, Seattle, San Diego and San Francisco, I could probably spin a plausible-sounding story about it being linked to especially stringent pandemic policies and high work-from-home rates, but that doesn’t fit Phoenix, San Antonio or Las Vegas, so I think I should just admit that I’m stumped.

The standout in a bad way has been the Portland area, which had some of the longest-running and most contentious protests over policing, along with many other sources of dysfunction. The area’s homicide rate for Black residents has more than tripled since 2019 and is now second highest among the 30 biggest metro areas after St. Louis. Again, I don’t have any real solutions to offer here, but whatever the Portland area has been doing since 2019 isn’t working.

(1) The CDC data for 2022 are provisional, with a few revisions still being made in the causes assigned to deaths (was it a homicide or an accident, for example), but I’ve been watching for weeks now, and the changes have been minimal. The CDC is still using 2021 population numbers to calculate 2022 mortality rates, and when it updates those, the homicide rates will change again, but again only slightly. The metropolitan-area numbers also don’t reflect a recent update by the White House Office of Management and Budget to its list of metro areas and the counties that belong to them, which when incorporated will bring yet more small mortality-rate changes. To get these statistics from the CDC mortality databases, I clicked on “Injury Intent and Mechanism” and then on “Homicide”; in some past columns I instead chose “ICD-10 Codes” and then “Assault,” which delivered slightly different numbers.

(2) It’s easy to download mortality statistics by metro area for the years 1999 to 2016, but the databases covering earlier and later years do not offer this option, and one instead has to select all the counties in a metro area to get area-wide statistics, which takes a while.

(3) The map covers the years 2018-2022 to maximize the number of states for which CDC Wonder will cough up data, although as you can see it wouldn’t divulge any numbers for Idaho, Maine, Vermont and Wyoming (meaning there were fewer than 10 homicides of Black residents in each state over that period) and given the small numbers involved, I wouldn’t put a whole lot of stock in the rates for the Dakotas, Hawaii, Maine and Montana.

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/14/where-it-s-most-dangerous-to-be-black-in-america/cdea7922-52f0-11ee-accf-88c266213aac_story.html)

#Where It’s Most Dangerous to Be Black in America #Black in america #Black Lives Matter

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Caitlin Foord: ‘Men think women’s football is a ‘pussy’ sport’

Despite overtaking the Wallabies to become the third most popular national team in Australia, Matildas star Caitlin Foord says some Australians still see women’s football as a “weaker sport” - but she predicts that’s about to change.

Australians are on the cusp of witnessing one of the country’s most significant sporting tournaments when the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 kicks off this month here and in New Zealand. And the excitement is demonstrably palpable: with more than a million tickets already sold, the event (which takes place from July 20 till August 20) is on track to become the most attended standalone women’s sporting event in history.

For Matildas star forward Caitlin Foord, this World Cup will mark her fourth; in 2011, she became the youngest Australian ever to play in the tournament. ​​And to think her record-breaking career may never have happened. “Rugby league was what my family supported and I wanted to play rugby league when I was younger,” Foord tells Stellar. “But my nan told Mum that if she let me play then she would never speak to her again. So that went out the window. But if there were more girls playing at the time, and [if] it was more normal for girls to play, then I don’t even know if I would have gone into football.”

Like many children, Foord’s introduction to soccer began when she was a sporty nine-year-old playing with the boys during lunch at her school in the Illawarra region of NSW. “I was tearing the boys up a little bit, and they asked me to join the local team with one other girl,” Foord recalls. “Mum was hesitant because I was already doing a lot of other sports like Oztag [a non-tackling version of rugby league], and surf lifesaving. But then I got a little bit of help from my sister, who told Mum, ‘She’s really good, she beats all the boys at school.’”

In her first match, she scored six goals, and from there, she never stopped playing. “Before I started, the game wasn’t as professional as it is now, but I probably wasn’t thinking about that,” Foord admits, adding that since she wasn’t much of a student at school, she was all too happy to find herself playing for Sydney FC as a 16-year-old in 2010.

But as her abilities developed, so did the opportunities for women in the sport. Foord moved to the US to join New Jersey side Sky Blue FC in the inaugural National Women’s Soccer League season in 2013. She then signed with Vegalta Sendai in Japan in 2017. Now she calls London home, after renewing her contract with powerhouse Arsenal FC, where she’s played since 2020. “My transition in the game came at the same time that the game was growing,” she says. “It kind of just fell into place for me as I went up the ranks.”

Parallel to Foord’s personal career, the women’s game itself has made huge inroads. In 2019, Football Federation Australia signed a four-year-agreement with the player’s union, Professional Footballers Australia, that would see the men and women’s national teams receive equal shares of national team generated revenues. And, thanks to the likes of high-profile teammates such as Foord and captain Sam Kerr – arguably the greatest Australian football player – the Matildas have this year overtaken the Wallabies and are close to overtaking the Kangaroos to become the third most popular national team, according to independent market research firm Futures Sport & Entertainment.

Foord says the bond within the Matildas is a special one. “We’ve all grown up together,” she explains. “We’re a close-knit team. We’re not just teammates, we’re all friends, as well. We all thought that was the normal thing. But being overseas and playing with girls from different nationalities, I’ve heard people say they hate going into the national team. I find that so hard to believe because we love being around each other and I think that’s unique.”

Foord enters the World Cup with not just this camaraderie, but also a considerable home-field advantage and a golden opportunity to raise the profile of women’s soccer in the country. “Football is the world game, yet I’ve had a couple of conversations with people around home and they still don’t really see the women’s game,” Foord tells Stellar. “When we play overseas, it’s on at 3am.”

Which is why this upcoming World Cup is so pivotal. “Australians love sport, so I feel like they just need to see us and that’s enough,” she continues. “That’s all we need. That’s going to be the turning point, especially for the males who have spoken down on the sport before or think of women’s football as a weaker sport or a ‘pussy’ sport. But once they watch us and see how tough the game is and how we all get stuck, that’s all it needs.”

Following the team’s fourth-place finish at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Matildas are expected to go deep in the Women’s World Cup. This year’s tournament offers the field a record $165 million in prize money, more than three times the amount from the 2019 Women’s World Cup (though far less, still, than the almost $700 million offered to the men at the 2022 World Cup).

Even so, if the Matildas take out the title, Foord says she will celebrate by purchasing some jewellery.

“As an athlete, I’m used to wearing tracksuits and comfy clothes and the odd dress for an awards night,” she says. “But the older I’ve got, the more I’m into fashion.

“I didn’t grow up with money or anything like that, so when I see something, I don’t buy it straight away. If I’m constantly thinking about it afterwards, then I know I really want it – and I’ve always wanted a Cartier ring. If we went on to win the tournament, I’d buy the one I absolutely love, which has diamonds in it.”

But no matter what happens, Foord plans to keep on kicking on. “All the benefits that come with the game now, me and the girls were part of [building] that,” she says. “We’re obviously grateful for what we have now, but we know it still deserves more – and we need to keep pushing.”

#caitlin foord #matildas #auswnt

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Sam Campbell Podcast Masterlist

Here's a masterlist of podcast episodes that feature Sam Campbell, in reverse chronological order. I tried to find all of the episodes that are available on the internet, do send me an ask if you find any that I did not include here!

Note: some of these links are Spotify links but usually podcast episodes are available anywhere you usually get a podcast i.e. Apple podcasts, Acast, etc.

April 2024

Some Laugh Podcast - Episode 99. Taskmaster, Edinburgh Fringe & Secrets. Hosted by Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan and Stuart McPherson.

Tim Key's Poetry Programme. 3. Safari. On BBC Radio 4.

March 2024

Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 1: The Face. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.

Off Menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble - Episode 229, Live with Sam Campbell in Nottingham Royal Concert Hall. Note: the episode was recorded on October 18, 2023 and released 2 March 2024.

January 2024

Drifting Off with Joe Pera Ep 12: Australia and its Greatest Horse ft. Cut Worms. Guests: Sam Campbell, Aaron Chen, Guy Montgomery and Yaraman Thorne aka Yaz.

November 2023

Ep110. SAM CAMPBELL / Plato, Purses & Palm Readings. Trusty Hogs podcast. Hosted by Catherine Bohart and Helen Bauer.

BONUS: Ep111. NATHAN FOAD/ Colleagues, Cucks & Cliff Richard. Trusty Hogs podcast - Sam pulls a prank on Nathan Foad at 22:38. Nathan Foad was in Bloods, the Sky TV sitcom that Sam was also in.

Taskmaster The Podcast. Ep 149. (S16 Ep.10.) Hosted by Ed Gamble.

Northern News. ‘A Spider’s Intern’. Hosted by Ian Smith and Amy Gledhill. Sam Campbell's guest appearance starts around the 21 minute mark.

September 2023

Taskmaster The Podcast. Ep 141. Sam Campbell - S16 Ep. 2. Hosted by Ed Gamble.

May 2023

WTF w/ Sam Campbell. Welcome to Meet You podcast. Hosted by Dart Sultan and Robbie Armfield.

April 2023

Mugg Off #173 Live Show Melbourne. Sam Campbell, Sam Taunton, Tim Hewitt, Laura Hughes.

November 2022

NTS - Hot Mess W/ Sam Campbell (hosted by Babak Ganjei).

October 2022

Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards: The Podcast with Lara Ricote and Sam Campbell.

September 2022

Plot Twist podcast Kevin ‘KG’ Garry and Sam Campbell. Sky TV.

June 2022

Mugg Off #139 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan, and Yaz.

May 2022

Backyard Stories - Episode Thirty Four - Sam Campbell

October 2021

Aunty Donna Podcast Ep 277 Nippers Feat. Sam Campbell and Eric Hutton. Hosted by Zach, Mark and Broden.

July 2021

The Phone Hacks Podcast 170. Sam Campbell - Hay Ladies. Hosted by Mike Goldstein and Nick Capper. (Thanks to Cambo Fans!)

June 2021

The Good Stuff - Episode 41 Feat. Sam Campbell. Hosted by Sam Taunton and Tom Cashman.

Australia Debates - ABC Comedy. Series 1 Episode 1 - Should Social Media Be Banned?

December 2020

Mugg Off #069 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan and Yaz. Note: this episode was recorded in December 2020 but the video was uploaded June 2022.

August 2020

The Grub podcast, with Nikki Britton, Bjorn Stewart, Sam Campbell, Cameron James, and Danielle Walker. Hosts: Anne Edmonds, Greg Larsen and Ben Russell. NOTE: Sam is only in a few clips in this podcast, not in the whole thing.

July 2020

Circling the Drain - Ep1: Elouise Eftos, Sam Campbell. Hosted by Andrew Wolfe.

April 2020

The Good Stuff - Episode 3 Feat. Sam Campbell (An Expose on Women’s Bathrooms). Hosted by Sam Taunton and Tom Cashman.

January 2020

Mugg Off #20 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan and Yaz.

The Grub - 2020 Call-in Special. With Melinda Buttle, Becky Lucas, Sam Campbell, Aaron Chen, Rodney Todd. Hosts: Anne Edmonds, Greg Larsen and Ben Russell. NOTE: Sam is only in a few clips in this podcast, not in the whole thing.

October 2019

The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone Ninety. Hosted by Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt.

May 2019

Special Features with Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos - Ep 50. Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) with Tom Walker and Sam Campbell.

May 2018

Aunty Donna Podcast Episode 97: LIVE FROM THE FACTORY THEATRE SYDNEY FEAT. SAM CAMPBELL

October 2017

The Dragon Friends. S3 Ep 18: THIS BOY FREZNO. The Dragon Friends is a DnD podcast and this episode was live. From the podcast description: "Also Sam Campbell wore a mask and an elephant trunk for all of the recording so if it helps, imagine that." Cambo knows nothing about DnD - he went on the podcast to prank his friend Michael Hing (allegedly). Sam plays the antagonist (an evil Michael Hing).

The Dragon Friends. S3 Ep.17. A Dog With Human Eyes with Carlo Ritchie

August 2017

Mike Check with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos - Ep 45. The Gong Show S01E04 & S01E05 w/ Sam Campbell

January-February 2015

Sad Boys, episode 1-3 hosted by Sam Campbell, Eddie Sharp and Anith Mukherjee. Originally broadcast via FBi Radio.

November 2014

Mark Williamson Chat Show - Episode 110: Becky Lucas and Sam Campbell. With regulars Lester Diamond and Ryan ‘Special Comments’ Crawford.

June 2014

Truth Nest - Episode 1 Feat. Alexei Toliopoulos. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Craig Anderson.

Below are 'lost episodes' - I cannot find the audio anywhere, or the audio files are broken. Podcast descriptions say Sam was a guest. Please do message me if you manage to find the audio!

Special Features with Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos: 9. 2 Guns with Sam Campbell. July 2015.

Sydney Comedy Festival Podcast. April 2015.

The Loose Five with Marcel Blanch- de Wilt. Episode 107- Sam Campbell & Shubha. January 2015.

Versus on FBi Radio - Witches vs Calendars w/ Sam Campbell and Claudia O'Doherty. December 2014. This episode has unfortunately been scrubbed from Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and FBi Radio website.

The Loose Five with Marcel Blanch- de Wilt. Episode 96- Sam Campbell and Gearard McGeown. September 2014.

A massive thank you to @vampire-lily / Lauren for contributing to this masterlist!!

#sam campbell #cambo #comedy #standup comedy #australian comedy #australian comedian #mcdonalds comedy #cambo fans #samcampbell #britcom #podcasts

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Polarized shockwaves shake the universe’s cosmic web The cosmic web is how the universe looks at its largest scale - an interweaving web of filaments and clusters full of gases and galaxies which wind around cosmic voids millions of lightyears across. This universe-spanning web was predicted by astrophysicists in the 1960s, with computer modelling giving us a glimpse of how this vast network truly looked in the 1980s. Over the course of the past few decades, we’ve been able to map the Cosmic Web through observation, bringing with it the possibility of answering some of astronomy’s biggest questions. An area of particular interest is how magnetic fields behave on a cosmic scale, and what role they play in both galactic and cosmic structure formation. New research published today in Science Advances and led by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in partnership with CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is helping us to further understand these cosmic magnetic fields. Dr Tessa Vernstrom from The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) node of ICRAR, is the lead author of the research and describes magnetism as a fundamental force in nature. “Magnetic fields pervade the universe – from planets and stars to the largest spaces in-between galaxies.” “However, many aspects of cosmic magnetism are not yet fully understood, especially at the scales seen in the cosmic web.” “When matter merges in the universe, it produces a shockwave which accelerates particles, amplifying these intergalactic magnetic fields,” said Dr Vernstrom. Her research has recorded radio emissions coming from the cosmic web – the first observational evidence of strong shockwaves. This phenomenon had previously only been observed in the universe’s largest galaxy clusters and was predicted to be the ‘signature’ of matter collisions throughout the cosmic web. “These shockwaves give off radio emissions which should result in the cosmic web ‘glowing’ in the radio spectrum, but it had never really been conclusively detected due to how faint the signals are.” Dr Vernstrom’s team began searching for the cosmic web’s ‘radio glow’ in 2020 and initially found signals which could be attributed to these cosmic waves. However, as these initial signals could have included emissions from galaxies and celestial objects other than the shockwaves, Vernstrom opted for a different signal type with less background ‘noise’ – polarised radio light. “As very few sources emit polarised radio light, our search was less prone to contamination and we have been able to provide much stronger evidence that we are seeing emissions from the shockwaves in the largest structures in the universe, which helps to confirm our models for the growth of this large-scale structure.” The research utilised data and all-sky radio maps from the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey, the Planck Legacy Archive, the Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array, and the Murchison Widefield Array, stacking the data over the known clusters and filaments in the cosmic web. The stacking method helps to strengthen the faint signal above the image noise, which was then compared to state-of-the-art cosmological simulations generated through the Enzo Project. These simulations are the first of their kind to include predictions of the polarised radio light from the cosmic shockwaves observed as part of this research. Our understanding of these magnetic fields could be used to expand and refine our theories on how the universe grows and has the potential to help us solve the mystery of the origins of cosmic magnetism. TOP IMAGE....A composite image showing the magnetic fields of the cosmic web, featuring a pull out of how radio data was stacked. (Credit: Vernstrom et al. 2023) CENTRE IMAGE....A composite image of 3 different observations of the cosmic web (gas, radio and magnetic) accompanied by a composite image. Credit: F. Vazza, D. Wittor and J. West, Composition by K. Brown LOWER IMAGE....A single frame from the simulation during the final “time step” displaying different layers. The yellow shows the temperature and gas density of the cosmic web. The red shows the radio emission from the shocks and the blue lines show the magnetic field lines. (Credit: Vazza F; ENZO; Piz-Daint CSCS (Lugano))

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news #cosmology

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

CHENG LEI

CHENG LEI

Chinese-Australian Journalist

1975

Cheng Lei is a Chinese-born Australian who worked as a news anchor on television. She worked as a prominent news anchor for Chinese-English news channel China Global Television Network (CGTN) in Beijing 2012-2020. She worked for 9-years as CNBC’s China correspondent and then went to work as a presenter and columnist for Sky News Australia.

            In September 2020, she was detained by communist Chinese authorities. In August a Chinese government official stated that she was ‘suspected of carrying out criminal activities endangering China’s national security’ - no details or evidence were provided. Her detention was ‘without cause or reason’ and there were concerns for her fate.

            On February 2021, the Chinese government accused Lei of ‘suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas’. She was imprisoned for almost three years for publishing the nation’s GDP and job targets. Australia fought for the return of Lei and had to deal with continual delays which were frustrating for all involved.

            On 11 October 2023, Lei was released from Beijing detention and returned to Melbourne, Australia. She was reunited with her two children, 12 and 14 .

            She revealed when she was behind bars she was forced to watch the Chinese state news each day, which gave her little to no insight of what was taking place around the world. She said, ‘You wouldn’t call that news, it’s just political propaganda.’ She missed her partner, Nick Coyle and her two children (who she wasn’t permitted to talk to or see). During her imprisonment she only saw sunlight for 10 hours each year and didn’t see a tree in three years.

            She returned to her role as a news presenter for Sky News Australia two months after her release. She stated her hunger for ‘news and information’ never subsided when she was behind bars and wanted to rediscover her voice.

#chenglei #skynewsaustralia #china #beijing

#cheng lei #chenglei #sky news australia #china #beijing

[charlotte-of-wales]

Prince and Princess of Wales in talks with Australian government over potential visit

The Prince and Princess of Wales are in early talks with the federal government over a potential royal visit to Australia.

The Albanese government is hopeful a visit will eventuate sometime this year, with predictions it would happen after King Charles' coronation in May

Any royal visit is likely to tour some areas impacted by natural disasters, allowing the couple to see rebuilding efforts first-hand.

Prince William and Princess Kate were meant to visit Australia in 2020 but the trip was cancelled due the pandemic.

via Sky News Australia

#australia again groundbreaking #but fingere crossed the children will come #news #waleses

[thewales]

This rumour is not new and it has already been said that Charles would go to Australia this year, but just in case....

Sky News Australia:

The Prince and Princess of Wales are in early talks with the federal government over a potential royal visit to Australia.

The Albanese government is hopeful a visit will eventuate sometime this year, with predictions it would happen after King Charles’ coronation in May.

Any royal visit is likely to tour some areas impacted by natural disasters, allowing the couple to see rebuilding efforts first-hand.

Prince William and Princess Kate were meant to visit Australia in 2020 but the trip was cancelled due the pandemic.

#The Prince of Wales #The Princess of Wales

[yakultstanreblog]

If any1 around here wanted to know a bit more about you and you had some book or song you would recommend us for doing so, which what would be? Damn my brain is already exploding trying to answer that by myself lol #sendhelp

THAT’S SO HARD MY BRAIN CANNOT DO THIS HARD OF THINKING AT THIS HOUR 😭 but probably the big list of music a few questions ago would give you some sort of reference .. as for books my favourite books I’ve read in very recent years are:

1. All of the Heartstopper graphic novels by Alice Oseman !!!

2. “The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian Prison” by Kylie Moore-Gilbert …. I actually listened to the audiobook of this narrated by Kylie herself and I would recommend it to most ppl I know … I wish I could listen to it for the first time again. It’s a true story which occurred in 2018-2020 of an Australian academic who was falsely accused of being a spy and she retells her experience in prison in Iran… holy moly I learned so much.

Idk what any of this says about me tbh

ALSO if you wanna learn about contemporary Australian subcultures watch “Heartbreak High” on Netflix.. the 2022 version not the 90s version.. season 2 is coming out in April so perfect timing HAHA if ur not from Australia you won’t get a lot of references but you’ll surely start to learn :,)

EDIT: WAIT I ALREADY POSTED THIS THEN REALISED I DODNT EVEN TELK U MY FAVOURITE BOOK ILL MAKE A NEW POST OF IT OMG IM SO SILLY IM SO TIRED I FORGOT AB MY FAV BOOK… IF UR SOMEONE READING THIS MY FAV BOOK IS ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE BTW

[chosetherose]

Oscar de la Renta. Versace. Alberta Ferretti. Roberto Cavalli. Elie Saab. Christian Louboutin. Zuhair Murad. Ashish. The list of the designers who have made looks for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which began just over a month ago in Arizona and ends in California in August before heading overseas, is like a mini-tour of fashion weeks, replete with sparkles, chiffon and a message tee.

The resulting dress-up extravaganza has been greeted, not surprisingly, with heart-thumping enthusiasm. So many clothes! So much glitter! So fun! There are pages of stories online breathlessly documenting “Every Outfit Taylor Swift Has Worn on Her Eras World Tour” (as Elle Australia put it). And new styles keep emerging, enabling new coverage. As if sheer wardrobe abundance is an achievement unto itself.

It’s possible it is. The logistics alone are daunting: How do you change that much, and that fast, while in the middle of a performance?

Certainly it has raised the bar for the artists who are touring next, as we enter the Summer of the Diva: Madonna, who is embarking on a retrospective tour (just imagine the looks that one could involve), and Beyoncé, who set the bar sky-high in August when she dropped a teaser of sorts via the “I’m That Girl” trailer, which involved at least seven looks compressed into a few minutes, from cyborg goddess to cowboy dominatrix to killer Audrey Hepburn.

But it’s also possible to see in all these Swiftian clothes, all the wardrobe switcheroos, something else. It’s possible that they are, actually, not just a tour down memory lane but a more pointed piece of meta-commentary on the expectation that female pop stars unveil new versions of themselves for our viewing pleasure, one-upping their old image with new wardrobes ad infinitum. And a message that Ms. Swift is, perhaps, calling time on the whole thing.

The promise of reinvention is a core American value: the belief that everyone has the right to a fresh start, that you are limited only by your imagination and abilities. It’s intrinsically linked to the promise of fashion, which likewise dangles the lure of a new you; of allowing you to try on different selves until you settle into one that feels right.

Yet it is also its own kind of prison, as Ms. Swift, who has made a habit of embedding meaning into her wardrobe choices, said in her 2020 documentary, “Miss Americana.”

“The female artists that I know of have reinvented themselves 20 times more than the male artists,” she says in a voice-over toward the end of the film, as various versions of her public personas flash by: teenage Taylor, with her gold ringlets, sparkly blue eye shadow and princess dresses; “1989” Taylor, with her ironed bob and glittery bodysuits; “Reputation” angry Taylor, with snakes crawling up her limbs.

This is necessary, Ms. Swift continues, because otherwise “you’re out of a job.”

At the time she was talking about her newfound political voice as well as her new album, “Lover” (now three albums and at least two Taylors ago: the earth nymph Taylor of “Folklore” and “Evermore,” and the dreamer Taylor of “Midnights”). But in many ways, what she meant is laid bare (so to speak) in her Eras Tour.

Each musical era revisited in the show had — and has — its own look, all 10 or so of them. To watch her go through them in succession is to see not just fabulous clothes worn with purpose, but also the hamster wheel of constant reinvention that has been the model for contemporary female pop stars since Madonna set the tone in the 1980s.

It’s particularly stark in comparison with another musical act now touring to similar response and acclaim: Bruce Springsteen. Mr. Springsteen is 73, and his style hasn’t changed much in 50 years. He’s still in beat-up jeans and a denim shirt, bracelets around his wrist, boots on his feet.

To be fair, there are male rock stars who have made a game out of reinvention: most notably David Bowie but also, to a certain extent, Harry Styles (though he generally dons one statement outfit per night). And there are women — Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith — who bucked the trend.

But it is also true, said Kathy Iandoli, an adjunct professor at the New York University Steinhardt School and the author of “God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop,” that the pressure to dress up and change up falls exponentially on women. “1,000 percent,” Ms. Iandoli said. “There’s a level of costuming that comes with being a female pop star, a way for labels to market creativity. And if you are known as an evolutionary artist you are always held to the standard of ‘what’s the next version of you?’”

Ms. Swift has turned that pressure to her own ends as cannily as anyone. Her makeovers, which coincide with her sonic evolutions, are not the same as the makeover imposed on the main character in the Lady Gaga version of “A Star Is Born,” in which studio bigwigs force their latest discovery into Creamsicle hair, new outfits and new dance moves — a ginned-up version of herself she rejects after her husband’s death.

By contrast, Ms. Swift (with her stylist Joseph Cassell Falconer) has been her own wardrobe mistress, and her fans, many of whom show up dressed as their favorite Taylor, can relate.

But even Gaga, a master of the fashion-music makeover, seemingly rebelled against the imperative at this year’s Oscars when, rather than change into yet another showstopping gown for her performance, she subverted all expectations by donning ripped jeans and a black T-shirt and scrubbing her face bare, as if to say to the watching world: enough.

Fernando Garcia, a creative director of Oscar de la Renta, which made a lavender faux-fur coat with matching crystal-embroidered T-shirt dress and a midnight-blue, crystal-embroidered jumpsuit for the current tour, said that working with Ms. Swift on Eras felt “very much like a full circle moment.” If so, perhaps it’s also a sign that another era is coming to an end.

At one point in the Eras show, when Ms. Swift is singing “Look What You Made Me Do,” all of the old Taylors are embodied by different backup dancers in different outfits in different little glass boxes — all those mini-mes of the past, trapped in their own limited spaces, in their old wardrobes, only to finally break free.

As fashion metaphors go, it’s hard to miss.

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Is Vladimir Putin seriously ill?

A video of Vladimir Putin holding on to a table during a televised meeting has sparked fresh concerns about the Russian president’s deteriorating health. 

During an appearance with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Putin was seen “slouched in his chair”. He also refused to let go of the corner of the table, which was gripped by his right hand, during the meeting. Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist and former adviser to Russia and Ukraine, told the paper that the footage showed both Putin and his defence minister “depressed and seemingly in bad health”.“Shoigu has to read his comments to Putin and slurs badly, suggesting that the rumours of his heart attack are likely. He sits badly. Poor performance.”

In March, the Kremlin was forced to insist publicly that Putin’s mental state was “normal” amid persistent rumours that he could be seriously ill or even dying. The Russian president appeared “bloated, irrational and lacking the cold control that he had been famed for” in the weeks leading up to the invasion of Ukraine. And as the war has ground on without the expected quick victory he has been prone to angry outbursts, denouncing Ukrainian leaders as “drug-takers” and “Nazis”. As the world witnessed his “unhinged televised ramblings” and the ease with which he threatened nuclear war.

Once a “svelte figure” Putin has seemed “bloated and slow” in recent weeks, fueling rumours he could be suffering from “cancer, a brain tumour or may have developed an addiction to steroids”. A former director of US national intelligence, Jim Clapper, has described Putin as “unhinged” after the president spent months in isolation in Moscow due to his paranoia over Covid 19. Condoleezza Rice, the former US secretary of state, told Fox News: “He was always calculating and cold, but this is different. He seems erratic.”Speculation over Putin’s state of mind began in February when he forced visiting French and German leaders to sit at the end of a four-metre-long table, sparking rumours that he was terrified of catching Covid. This “extreme form” of social distancing as well as “the unexplained bloating of his face” could have been a sign that he is taking steroids for an undisclosed medical condition.

Sir Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, speculated that the “best explanation” for his odd behaviour “is that he may have Parkinson’s”, something the Kremlin has previously denied. “That certainly I’ve heard from several neurologists who say that loss of restraint, psychosis, are very common Parkinson’s symptoms,” he told GB News. Senior figures in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which comprises Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US, believe Putin may have suffered a “psychological deterioration caused by physiological factors”.

During a Q&A in March, Sky News correspondent Alistair Bunkall pointed out that there is “nothing factual to suggest he is ill” and the rumours seem to stem from “a search for reason behind his actions in Ukraine”.And Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated around the same time that the president was simply working hard and that his “emotional state… is normal” This is not the first time there has been speculation over the Russian leader’s health. In November 2020, Professor Valery Solovei, a former historian at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, reportedly said Putin was suffering from both cancer and Parkinson’s and would soon have to quit over “health fears”. But the Kremlin denied the claims, and Solovei was later detained at a protest in Moscow. And despite their protestations that Putin is fine, “the Kremlin does not have a good track record of being honest about the health of Soviet or Russian leaders” And there is an alternative explanation for his behaviour, wrote Dominic Lawson for the Daily Mail in March: “That power has gone to his head.”He now enjoys “more control within the domestic political system than at any time”, said Lawson. “But what that means is that he is more able to be ‘himself’. We are seeing Vladimir Putin as he really is, and always was, undiluted by constraint,” he added.

#valdimir putin #true crime #crime #russia #news

[sarkos]

Betelgeuse, the closest red giant to Earth, has long been understood to move between brighter and dimmer in 400-day cycles. But from late 2019 to early 2020, it underwent what astrophysicists called “the great dimming”, as a dust cloud obscured our view of the star. Now, it is glowing at 150% of its normal brightness, and is cycling between brighter and dimmer at 200-day intervals – twice as fast as usual – according to astrophysicist Andrea Dupree of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. It is currently the seventh brightest star in the night sky – up three places from its usual tenth brightest. In the southern hemisphere sky it can be spotted glowing brightly in the early evening, at the shoulder of the Orion constellation. As days grow shorter in the northern hemisphere, it will be visible there too. Betelgeuse is expected to explode some time in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years. “One of the coolest things about Betelgeuse is that we’re watching the final stages of big star evolution play out almost in real time for us, which we’ve never really been able to study in this much depth before,” says Dr Sara Webb, an astrophysicist at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. Observing its behaviour gives important insights into the behaviour of red giants before supernova explosions. When it does eventually explode, it could – over the course of a week – grow so bright that it will be visible during daylight, and cast shadows at night. There are records from ancient Egypt of what appears to be a star exploding as a supernova. The Egyptians described the appearance of a “second sun” in the sky, says Webb.

‘It’s new territory’: why is Betelgeuse glowing so brightly and behaving so strangely? | Astronomy | The Guardian

#he he he

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Laura Jean McKay's "The Animals in That Country"

The Animals in That Country is the debut novel of Australian writer Laura Jean McKay; it’s an extraordinary book about a plague of understanding that sweeps across Australia, leaving the infected cursed with the ability to communicate with animals.

https://scribepublications.com/books-authors/books/the-animals-in-that-country-9781950354375

As a premise, this is very good: an inversion of the standard trope of people and animals communicating with one another and finding mutual understanding and peace as a result. In execution, it’s even better: McKay sets herself the (seemingly) impossible of dramatizing human-animal communication without anthropomorphizing the animals, and then pulls it off — brilliantly.

The protagonist of Animals is Jean, a self-destructive, aging grandmother living in a wildlife park with her daughter-in-law (the park’s director) and her granddaughter, Kim. Her son in not in his daughter’s life — he’s a loose-footed, irresponsible womanizer who’s disappeared. Her ex-husband is also long gone. All Jean really has is Kim, who is the only reason she moderates her drinking and her self-immolating confrontations with friends, family, and strangers on the internet.

Jean and Kim have a fierce bond, and a rich fantasy life about how they would run an animal park if they were in charge. They play out these fantasies even as Australia is in a mounting panic over “zooflu,” an epidemic burning its way north towards Kim and Jean. Zooflu’s initial symptoms are similar to a mild cold — but afterward, the afflicted find that they can communicate with animals. Mammals at first, but as the disease progresses, the infected are able to understand birds, reptiles, insects.

This is not a pleasant experience. At first, many of the infected are swept up in mystical ecstasies as new worlds open to them, but quickly this turns to terror as the strange, alien thoughts of all the animals of the land, water and sky clamor for attention. The nation begins to shut down.

That’s when Lee, Jean’s missing son, re-enters her life, bringing the zooflu with him. As the nature park’s carers and rangers cope with their infections, Lee kidnaps his daughter Kim and takes her south to commune with whales.

That sets up the main action of the book, a long road-trip tale set in an Australia where civil order in crumbling. But Jean’s not the Road Warrior or one of Nevil Shute’s square-jawed submarine captain. She’s a middle-aged, alcoholic granny in a wheezing camper van, accompanied by Sue, one of the nature park’s dingos, who has joined Jean’s pack and is leading her to her lost child and grandchild.

Jean’s journey — across the land and across the boundaries that separate her from the animal kingdom — is a thrilling adventure tale, a taut thriller, and a wildly imaginative (and linguistically impressive) journey into the hypothetical minds of horses, cows, rats, cats, flying foxes, gnats, and blowflies.

At Rebecca Giblins’ suggestion, I bought Animals in audiobook form (from libro.fm, where it is DRM-free), read by the author, whose narration performance is stellar, bringing great depth, pathos, and humor to the animal voices.

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781004000432-the-animals-in-that-country

Reading Justine Jordan’s Guardian review of Animals, I learned that McKay holds a doctorate in “literary animal studies,” a discipline I had never heard of until just now, but reading Animals feels like a master-class in it.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/07/the-animals-in-that-country-by-laura-jean-mckay-review-an-extraordinary-debut

[Image ID: The cover of Laura Jean McKay's 'The Animals in That Country.']

#pluralistic

[aussie-bookworm]

astrophotography 👀

Okok permit me a small rant on dark skies first

So I’ll always been a staunch advocate for people going camping away from cities and towns and just. Looking up.

You’ll always hear about the International Dark Sky Association and their advocacy in creating “dark sky places” with no light pollution and I’m a big fan of their work.

But here’s the thing. There’s only three in Australia, I’ve been to one (the Warrumbungle Dark National Park) and all of my favourite astrophotography was taken no where near them.

All of these were taken between 2018-2020 around various locations in New South Wales.

I’m definitely not a professional, but if my camera can pick up on this much detail after a bunch of photoshop, imagine what the naked eye can do just looking out there when you’re not surrounded by streetlights.

#itsallmine #answered #the really purple shot was like. my first ever attempt at astrophotography and it’s kinda crap compared to the others #but it’s my phones background because I like the reminder that I did that #I don’t really share my photography that much but hey. hope you enjoy #I really gotta get out there again and take more pics but I just don’t have the time #also goes without saying. do not repost my pictures elsewhere

[myhughniverse]

"Disco" is the fifteenth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue. It was released on 6 November 2020 by BMG Rights Management and through Kylie's company, Darenote. Following the completion of her promotional activities with the "Golden Tour" in 2019, the artist began working on a new album, enlisting producers such as Sky Adams, Teemu Brunila, and Biff Stannard, among others. Kylie continued work on the record from her home in London, due to COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and received engineering credits for vocals and synths.

The album was stylistically influenced by various sounds of the Disco genre, which was initially influenced through segments of her "Golden Tour". Musically, "Disco" combines elements of nu-disco, funk, dance-pop, and pop music, and explores themes of love and intimacy, fun, unity, and celebration. She also received songwriting credits for each track on the album. Music critics praised "Disco" for its catchiness and upbeat nature, as well as her return to Disco music. As a result of its critical success, it was included on various end-of-year lists published by various publications and was nominated in categories at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards and 2021 ARIA Music Awards.

"Disco" was a commercial success, debuting at number one on record charts in her native Australia, the United Kingdom, Scotland, and Ireland. It was also in the top ten in Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, and New Zealand. It was certified Gold by the British phonographic industry (BPI) for shipments of 100,000 units. "Disco" spawned three major singles to promote the album: "Say Something", "Magic", and "Real Groove" and three promotional singles : "I Love It", "Dance Floor Darling", and "Miss a Thing".

#Kylie Minogue #Disco #Magic #Miss A Thing #Real Groove #Monday Blues #Supernova #Say Something #Last Chance #I Love It #Where Does The DJ Go? #Dance Floor Darling #Unstoppable #Celebrate You #Till You Love Somebody #Fine Wine #Hey Lonely #Spotlight #The One and Only Kylie

[love-bookrelease]

Behold the Lion of Judah Which Cometh to Rule the World  by Tom Watinga

About the author

Tom Watinga is an Assemblies of God Church, PNG ordained Pastor who has ministered the Gospel of Christ since he was born again in 1985. He has been serving as an associate Pastor at the AOG Cornerstone Gateway Church in Port Moresby, under the leadership of Reverend Anthony Dalaka since 1996. Tom and Gouli, his wife of 32 years have six children and 2 adopted sons and one son-in-law. He has in the recent decade, traveled the world in search of biblical prophecies fulfilments. Some of these places include the Great Wall of China, Poland’s Auschwitz and Treblinka Concentration camps, and the Lake Wansea conference room near Berlin, Germany. Tom also traveled to Turkey to see the seven churches in Asia Minor and passed through Jordan’s Mt. Nebo where Moses died. He has made seven trips to Israel between the years 2009 through 2020 combing almost the entire land of Israel. Tom’s education qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Science (BSc) from the University of Papua New Guinea, a Master’s in Business Management (MBA) from Southern Cross University, Australia, and a Diploma with Distinction (Dip-AM) from IATA, Geneva, Switzerland.

About the book 

BEHOLD THE LION OF JUDAH WHICH COMETH TO REULE THE WORLD (He first came as the lamb of God to take away the sin of the world)CHRIST SOON RETURNING - JESUS CHRIST IS RETURNING SOON TO DEAL WITH THE NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT, ANTI-CHRIST WORLD LEADER AND FALSE PROPHET, ARE AMONG THE FINAL PROPHECIES TO BE FULFILLED. THE COVID-19 DECEPTION - MYSTERIES OF COVID-19 DELIBERATELY CREATED TO LAUNCH THE GREAT RESET PLAN FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT (NWOG) WHICH WILL FUSION OUR PHYSICAL, DIGITAL, AND BIOLOGICAL (DNA)COMPUTER IDENTITY - THE MARK OF THE BEAST, THE NUMBER 666 WITHOUT WHICH NO ONE WILL BUY AND SELL. FINAL BIBLE PROPHECIES - MAJOR BIBLE PROPHECIES ARE BEING FULFILLED. THE ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE HAS EVOLVED TO BE ALIVE THROUGH THE WESTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS NOW COMING TOGETHER THROUGH G7, G10, EU, NATO, AND THE UN TO FORM THE FINAL GOVERNMENT OF THE ANTI-CHRIST ORCHESTRATED DRIVEN BY THE SATANIC GROUPS; THE ILLUMINATI AND FREEMASONS WHO HAVE FORCEFULLY TAKEN OVER THE MIGHTY USA AND ENDTIME BIBLE PROPHECY OF THE NWOG OF THE ANTI-CHRIST BEING FULFILLED BEFORE OUR EYES. JEWS WAKING UP - THE JEWS ARE STILL LOST WAITING FOR THEIR PROMISED MESSIAH WHICH WILL SURELY TURN OUT TO BE THE ‘ONE WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED’ AND SOON WILL MAKE SENSE OF WHAT CHRIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH. CHRIST CLOSED THE OLD COVENANT WHERE SALVATION FOR ONLY JEWS WAS PROVIDED AND INTRODUCED THE NEW COVENANT WHICH CATERS FOR ALL MEN INCLUDING GENTILES. ISRAEL REMAINS GOD’S CHOSEN NATION TO CARRY OUT SPECIFIC TASKS STILL VALID TODAY. GATES OF HELL AGAINST CHURCH - HOW THE ROMAN GATES OF HELL PREVAILED AGAINST THE PENTECOST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF POWER, WHICH THE GLOBAL CHURCH NEEDS TO BE REFORMED TO BRING BACK THE PENTECOST HOLY GHOST EMPOWERED CHURCH OF POWER. CHURCH REFORMATION IS NEEDED URGENTLY TO BRING BACK THE BLUEPRINT DOCTRINES, JESUS CHRIST AND APOSTLES TAUGHT IN ORDER TO BRING DOWN THE SAME PENTECOST HOLY GHOST POWER RESULTING IN THE GREATEST GLOBAL REVIVAL EVER TO SEE THE GREATEST HARVEST OF SOULS EVER SEEN IN HUMAN HISTORY BEFORE CHRIST RETURNS. WHEN THE PATTERN IS RIGHT, HIS GLORY WILL FALL. RAPTURE AND SECOND COMING - WHEN WILL CHRIST APPEAR IN THE SKY TO TAKE THE CHURCH IN THE RAPTURE? WHEN CHRIST WILL RETURN WITH ALL THE SAINTS IN HIS SECOND COMING TO RULE THE WHOLE EARTH FOR 1000 YEARS? HOW EVERY MAN WILL APPEAR BEFORE CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY? WHEN WILL THE OLD HEAVEN AND EARTH FLEE BEFORE CHRIST, AND WHEN AND HOW THE NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL APPEAR WITH NEW JERUSALEM? WHAT TO DO - THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO WHAT ANY PERSON MUST DO TO BE SAVED AND PREPARE FOR THE INEVITABLE RETURN OF THE JEWISH KING 

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