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As usual Australian story opens up experiences that make one take a very deep breath and hold our family a lot closer.

After the world ended
Introduced by former foreign minister Julie Bishop

Anthony Maslin (Maz) and Marite Norris (Rin) faced the unimaginable when their "whole family was shot out of the sky”.

Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was struck by a missile over a Ukrainian warzone in 2014.

The couple's three children, Mo, Evie and Otis, along with their grandfather Nick Norris, became the faces of a senseless war crime.

As the five-year anniversary approaches, Maz and Rin share, for the first time, how they are coping with their loss and moving forward with strength, positivity and compassion.
https://www.abc.net.au/austory/after-the-world-ended/11187334
 
Knobby22 said:
Did anyone watch Restoration Australia recently, the North Melbourne gasworks?
What a disaster, architects without a clue, gave me nightmares.
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Just watched this recently. Agree, it was awful, just trying to be too clever. The' pod' was laughable. What a waste of a great space.
 
Just watched "Angel has fallen" on the weekend, then read this in the media.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08...es-the-latest-threat-facing-soldiers/11452040

Troops on the battlefield could soon face a new threat — swarms of autonomous kamikaze drones loaded with explosives.

That is the assessment of a leading Australian military thinker after claims "killer drones" were both deployed and defused over recent days in the Middle East.

I thought it was April 1st, after seeing killer drones in the movie.
 
Watched The Death of Stalin last night on SBS.
A very dark humoured presentation of the horrors/madness of Stalins Soviet Union.On reflection if they played it straight it would have been unbearably awful. It was bad enough hearing people being arbitrarily shot and rounded up throughout the program.

Interestingly enough it was historically quite accurate. Obviously they compressed a number of parts to make it a tellable story but overall..

Good history lesson in the effects of unrestrained power. The facebook short ad is also a beauty.


https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1606861379850/the-death-of-stalin
 
A friend told me about Years and Years on SBS. This is a BBC 6 part Drama.

It starts with a family in 2019 and then fast forwards their lives. So far has a very dark take on a Trump dominated future ( he wins a second term and launches a nuclear missile at China at the end of his second term..).

One interesting point is a concern about people believing anything and in particular total BS - Earth is Flat, there are no germs. Seems almost far fetched .

Then I saw the latest news from Ohio. It seems it was right on the money.

https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/articl...years-coming-sbs-give-chilling-glimpse-future

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Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face 'abortion murder' charges
Ohio introduces one of the most extreme bills to date for a procedure that does not exist in medical science

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Ohio abortion law: the Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, signs the ‘heartbeat bill’, one of the nation’s toughest abortion bans, on 11 April 2019. Photograph: Fred Squillante/AP
A bill to ban abortion introduced in the Ohio state legislature requires doctors to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into a woman’s uterus – a procedure that does not exist in medical science – or face charges of “abortion murder”.

This is the second time practising obstetricians and gynecologists have tried to tell the Ohio legislators that the idea is currently medically impossible.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...eme-abortion-bill-reimplant-ectopic-pregnancy
 
Watched the full almost 4 hours of The Irishman on Netflix (over 4 sessions). IMO it doesn't deserve all the accolades being attributed to it (or maybe that is just Netflix advertising). It was just a long biopic on an associate of union leader Jimmy Hoffa and in general quite a boring film, full of unlikeable characters. Glad I didn't pay to see it in a cinema.
 
Years and Years becomes more unnerving as it develops. Keeps a strong focus on the Lyons family as the world changes and deteriorates around them. But then you watch as these changes undermine their life. It looks very real.

The challenging part is looking around the world and seeing these events starting to unfold in our time.

One of the interesting elements of the program is watching a banking collapse as part of the scenario. This immediately destroys the financial wealth of one of the characters ( over a million pounds) and then has knock on effects for the working lives of other family members. Sobering stuff.
 
Started watch a new series on IView called Love on the Spectrum.
It follows a group of people with Autism/Aspergers as they try to develop relationships.

We all know people with Autism. Many of us might even have a touch ourselves. I found it fascinating and it very quite quickly took me into the minds and lives of people who have, quite clearly, a different way of seeing the world. Very well one.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/love-on-the-spectrum
 
the Nat Geographic series Genius is slated to cover a variety of subjects. #1 on Albert Einstein was quite good; the second one on Pablo Picasso is interesting but the formula is starting to show. #3 on Aretha Franklin is in production, delayed by Covid lockdown.

Watched it on Plex, for free
 
One I enjoyed on Netflix is "Unorthodox". About a wife who leaves the repressive Hassidic community in New York and moves to Berlin.
 
I watched 'Just Mercy's wasn't a bad movie, depicting the racial problems, in the justice system of the deep South U.S.A.
 
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